Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-21
Straps and fatts.

Nc more can be furnlShed 10 tne business
community until an appropriation is made
for printing them.
Frank James arrived at Huntsville
Ala, last Friday, in custody of the Federal
authorities. He is to be tried upon the
charge of rohbing the paymaster Of the riv,
er Government works at Mussel Shoals OF
$1,000 in March, 1881. Dick Liddall, VINO VINO
was convicted of the same robbery, a year
ago, will testify against James. The ap-
pearance of James tallies exactly with that
of the robber given by the paymaster.
The local option law, authorizing the
people of each locality to decide for them
selves whether they will permit or prohib'
it the sale of intoxicating drinks in theil
midst, seems to be making headWay in
England, and the indications are that il
will not be long before the law becomes
general over there. The temperance move
ment is making rapid strides among the
Britains.
About twenty-five firms in this country
make business of publishing school books
They do business of perhaps SS,OoO,O0O a
year. Only three of the school book pub
fishing houses are south or west OF Phlia'
delphia or Baltimore. Two-thirds of the
business is done by five firms. 1t costs each
of the larger firms something like 5000, ,0OO
a year for agents and other expenses under
the introduction account"
Miss Haikwalth, q very much esteem.
ed young lady of Dayton, Ohio, was found
apparently dead on January 10th and was
buried. Her life-like expression hoWev-
er left an impression of doubt upon some OF
her friends, and they had her body eXhum-
ed. The body had tnrned over on its side,
handfuls Of hair had been torn out and the
flesh was bitten from the fingers, and thus
she died in her grave.
- The subcommittee of the committee
on privileges and elections of the U. ).
Senate, appointed under Mr.. Sherman
political outrages in Copiah county, Miss,
and Danville, Va. The subcommittee on
the Mississippi case is sitting in New Or
leans, and that appointed to investigate the
Danville affair is taking testimony in
Washington city. No new facts have been
developed by either investigation.
The business failures during the week
ending last Friday, reported to R. G. Dunn
&, Co. number for the United States 246
and for Canada so; total 29S as against 27S
the preceding week-an increase OF twenty
failures. The casualties are comparatively
light in the New England, Middle and
Southern States. In the Western States
and on the Pacific Coast failures are still very
heavy figure of last week is noted in Cana
da. In New York city the assignments are
generally unimportant.
IF the bill recently reported from the
House committee On Pensions which pro-
vides for the payment of pensions to SOL
diers of the Mexican and Indian wars, be-
comes Iaw5it is estimated that the cost OF
: the Government will be about 81 $40, 1876,
and that the average life of each pensioner
will be about fourteen years. There are
living to-day II, ,00) survivors of the Mex
lean War, and s,276 who fought in the
Florida, Creek and Black Hawk wars, ma
king a total of "A, ,276 soldiers who will re-
ceive pensions if the bill becomes q law.
Thomas Benton, colored, was hanged at
PLAQUE Mine, La, last Friday, in the pres.
ence of 1000 people, for the murder of
Robert Duggar, on July, 9Th 1888. After
prayer with his spiritual advisers, Benton
resumed his cheerfulness and walked arm
i'm arm with the ministers and mounted the
scaffold. He bid the crowd good day and
said he was ready to go; that he had moth
ing against any one and hoped to meet
them all in Heaven. His neck was broken.
When the drop fell, a moan ran through the
crowd and one woman shrieked and some
tainted.
- James G. Smith, Chief of the Division
in the Office of the Auditor of the Treasury
for the Post Office Department, who was
the Treasury to examine into the postal
methods and accounting of the Govern
ments Of England, France, Switzerland and
Germany, has just presented his report to
the Sixth Auditor and it has been transmit
ted to the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Postmaster General. Mr.. Smith finds
many features in the postal systems of the
European Governments worthy of adoption
into our own administration, and has recon-
mended several changes of a radical charac-
ter in the existing system.
- Last Thursday morning Jacob Worth
ington, wealthy farmer Of Madison, Fla,
aWoke and found that his two children, a
team of horses and $500 in money had been
stolen. Suspicion pointed to white labor,
er who was missing, and an armed band
started in pursuit. The fugitive was over
taken at DEVILS Glen, on the Chattahoochie
River. He sought shelter among the rocks
and defied his pursuers. Several shots were
fired at him, when he placed the children
before him and threatened to kill them II
he was molested. One of the pursuers
named Oxen6ine, of Thomas county, Geor-
gia, an ex-Confederate sharp shooter,
brought his rifle quickly to his shoulder and
shot the desperate dead, the ball passing
between the two children, who were recov-
cred upharmed.
"A difficulty, resulting in the killing of a
young man named Edward B. Philpot, oc-
Cured at the engine-house of the Clinch
Fire Company, of Augusta, Ga, about l
o'clock last Friday morning. A ball was IN
progress at the engine-house, during which
two couples, one waltzing and the other
promenading, struck against each other.
Words ensued between the two young men,
who finally left the hall and went down
stairs into the engine room, where the diff
Guilty was renewed, resulting in one of them,
Chas. C. Greer, stabbing the other, Edward
B. Philpot, near the heart, int1ieting q
wound which caused death in about twenty
minutes. Greer gave himself up to the po-
lice. He is master-machinist in the Cen
trail Railroad shops and came to Augusta
from Macon. Philpot was an employee OF
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road.
In Greene county, Tennessee, last Fri
day night, the wife of James Hunter was
shot and instantly killed by some person
who fired from the outside of the house.
Mr.. Hunter and his wife and other MEM
bers of the family were sitting around the
fire. Mrs. Hunter was in rocker, when a
gun was fired through the window, three
bullets passing through Mrs Hunters head.
It is supposed that the murderer intended
to kill James Hunter, but the wife, in rock
ing to and fro, received the shot intended
for her husband. Mr.. Hunter is wealthy
farmer and had just received a large amount
of money. Two brothers, named Moon,
who are suspected of the murder, were cap
tured below Greenville, coming towards
Knoxville. They had a rifle carrying the
same sized bullet as was found IN Mrs.
L..