Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-04
MERE.MENTION.

An Atlanta negro has entered suit against
DeGive's Opera House for refusing to let
him sit among the white people. In order
to fully test the question, Manager Deceive
has decided to carry the case through all the
legal channels. 1.-The postmaster of San
Antonio, Texas, has been arrested for en-
bezzlng $4,000; and the postmaster OF Fort
Concho nthe same State, is also in custody
for shortage of $500. .'''.''''Three hundred
women voted at the school election held at
Birmingham, N. Y, last Saturday. '''' Hoke
Sechrest, the North Carolina wife murderer,
has again been adjudged to be insane, and
will be committed to an asylum. He is, at
present, in Burke county Jail. 1900" Ex-Sena-
tor Merrimon has been appointed by Gov
ernor Jarvis Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of North Carolina, to till the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF Hon:
Thomas Ruffin.' .'''''''''SnoW fell at several
points in Michigan last Friday, but it melt
ed as it fell. .''..'.'Since the death of Mar
wood. the English executioner, there have
been five hundred applicants for appoint
ment to the vacant Office. 1.-THE Nation
al Cotton Planters Association of America
will hold its annual convention at NlckS-
burg, Miss, on the 2lst of November. 49,.
Wilmington, sheriff of Amite county, Mis-
sissippi, was stabbed twice in the back at
Liberty on Saturday, and killed by Eugene
McElWee. The trouble grew out OF politics:
After the murder, McElwee was surrounded
by q crowd. one of whom shot him, from
the effects of which he died in ten minutes.
Both parties were Democrats and highly
connected. .'.'.,...'An explosion of the Calltor-
MIA Powder works, situated near Pinole,
took place last Friday, and forty men were
blown to atoms. 1.-THE Second-Assistant
Postmaster General has begun the prepara-
tion of advertisements for proposals for star
route service in South Carolina and other
Southern States, to begin on the first day OF
tional Association Of Mexican War Neter-
ans will be held in Washington, December
6, land s. Ex-Judge T. j. Mackey has been
chosen orator for the occasion. -. Lee
Latta hailing from Hickory, n. G., was ar
rested and committed to jail in Atlanta,
Ca, last Friday, for presenting a forged
draft. Several forged drafts were found on
his person after his arrest. '''"'' Mrs. Stone
wall Jackson publishes a modest caro-, IN
which she says that on the occasion OF the
recent visit of herself and daughter to pos
ler, "but of the State of Massachusetts,, which
represents many good and noble people,"
END OF MURDER CASE.-In Stanly
county, N. c., Superior Court last week,
Judge Gilmer presiding, murder case
that had attracted some considerable atten-
ton was ended. 1t was the trial of DIR.
Richard A. Anderson, of Big Lick, in that
county, who was charged with the murder
of a young man named Charlie Cox, in that
place, about the first of the present year.
Young Cox while walking in the street, was
shot down in the darkness by some un-
known party. Suspicion rested upon DIR.
Anderson as the guilty party, and true
hill beinp fOund against him by the grand
Jury, he was held in bond for trial by the
Superior Court. The case was taken up
last Thursday, and resulted in a verdict of
mot guilty' This result was anticipated
by those who appeared to be familiar with
the case.