Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A large Newfoundland dog named Heck
is the hero of a story which comes from
Eldred, Penn. The porter of a hotel at that
place, an Incorporate man, was Il special
| favorite with the dog. On Thursday night
last he went to bed very drunk and was
awakened by the loud barking of the dog
who had discovered that the house was on
fire. He was too drunk to take care of HIM
self, but the dog piloted him to the door,
and then awoke the proprietor OF the house,
and all the guests in succession, taking
door. One lady tripped and fell down stairs.
Her baby was thrown to the floor. The
dog seized it by its clothes and carried it to
place of safety. The mother did not know
of it's rescue and rushed frantically toward
the building, but was kept out by friends.
The dog, thinking probably that other peO-
pie were still there, rushed into the flames
again and perished.
A Brookhaven, Miss, dispatch of Thurs
day says: Last Saturday night a mob of
forty men visited Franklin county Jail,
overpOwered the jailer, took out four negro
prisoners and lynched them in the court
house yard. One was charged with attempt
at rape on white girl, two with the muir
der of other negroes and the other with
arson and robbery. Four other prisoners
were in the jail at the time-One charged
with rape and the others with arson,
but they were unmolested. The mob
informed the .jailer that unless the Circuit
Judge cleaned out the Jail this term they
would return and make aclean sweep. The
affair is greatly deprecated by large ma
jority of citizens of the county, where six
men have been sacrificed by Judge Lynch
in the past eighteen months.
John johnson, of GAINESVILLE, Ga,, a
Young man still in his teens, comes to the
| front with an invention for which it is said,
er so ingenously arranged that by the SIM
pie pulling of spring any piece of money,
| from nickle to a dollar, can be secured at
once, and also any amount of change one
might wish. If desired to get change for
any bill, in any possible way, embracing
any number of coins of different denOmina-
tions, it can be obtained in second Of time,
and there is not a need of glanclng at 1T to
see if correct, for it can't be wrong. Mr..
Johnson has just returned from Cincinnati,
where he has established factory for the
manufacture of these drawers.
- In payment of a wager made before the
| Democratic nomination for President, Olln
Charidy, of LaGrange, agreed in case ofany
other candidate than Tilden was nominated
to carry flag bearing the names of the can.
didates for President and Vice-President
from Atlanta through the State of Ohio to
| New York before the election in November,
walking the entire distance. In pursuance
of this agreement, he started from Atlanta
with Cleveland and Hendricks flag on
Monday, 29th of September, and will go
through Ohio and to New York before the
election.
A story comes from Ottawa, Kansas,
| that on Monday last Carrie and Bessie
Waterman, aged twelve and fourteen years,
daughters of James Waterman, a farmer,
tied rope around the neck of their half
brother, six years old, dragged him about
and beat him with sticks until he was dead.
| The girls stated at the coroner's inquest that
they hated the child and wanted him dead.
They were held for murder.
The contract for the new Georgia capt.
tol at Atlanta, was let last Friday to Mills
g. Horne, of Toledo, Ohio, for 1862, 1852. The
stone to be used is Indiana Oolitic stone
from the Salem Stone and Lime Company
of Louisville, Ky. The work will be COM
menced at once and the building will be
pressed rapidly forward to completion. 1t
is expected that it will be finished in from
three and one-half to four years.
On last Friday night George w. Weaver,
publisher of the Ilion, n. Y, Citizen, print
ed the first newspaper in the world the type
of which was entirely composed by type.
setting machine. The entire edition of 5000
copies was printed by the aid of an elec.
trio motor, the same which on March II
printed JPeauer Journal, being the first in
the known world to accomplish the feat.
4 Talladega, Ala, dispatch says: Aaron
Boswell and Charles Boswell, brothers, have
for some time paid attention to the same
young lady. Each was jealous of the other
| and this feeling of jealousy resulted in a
quarrel when Aaron drew pistol and shot
his brother through the heart, killing him
instantly.