Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-01
Straps and fatts.

John Coyle was hanged at Gettysburg,
Pa, on the 22nd ultimo for numbering a
young servant girl employed in his moth
er's house, who had refused to marry him.
The murder was committed May Goth, 1881,
and his friends made superhuman efforts
to save him, but fruitlessly.
The Richmond and Danville Extension
Company directors have authorized the con-
struction of the Columbus Gap Line on the
Georgia Pacific Railroad. The New Line
will extend to Birmingham and will be laid
with steel rails. The new work will cost
$9O0,0O
1t is said that general exodus of Cen
tiles from Utah is contemplated unless
Congress takes immediate steps for their
relief. The courts are in the hands OF the
Mormons, and even the Legislature and all
the machinery of government is under their
control.
-Advices up to last Saturday from West
ern Texas are to the effect that the cattle
are suffering and large numbers are dying
for the want of grass, the drought having
been very severe in that section. Myriads
of caterpillars have also appeared and are
destroying all kinds of vegetation.
The convention of the Southern Baptist
Church will meet in Baltimore on Wednes-
day next. The attendance will be very
large, and the railroad companies have pro-
vided special rates for delegates and others:
Round trip tickets via the Richmond and
Danville line to Baltimore will be sold at
Charlotte at S2O.3 for the round trip.
The business failures throughout the
country, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co. by
telegraph, for the last seven days, ending
last Friday, number for the United States
l6S and for Canada 81, or a total of lS6 as
compared with total of 176 last week,
showing an increse of 13 failures, S in the
United States and in Canada as compared
with the preceding week.
A Nashville, Tenn, dispatch of the 22nd
ultimo says: Myer Moscovitz, Jr., and Beke
White, negro, have been arrested for as
sassinating Meyer Friedman about two
weeks ago in order to obtain 81, 600 for which
Friedman was insured in the American
Legion of Honor Friedman's wife was ac-
cessory before the fact and sent her hus-
band to meet his death.
A Monroe, Ga, dispatch of the 23rd ul-
timo says: At II o'clock this morning Jesse
Gum Shot and killed his father, Willis
Gum. The father was widower and he
and his son courted the same young woman.
The son married her two weeks ago and
the father sent him word to be on his guard,
as he was coming to kill him. This morn
ing child saw the father enter the sons
house and told the son, who fired on his
father as the latter was taking aim at his son.
A newspaper correspondent writes that
there is not a chimney anywhere in Mexico,
as far as he has seen, and their absence
gives an odd aspect to the architecture, ike
that of Arabian towns. No house has tire
place or q stove, for it is never cold, but the
kitchen is equipped with a sort of ungalnly
brick or stone range, ten or fifteen feet long,
lo1o for re nd RnfflpS
which charcoal is burned. The fumes escape
by the open doors and windows: Charcoal
is almost the only fuel in Mexico, except
in the Northern States.
Another appeal has been taken in the
celebrated case of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines
against the city of New Orleans, which has
been before the courts in one shape and an
other for the past fifty years. A final judg-
ment was entered for the plaintiff recently
in the United States Circuit Court, amount
ing to 50, ,OOOOO and writ was ordered to
be issued directing the city to levy tax to
pay the same; and from this decision the
city has appealed to the Supreme Court,
probably to gain time rather than with any
hope of reversing the Judgment.
Late intelligence from Mexico is to the
effect that the Secretary of the City OF
Mexico has issued circular stating. that
the stamp law recently enacted, will be
strictly enforced. Not only merchandise on
sale, but that in warehouse must be stamped
within month. The people consider the
law q forced loan, and trouble will result.
They do not like to see officials enrich them
selves and the Government impoverished.
Some days the troops are without tood.
The people regard revolution as the only
thing left
The trial of the noted train robber and
bandit Frank James, in the United States
Court at Huntsville, Ala, for participation
in the Mussel Shoals robbery, on the llth of
March 1881, when United States disburs-
ing officer was robbed Of several thousand
dollars, ended last week in verdict of not
guilty. A witness testified that he knew
James we'll, and saw him in Nashville,
Tenn, on the;day the robbery was commit
ted Immediately after the verdict was
rendered, James was arrested by the Sherlff
of Cooper county, Mo-, on the charge OF par
ticipation in the Otterville train robbery.
"A train with party of Knights of Py-
thias excursionists ran from Cincinnati to
New Orleans, one day last week, distance
stops. Many of the miles were run in 10
seconds. Apropos of this reckless running
of trains, which was done to beat the record
of a rival line, the Augusta Chronicle aptly
saws: This railroad racing through snow
storms and over swollen streams is dan
gerous business. A mile in forty-fve Sec
onds is too fast for Southern trains. The
road that lowers rates is doing more to
catch public travel than one that reduces
time.
Perhaps few persons outside of the pale
of the worthy institution of the knights OF
Honor are aware OF its extensive member
ship, and the wonderful amount of money
that it has paid in death benefits to the
families of the deceased members. 1t was
organized at Louisville Kentucky on June
3Oth, 1873, consequently is nearly eleven
wears old, and now has on its rolls through
out the United States over l35, 600 members,
and has paid over eleven and a quarter mil
lion dollars to it's benefciaries. Never a
benefit certificate has failed Of prompt pay
ment, and many are the widows and Or
phans who have blessed the name of
knights of Honor.
The thirty-ffth annual session of the
American Medical Association of the United
States will be held in Washington city, be-
ginning on May and lasting three days.
All permanently organized State medical
societies in the United States and all county
and district medical societies recognized by
State medical societies are entitled to send
delegates, and the medical departments of
the army, navy and marine hospital service
of the United States will also be represented.
It is expected that from l 500 to 1000 dele
gates will be present at the meeting. Pa
pers will be read on the advances and dis
coveries of the past year in various branch
es of medical science.
Charles Wright, cOlOred, was hanged at