Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-29
Straps and fatts.

batting Mormonism with "moral suasion"
methods is one of the dreariest of hypocrit-
ical farces. r..
An interesting case has just been con-
cluded in Russell county, Va. Mrs. Caro-
line HALEY was indicted for poisoning her
husband. She was tried and convicted and
sentenced to the State prison for five years.
The poisoned man was in Court. He was
pitiable spectacle, having entirely lost the
use of his limbs.
An illustration of the power of dyna-
mite was given at Ithica, Y. Y, on Tues
day. Five and half pounds of it was ex-
ploded under a brick smoke stack weigh
ing 100 tons. The mass of masonry was
lifted bodily in the air and stone weigh
ing so pounds was hurled against maple
100 yards away, shattering the trunk.
The business failures for the week end
ing last Friday throughout the country re-
ported to R. G. Dun & Co. number for the
United States PIP and for Canada 20; total
232, against 2O9 the preceding week AN in
crease of q failures. The increase is pretty
evenly distributed among the Middle, Wes-
tern and Pacific States, but there is consid-
erable decrease to note in Canada and in
New York city.
The test case of J. II. Simmons, VS.. the
United States was decided in the Court of
Claims in Washington last Monday in favor
of the claimant. This was suit for interest
on direct taxes in Charleston, S. g. The
court held that the interest was enormously
collected, and that the statute of limitation
does not affect the provisions of the act OF
February, 1867, authorized the Secretary OF
the Treasury to correct errors, and to return
the money collected through mistake under
the direct tax laws.
In the Criminal Court Of Cincinnati,
last Saturday, Benjamin Johnson, who with
Allen Ingalls, was indicted for the MUIR
der of the Taylor family at Avondaie, was
found guilty of murder in the first degree,
the Jury having deliberated but little over
an hour. This was the case where the muir
dered bodies were delivered on the same
evening of the killing to the Ohio medical
college and fifteen dollars apiece paid for
them to Ingalls, and Johnson, the murder
ers. Ingalls, hanged himself in jail short
time ago.
President Arthur having been selected
to make the opening, and Secretary Of War
Lincoln the closing speech at the New Or
leans Exposition, the managers have deter
mined to have an intermediate address de-
livered by some prominent Democrat, not
vet named. During the course of the expo
sition it will be arranged that ex-senator
Bruce, Register of the Treasury, shall dellv-
VA VAN
colored people, who are expected to be pres
ent in large numbers throughout the entire
period of the great festival.
The gamblers panic continues but its
continuance only multiplies testimony TO
the general soundness Of all the channels OF
legitimate industry and trade. The gamD-
ling speculators are still preying upon each
other, and they affect weak stocks very
largely and naturally affect thoroughly
sound securities by the sympathy that
reaches through all stocks and bonds sold
in panic-stricken market; but the lntrln-
sic value of securities and bonds on the
market not involved in bankruptcy is just
the same to-day that it was three or SIX
months ago.
The Augusta Chronicle says that it is
well known that the Richmond and Dan
Vile Railroad combination are seeking a
Western connection with Augusta; that
they are steadily building down through
Knoxville and Rabun Gap to the junction
with the Airline; that the road from
Toccoa and Elberton is graded for broad
gauge, and that the track can be Widened IN
few days, and that the Augusta and Elber-
ton link is in the proposed route from the
West to that city. 1t is firmly believed
that with an amount-say s2Oo, o,0ooIguarsaIn-
teed by Augusta and the people along the
line, the Richmond and Danville system
will take hold of the road and make it an
assured route.
AT Waycross, Ware county, Georgia,
last Friday, John McKithern, colored, aged
81, was hanged in the presence of two thou
sand persons. He was hanged for killing
a negro on the 5th of last January. Lloyd
S. Majors was hanged at Oakland, Califor-
mia, for participation in murder committed
on the 18th Of March, 1888: Charles 3.
Clark was hanged at Little Valley, N. Y,
for the murder of his wife last December.
Laban Stevens, the third man convicted OF
the murder of Anderson Sackley, near jack
son, Ohio, was hanged at Waverly, Ohio:
Leondas Johnson, colored, was hanged at
MeDonough, Ga., in the presence of ten
thousand persons, for criminal assault upon
Mrs. Cooke, farmers wife. He confessed
his guilt.
Senator Hill has prepared a report upon
the postal telegraph schemes before the Sen
ate committee. 1t has not been acted upon
by full committee, but is given out for
publication now as the expression of the
views of the majority of the committee upon
the subjects treated. It is wholesale con-
demnation of the existing methods OF con-
Quoting the telegraph business of the coun-
try, especially the telegraphic news service,
ali of which he proposes to reform. 1t
makes a strong point of the necessity OF
protecting the public against sinister posi-
bilities in the control of the news by the AS
sociated Press, which it puts in the same
category with telegraph companies as mo-
nopOlists and oppressors of struggling jour-
mails and confding readers.
A meeting in behalf of the effort to es-
tablish a home in Richmond, Va, for dis
abled and destitute Confederate soldiers was
held at Ford's Opera House, Baltimore, last
Saturday night. Governor McLane pre-
sided, and speeches were made by Speaker
Carlisle, of the house of Representatives,
Senator Colquitt of Georgia, Representa-
tives Calkins :of Indiana, Golf of West
Virginia, Herbert Of Alabama, Curtin OF
Pennsylvania, Skinner of New York, Nc
Ginnis of Montana, and Gen. Fitz Hugh
Lee. A letter of regret was received from
Gen. Rosecrans stating that circumstances
beyond his control prevented him from be-
ing present. Senator German and Hon.
J.V. L. Findlay, of Maryland, were also
present.
The African NJ. E. Delegates went over
to Washington from Baltimore on Wednes-
day, and paid their respects to President
Arthur. They were introduced by Rev.
DIR. B. w. Arnett, after which Bishop Way
man addressed the President as follows: {:
"Mr. President-We come not as politicians,
but as humble ministers representing over
100000 people, to pay our respects to the
chief magistrate of the Nation. I hope
your administration in the future will be as
satisfactory as it has been in the past, and
your last days in the Office the best" Bish-
op Turner thanked the President in behalf
of the colored race for his efforts to have
the Civil Rights bill re-enacted. The Pres