Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-03
MERE.MENTION.

Advices from Vera Cruz report that yel-
low fever has broken out in that city, sever
al cases resulting fatally. Mrs. Nathan
Harrison, of Rhea county, Tenn, was found
dead in her bed on Friday morning last,
with two bullet holes in her head. Suspi-
cion fell upon physician who slept in the
next room, and he has been arrested. 1.-The
election for Governor Of Georgia passed of
quietly on the oath ultimo. Henry D. Nc
Daniel was elected without opposition;
The vote was light. The Legislature will
returns, and the Inauguration will probably
take place on the 18th. h.":.'''''Chemicals used
in making cologne caught fire in an Allan
ia drug store on Friday last and caused
widespread alarm. Claud Griffin, the book
keeper, was severely burned in eXtinguish-
ing the flames, and Willie Matthews, aged
fourteen, had his fingers badly burned in
his efforts to save Griffin .''..'''''George Wan
was lynched at Florence, Alabama, last
Friday, for the murder Of boy named
Robert Bethune. .'."""Green B. Raum, u.
S. Commissioner of internal revenue, has
resigned and six ex-Congressmen have ap-
piled for his place. e.........The Rev. DR.. Hen
derson, who was Colonel in the Confeder-
Ote service, has been transferred from the
Methodist Church South to take charge of a
Methodist Church in Jersey City. Re
newed precautions are being taken in Dub
lin by the authorities because of numerous
letters which have been received, threaten
inc to blow up public buildings with dyna-
mite. ......".Threats have been made to
blow up the Bank of England and Ports
mouth. ''.':'".Twelve thousand persons in
Galway, Ireland, have applied to the gov
ernment for assistance to enable them to
reach America. Eight hundred arrived at
Boston on Monday, and the Cunard line has
booked as many more as their vessels can
carry over in three months. '''''''' Mrs. Kate
Kane, Milwaukee "Female lawyer" as
she is designated in the report, was sent to
jail the other day for throwing Q glass of
water in the Judges face. .''''''.''soince Sep
tember last there have been shipped from
the port of Norfolk one million two hum
dred thousand bushels of oysters. '''''''"Dur-
ing the month of April tWenty-nine new
national banks were authorized to begin
business, a. majority in the western and
northwestern states and territories. Mr.
George X. p. Tate, of the Tate Brothers,
manufacturers, at Mountain Island, in Gas
ton, N. c., died on last Sunday after
noon. .'''''.'.There are S96 tons of silver coin
living in the vaults of the United States SUBJ
treasury in New York, 62O tOnsof Whichare
the famous Louisiana witness in the electO-
raj controversy of 1S75-'77, has died in Jail
at Canton, Miss, on the 25th ulti1no, where
she was serving a term for larceny. Mrs.
Sarah P. Mackey, mother of Congressman
f. w. NJ. Mackey, and widow of the late
DIR. Albert G. Mackey, died of paralysis in
Washington city, last Monday. She was
born in Charleston and lived there for fifty
wears. ......."A wind and hail storm prevail
ed in portions Of Louisiana last Sunday.
The heaviest damage was sustained near
Minden. Late reports from WeSsen and
Beauregard, represent the people of these
towns Visited by the cyclone Of last week,
in very despondent and deplorable condi-
ton. "'..:"W What is known as the Scott liquor
law in Ohio, was decided unconstitutional
by Justice May, at Steubenville, last Mon
day. A saloon keeper selling without the
written consent of his landlord was arrested
as Il test case. The justice gave an opinion
that the law is unconstitutional because the
tax is unequal, and because it impairs exist
in Northern Virginia, on Monday night,
blighted the fruit, but did not injure the
wheat. No corn has yet been planted in
that section, the weather having been too
cold and wet. .'''''''The steamer Catalonia,
which arrived at Boston last Monday,
brought over 200 steerage passengers, most
of whom came to America at the expense OF
the British government:
GRATITUDE OF AN UNFORTUNATE MAN.
George White, of Greenville, who was to
the Penitentiary for killing J. H. Schofield
in Greenville county, on Christmas day,
1880, and was recently pardoned by the
Governor, writes the following card to the
Greenville Ners:
"Please allow me space to tender my
earnest thanks to his EXcellency, Governor
Thompson, to Solicitor Orr and to the
generous citizens of Greenville for their
Kindness and sympathy, and to the people
who have 50 nobly aided my family during
my long absence. also return my grateful
thanks to Superintendent Lipscomb and
Captain Sligh for their invariable Kindness
to me while l was in the Penitentlary. |
am overwhelmed with sorrow when
think of the cause of my punishment, but
all can see from itwhat liquor can 90, for II
it had not been for that never would nave
been in trouble. IhOpe it will never serve
my friends as it did me, and that they Will
take warning by me and never drink Hquor.
Two long years shut up away from my
family for taking little spree! | Will
never drink another drop while l live.
Language fails me to express the gratitude
l feel at being restored to my family once