Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-28
MENTION.

DIX members OF CnG MISSOURI uOuSC vi uel-
egates have been indicted for drunkenness
in office and three for bribery. Mexican
government troops were attacked on Tues
day of last week by a body of revolutionists
who underestimate their strength. Many
revolutionists were killed and Gonzales and
two more leaders were captured. All ban
dts found with the revolutionists are shot
without ceremony."At Bangor, Maine,
on Tuesday, a fifteen year-old boy playfully
pointed a gun at his thirteen-year-Old Sis
ter and killed her."""'Theo Schumann
druggist, and three liquor dealers of Atlanta,
have been fined $500 and costs for violating
the prohibition law.'The first bale of
new crop cotton was sold in Memphis on
last Wednesday and brought twenty-five
cents per pound. The first bale of new crop
Texas cotton was reported at Galveston on
the 10th, and shipped. last week by express
to the New York Cotton Exchange.''"'The
Vermont prohibitionists have nominated a
full State ticket with Prof. Seeley for Gov
ernor."'On Tuesday at st. Louis three
little girls were playing in a sand pit when
it caved in, smothering one to death. "ln
Montgomery county, Arkansas, on Monday
night, seven horse thieves murdered Joseph
G.. Cook and Fred Gerhardy.""''The Au-
gusta manufactures have organized for mu-
tual protection against the knights Of La
Dor. The Graniteville, Vaucluse and Lang
ley Mills in South Carolina have Joined
them.""'The bill to remove the political
disabilities of w. H. F. Lee, of Virginia,
has passed both houses of Congress. "'"Spon-
taneous combustion among flour dust caused
the destruction of the Dubuque company's
oat meal mill, at Dubuque, Iowa, Friday
ex-President Arthur is improving."The
M n poiffao A, AVA yc on6 fnnpnS hoe aprpln
to Morrison's resolution providing for
the adjournment of Congress sine die to-
day .An. Armador county, Colorado,
man has applied for a patent on a process for
making butter by boiling the cream. A
Pangor, Me-, man has constructed a canvas
noe in which he intends to place a small
steam engine and a propeller: Lincoln
Spote and Calvin James, the latter a negro,
were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, last Fri
day for murders committed in the Indian
Territory. "Only two centuries ago the
white races were estimated to be one-tenth
of the worlds population. Now it is
claimed they are fully one-third. "A
nugget weighing thirty-seven pounds and
valued at S 1000 was found in a drift mine
near Sierra City, CAL, recently. This is
one of the largest specimens ever found in
the State.
A BLAST FROM Darn-
we'll People of July %, says in a leading
editorial:
"The Republican party in South Carolina
is dead beyond the reviving reach OF rcsur-
~rection.
"But the danger of division in the ranks
of the Democracy remains and grows as the
possibility of antagonism from its late enc
NV becomes more and more remote.
1.-THE Democrats of the up country have
renewed the war against the low country
which tortured the Commonwealth for years
before the recent outbreak of the great
struggle between the States. They are
sending their best troops to the front and
mean to make the southern counties satra-
pies of the Piedmont autocracy. At such
a crisis as the present our ablest men should
be called into service and personal ambi-
tons, if in conflict with the public good,
should be mercilessly murdered: The Peo-
pie, with no axe to grind, urges the Conven-
ton to send men who will be worthy of
this great county. Local pride as we'll as
the public good demands this and failure
will be a sin and a crime that will bring re-
proach and bitter punishment"