Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-09


of bribery thoroughly examined.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Tie Situation in Louisiana.
Our latest advices from New Orleans
are to Sunday last Much excitement had
prevailed in the city for the past few days,
but no violence had occurred. Gen. Emory
has placed his troops at various points in the
city for the purpose Of preserving the peace.
He has been instructed by the President not
to interfere with peaceable meeting Of the
Warmoth Legislature, and matters will be
held in allegiance until a judicial investiga-
ton can be had.
Congress.
- Congress reassembled on Monday. In
the House several bills were presented and
referred. A motion to commence suit against
the Credit Mobilier for five and three-eighths
millions failed for want of full quorum vote,
notwithstanding quorum was present. A
message from the President vetoing bill to
remit the duties on spirits destroyed in bond
was presented, read and laid on the table.
In the Senate, Sherman offered a resolution
instructing the committee on privileges and
elections to enquire into the contest in Lou
isiana and Arkansas as to the result of the late
election, which was laid over to next day.
The Murderer of Fisk Convicted.
The second trial of Stokes, the mur.
derer of James Fisk, in New York, has ended
in the conviction of the prisoner. After
notice by counsel of an exception to the
Judges rulings Stokes was asked if he had
any thing to say why sentence of death
should not be passed upon him. In reply,
Stokes said that he had not Intentionally vio-
lated any law, and that the testimony on
which he was convicted was manufactured.
Judge Boardman, then in feeling address,
in which he alluded to the prisoners youth
and social surroundings, sentenced the priso-
ner to be hanged on Friday the 28th Of Feb:
ruary next.
| Crime in New York.
- The Tribune makes up ghastly record
of crime and casualty in the city of New
York during the year 1872. There we're 81
homicides, or more than one week; 735 &C.
cidental deaths, and 206 bodies found floating
in the rivers and harbor. The number of
homicides exceeds that of 1871 by Is, and
the list of suicides is also larger, including 81
more names than were on the record of the
previous year. The deaths from accidental
causes have fallen off largely, though there
were no West6eld explosions or similar catas-
trophies. The bodies of 122 infants were
found in the streets and rivers. Notwith-
standing the prevalence of crime in the city,
the Tribune is painfully silent on the subject
Of hemp.
A Female Martyr.
- Miss Susan B. Anthony has chosen to
make martyr of herself for the benefit Of
woman suffrage, and has gone to Jail, rather
than give bail in a prosecution for illegal
voting at the last election in Rochester, N. Y.
Miss Susan is a plucky female, and knows ex-
actly what she is about She is suffering for
a great principle, and though she could easily
have given any amount of bail for her ap-
pearance to answer for the offence, yet that
would not have been in her style, as being en-
tirely too lame and devoid of sufficient ex-
citement to give ecGt to the occasion. She can
now indite flaming epistles from the dreary
abode Of dungeon, and say to the country,
behold your boasted liberty and equal rights!
The ignorant slaves are enfranchised, but
lovely woman is imprisoned for daring to ex-
ercise the right of a freeman. If she fails
thus to excite enthusiasm and fire the female
heart, then we think the sex less susceptible
than they are generally accredited.
Curiosity Of Crime.
- Four men, all of them whites, are to
be executed at Burnet, Texas, on the 18th
instant, for the crime of murder. They are
all sentenced for the murder of man named
Benjamin McKeever, and their case, taken
in all its details, is one of the most interesting
in the annals of criminal trials. Their names
are Benjamin Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Ball
Woods, and William Smith, and the evi-
dence against them, though conclusive, was
entirely circumstantial. McKeever was shot
from his horse at night near the residence Of
the Shelby's, his throat then cut, and his body
carried on horseback three miles and thrown
into cave. A large rock was placed on the
bloody spot where his throat was cut, but
this precaution, instead Of concealing the
crime, led to the arrest Of the criminals.
The keen eye of a frontiersman saw that the
rock had been recently placed there; so it
was removed, and indications of blood found.
A closer search resulted in the further finding
of paper-wadding that had been fired from
shotgun. On examining a gun of Benja-
min Shelbys, paper-wadding was likewise
found in it, and yet another wadding that
had been evidently fired from shotgun like
the first was found under Shelby's doorstep.
In his house was found a copy of the CHM
ney Corner, and by comparison it was ascer.
tanned that the three pieces Of gun-wadding
had been obtained from that paper. There
we're several other circumstances pointing
strongly to the accused men as the murderers;
therefore the jury that tried them did not
hesitate to find them guilty of murder in the
first degree. The verdict is generally appro-
we'd by the citizens of Burnet county, and the
latest advices from there indicate that there
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