Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-25
MERE.MENTION.

A passenger train on the Mexican Nation
al Railway was fired into on the evening of
the 18th inst. by mounted men four miles
south of Celia, Mexico. Most of the shots
passed through the engine cab. Nobody
was injured. .''""""Charles w. Mengile, the
Philadelphia drug clerk charged with vol
untary manslaughter in selling a box of
pills containing strichnine, which was eat
en- wholesale by family, one of whom
died the same night, has been discharg-
ed. ."'''."'Rev. Neill Z. Presley, the mis-
sionary of the Associate Reformed Presby-
teran Church in Mexico is on brief visit
to his home in North Carolina. .'''''''''The
tax returns of Alabama reveal the fact that
the total value of farming implements in
the State is $75, ,291, and that the total value
of guns, pistols, dirks, &C., is $40, 1852. '""A
shock of an earthquake was distinctly felt
in number of towns and cities in several
of the Western States at 2.2O O'Clock last
Friday afternoon. .'''''''''A piece of petrified
Charlotte the other day at a depth Of 27O
feet under ground. .''''''''''Dr. Edmund j.
Camp, of Gainesville, Georgia, has begun a
suit in Atlanta for 10000 damages against
the Air Line Railroad for injuries sustained
by reason of fall at the depot platform at
Gainesville The doctor was permanently
and seriously injured by the fall. 1.-THE
number of deaths in Italy from cholera are
reported to be decreasing, but the death rate
is still large. '''''keely, the mysterious
motor man, has succeeded in perfecting
vaporc gun with the secret power that is to
give motion to his engine. The gun has
been successfully tested in public, and the
"motor" is still confidently promised at an
early day.
BUFFERS SLANDERs.-Ben Butler said
in a speech at Lowville, N. Y, Wednes-
day, that if the laboring men were united
they could carry any State in the Union
except in the South, where the laboring
man cannot have his vote counted" what
a miserable old slanderer Ben Butler is.
There is not State in the South, where
the laboring man as voter hasn't a better
showing than in New England. When
Butler was beaten for Governor of Mas
sachusetts he publicly charged in his speech
es that his defeat was brought about by the
wholesale disfranchisement oflaboring men,
and through the interference and despotism
of employers, who intimidated their en-
ployees and prevented them from voting for
him through fear of dismissal. He don't
like the South because he found no support
from this section in his candidacy before the
Democratic convention at Chicago.
Ben is taking wonderful interest IN the
laboring man now. 1t is somewhat re-
markable that in his twenty years connec-
ton with the Republican party, during
which all the odious, discriminating legis-
lation of which he complains was enacted,
he never took any interest in the toilers for
whom he now pretends to be laboring. In
all that time no protest came from him, but
on the contrary he was among the most
active and ablest defenders of the policy Of
that party. Ben is miserable old time
saving demagogue, and the wonder is that
working men anywhere can be humbugged
by him.-Charlotte Observer.