Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-27
MERE. MENTION.

A bronze statue of Gen. Robert +. Lee
was successfully cast in New York last week.
The statue is sixteen feet high and weighs
four thousand pounds. 1.-The Democratic
convention of Maryland, in session last
week, nominated Robert McLane, of Balti-
more, for Governor. '''''''''The first of the
many tokens received by MIS-. "StoneWalP'
Jackson and her daughter during their stay
in Boston, was superb basket OF roses.
'with the compliments of a few members OF
the Grand Army of the Republic" The
e. Co.'s mercantile agency reports 1888 fail
ures, during the week ending last Friday,
against 173 for the previous week. .''''''''The
Republican State convention of Massachu
sets, in session on the 18th, nominated Con-
gresham George d. Robinson for Governor,
and Oliver Ames for Lieutenant-GOvernor.
Robinson was member of the last Con-
gress and was reelected. Ames is Buffers
Lieutenant Governor. 1.-THE New York
HeruM thinks it would strengthen the DEM
ocratic ticket if General Gordon, General
Hampton, Mr.. Carlisle, or Mr.. Randolph
Tucker could be nominated as Vice-Presi-
dent. .''''''''rhe Western Union Telegraph
Company has issued an order reducing rates
in and between the Eastern and New Eng
land States, to take effect October 1st. ''''''lt
spected the growing crop of the south and
southwest, that the yield this year will not
exceed five million bales. Judge HOad-
lev, the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Ohio, who has been under medical treat
ment in Philadelphia for several weeks, is
much improved in health and will soon re-
sumo the canvass. .'.'''...Five men, all white,
were killed last Saturday night by the eX-
plosion Of the boiler of an engine used in the
construction Of Il bridge over Red River,
near Shreveport, La. ''.'''' Yellow fever still
prevails to a frightful extent in ,Guyamas
and Mazatlan, Mexico. ''''''''B Brazil is now in
telegraphic communication with the United
States, the connection being made at Calves
ton, Texas. 1.-THE South Carolina COM
mission, appointed by Governor Thompson
to visit the Louisville Exposition, arrived in
that city last Sunday. ''.'':.''The Colored Ma
tional Convention met in Louisville, Ky,
last Monday. About $50 delegates were
present. Fred Douglass will probably be
chosen permanent chairman. ID. a. Straker
is the only representative named from South
Carolina.
A FAST FREIGHT LINETO THE SOUTH.-
A new fast freight line, to be known as the
"Great Southern Dispatch," is now being
organized by the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia ; Norfolk g. Western ; Shenan-
doah Valley; Western Maryland; Cumber'
land Valley and Pennsylvania Railroads,
to run between all Southern and South
western points and Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York. No announcement has
yet been made, says the Baltimore Sun, of
the time of inaugurating the line, but it
will doubtless be ready for business within
the next thirty days. The line will start
with 800 cars provided by the several com,
nanies i'm prOpOrtiOn to their interested
mileage. This is the first through South
ern freight line ever established with Balti-
more, and in that respect it is to the bust
ness community the most important rail-
road movement contemplated for some
time. The East and West fast freight lines
of Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio and
the other trunk lines are conspicuously
known everywhere and their business is
enormous The main stem of the Great
Southern Dispatch will be, 100 miles long,
from New York to Chattanooga. or Selma,
but it's cars will be sent to all points east of
New York and over the South and South
est.-ChurHoNe JonWdl- Observer.