Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-25
Straps and fatts.

NIlle llle StTeeI ScdVeHSeTS eSCdpeu dllO-
gether.
Mr.. Blaine visited Worcester, Mass,
last Thursday, to attend the fair of the Wor-
entirely non-partisan, the reception COM
mittee being composed of members of the
Agricultural Sociery and representing diff
ferent political parties. His speech was en-
tirely free from politics.
"A Washington dispatch of Friday says :
Certain claim agents in this city have issued
circular of information to the pOstmasters
who arc entitled to a readjustment of salary
under the act of March 3rd, 'S3, that if their
claims are not presented before December
lst, 'S4, they will be barred. The officers
say there is no authority forsuch statement.
- The business failures throughout the
country occurring during the week ending
last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun d
Co.'s mercantile agency, number for the
United States 1875 and for Canada ga total
of us, compared with 22O the preceding
week. The number is nearly identical and
the distribution of failures about the same
as in the previous week.
In reply to circular sent out by the
Journal Of Commerce that paper publishes
answers from 13 mills showing decrease
in production Of l3,0O0,000 yards of cloth or
100000 suits of mems clothing. 1t is fur
ther stated that many mills are idle or still
runningon short time, and will not start up
or run full until the demand so improves as
to insure cost of manufacture.
- The American Carp Cultural Associa-
ton held it's fall meeting at Philadelphia
last week. The secretary's report showed
between five and six hundred enrolled men,
price of membership was fixed at 81. Ar
rangements were made for the publication
of a monthly journal to be largely devoted
to the carp culture. 1t was stated that %, 600
persons have commenced the culture OF
carp in this country.
Gen. Alfred M. Scales, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of North Carolina,
has been canvassing the Western part of the
State. One day last week his horse ran
away while crossing Cowee Mountain, Jack
son county, and fell down precipice dis
tance of one hundred feet and was killed.
The buggy was destroyed. Gen. Scales was
caught in tree and barely escaped with his
life. He reached his home at Greensboro
Thursday morning, very much bruised, and
is now in bed, but hopes to renew the can
vass in few days.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of the World was in session at Min
neapolis, Minn., last week. The reports
show about $4,000 Lodge members and 90,
600 Encampment members, a gain of near
ly 900 Lodge members during the past
year. The available assets Of the Sovereign
Lodge are 5000, a gain Of 5000. In view
of the fact that the last session cost $40, 600,
the Grand Lodge recommends the abolish
ing of the annual sessions and the substitu-
tion of biennial sessions. Abous two hun
dred delegates were present.
"A Lynchburg, Va, dispatch of Friday
says: Great excitement has been caused in
Amherst county by the unprovoked murder
of Samuel Mitchell, aged sixteen years, a
son of respectable farmer residing few
miles from this city. The boy, accompanied
by two others, was in search of COWS, when
they came across hunters camp in the
woods. There were three men at the camp,
and one of them, George Fortune, ordered
Mitchell to carry beer keg for him. The
boy refused and Fortune shot and instantly
killed him. The man fled, but was captured
at his home near here last night. He claims
that the gun was discharged accidentally
but the two boys who witnessed the tragedy
say it was deliberate murder. All the men
were drunk.
There is colored man at Fort Gaines,
Ga, named West Gordon who has been
jealous of his wife. Their quarrels had been
numerous, and the husband determined to
end them by a trick, which we'll nigh proved
fatal. He got the clothes line, and throw
ing it over one of the rafters in his cabin,
fixed it, as he supposed, long enough to let
him stand on the floor, while he was trying
to make his wife think he had committed
suicide. When he slipped the moose around
his neck and stepped off the chair he found,
to his horror, that the rope was just enough
too short to make livery uncomfortable. He
groaned so pitifully that it awoke his wife,
who came rushing out, eXclaming as she
saw his position: "You old fool, 1'z most a
mind to let you stay dar." She procured
the scissors and cut him down, and he fell
to the floor almost choked to death. He
says he will never test her affections that
way again.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
of last Friday publishes special reports from
all parts of the South as to the prospect for
fall and winter business, showing that the
outlook is very favorable for active work.
The cotton crop will be less than was eX-
pected month ago, owing to the drought,
but this is more than cOunterbalanced by
the largest crops OF corn, wheat and fruits
than for some years. Owing tothe enlarged
production of food stuffs, the South will
not have to purchase so largely of wheat,
corn and provisions from the West as here
tofore-the difference in this, as compared
y
late stringency in the money market, &C.
cording to many of these reports, prevented
planters from borrowing as freely as usual
in spring and forced them to close economy,
so that the cotton crop has been raised at a
much lower cost than in other years and
planters are less in debt than in the CORES
pOnding time last year. In manufacturing
and mining enterprises rapid progress is
being made.
- Isaac Jacobson was hanged in the coun-
ty Jail at Chicago, ILL.,, at 12 o'clock, NJ, last
Friday. The prisoner passed quiet night,
retiring at one o'clock and sleeping until
five, when he arose and ate light breakfast.
He walked composedly to the scaffOld. No
hitch occurred in any of the sheritf's ar
rangements. The mans neck was broken
by the fall. He had had dispute with his
employer, Bedell, a carpet cleaner, about a
balance of wages of one dollar which Jacob
son claimed when he abandoned his en-
ployment. He returned the next day and
without q word of dispute drew a revolver
and killed Bedell. The shooting was wit
messed by an officer who was passing in q
street car and who at once arrested Jacobson.
Inh his cell the prisoner rwasasked why he shot
Bedell and his answer was, "FOrO one dollar"
This and other exhibitions caused many
to believe him insane, but medical experts
concurred in contrary opinion. TO satisfy
himself as to the fact, Gov. Hamilton, who
was appealed to for a pardon or commuta-
tion, visited the prisoner ncognito and had
a medical commission to examine him.
They were all of one mind, that the culprit
was perfectly sane. jacobson was a native
of Finland, aged about SO. For many years
he followed the sea and was always noted
for an ungovernable temper.
AT the approaching term of Fulton