Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-23
MERE.MENTION.

Chattanooga, Tenn, was severely shaken
up by a small cyclone on Thursday, but suf,,
fered no serious injury. .''''.''''The mackerel
catch is a failure this season, and prices have
risen 100 per cent. '.'..'.''Four hundred kegs
of giant powder were exploded by a collis-
ion at Winchester, KY, on Friday. One
engineer could not be found at all. Several
other men were killed. .'''''''''The Kimball
House, burned at Atlanta, Ga, last week,
will probably be rebuilt by a joint stock
company headed by Pullman, the sleeping
car magnate. ..'..'..:There were fifty deaths
from cholera at Alexandria, Egypt, last Sat
urday. ."''.'..Plymouth Church has voted to
extend Beecher's vacation so as to allow
him to lecture in the South. .'''.''.'.The Dem
ocratic State Convention Of Massachusetts,
will be held in Springfield on September
26.' .'''''''''A quarantine against the importa-
tion of Egyptian cotton into Switzerland
has been ordered and the prohibition has
called forth many protests from various
quarters. If the authorities persist in en-
forcing the prohibition thirty-fve thousand
persons who are employed in manufactures
where this cotton is used will be thrown out
ofWork. .''''''''The directors of the Louisville
Exposition have positively refused to open
the gates on Sunday. Itisa big show but they
think six days in the week enough to see it
in. '''''''''.The watermelon season in New
York is virtually at an end. The receipts
from Southern ports have been Ala 1888 mel
ons, which were sold at wholesale at from
81 to 8 cents apiece. 1.-THE colored people
of Columbus, Ga, have refused to send dele
gates to meeting in Atlanta, for the pur-
pose of electing delegates to the National
Colored Convention at Louisville.
The GALLoWs.-Taylor Banks, colored,
was hanged at Scottsboro, Alabama, last
Friday, for the murder Of Turner Wood in
the fall of 1880. Banks made full confession
of his guilt few days ago. He ate hearty
breakfast and smoked cigar while being
taken to the gallows on his coffin. He was
firm and collected. He declared that he
had made his peace with God and was
ready to die. He died without an apparent
struggle.
Demo Casal, white-headed man, was
hanged in the Jail yard at Little Rock, Ar
kansas, on Friday, for the murder Of George
Barnes, time-keeper in the st. Louis Iron
Mountain and Southern Railroad Shops at
Argenta, opposite Little Rock. .
At Greenville, in this State, Ben Perry,
colored, was hanged on Friday, for the muir
der of Perry Anderson. The murder for
which he was hanged was committed on
the outskirts of Greenville, on Sunday night,
April 22nd. Perry, after committing the
murder, surrendered himself to the sheriff.
He was tried and convicted at the June
sentenced to be hanged. Efforts were made
to have him reprieved, petitions to that
effect having been sent to the Governor
within the last few days. The prisoner had
given up all hope of a reprieve and made
preparations for his fate. Thursday night
was almost entirely spent in prayer. Fri
day morning he ate light breakfast and
passed the morning in meditation and pray
er. Spiritual consultations were given him
by Rev. j. B. Middleton of the colored
church. The doomed man was composed
and spoke cheerfully and encouragingly to
his fellow prisoners. The scaffold was in
was conducted to it. At the scaffold he
stated that he had killed Anderson because
Anderson had first struck him with stick.
The remainder of his talk was about his re-
ligious feelings, expressive of his being pre-
pared for death. At 1926 the drop was
Sprung by Sheriff Gilreath. The body hung
% minutes, when life was declared extinct,
but his neck was not broken and he died
from strangulation without struggles. The
body was given to his wife for interment.
THE FEDERAL COURT AT GREENvILLE.
The following sentences were passed by
Judge Bryan, in the U. S. District Court, at
Greenville, last Saturday: John G.. Camp
bell, convicted of retailing liquor, four
months in the Greenville jail and one hun
dred dollars fine. w. l.. Gossett, working
in an illicit distillery, one month in the
Greenville Jail. William Tilly, same, two
months in the Greenville Jail. Jesse Tilly,
same, two months in the Greenville Jail.
Hoke Barton, same, one month in the Green
vile Jail. Judd Terry, colored, same, one
month in the Greenville Jail. Marshall
Sample, colored, same, one month in the
Greenville jail. J. C. Alexander, same, one
month in the Pickens Jail. ALI of the pris-
oners, except Terry and Sample are good
looking young white men. The past three
DAYS have been taken up in the trial of the
Gilmores, charged with counterfeiting. The
Government closed its case on Saturday,
and the testimony for the defence was begun.
The grand jury, of which Col. c. j. Pride,
of York, was foreman, made their present.
ment last Thursday and were discharged.
They say that the Jail in Greenville is too
small for the accommodation of the U. S.
that it would be both wise and profitable for
the government to erect at some suitable
place in the Southern States a prison to
laws could be sent, instead of their being in
carcerated in small county jails, or prisons
so remote as those of the Northern States.
The erection of a United States Court House
at some point in the Western District, is re-
garded as necessity, and warmly recon-
mended.
SENATOR MAHONE INTERVIEWED.-Sen-
atOr Malone of VIRGINIA. was in New York