Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-12-16

keep them within proper bounds, than to COM
pei every one to erect fences for the protec.
ton of their grounds and gardens. The no.
fence law, if adopted in South Carolina, will,
I am sure, meet with general approval"
Riot In Mississippi.
"A riot is reported to have occurred on
the night of the 9th of November at Rolling
Fork, Issanena county, Miss, where party
of negroes had assembled and were drinking
and carousing. As the story goes, one OF them
pushed against youth whom he met in the
street, using rough language at the same time.
The youth drew knife and inflicted scalp
wound on the negro and then fled to store
for safety. The negroes became very much
exasperated and vowed vengeance. To pre-
vent this q warrant was obtained for the youth,
charging him with assault with intent to kill,
hut beforeit could be served the negroes broke
into the store and beat the young lad severely
with an iron bar. Finally one of the party
shot the boy in the thigh. At the report of
the pistol the negroes ran, but the whites had
begun to assemble, and, fearing a general riot,
pursued and captured ten of them, and put
them in the station house and placed guard
over them. During the night one of the guard
not upon duty, came out on the porch with
gun on his shoulder and was ordered away by
the sentinel on duty. AS he turned his gun,
which was cooked, it struck against window
and was discharged. The negro prisoners,
thinking that they were being fired upon,
stampeded, and the guard opened up an in
discriminate firing, wounding two of their
own number and two negroes, all slightly, but
the prisoners escaped. Sunday the most in
tense excitement prevailed there, as it was
learned that Noah Parker and Arthur Brooks,
two notorious negroes, we're trying to organize
the negroes for assault On the place, and the
whites were organized under Rev. Mr.. Ball, q
Baptist minister, who arrested Brooks and
Parker, and in the attempt to rescue them the
rencontre occurred, in which seven negroes
were killed.
The Escape Of Tweed.
-S Since the fact of Tweed's escape from
prison was made public, the New York papers
have teemed with lengthy versions and learned
theories of the manner in which the escape
was effected. 1t appears that Tweed was
driven, in charge of two of the prison officials,
from the Jail to his residence, late in the at:
ternoon on Saturday the 4th instant, and while
the party were seated in the parlor, Tweed
asked permission to step up stairs to see his
wife, who was sick. After he had been ab-
sent about ten minutes, the warden who had
him in charge, suggested that it was time to
return to the Jail, and requested Tweed's son
to notify his father that the officers wished to
return early to the Jail. The son ascended the
stairs and in three minutes returned with the
startling intelligence that bis father had not
been to his mothers room at all. There was
instant excitement, and apparently much con-
fusion, and a thorough search of the premises
was at once made, and the heads of the police
force throughout the city and in Brooklyn
we're at once notified of the escape.
The statements of the officers who claim
that they accompanied Tweed to his residence
are generally discredited in New York, the
belief prevailing that he did not 60 to his
house at all, and that his flight was made at
an earlier hour in the day. The arrangements
for the escape were no doubt we'll planned;
and if, as is asserted, Tweed could have easily
spared his two custodian on the occasion $780,.
600 each, there is no doubt that every facility
for his safe exit was afforded. No blame
seems to attach to Sheriff Connor though the
laxity of the prison officials is severely con-
demned by the press of the city. The Tribune
says the great prisoner did not escape from
the jailors-that they granted him every
privilege he could ashland under their kind
treatment he was doing we'll but that he
found it absolutely necessary to escape from
his own lawyers, who in the shape of enor-
nous fees, were swallowing up his vast posses
sions. This is no doubt the true theory of the
flight, after all.
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