Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-12

orally can produce only SUFFERING Ill Iiie eIu.
- The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph thus dis
courses upon living issue: but upon
the negro question the country is divided.
The negro question is still the one great
question that agitates the public mind above
all others. It temporarily sundered the
Union, caused horrible sacrifice of life and
treasure, has alienated the sections, and is
still unsettled. Weare merely dealing with
another phase of it.
WAYNE Powers and George Gibson were
hanged at Estellville, Va, last Friday, for
the murder of William Gibson last April.
Both addressed the crowd, acknowledging
their guilt and eXonerating Jonah Powers,
who was also convicted of the same offence,
but reprieved. Powers, in pamphlet, con-
fessed having attempted to murder his own
brother and many others. He ascribed all
his woes to "whisky, cards and pistols"
"A careful review of the legislation of the
several States on the liquor question reveals
the fact that contrary to the common inn
preston, the Southern States have legislat-
ed against the free sale of liquor more than
the States of the North and West "Local
option is of various kinds, embracing entire
counties, single ward or township; three
mile laws, church, college or schoolhouse
laws where liquor may not be sold within
three miles of church or school-house."
Says Gno CTdTlOGCo NOSe1Ces's Lie spring
term of Iredell Superior court convened on
Monday last, 9th instant. ThOs. l.. Shields,
whose former trial for the murder of
Jos. G. Sitton, in Mecklenburg county, Gre
ated so much excitement, will be arraigned
before the Court in Statesville to undegO the
new trial that has been granted him. Our
country people still manifest great interest
in this murder case, and the people of Long
Creek are arranging to 60 to Statesvilie
in wagons and camp out during. the trial
Shields is now and has been for several
months confined in the Statesville Jail.
The trial will begin to-day.
- Commodore Maury marked out the
paths of the ocean and now it is proposed
to light them. One of the most startling
projects of the times is to illumine the At
lantic ocean by means of electric lights
actually to make "a path of silver light'
across the water from the banks of New
foundland to the shores of Ireland. Ten
vessels are to be anchored at a distance of
200 miles from one another in straight
line, each riding at "a mushroom anchor,
which permits the vessel swinging round
with the tide without fouling her anchor"
These lightships are also to be connected to-
gether and to the shore by an electric cable,
and be able to send messages to any part
of the world.
The Charlotte Observer had a call last
Thursday from Messrs. f. H. Bobo and l..
A. Mills, prominent citizens of Spartanburg,
S. c., who have within the past few days
been paying visit to the members of the
North Carolina Legislature, with view to
securing charter for an extension of the
Carolina Central Railroad from Shelby, the
present western terminus of that road. to
Spartanburg. They report that there will
be no opposition in the Legislature to the
charter and that the bill will be passed
unanimously. This is project which,
when finished, is to connect with the line
from Augusta ria Laurens and Greenwood
to Spartanburg, and forms but link in the
through chain of railroad to the seaboard,
either at Wilmington or at Norfolk.
Special dispatches from Bloomington,
Illinois, say that within the last few days a
number of threatening letters have been
received through the mails by several of the
colored residents of Bellefiower stating that
if the recipients did not Immediately move
away from the place it would be the worse
for them. The colored people are repre-
sented as being greatly excited and alarmed,
and it is stated that their children had been
insulted and beaten in BellehoWer public
school until obliged to leave the institution.
Assertions are also made that much the
same treatment is being given colored peo-
pie in other central Illinois precincts, nOta-
bly, the towns of Seabrook, Gilman and
Sibley. The attention of the postoffice de-
partment has been called to the threatening
letters mailed in violation of the law, and
an investigation is on foot.
Recent facts and figures in the Tines
Democrat concerning the population of New
Orleans will create considerable surprise.
In a population of 100000 there are seven
white women to every six white men, and
four female to three male negroes. This
is the largest excess Of female population
of any city in the Union, not even except
ing Boston. The death rate is very favora-
BILE to the gentle sex. For the first half of
January the deaths were, males 1856; fe-
males, 103. So it seems that in this remark
able city nine males die for every two fe-
males, and the death rate for the men is
forty-six per thousand and for the women
twenty-one. If nothing occurs to disturb
this proportion in twenty years New Orle-
ans will have two women for every one man,
and in a generation men Will be so scarce
that they will be too highly priced as orna-
ments to be of much service in the useful
walks of life.
"A highly sensational murder trial came
off at Petersburg, Grant county, West Nir-
ginia, on Monday of last week. The prison.
er was Elijah Weese, aged seventy-fve, and
the murder which he is accused of was COM
mltted IN OCTOBER, 1861. WeeSe was SuS-
pected Of the murder at the time and arrest
ed, but was released from Jail by the soldiers
the next day. He went South but recently
returned to Petersburg. AT the trial the
evidence showed that Weese was jealous of
Ault, the man he is charged with killing,
who was a popular young fellow, suspected
of intimacy with Mrs. Weese; that the
jealous husband met him on a lonely road
as he was returning from hog killing, and
shot him; that he afterwards said he had
killed three hogs that day; that the men
had frequently quarreled, but when they
met that time Ault was unarmed. Weese
was sent to Jail to await the action of the
grand jury. 1t is believed he will not live
to undergo trial in the higher court
"A Frankfort dispatch of last Friday says {:
A superficial investigation of the records of
the State of Kentucky shows beyond ques-
ton that system of robbery has been car
ried on for fifteen years past which rivals
anything ever heard of. At the same time
it has been conducted under cover of law.
It is evident that the amount stolen will not
fall far short of S2,000,000. 1t is not easy to
get at the details by which the plunderers
secured the spoils, but simple set of figures
readily establishes the fact that a deficit
of that MAGNITUDE exists. The study of the
books shows that in the department of GRIM
inal prosecutions the steal has reached at
least million in fifteen years. In the cost
ofkeeping idiots during the same time there
has beena steal of $500, ,O00, while in other eX-
penditures, which have not been examined
closely, there are indications of other crook