Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-11
MERE.MENTION.

On thursday morning laSC, 4 IRE OcCurreu
in Pittsburg, Pa, destroying the exposition
building and other houses, valued at $780,
600, and property belonging to exhibitors
valued at $500, 900. .''''.''.In the Massachu-
setts executive council, last Friday after
noon the nomination of +. G. Walker, col
ored to be Judge of the municipal Court of
Charlestown District, was rejected by a vote
of to a. Walker was Immediately renom-
mated by Governor Butler. .'''''''''Latta, the
young North Carolinian who was arrested
in Atlanta last week for forgery, is wanted
at Jacksonville for the same offence. ''"''''A
delegation of the North Carolina Press AS
sociation, numbering 25, arrived in Boston
on Friday, on visit to the Industrial Ex-
position. '''''''''Judge Hoadley, the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor of Ohio, adj
dressed crowded house at Sandusky on
Thursday. On the next day he was pros
trated, and decided not to speak at Toledo,
as had been arranged, but went to Cincin-
natl. .''.'''''There has been but one fall of rain
in Yazoo county, Miss, since last spring.
There is no water in the cisterns, and but
for the river there would be much suffer-
ing. ..'..'...'The Supreme Court of the United
States convened for the October term on last
Monday. All of the justices are expected
to be present. The number Of cases on the
docket is 1,011, an increase of 81 over the
number docketed at this time lastyear ''''''A
locomotive collided with street car in
Philadelphia last Friday, demolishing the
car and wounding ten persons, three of them
fatally. 1.-The failures throughout the Uni
ted States and Canada for the week ending
last Friday number 1873 as against $50 the
preceding week. 1.-THE Augusta Ctroni-
Gle says Jefferson Davis has made 100000
out of his "Rise and Fall of the Southern
(o, faT oroo,, )3.... Po Rinuc cI1p-
ceeds MarWood, deceased, in the cheerful
occupation of hangman in England. ''''' Mas
sachusetts has seventeen thousand names on
the United States pension rolls......"The
Massachusetts Independents have issued q
circulr in which they say they deem it un-
wise at the present juncture to nominate a
candidate for Governor, and recommend
the Republican candidate, G. D. Robinson
as worthy ofsupport by all who sympathise
with the Independent party. ''''''''' James
McSteen was hanged last Thursday morning
in the Jail at Pittsburg, Pa. The execution
was conducted quietly and was witnessed
by 200 persons. His neck was broken by
the fall His crime was wife murder. He
had nothing to say on the scaffold. d.'"'."'Sec-
retary of War Lincoln is going to take the
stump in Massachusetts against Butler.
The Republican committee is also crying
abound for "soap." They depend on 'sOap"
to beat the hero of Tewksbury. .'''''.'''There
are in Illinois 1893 miles of railroad valued
by the State Board of Equalization at $685.
265, ,5OS. ...''..'.At Port Jervis, n. Y, Thurs
day night last, the thermometer went down
to &c, and there was ice a half fan inch thick.
The corn crop in that region was destroyed.
EDUCATING THE NEGRo.-SomebOdy in
troduced in the Georgia Legislature an edu-
cational bill which was rejected, although
considered with some favor by a number OF
the statesmen of our neighbOr State. ltpro-
vides in general terms for the separate col
lection of the school tax from white and
cOlored people, each race to receive what it
paws for its schools. Whoever the sapient
genius presenting this measure may be, he
ought to feel very heartily ashamed OF his
work. 1t is hypocritical and cowardly
beating of the Devil around the bush, andis
Intended to shift from the shoulders of the
white people responsibility and duty.
Georgia has not even the excuse of power
ty-ever blessed poverty, which covers such
a vast multitude of sins of interpretations
and other organizations.
We expect some similar measure to be
sprung on the South Carolina Legislature at
itsneXtsession. The demagogues will hard
ly allow such an opportunity for cheap no
tOriety and applause to escape them. we
earnestly nope that whoever ntnerS or sup
ports any such iniquity, will be sent to pri-
vate life at the double quick. The negro is
poor, dependent on us and ignorant, with
undevelOped and unknown capabilities.
We owe him an opportunity to improve his
condition and elevate himself above the lev
ell of absolute ignorance. If we deny him
that opportunity we are false to our Saxon
traditions of generosity and magnanimity,
blind to our own interests and recreant to
our solemn ledges.-GreehriWe NeWs.
- At the recent term of court in Hamp-
ton county, in the case of B. T. Lawton, the
ex-county treasury, whose safe is alleged to
have been burglarized and several thousand
dollars stolen therefrom, an order was pass
ed by Judge Wallace, giving the plaintiff,
the State, leave to amend the complaint SO as
to embrace additional alleged breaches of the
treasurer's bond, and by making additional
parties, if such be necessary, and in such
other respects as plaintiff may be advised
by plaintiffs counsel, and referring the
matter to C. j. C. Huston, Esq, as special
referee to take the testimony, and to report
the same, together with an exact state OF