Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-22
Straps and fafts.

1T is rumored that there will be four
candidates for Governor in Georgia, the
Wings Republicans, Greenbackers and Dem
ocrats each having candidate in the field.
The bones of Carl Bechtler, who COM
mitted suicide near Rutherfordton, n. c.,
forty years ago, Chris. Bechtler and Au-
gust Bechtler, three men of prominence in
their day, were disinterred recently and
placed in boxes for shipment to Germany.
The National Anti-monopoly Conven-
ton met in Chicago on the 14th and nom
mated BENJAMIN F. Butler for President.
There will be five other national conven-
tions for the nomination of candidates for
the Presidency, viz: The Greenback-L La
Dor, in Indianapolis, May %; the Republi-
can, in Chicago, June 10; the Democratic,
in Chicago July 8, and the prohibition In
Pittsburg, July %, the date of the last hav-
ing been postponed from May, 81.
- Thomas l.. Shields, the slayer of James
G. Sitton, superintendent of a gold mine in
Mecklenburg, n. c., about twelve months
ago, and who was convicted and sentenced
to be hanged on the 18th day of October,
1888, but who appealed to the Supreme
made remarkable escape from the Meek
lenburg Jail few weeks ago, but was re-
captured on the following day and returned
to prison.
A young German, Henry Hulsner, of
Savannah, sent barrel of Georgia pota-
toes to his father, residing in the town of
Hanover, Prussia. A letter from Mr.. Huls-
ner states that the German officials siezed
the potatoes and searched his fathers house
and put him under police surveillance, the
innocent Georgia roots being magnified into
a Socialist plot to introduce the Colorado po-
tato bug into the empire. The German con-
sui at Savannah has been called upon to set
the matter straight.
About ninety delegates from South Caro-
lima attended the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton at Baltimore. The Home Mission
Board reported that the total contributions
for the year were $56, Ala from South Carroll
ma, $2,9SS. The Foreign Mission Board re-
ported the total contributions, $780, ,625. OF
this amount, South Carolina contributed
$3.50. There is reported balance on hand
for the first named Board of f$3, ,442, and bal
ance on hand for Foreign Missions of S, ,566:
The next meeting Of the Convention 1tno will
be held at Augusta, Ga., in May, 1885.
General Grant concluded his letter ex.
pressing regret at his inability to attend
the opening of the fair in Richmond, Va,
in aid of the proposed Confederate Home,
as follows: II hope the fair may prove
q success, and that the object contern-
plated may receive support which will
give to all the brave men who need 1T, a
home and rest from cares. The men who
faced each other in deadly conflict can well
afford to be the best of friends now, and on
ly strive for the rivalry in seeing which can
be the best citizens of the grandest country
on EARTH"
Anything like general financial crash,
Ward of the Marine bank, in New York,
has been averted, though several important
failures followed the closing up of the busi-
ness of Grant & Ward, who seem to have
been the most reckless of stock gamblers.
With them nearly all the family connec-
tions of the Grants claim to have lost their
entire property. 1t is alleged that Chafee,
the wealthy father-in-law of young. U. $.
Grant, is left almost penniless by the COL
lapse Of the young operators banking house.
Charges of fraud and swindling have been
preferred against Ward, and his business
transactions are being judicially investi-
gated.
Hon. VIM. H. Barnum, Chairman OF
the Democratic National committee, was
in Washington on Thursday. In an inter-
view, he said his first choice for Democrat
ic standard bearers in the coming cam
paign were Tilden and Hendricks. The
old ticket, he thinks the strongest the party
can nominate. Should Mr.. Tilden decline,
Mr. Flower, of New York, in the opinion of
Mr. Barnum, is the strongest man and can
New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, and
probably Ohio. After Mr.. Flower, Mr..
Barnum thinks Mr. Randall the next best
man, "by all Odds" While expressing this
individual opinion as to the relative strength
of individuals, Mr.. Barnum, when asked
whom he favored, replied, "The nominee"
About IL O'Clock on the morning of the
14th, collision on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, one mile east of Connellsville,
between freight train west and con-
struction train east, resulted in terrible
loss of life. The construction train consist
ed of six camp cars containing fifty laborers
on the way to the Ohio Pyle Falls to work.
1t was telescoped and many men were
capped death are terribly injured. There
was sharp curve where the accident oc-
Cured, and the trains came together with
crash. The cars took fire and the bodies
were burned. The number killed outright
is stated at fourteen, several of whom were
burned and otherwise disfgured beyond
recognition.
1T is true that Ben, an educated negro
belonging to Gen. Jeff Davis, did buy the
Davis plantations for 1000, but it was
fiat failure, and Ben was released from
his bargain. The Washington correspon-
dent of the Augusta Chronicle writes of him {:
'He is now in the West engaged in COM
mercial pursuits and doing reasonably we'll.
He is a remarkable, phenomenal exception
al and most worthy black man, but he does
not own Hon. Jeff. Davis plantation. His
children have relapsed into the ordinary
intellectual dullness Of the race. DR.. Cart
wright, the celebrated ethnologist, took
Ben's eldest son and had him educated at
Paris for the practice of medicine. Every
advantage was given the young man, but af-
ter five years of trial he was dismissed with
out diploma"
One night last week train of the Rich
mond and DanVille Railroad was drawn
from Richmond as far as Danville by a
locomotive that was supplied with the
newly patented electric headlight. The
President of the road was on the engine to
satisfy himself as to the working ofthe light.
It was pronounced success. For four hun
dred yards ahead the engineer could dis
tinguish the smallest pebbles on the track
and could readily see a man one mile dis
tant from his engine on a straight track.
The power for generating the electricity is
furnished by small dummy engine, placed
over the boiler in front of the left window
cab, steam being supplied from the boiler.
Besides driving the headlight the dummy
engine has sufficient power to light up the
cars in the rear, wires to run from the en-
CINE back through the cars connecting with
electric burners.
The Wilson Advance tells the following
story: In 1872, Mr.. A. w. Williams, of
Wilson county, N. c., who had married Miss