Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-24
Mnn1uruns department.

BILL NYE FILLS LoNG-FELT WANT
l toyed with daily once which was incor-
porated to fill long-felt want. | did not
know it was loaded. There was rival
daily that had been running two years, and
we entered the arena, hoping to win an easy
victory over this paper and become great
power in the West. We thought that our
adversary wouldn't last more than month
after election, but thanksgiving came and
went and found the Evening Sqataacker still
on deck. The editor would come and bor-
row print paper of us, and then use it to
call us the slime-bedecked and putrid eX-
ponent of still more baneful political fac
ton. We would borrow a font of BREWER
of him, and characterize his paper as the
wailing foundling dying in the deadly
swamp of political filth, wherein it had
chosen its bed, edited by the bitter foe of
the laundress and Lindley Murray, a man
who had evaded justice for forty years, and,
not content with the outrage of all moral
book. Thus we kept up spirited contest
for long time. One day the little muddy,
measley, long suffering features of the Ere'a-
ing .S9Ia,Uker failed so appear.
We won the day, but at what sacrifice:
The smoke of conflict cleared away and
showed that the victory was not worthy of
the carnage. The iSquaacker had fought us
bravely, and now it's still, cold form lay in
state in the basement of the chief creditor,
and the usual notice of attachment was
tackled on the door.
The editor and myself met on the follow
ing day, and he was the more cheerful of
the two He said he felt sorry for me. II
can use what get hereafter OH my family"
said he, 'sbut you can't. You will feel
guilty if you buy barrel of -four for your
own use, knowing that it will imperil the
next issue of the paper. l have passed all
that" And he was right. The quicker a
man decides to cease publishing daily pa pa
per where it is not needed, just simply
through a high moral sense of duty, the
sooner he will become light hearted and JOY
Gus. I don't know very much, but if there's
anything do know, and know it hard and
know it with one hand tied behind me, it
is that.
AMENDING THE VERDIcT.-The train
was just entering Erin, Tenn, when we
heard the sharp toot! toot! toot! of the
whistle, and such passengers as looked from
the windows saw an aged African with
bundle over his shoulder straight ahead on
the track. The whistle was blown and the
bell rung, but he paid no attention, and all
OF sudden the ow-catcher picked him up
and flung him fifty feet to one side. A gang
of men brought the body to the depot, and
among Gn6 uOZen OI us VIII StOppSu Ou a.
the village coroner's jury was selected. 1t
seemed plain enough case. The man came
tohis death by being struck by a locomo-
tive on the l.. & n. Road. Such was the
verdict rendered, but no sooner was it an
nounced than the coroner observed:
"Gentlemen, return and amend your YER
dict. You<haven't said anything about
carelessness."
We returned to the room and amended by
adding that the engineer was blameless in
the case, and the coroner received us with
'Very good, gentlemen, as far as it goes,
but the man was probably deaf, and it would
be we'll to amend the verdict accordingly"
We went back and damended to make the
victim as deaf as hitching~ post, but we
were not through yet.
"You haven't got the name of the county
in your report, and you don't say whether
it was freight or passenger train," observ-
ed the coroner.
= We returned to the room for another tus-
sic, and were just congratulating ourselves
on having everything ship-shape, when the
coroner put his head into the doorway and
called out:
"Gentlemen, amend your verdict The
confounded nigger has come to life ~
And when we rushed out to the freight
house he was sitting up on end and asking
ifanybody had seen his bundle.
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