Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-05
MERE-MENTION.


ket to give YOrkville trial.
MERE. E.MENTION.
w. w. Gills, banker of Clifton Springs,
n. Y, has failed and fed from the town.
He is said to have put out $50, 600 of forged
paper One firm loses $40, 900 by him. ''''.'At
Bienville, Indiana, last Friday morning,
Jackson Wallace was instantly killed, and
his son Thomas fatally wounded by Simon
Williams, deputy Sheriff, during a drunken
quarrel '.:''"Gen. S. B. Buckner is cam
didate for Democratic nomination to the
Governorship of Kentucky. Hon. Thom-
as H. Herndon, member OF Congress from
the First Alabama district, is dead. AT
Belfast, on the 2sth ultimo, Judge Lawson
sentenced twelve of the members of the
Armagh Assassination Society, who were
recently convicted Of conspiracy to murder,
to terms of penal servitude varying from
five to ten years. '''''''"The trustees of the
University of Georgia have accepted the
donation of $4,000 rendered by ex-Gov: 10Y
Jos. f. Brown, on the conditions named by
the donor. Last Friday morning 200 per-
sons under charge Of Elder Morgan of the
Mormon Church, passed through st. Louis,
Mo-, en- route for Utah. These converts all
came from the Southern States. $500 'MOre's
the pity: Gen. Gordon, Of Georgia vehe-
mently denies that he proposes to abandon
that State and make his future home in
Florida :'.....".The President left Washing
ton the first of this week for q trip of recrea-
ton to florida, where he will remain about
two weeks. ''''The State election in Rhode
Island took place yesterday. IA young
couple in Ohio recently got license to marry,
and went to housekeeping. They did not
find out for several weeks that anything
more than the license was necessary to make
the marriage all right. .''.'''''One hundred
and fifty persons have left the Island OF
Achill county Mayo, on the west coast of
Ireland, for America. They were driven
from their homes by famine. .''.'''''That this
is great country is incidentally illustra-
ted BY the fact that while, a fortnight
since, the ice in the Straits of Macki-
nav was twenty feet thick, corn was ten
inches high in Georgia. .'''''''''Two compa-
MES of cavalry and large force of MeXi-
cans are pursuing the hostile Indians in
Arizona. .':'."A law has been passed in
Maine to forbid the killing of birds and
game on Sunday, but an amendment to pro-
hibit fishing was voted down.
THE GALLONS LAST TFRIDAY.-At Wind
sor, Vermont, Mrs. Meaker was hanged
at 1.3O o'clock last Friday afternoon, for the
murder of her ward, Alice Meaker. She
persisted to the last that she was innocent
and said her sons confession was lie and
that he had brought her to the gallows.
Charles William Beaver, colored youth,
was hanged in the jail yard at Leesburg,
Va, for rape committed on girl aged 10
years, the daughter of George A. Hunt,
near Purcellville, Loudon county. The
hanging took place in a drizzling raj and
yer passed the night quietly, ate hearty
breakfast, and was led to the scatfold at 6 40
o'clock. He assembled the scaffold with a
firm step, and as the black cap was drawn
he said, "Farewell friends and fellow crea-
lures" After prayer by Rev. R: T; Davis,
the trap was sprung at 6 :52 and his neck
was broken by the fall. Beaver had signed
written confession Of his crime.
At Camden, S. c., Oliver Bristow, colored,
was hanged for completely in the murder
of Mr.. F. n. Mcdowell last Thanksgiving
Day, November 80, 1882. 1t will be remem-
bered that Joe Ross, alias Wilson, the prin-
cipal assassin, was shot and Killed last De-
cember by the ferrymen named Huntley
whilst endeavoring to escape across the
CataWba River into North Carolina. Bris-
tow slept soundly last night, but refused to
the scaffold at lilo o'clock, accompanied
by the Sheriff and a colOred preacher. He
said that he was ready to go, but protested
his innocence to the last. The trap was
sprung at lilo and Bristow was launched
into eternity. The fall was four feet. His
neck was not broken, and he evidently
died of strangulation. The gallows was
of the usual pattern and was located in the
Jail yard. An immense crowd was outside
the walls, but there was no disturbance.
A DRUMMER's SUIT FOR DAMAGEs.-The
case of R. A. Cox VS.. the Port Royal Rail-
road for $1,000 was tried at the Beaufort
Court last week, Judge Presley presiding.
Mr.. Cox, who was travelling salesman for
nf
H. Wilson, stated in evidence that he had
approached the ticket agent at Yemassee
. and inquired the price of round-trip tick
ct to Beaufort. That the agent had inform
ed him the road was not issuing such. Cox
then inquired the price of a ticket and was
told that a irst-class ticket was 50 cents and
a second-class ticket S5 cents. He said he
ordered straight ticket and rendered a
dollar in payment, receiving back 5 cents in
change. That he then placed his baggage
in the first-class coach and went into the
second-class coach, where the conductor
took up his ticket. He remained in the
second-class coach until he reached Whale
Branch Trestle, about midway between
Yemassee and Beaufort. After being seated
there awhile, the conductor approached him
and told him he must 60 into the second
class coach. That he did 60 into said Sec
ond-class coach at the request of the conduc-
| lOl, WIN tlcdlCu COul tCOuSly, CNCl
rying his baggage for him. Judge Presley
in charging the jury said, that to his mind
the damage sustained by the plaintiff SEEM
ed to be the difference between frst-class
and seeOnd-cass ticket, 10 cents. The ju-
ry failed to agree, and mistrial was order
ed.-Charleston Sunday Ne,cs.
AN EXTRA SEssIoN.-The advisability
of calling an extra session of the Legislature
| for the purpose of apprOpriating an amount
sufficient to meet the expenses of our perse-
cuted citizens in the United States Court has
been discussed at some length and finds fa-
vor with the taxpayers generally. When
the Sentinel says it approves of the sugges-
tion it believes that it utters the sentiments
of nine-tenths of the taxpayers of BarnWell
county, for when the fate of the State trem-
bled in the balances these same prosecuted
people We're found at the front with shoul-
dcrs to the wheel, eXerting themselves to
make the government what it is, and it is,
in great measure, due to their personal ef-
forts that the people Of their section saved
their Congressional candidate by the defeat
of the Greenback-Republican factions cam
didate for the same position. So let the
Legislature be called together by Governor
Thompson, and the necessary appropriation
made. There will, perhaps, never be a
time again when the State can show stron-
ger and more generous appreciation of the
services of these harassed patriots; besides,
it will serve Gn the eyes of the whole coun-.
try) as rebuke to the powers which sustain
those who are employed at the expense Of
the nation for the disgraceful work now 60