Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-13
Straps and fatts.

A singular accident happened lately at
II mill in Nashville, Tenn. A workman was
thrown toward circular saw and thinking
he would strike, it died from fright. When
picked up he was dead, but there was no
sign of bruise on his body.
At Savannah, Ga, last Thursday, the
coroner stopped a colored funeral service
over VIM. Dunn, and removing the shroud
and clothing from the corpse there were re-
vealed nine knife wounds inflicted by Ferry
Hagins, the man in whose house the funeral
was being held.
Two of the five Confederate Generals are
still living-Joseph f. Johnston and P. G..
T. Beauregard. The Confederacy had twen-
ty-one Lieutenant Generals, and of these
nine are still living-James Longstreet,
Wade Hampton, John B. Gordon, D. H.
Hill, S. d. Lee, A. P. Stewart, Jubal Early,
S. B. Buckner and Joseph E. Wheeler.
In street fight in Washington city, on
Tuesday of last week. growing out of diff
ficulty between white and colored man,
Frank Langston, a son of Professor John
A. Langston, United States minister to Hay
ii, shot and killed James Spencer and seri-
ously wounded John S. Williams, two
spectators, both of them colored.
John McGinnis was hanged by process
of law, in the county Jail, of Philadelphia,
Pa, on the morning of the 4th instant,
for the murder Of his mother-ln.law. NC
Ginnis was a Catholic and his wife a
Protestant This caused domestic trouble
and a separation, the wife returning to
her mother. McGinniS went there and
shot his wife and mother-in-law. The
latter died, but the daughter recovered.
The plea of insanity was set up without
avail both on the trial and after conviction.
The business failures throughout this
country and Canada, occurring during the
seven days ending last Friday, as reported
to r. G.. Dun & Co., number 272, OF which
PIG were in the United States and 90 in Can
ada-an increase for the United States of
% and for Canada of II, as compared with
the previous week. Failures are on the
increase in the Middle, and Pacific States,
and especially in Canada where the figures of
the week are higher than have been reported
for years in that portion.
Work en- the construction of the main
building of the Worlds Exposition, at New
Orleans is progressing rapidly. Lumber is
being delivered on the grounds at the rate
of one hundred thousand feet daily. 1t is
estimated that the main building will be
finished in four months. The management
announce that exhibits will be received to
the first of August. Applications for space
have been received during the past week
from England, Russia, Germany, Austria,
Italy, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Gauta-
mela and many other places.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, a
Republican paper, commenting upon Ser
geant Bates recent utterances regarding his
last tramp through the South, says Ser
geant Bates, who is a Democrat, has been
marching through the South, talking with
the people and taking notes. 1t his .opln--
ion that the rebellion is only repressed, and
is seeking to gain it's ends through political
means where it failed to do so by secession
and war. He is not as much of a Democrat
as he was. To which the NeW York nor(a or q
replies: Bates went through the South as
mendicant. When man is in a position
to have his political views warped by the
character of the free victuals doled out to
him he can scarcely be trusted to make an
unselfish report Of public sentiment. The
Republican party can have Bates and his
son also, with the old flag included.
The first part of the great English die
tionary projected by the Pathological society
of London, and for which some hundreds OF
persons have been collecting material Tor
the past twenty-five years, has just been is
sued from the Clarendon Press. This part
ends with the word "ant," on page 352.
Some idea of the scale of the work may be
had when it is added that Webster reaches
this word upon page Sc, the new dictionary
giving 6,S97 main words and $3.50 separate
entries, against 1862 in Webster. 1t was
thought at first that the work would be COM
Titfre's, but on the present scale it will
probably extend to $1,000 pages, or SIX
thick quarto volumes, and receckoning on
the basis of Webster's 114,00O words, the
whole number of words included is likely
to reach 100000.
The Pennsylvania State Temperance
Committee has issued a circular IN when
it declares it's intention Of making a fight
for an opportunity to submit prohibitory
amendment to a vote of the people. The
committee proposes first to bring the tenn
perance propositions before the State Con-
ventions of both political parties for en-
dorsement or rejection. 1t also proposes to
submit the same question to every candi-
date for either house of the Legislature, and
to advise Temperance men to vote for the
nominees who promise best. Whatever
NAV be thought of the wisdom and judi
ciousness of the proposed action of the tenn
perance men, there can be no denying that
it is manly and above board and that the
prohibition trumpet gives no uncertain
sound. The temperance question hasknock-
ed political calculations higher than kite
in several States and it may yet do the
same Cfll1lS Ill TeIlllSy ylNlllld.
The usually quiet village of Williams
Bridge, Westchester county, n. y, was
thrown into intense excitement a few days
ago through an eccentricity Of Mrs. Jason
Smith. Health Officer McDermOtt noticed
an excited crowd in front of Smiths resi-
dence who appealed to him to remove an
objection on the front porch, which they
denounced as nuisance. About this time
Mrs. Smith appeared at the door of her
castle brandishing brOomstick, while
Jason appeared at the upper window with
section of hose in his hand and turn
ed stream of water on the crowd. The
watch dog also took part in the fight and
the crowd was put to flight. The gallant
McDermott, however made dash in the
yard and bore the offending article away.
On examining it he discovered that it
was Mr.. Smiths right leg, which had
been amputated two weeks ago. His wife,
not caring to part with it had it embalm-
ed and neatly vanished, and set it on
the front stoop as an ornament. The nui-
sance was buried, and Williams Bridge
has been restored to it's wonted serenity.
An Atlanta, Ga, dispatch of Friday
says: The trouble at Allapapa, in which
the aid of the military was invoked, grew
out of the arrest of noted desperodo, Dan
Turner, a white man, who has been guilty
of many atrocities. He came in with %
confederates and the officers of the court
room were rudely handled. The Justice was
told that he might proceed with the aid of
the mob. Instead of doing so the magis--
trate called on the Mayor for support, and
the latter found himself unable to cope
with the mob. knowledge of his appeal to
the Governor for troops was kept secret
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