Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-29


to suppose they would have been familiar.
The following sentence has been puzzling the
members of the Columbia bar for the past
few days, and the gentleman who could spell
through it without making more than ten
mistakes considered it an achievement. The
sentence as here printed is the rendition by a
person to whom it was given to spell, and it
contains over twenty errors:
"a sybilant sibyl, girt with circingle,
though besieged with diptheria in her dia-
phragm, seizes seive and wierdly retrieves
the apostacy of escalops black as sloe, fed
on cantelopes and peas, by singeing knats in
diaphonous collender, as she stands on
single tree, secured by mortice and tenon in
the abridgement Of pinnacle of aminaret,
and bursts out in dytherambic vaccinations,
while the fuschia and the opopinax, rivaling
the eschallots, distil their fragrance in the
rara6ed atmosphere of the moon in slzgy.".
The Charleston Libel Suit.
- The trial of Captain Dawson, one Of
the proprietors of the Charleston News and
Courier, for libeling c. G. Bowen, present
Sheriff of Charleston, commenced last week in
the Sessions Court of Charleston before Judge
Reed. The ofense charged is that Capt.
Dawson as one Of the proprietors of the Neos
did maliciously publish a statement in that
paper declaring that Bowen was an accessory
before the fact of the murder of Col. White,
of the 21st Battalion Georgia Cavalry, who
was shot and mortally wounded on the night
of the 7th of March, 1864 near Georgetown.
The offensive article of the News was based
mainly upon an affidavit made soon after the
occurrence by Eli G. Grimes, member of
Bowen's company which formed part of the
21st Battalion. This affidavit was read in
Court, as also contradictory affidavit pur.
porting to have been made on the same day.
But apparently not relying upon the affidavit
of Grimes, the defense had him summoned to
appear on the witness stand in person, and on
his examination, which was close and search
ing, he reiterated the statement previously
made, to the effect that he shot Col. White
solely at the instigation and by the intimida-
tion and threats of Bowen, who at that time
was his Captain; that he (Grimes) bore no
malice to Col. White, but that Bowen, who
instigated the murder, was incensed at Col.
White for having preferred charges against
him (Bowen) for conduct unbecomiug an Of
icer, and sought his revenge in the manner
described Bowen's testimony, of course, is
contradictory to the statement of Grimes, and
the case rests as an issue Of veracity between
Bowen and Grimes Argument was heard on
Monday, and, as We are informed by pri-
vate despatch from G.. w. S. Hart, Esq, Of
this place, who is now in Charleston, the case
resulted in mistrial, after the jury had bern
out twenty hours. The jury was composed
of six whites and six blacks.
Arrest of Niles G. Parker.
- Niles G. Parker, ex-Treasurer of the
State of South Carolina, was arrested in Co.
lumbia on Wednesday of last week, and re-
quired to give bail in the sum Of $56,2OO,
upon complaint of D. H. Chamberlain, T. G.
Dunn, S. w. Melton, w. B. Nash and Paris
Simkins, as Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund. The attorneys engaged in the case on
the side of the plaintiffs are Samuel w. Mel
ton, Esq, Attorney General, W. H. Wingate,
Esq, and James H. Rion, Esq. The COM
plant charges that Parker embezzled and
fraudulently misapplied s2S, 100 Of the funds
of the Sinking Fund Commission. The afti-
davit was made by T. G. Dunn, Comptroller
General. Counsel for defendant, Messrs.
Melton & Clarke and Bachman & .Youmans,
obtained an er parte hearing before Major D.
B. Miller, Clerk of the Court, and moved that
the order of arrest on bail be rescinded. Up
on the refusal of the Clerk, a petition was
made to Judge Cooke, who, after hearing ar
gument in favor of the defendant, dismissed
the petition, and directed the order of the
Clerk to be executed. The amount of bail
required precluded the possibility of its being
given, and Parker was committed to the
county Jail. 1t is rumored that the ex-Treas'
urer was about to depart Northward when
arrested.
In addition to the charge of embezzlement,
on the next day after the above proceedings
we're instituted, complaint was made against
Parker, charging him with more gigantic
fraud, and he was required to give s25O,OOO
additional BAIL The second complaint is
brought directly in the name of the State by
Attorney General Melton, aided by James H.
Ron, Esq. 1t is charged that Parker, in the
years 1869, 1870 and 1871, in paying,as treas
urer, coupons on valid bonds, put aside $780,
900 of such coupons uncancelled, and in their
place as vouchers put coupons which he cut
off from the conversion bonds in his Office,
which, according to their dates, must have
matured at that time. They had his engraved
signature on them, and required no other au-
Identification. Nearly all the valid coupons
thus paid and cut uncancelled, and thus re-
placed by bogus substitutes, have been funded
at the treasury during the present year.
1t is said that the State has lost by this op-
GRAFTON 1925 1000, and according to statement
in the Phenir of Monday, it is probable that
the huge swindle must now come to light, and
the fraudulent Coupon Ring of which Parker
was the inside accomplice, be uncovered to
the public view. The Phenir says that Par
ker has declared to some visitors that he does
mot propose to remain in prison all alone by
himself. If efficient steps were not taken
within thirty days to release him from his un-
pleasant predicament, he would take steps to
relieve his solitude by an accession of COM
panions from among his old friends in Office
All! what a tale Niles could unfold if he