Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-29

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skull. Johnson died and Magill made his
escape.
Rev. J.. G. Price, colored, president of
Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. c.,
has received q letter from Secretary Bay
ard informing him that the President has
appointed him minister resident and con-
sui general of the United States in Liberia:
Price has not vet decided whether he will
accept the Office or not.
Although the United States standing
army is comparatively insignificant from
the point of view of numbers, we are not
in q defenceless position. The States have
94,736 trained and well drilled men in
their military organizations, and careful
estimates put the number of men in this
country as available for military service
at s,O2l, sos.
A New York dispatch of Sunday says:
The executive committee of the Republic
can league of the United States has ap-
pointed q committee on the organization
of Repuhlican clubs in the Southern States.
The newly appointed committee will at
once begin work, with view to compile
ting the organization of the Republicans
of the South before the Presidential cam
paign begins.
IN. B. Lester, who shot and killed s..
Lane, in Lebanon, Tenn, on the 18th Of
last July, was sentenced last Saturday by
the Supreme Court at Nashville to be
hanged on the Goth of April. Lester kill
ed Lane because the latter, as attorney for
Mrs. Lester, who wa seeking a divorce,
prevented Lester from obtaining money
secured to Mrs. Lester by the death of
her first husband, who was a member of
the knights of Pythias.
The unwilling ofthe Jasper monument
last Wednesday at Savannah, Ga, was a
great success. Over 10000 visitors were
In the city. Speaking of Jasper, the Shell
by aurora says: There is q current ira
dition that Sergeant Jasper, one Of the
brayest heroes of the American Revolu-
ton, was born two miles from Kings
Mountain on Kings Creek, in Cleveland
county, N. C.. Many of the oldest inhab-
itants cling to this tradition and now point
to the remains of the house in which the
heroic Jasper is said to have lived. .
George II. Corliss, the engine builder,
died on Tuesday at Providence, r. l., Of
paralysis of the heart. Mr.. Corliss was
born in Easton, N. Y. He saw in
side of a machine shop until he was Is
years old. Hewent to Providence in 1914,
and in 1916 began the development Of his
steam engine improvements, and in 184S
COulDIStCu OIL CuS1AO WIlSl Oh1OONlOo lS
essential features of the present Corliss en-
CINE. Mr.. Corliss was a commissioner at
the Centennial Exhibition, and his engine
for transmitting the power all over Ma
chinery Hall added to his fame. The un-
dertaking cost him 500, 600.
- The Tennessee State Prohibition Con-
vention, held in Nashville last week, was
attended by eighty delegates. Twenty
four delegates were appointed to the Ma
tional Prohibition Convention to meet at
Indianapolis and instructed to vote for
General Clinton B. Fisk as nominee for
President. A convention was also called
for May 18th, the same day the Republi-
can Gubernatorial Convention meets, to
nominate a candidate for Governor. The
nomination of full county, legislative and
Congressional tickets was urged. The
platform afirms allegiance to the nation
al prohibition party, demands a free bal
lot, the restriction of emigration and lib
eral appropriations for education.
The community of Monmouth, ILL.,,
was startled by a terrific roar or explosion
on the night of the 22nd instant, which
was perceptibly felt to jar the walls and
windows of many buildings in the city.
The sky was lit up with what appeared to
have been a monster meteor on a tramp.
Its direction was from southeast to north
west. The meteor passed Monmouth with
lightning rapidity and the explosion took
place shortly after. Reports from neigh
boring towns show that they all expert
enced the same sensations as to the shock
and the flight of the visitor, but whittier
it went is not yet known.
They tell down East of a poor fellow
who owned a remarkably fat hog, and
who also owed a rich The hog was
about all the property he had worth levy
ing on, and the law exempted a mans
the debtor said "You need another pig ;
let me send you a nice little one." The
poor man was astonished. "Why I owe
for the hog that I've got now," he STAN
mered. "Never mind !; you need another
one and I'll send it, and he did, and the
little pig was put in the pen by the side of
the fat one. In less than an hour the con-
stable came and attached the fat hog and
took it away, and thus the law and the
rich man were satisfied.
At Bangor, Maine, last Friday, when
Clarence Whitney and James Foster were
brought in court to plead to the charge of
having committed the famous robbery
and attempt to murder old Peter Bennett,
the miser, at East Newport last December,
Foster caused a sensation by pleading
su1ltJs "ultAOy ASo1Ay ALeS nv liz
heard his companions plea, but he him
self pleaded not guilty. Foster said he
will tell the whole story, duplicating him
self and Whitney. He takes this course
in order to avoid q trial in which his his
tory would be brought out. Foster is not
his real name, and he does not want to
disgrace his family who are said to be
prominent in New York State.
New York politicians are circulating
the report that Governor Hill will try to
head the delegation to the st. Louis Con-
vention from that State, and that he will
make the speech nominating President
Cleveland for the second term. Governor
Hill will have nothing to say on the SUBJ
ject, and there is a great difference of opin-
ion among the knowing ones. Hills most
intimate friends say that he will keep
himself in readiness for 1892, and that he
will not seek reelection as Governor. The
air is full of all kinds of rumors, but all
agree that the alleged Hill boom is dead,
past all hope of resurrection, and that
New York will send a delegation to st.
Louis solid for the nomination of Cleve-
land.
The Chinese minister wa asked the
other day if his country had any ill-feeling
towards the United States for its effort to
check Chinese immigration. He said:
"None at all. We are trying to restrict it
ourselves. Those who come here from
China.belong to the working class. We
are much more concerned with the protec-
ton of our commercial relations with the
United States and our merchants doing
business in America. That is China's
chief concern. We wish to extend our
commercial relations with this country as
much as possible, and to do so our mer-
chants in America must be protected.