Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-09
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but one which could be removed by the
evidence, does not necessarily render him
incompetent to serve on iurles.
The business failures throughout the Uni
ted States and Canada during the seven days
ending last Friday, as reported to R. 6. Dun
& Co., number 1872, against 100 last week, dis
tributed as follows: New England States 33,
Western States 40, Southern States 30, Pa
ciic States II, Canada 25, and New York
City 10.
The Advertiser, published at Newman,
Georgia, states that John Gillian, South
Carolina Ku-Klux, recently died in that
county after residence of fourteen years.
He went there in 1868, and made his nome
with T. G. Gay. He generally went about
with two pistols buckled around him and
was terror to the negroes of his neighbor-
hood.
The Illinois Legislature recently passed
an Act providing for the compulsory school
'sto secure to all children the benefit of an
elementary education" Parents or guardi-
ans, under this law, must send children be-
tween the ages of eight and IA to a public or
private school for period of not less than
l2 weeks in each year, unless the local edu-
cational board excuses such attendance for
good reasons The penalty of the law is
fine of from five to twenty dollars.
Charles Henry Lee colored, was hang
ed at Richmond, Va, last Friday, for the
murder of Daniel Liller, another colored
man in Henrico county, Virginia, last Feb
ruary. The execution took place in the
yard of the county Jail, which is located
in that city. The affair was private, only
a limited humber of persons being admitted
to witness the hanging. The courthouse
ward and vicinity were crowded with peo-
Die, mostly negroes. The drop fell at 12.2o
P. NJ. Lee died without struggle, his neck
being broken.
The New Jersey State prison contains
among it's present inmates several formerly
well-to-do citizens who are serving out
criminal sentences. Here is partial llst:
John Mailliard, former president OF the
Mechanics and Laborers' Savings Bank OF
Newark; O. l.. Baldwin, ex-cashler OF the
Mechanics National Bank of Newark;
Garrett S. Boyce, ex-cashler OF the S5ate
ex-cashier of the First National Bank OF
Jersey City.
DIR. A. G. Haygood, agent of the John
It. Slater educational fund, delivered at MI.
Eagle Sunday-schOol Assembly on Cumber-
land mountain last Thursday, an address on
education of the negro. 1t is the strongest
a6peal for the cause of educating the colored
race based on the necessities of moral and
GOOD citizenship, humanity and Christian
duty, ever before delivered by South
ern speaker. He stated as practical prop
osition that every child, white or black,
should have from its parent or from the
Government equal chances for elementary
education in common schools, which to be
efficient and reach the case, must be back
ed by the Government.
Some people still have faith in Ven
nor. and for their solace and comfort we
print the following predictions, telling us
what sort of weather we are to have this
month :5-7-Warm to sultry entry of month,
changing to cooler, cloudy and stormy
weather at the end of week, with general
rainfalls and ,windstcrms and abrupt chan
ees of temperature. Close of week warm
to sultry, with severe thunder and hail
storms in the majority of sections. 15-2l-
sultry heat, rains and thunder storms OF dali
ly occurrence. Great deal of rain so far this
month. 22-31-Storms continue with in
tensely hot and oppressive periods. !he
month ending cooler, wet and with high
winds and gales.
At Sewanee, Tenn, on the lst instant,
at meeting of a convention ofthe Episco-
pal Church, consisting of bishops, ministers
and laymen from thirteen Southern States,
it was resolved in accordance with the re-
port of a committee consisting OF Bishop
Lyman of North Carolina, Bishop Gregg of
Texas, J. M. Dudley, assistant bishop OF
Kentucky, H. NJ. Thompson, assistant Blsh-
op of mississippi, and w. c. Williams, Pike
Powers and R. H. FoOtman of Georgia,
that the General Convention which meets
this Fall be memorialized to establish schools
for the education of colored men who desire
to enter the ministry of this church, and
that all colored ministers of this church have
equal rights and power in all church councils.
A splendid specimen of anthropoceph-
alous, familiarly called the man fish, is on
exhibition in New York. The animal is
about four feet long and has the body OF a
man, with four fingers and thumb, while
the extremities resemble those of a tish. A
card attached to the strange monster states
that it was caught in longitude 1872, latitude
80, in the East coast of Japan, by Captain
f. s. Backus, of the brig Black Bird, on
October, 5, 1882. The only other specimen
extant is in the Imperial Museum at st.
Petersburg. The animals are frequently
seen by navigators following in the wake
of their vessels, especially on moonlight
nights and they make from time to time
peculiar though not unmusical cries.
The editor of the Bowling Green Gazette
was evidently seized with fresh inspiration
when he penned the following sentences:
Woman is just too awfully lovely in newly
launderied Wamsutta and lawn, when fresh
from close communion with toilet soap and
a crystal, watery bath. She has the ripe
peach fra GRANGE of paradise and the breath
of the cape jasmine of the tropical empyre-
an. When fellow passes to the WindWard
of lovely woman who is filling the air
with sweetness and purity as she trips
gracefully along, he delicately shifts the air
for an hour, as if he had got a snatch of
heavenly perfume and was trying to WOO
another Whit over the celestial battlements.
God bless the women! If there were none
on earth baldheaded men and babies would
be awfully scarce, and courting would lose
more than half its flavor.
PROF. R. J. Greener, of Washington, has
recently expressed the belief that there is
ample chance for the Democratic party,
national and State, by changing its policy,
as some say, by going back to the early
principles of the party, to make inroads in
to the hitherto close columns of the black
contingent of the Republican party. The
Professor thinks the colored voter is very
restive and inclined to kick. He instan-
ces the threats in the call for Mr.. Douglass
convention, the mutterings of the late ne
gro press convention at st. Louis, the recent
meeting and resolutions of the colored Re
publicans of South Carolina. When asked
ffhe would attend the colored convention
at Louisville he said he would be there as
a looker-on, if one was held, but the repre-
sentative colored men Of the country were
not in favor of the conventions; indeed were
quite sick of conventions. He thought the
action Of the Virginia Democrats was sensi-
BILE and proper and would 60 far towards in
tensifying the issue. Such action ten years