Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-26
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first man subject to the "ooycott III
Ireland. He was a land agent in 1881,
in the Conuemara section of county
MAYO, where he collected rent, and for
a number of landlords, notably the
Earl of Erne. The captain made a
speech, in the course of which he urged
the people of Ireland to abstain from
agrarian crimes and to adopt instead a
policy of sending harsh landlords,
agents and bailiffs "to Coventry" the
old term for boycotting. Events so
shaped themselves that Captain Boy
colt was the first man the Irish expe-
rimented upon in this connection, and
hence the now familiar word of "boy-
cott."
Last spring the women of the lit
tie town of jamestown, in Cloud coun-
ty. Kansas, organized and elected an
entire ticket of women, from mayor
down. They promised to rid the
town of saloons and gambling. After
a fight for two months they were COM
pelied to take the law into their hands,
and, accordingly, on Friday, band OF
resolute women, shortly after mid
night, went to Miller's saloon with
axes, hatchets and hammers and smash
ed the building and furniture into
fragments. Beer and whisky were
spilled in the streets, and the bar, fur
niture and fixtures were scattered
about the premises. A notice was
posted warning Miller to leave the
town and threatening vengeance on
any others who should undertake to
run saloon or joint in the town.
There was an exciting time in Rev.
DIR. John Halls fashionable Fifth Ave-
nue. Presbyterian church last Sunday
morning. Herman Warszawiak was
dismissed from communion. When
this was announced there was an in
stant's silence. Then his wife, loyalty
Drawing time and place, arose and
turning upon the vast assemblage held
rigid by amazement, lifted her voice in
piteous protest against the Judgment
which had been passed upon her hus
band. Nor did she cease when a wo-
man sought, with kindly force, to
draw her down into pew, nor when
men seized her and forced her down an
aisle, but above organ and choir, which
at the pastors command had burst into
a hymn, rose her cry in pleading rebel
lion until, borne resisting from the
church, a door was closed upon her,
shutting out of sight and sound from
the singing congregation. Warszawiak
had been charged with gambling.
"A Little Rock, Ark. special to the
Kansas City Star, says: Cclum-
bia county, Ark, is undergoing an cpl
demic of flies, and many of the citi-
zens of the county are said to be flee
ing to other parts of the state to es-
cape the plague. The editor of the
Magnolia Banner, the oldest paper
published in southeast Arkansas, had
to suspend publication this week and
has taken his family, together with
several others, and gone to Saline
county. The epidemic is described as
being terrible. The pests literally
cover the face of the earth and are
hourly increasing in numbers. They
are worse, if possible, than the grass
hopper scourge of Kansas in 1S74-75.
1t is doubted that any of the other
papers printed in the county have Is
sued this week, as none of them have
reached here. The flies seem to cover
the entire county of Columbia, but as
yet no complaint has come from any
of the adjoining territory.
1t begins to look as though our
army, small as it is, has become top
heavy. General Ruggles carried back
to Washington from West Point an as
tonishing piece of information. There
is not today a single vacancy in the
official corps of the United States army.
Last week 81 young men graduated at
the West Point Military academy, all
of whom would naturally become sec.
ond lieutenants in the army without
delay. There seems to be not a post
for any one of them at present, and
half dozen of last years graduating
class are yet without stations. The
reason for this scarcity of vacancies is
said to be the fact that private soldiers
can now be promoted to commissioned
officers. This is due to recent act
of congress. 1t was urged that the
private soldier needed the stimulus of
possible promotion in order to secure
good class of men in the ranks of the
army, but in following this suggestion
no one turned on the stopcocks at
West Point.
- Mrs. A. A. Springs was murdered
by burglar in the March House, Of
which her husband is proprietor, at
Lexington, n. c., at $50 o'clock last
Wednesday morning. Mrs. Springs
was awakened, and seeing some one
standing in the room, screamed and
began to shake Mr.. Springs in order to
wake him. The burglar fired. The
ball struck Mrs. Springs just above
the eye, killing her. blr. Springs
hearing the report, jumped up and
followed the burglar, who ran into the
hotel office and jumped out of the win
dow. He made good his escape, 60
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