Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-26
MERE.MENTION.

The Mississippi State executive commit
tee of the Prohibition party, met in Jack
son last Friday, Goth instant, and resolved to
call a convention to meet in that city on Ju-
ly 1st, to inaugurate an active campaign for
next fall. '''.'""Rev. DR.. Burchard has emerg-
ed from his seclusion to say. that he still be-
lieves his Rum, Romanism and Rebel
lion'' speech was proper, and that it has
been "directed for the best by an all-wise
Providence. .".'.""Under the new postal
law, with its special delivery up to mid
night, the telegraph will lose good many
of its advantages over the mails. ''''''.''In
view of the contemplated visit by Prince
Albert to Ireland, the statement is made
that twenty-three English monarchs never
visited Ireland peacefully. There have been
only eight royal visits in 800 years. The
Prince of Wales may 60 there but he may
wish he had stayed at home. WIN. H.
Vanderbilt has called on President Cleve-
land. ..'.'.."'A mob at Independence, Kansas,
Friday night, stormed the Jail and took
out Frank Bonham, a young farmer, and
hanged him. Bonham was charged with
the murder of his mother, brother and SIS
ter. .'..""Hon. E. Jeffords, of Issaquena
county, Miss, late representative in Con-
gress from the Shoe-string district, died
suddenly in Vicksburg, on Thursday morn
ing, of heart disease. He had only been
home from Washington few days.. :....:in
Sycamore, Illinois, the wife of a Methodist
"faith cure" crank was sick with puerperal
fever. She refused medical aid and the
hour prayer for her recovery. Her death
ended the service. 1.-THE Supreme Court
of Iowa has rendered decision affirming
the constitutionality Of the new prohibitory
law and providing means for its speedy en-
forcement. .......-'The Ohio Legislature has
adopted joint resolution for the submission
of constitutional amendment to change
the time for the State election from October
to November. 1.-THE Cincinnati South
ern Railroad has announced sweeping re-
duction in freight rates from New York to
been reduced from 81 "A for first class to 40
cents. 1.-THE great grain sections of Cali
fornia are suffering from want of rain and the
crops are in critical condition. ''...Ben
Hill has received the appointment of q. S.
District Attorney for the Northern District
of Georgia. 1.-THE next annual meeting
of the Southern Baptist Convention will be
held in Augusta, Ga, beginning on the 9Th
of May. 1.-Two men were drowned while
duck hunting near Keokuk, Iowa, last Sun
day. Gen. H. V. Boyton, Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
and with long experience to aid him in
JuuSIuS pOAlGiCdi oaSo eAAS@s AAS ~"
many indications of an open war on the
President at an early day by the entire
spoils element of his party. 1.-The post
master at st. Paul, Nebraska, has been ar
rested by the post Office inspectors, charged
with being $500 short in his accounts IA
Chicago house has received an order from
the British Government for FIVE million
cans of meat, for the army in Egypt. To
fill this order 10000 cattle will be re-
quired. THE Connecticut Senate has
defeated the bill passed by the House Civ
ing women the right to vote and making
them eligible to Office. Reliable reports
from the best wheat-growing districts of
Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Missou-
ri, Kansas and Virginia, indicate that the
growing crop in those States is injured from
20 to SO per cent. The outlook throughout
the country for the small grain crop is quite
gloomy.
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