Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-01
Correspondence of the Y0rkrille Enquirer.
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Blacks, January 3O.-We are now hav-
ing very cold and clear weather.
Nearly all the merchants of our town
have hung out their red flags. They are
selling out at cost. Most of them will buy
a new spring stock.
The town authorities are having the
streets repaired, a work much needed, az
some Of them are in very bad condition.
Mr.. Joseph Black, who attends to the
signal station, keeps us informed daily as
to the weather.
Since the election the citizens seem to
be satisfied and are giving the school their
hearty support. They will use every
effort to make the graded school a success.
A few days ago one of the drivers en-
ployed at Borders & Cli2e's livery stable,
alighted from a buggy within a mile of
town. When the horses found that no
one had charge of them, they made a dash
for home, going at a frightful speed
through the streets. Several attempts
were made to stop them, but without
avail. When they reached the stables
they ran over a buggy, breaking it to
pieces. ALPHA.
MERE. MENTION.
David Bruce, who murdered w. r. Will
son, at Russellville, Alabama, a few weeks
ago, was taken from Jail last Friday night
and lynched. ""'"'The Supreme Court of
Missouri has decided that the local option
law of that State is constitutional. This
| establishes prohibition in thirty-four of the
ffty-one counties, and eleven of the six
teen towns and cities that have voted on
the question. ".".."George Edwards, a far
mer, was shot and killed last Friday at
Guyton, Ga, by a trap gun set in a store
for burglars. He entered at one door,
while the storekeeper was opening the
other, in doing which the gun was dis
charged.'""Jim S. Semmes, who MUIR
dered Deputy Sheriff Outrey, near Tusca-
loosa, Ala, was taken to Birmingham on
Saturday, and placed in Jail out Of fear of
the mob at Tuscaloosa. 'The Massa-
chusetts Democratic executive committee
unanimously endorses President C!eve-
passed by the Mississippi house providing
diers who are unable to work, and for col
ored servants of the same who are SINH
larly situated. '"""'Near Amite City, Las
last Saturday night, Ben. Edwards, color
ed, was lynched for brutality assaulting a
white Woman."In the city of Mexico
the average winter temperature is IS in
the early morning, 6S at noon, and 80 at
midnight. linking John, of Abyssinia,
claims to be a descendant of the Queen of
Sheba. .General Lew Wallace has re-
ceived s37, 900 as royalties OF "Ben Hur,"
the sales of which have reached nearly
200, 900 copies. ".""Florida fig trees are
putting on the first crop of figs for the
year.'Last Thursday night about II
o'clock, Jack Blount, Matthew Blount and
Peterson Spruill, colored, charged with
the murder of one Dawson, of CresWell,
n. c., were taken from Plymouth Jail,
lashed to trees and riddled with bullets
about one mile from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
failures occurring throughout the country
during last week number for the United
States 26S, and for Canada 40; total, 81
against 314 the previous week. Steel
Creek church, in Mecklenburg county, N.
c., one of the oldest Presbyterian churches
in the South, and the largest in Mecklen-
burg county, was destroyed by an accident
al fire on Tuesday night last.