Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-19

pecially for the benighted South, find their
way into our schools The effect of such
books is pernicious and as reasonably would
if be for the Governor, in the exercise of his
power as one of the committee on text books,
to prescribe the religious tenets or the politi-
cal creed to be uniformly adopted in all the
schools of the State, as to designate the par
ticular books to be used. The committee
have the undisputed right to recommend any
books they may see proper; but the attempt
to make the use of any prescribed books obi-
gatory upon teachers of the public schools, is
an illtimed movement.
CAPTURE AND DISCHARGE OF PARKER.
Ex-Treasurer Parker, with whose escape
from Columbia Jail and subsequent capture
near Camden, our readers are familiar, has
been returned to his old quarters in the Jail,
and in the future will be kept under stricter
surveillance. In a statement to the Columbia
reporter of the Neus and Courier, Parker
says that after reaching the ground by means
of the lightning rod, he was completely un-
nerved by the fall received in the descent.
He also failed to find the men and horses who
we're to meet him and take him away. He
walked about town until II o'clock, when he
went to the house of friend, who, however,
refused him admission. He then went out
into the eastern suburbs of the city and took
shelter in the house of a colored woman. Here
he struck up with Andy johnson, colored
man, whom he took into his confidence, and
on Saturday, suspecting that johnson wanted
to betray him, he compelled him, by threats,
to 90 with him, and the two set off on Satur-
day night, and walked sixteen miles to Gra-
hams Turnout, where he took a chill and
could walk no further He then hired a
wagon of man named Brown to take him to
Camden. Brown betrayed him, and he was
captured as stated. Parker says he never
would have attempted to escape if he had not
been pushed up to it by his friends. The ply
sician who attends Parker has announced
that Parker is injured internally by his fall
from the lightning rod. His kidneys are
ruptured.
Parker's aiders and abettors in the escape are
represented as being quite uneasy, suspicion
having attached to several, among them a
number of officials and private individuals
1t is but proper, however, to state that from
the first, Sheriff Dents name has never been
breathed in connection with the affair; and
on Thursday Parker published card in the
Union. Herald in which he says he had no as
sistance from the sheriff or any of his employees,
nor had these officials any knowed ge of his
plans for escape.
OfParker's accomplices in making his es'
cape from the Jail, four, viz. Andy johnson,
Mattison, Richardson and Fannie Ford, are
now under bond, to answer at the next term
of the Court of General Sessions, and if ru-
mors are to be credited, several other persons
in Columbia will, at an early day, be arrested
on similar charge Touching these rumors,
the Columbia correspondent of the Nsps and
Courier telegraphs to that paper under date
of last Thursday as follows:
"It is not we'll to speak Of matters which,
to prove successful, must be conducted sub
rosa but this much is sure, that within one
short week there will be one of the biggest le-
gal hauls in this town that there has been for
many day. 1t must come; it is ridiculous
to suppose that an intelligent community can
be gulled into the belief that man so astute,
so cunning as Niles G. Parker, should have
ventured an escape, backed simply by an ig-
norant negro, and man who is an acknowl-
edged murderer. What does Parker mean
when he says: 4 would not have attempted
to escape if had not been pushed up to it by
my friends Friends, indeed, who, when he
came to their doors an outcast, fugitive,
with nowhere to lay his head, drove him off
and Stunned him as they would pestilence
These advisors, these pushers up to the escape
we'll may they tremble, for as dangerous as it
was for them that Parker should be in Jail be-
fore, it is doubly so now. Such treatment of
an outcast friend is not calculated to seal the
lips of the sufferer against the crimes of his
accomplices"
In a subsequent dispatch the same cores
pondent gives the following particulars re-
garding the arrest Of Fannie Ford and Will
liams:
Fannie Ford, the colored woman at whose
house Parker sojourned after his escape from
Jail, and from which he departed on the Sat
urday night preceding his capture, was arrest
ed Friday afternoon as material witness
against Andy johnson and other prominent
men in the community believed to be impii-
Gated in the escape. She was released on a
bond of $500 to appear as witness against
all the parties already arrested, and it is
thought will prove material witness against
Others that may be arrested shortly. Will
liams, one of the men who captured Parker,
was arrested on the same day, on charge of
selling liquor without license. 1t appears
that Williams was arrested last February OH
the same charge, was committed to Jail in de-
fault of 81, 800 bail, and that afterward the
bail was reduced by Judge Bryan to $500.
Tom Carter, the policeman here, and Jim
Greenwood, went on his bond, and he was re-
leased. He was told by Parker's coachman
that money was being used against him to get
him put in Jail, because some big mems
thoug hit he knowed too much Williams
sureties afterward gave him up, and he was
arrested on the old charge. DR.. Geiger went
on his bond, and he is at large again. Will
liams says that Andy johnson, Parker's trav-
cling companion, told him some important
facts concerning those implicated in the es-
cape. This fact got abroad, and hence the
arrest Williams says he has been informed
that it was the object of some prominent men
here to get him in Jail and then pump him as
to what he knew and try and buy his silence.
He promises some interesting disclosures soon.
The sheriff saws he is determined to ferret out