Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-15
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as distinctive section of the country.
- The John P King Manufacturing Com.
pany, with capital of 81 100000, will be or
ganized at Augusta, Ga, on the 2Sth instant.
The stock has been subscribed, over S4O0,-
900 being taken in Boston, New York and
Philadelphia, and the balance in Augusta.
This makes $4,000, 900 subscribed for cotton
mills in Augusta within three years. All
mills in that city have made over IA per cent.
on capital within the last year.
At Shelby, N. c., last week, Amos Horn,
colored, aged forty, caused the death of his
son, Burt Horn, aged sixteen, by kicks and
blows with walking stick and wagon whip.
The boy was buried on Saturday. but his body
was exhumed by the coroners jury on the
following day, and an examination shows the
stomach, spleen and liver bruised and swollen.
The father has been committed 70 Jail. The
negroes are excited and swear vengeance
- In New York, after long and bitter
contest over the will of Edwin P Christie
the founder of negro minstrelsy, who died in
1862, and the will of his son, E. Byron Chris
tie, a decision has been rendered by which
the heirs of the widow of the former are en-.
titled to some $4,000. Edwin P. Christie
left originally an estate of about 100000,
but through litigation the major portion has
passed into the hands Of attorneys.
- Keifer, the new Speaker of the House of
Representatives, is, according to the Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionalist, "a very burly,
red faced, German. looking man. His hair
and beard are bushy and iron grey in color.
II ofol fho re tba
because Of his roaring voice than for any
thing else. He is an utter Stalwart, and one
of the few soldiers of the war retaining
vindictve sentiments"
On Friday morning last, the fast mail train
northward bound, ran off the track when be-.
tween High Point and jamestown, N. G..
The whole train was thrown from the track,
thereby slightly injuring many of the passen-
gers and severely injuring Mr.. G. w. White,
of Chester, S. c. Mr.. White was riding in
the last coach, and was thrown from his seat,
the stove falling on him. When the train ar
rived at Greensboro, the assistance of ply.
sician was called, at the railroads expense,
and he had recovered sufficiently to leave on
Saturday evening. The rest of the passen-
ges were not materially injured. The run off
was caused by broken rail.
- Last week was the most successful so far
of the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, both in
point of cash receipts and general attendance.
The receipts footed up over two thousand in
excess of the week before, although there
was no special event to attract visitors This
week there are special attractions daily, and
the attendance and receipts will largely over.
top those of any preceding week. The Ex-
position is fully in shape, every feature being
in position and every piece of machinery in
motion, and the prospect is that from now
until the closing of the gates on 3lst of De-
cember there will be a rush to the Exposition
from all sections of the country.
"A very 6ue piece of work has been set
in place in the ladies' room of the Baltimore
and Potomac depot at Washington. 1t is a
memorial stone, to mark the place where Pres
ident Garfield was shot, and is set in the wall
directly over the silver star in the floor
which marks the place where the President
fell. The tablet is of white marble, about
three by four feet in superficial area, and is
an elegant piece of carving. An eagle sur.
mounts the work, holding in its claws arrows
and laurels, and beneath it the American
flag falls gracefully about tablet in gold
letters, inscribed: "James Abram Garfield,
President of the United States, shot July 2,
1881"
- The stockholders of the Keely Motor
Company in Philadelphia, dissatisfied and
impatient beyond endurance, have filed bill
in equity to oblige Keely to disclose the Sc
cret of his workshop. They say that the de-
fendant has secured from the company over
$4,000 under various pretexts, and ask that
he be compelled to give such information as
will,enable skilled persons to construct and
work machine to collect, generate and elm.
mate the "force," aud that he shall immedi-
ately apply for letters patent upon his inven.
tions. He is also commanded to deliver all
the machines he has yet constructed to the
company, and an injunction is asked restrain
ing him from removing the same from the ju-
risdiction of the court.
At Suanee Station, on the Atlanta and
Charlotte Airline Railroad, thirty miles
from Atlanta, an accident occurred at late
hour on Wednesday night Of last week,
resulting in the instant killing Of Conductor
John P. Dean and Flagman Charley Herst
the former of Atlanta, and the latter of De-
catur. The cab and two fiat cars were total
ly destoyed. The particulars appear to be
that as local freight train was approaching
Suanee at slow speed the through passen-
ger train from Charlotte ran into it. The
engine was badly used up, and the stove in
the cab turning over set fire to the cab, from
which the flames spread to the two new fiat
cars being brought to Georgia for the use Of
the Georgia and Pacific Railroad, now under
going construction. The body of Charley
Herst was partly dis6gured by fire.
At Nashville, Tenn, last Friday, John j.
Vertrees shot Senator Smith, of Fentress
county, in the left shoulder, in the rotunda
of the Maxwell House. The wound will not
prove fatal. Vertrees had in case in court
charged Senator Smith with bribery and cor
ruption in voting for the State debt bill dur
ing the last regular session of the Legislature.
In the Senate on Thursday, Senator Smith
denounced Vertrees as liar, and upon the
adjournment of the Senate Vertrees sought
him at the Maxwell House and shot him.
Senator Smith claims that he was taken una.
wares He states that he was seated reading
a newspaper when Vertrees approached and
fired at him, without giving him any warning.
Vertrees' friends assert that Senator Smith
was in the act of rising and drawing his ps-
tol when Vertrees shot him.
- Two papers up in Lewiston, Maine the
Gazette and the Journal, have just been car
rying on very animated and interesting de-
bate on the question whether cotton manufac-
turing was more profitable in the South or in
New Enuland the Gnzette nnhnldinp the