Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-25
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HITL.


most opposite the cotton factory. Our peo-
pe now begin to believe that we are going
to have the road; but they must remember
that railroads are not built by talk alone,
and unless they turn out on the Goth Of
March and vote in favor of a township SUBJ
scription we will certainly lose the road and
may never have such an opportunity again.
| >yNNill Gibbs, colored man, while walling
| a we'll for Mr.. David l.. Black on his plan
tation, was struck on the head with rock
weighing over thirty pounds. Mr.. Black
had two rocks in the Wheelbarrow and in
turning them out one rolled into the WELL
striking Gibbs upon the head. He was ap-
parently dead for short time, but soon re-
covered and is at work again. 1t is fortu-
nate for him that the rock struck him on
the head instead of some softer place.
ION last Wednesday Mr.. S. NJ. FeWell was
thrown from his horse and badly hurt, re-
ceiving cash two inches long on the side
of his head. He was taken home in an in
Saturday, but still suffering some pain.
The residence of Prof. l.. Shurley in Eb
enezer caught on fire on Saturday last from
spark from the stove pipe and was making
rapid progress, and but for the timely as
sistance of the neighbors the building would
have been consumed. The damage was
41kRearly every citizen of this town chews
Chewing gum. The young men, when they
go to see their girls, take a package with
them, the married ladies chew it, the busi-
ness men chew it, and the children eat it,
One business man told me he was going to
order ton to supply the demand.
The Columbia Register states that Rev.
! w. B. Jennings had resigned his charge
| here and had accepted call to the Presby-
terian church in Greenville, S. e. This is
mistake and take pleasure in correcting
| it, as it may have originated from the para
graph in reference to him in my last letter.
Z. S. Commissioner G.. j. Pride has re-
turned from Greenville, where he has been
attending the U. S. Court. He informs me
that James Gooch, colored, of this place,
who was tried for perjury, was convicted
for nine months. Jim has heretofore been
hard working, and industrious man and
has always voted the Democratic ticket.
The dwelling of Mr.. r. L. Horn, situated
near the Chester county line, with all its
contents, was destroyed by fire on yester-
day at = o'clock p. NJ, the family barely
escaping. The house caught from spark
from the stove pipe, and before discovered
had made such headway that it was with
difficulty that Mrs. Horn could get the
children out of the house before the roof
fell in. Mr.. Horn was away from home at
the time. There was no insurance. He is
well known here and we regret to hear of
his loss, which falls heavily upon him, being
8, man of large family.
L The young ladies and gents INDUCED in
Yanother fox or paper chase to-day, Mr.: c.
b. Simmons and Miss Jennie Barber being
the foxes. The race extended several miles
in the country. Miss Halle Caldwell, of
Charlotte, N. c., captured the foxes and
was awarded the plume. HAL.
Missouri AND THE CoNFEDERACY.-
Gen. d. NJ. Frost, at the meeting OF the
Southern Historical and Benevolent Society
in st. Louis, Mo-, on Thursday last, stated
that at the time Gen. Price was falling back
from Lexington, Mo-, in September, 1861,
with a half farmedand badly equipped army,
he was somewhat surprised that Gen. Nc
Cullough, who had an army in Northwest
Arkansas, or Gen. Hardee, who had an ar
nv in Northeast Arkansas, or Gen. Pillow,
who had an army at Columbus, KY, did
not move in Missouri and cooperate. He
called on Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, who
had command of all the Confederate forces
west of the Alleghanies, and suggested that
these different armies be united under one
commander and an effort made to hold
Western and Southern Missouri. Gen.
Johnson replied that the Richmond Gov
ernment did not desire to commit itself
to policy that would hamper when the
question of treating for peace arose, a line
from the mouth of the Ohio River to the
Pacific Ocean being considered as the prob
able western boundary of the two countries.
Gen. Frost added that the matter was i'm
parted to him as State secret and he had
kept it as such until then. In an interview
afterWard Gen. Frost said:
"Presdent Davis expected the indepen-
dence of the Southern COnfederacy would
be established and that there would be
some trouble in fixing the boundary line
between the two republics. He did not be-
lieve the north would consent to bounda-
ry line giving Missouri to the Confederacy,
and it was not deemed eXpedient to get into
any entangling alliance with the State.
His idea was to draw the boundary line
from the mouth of the Ohio River west,
giving Missouri to the North. 1t would
have been very impolitic at the time to
have told of this secret, as the support CIV
even by thousands of Missourians to the
Confederacy might have been Withdrawn.
When the South first seeded, strong in
ducements were made to get Missouri to
ioin the Confederacy, but when the Con-
federate Government was established at
Richmond, it was deemed advisable to let
Missouri remain as she was"
MORE TROUBLE FROM THE WOODROW
MATTER.-The special meeting OF the
Louisville Presbytery, called to try the
charges made against the Rev. +. B. and
r.. +. Converse, editors of the CHRISTIAN
Observer, by the Rev. Messrs. Daniels,
Boggs and Mittingly, three, Memphis min
listers, was begun on Thursday. The charg-