Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-05
Straps and fatts.

day night, Bennett Parsons, a respectable
farmer aged y years was shot and killed in
his house, and his body fell into the fire and
was badly burned. The verdict of the cor
oner's jury charges the murder upon his
wife and charges his two daughters with
being accessories.
The official estimates made by the Eng
lish government inspectors place the amount
of the pecuniary damages wrought by the
explosions in Westminster hall, the House
of Commons and the Tower at $4,000. Not
the slightest trace of any mechanical appa-
ratus or of fuse has been found in the Tower
or in the Parliament buildings.
The business failures reported through
out the country as reported to Il. q. Dun
& Co., number for United States 3l7 and for
Canada 81. Total 354, against All the pre-
ceding week and 42O the week previous.
There is decrease in every section OF the
country, though the failures in the West
and South are still very numerous.
In Baltimore, last Saturday, Col. j. G.
Ramsay, in charge of the United States
troops at Fort McHenry, was arrested for
assaulting a street car conductor who did
not stop his car quickly enough to suit the
Colonel. An effort was made to keep the
affair quiet but the conductor refused to
withdraw the charge and the case will come
up before the Criminal Court.
The total number of banking institutions
that failed in 1884 is 12l, eleven of which
were national banks, twenty-five state banks,
eleven savings banks, and seventy-seven
private banking institutions. Nineteen of
these failures are traceable to the fraud of
bank officers; twenty-five of them resulted
from unfortunate operations in stocks, dis
connected from the element of fraud; and
sixty-seven or more than one-half of them,
were due, either directly or indirectly, to
some form of speculation.
AT Corning, Clay county, Arkansas, last
Friday, Lafayette Melton, a white man
Franklin Hale four years ago. 1t was prov
ed on the trial that Melton was captain
in the Kuklux brotherhood. Hale had
been talking about the order and a plot
was formed to whip him. A masked par
ty found Hale in the woods at night and
whipped him to death. Melton was con-
victed chiefly on the evidence of H. S.
Lawrence, one of the party who turned
States evidence a year after the occurrence.
A Boston dispatch of the 2sth ultimo
says: Detectives returned from Detroit,
Michigan, to-day having in custody ex-GoV-
ernor Moses, of South Carolina, who is
wanted in Cambridge for obtaining money
by false pretenses from Col. T. w. Higgin-
son. Moses obtained $34 from Col. Higgin-
son by representing himself as lawyer by
the name of Byram who had been robbed
while returning from Canada. The prison
er was committed to Jail at the February
term of court.
On Saturday the Supreme Court of Ten
nessee sentenced Colonel William Spence to
be hanged on March 13 for the murder of his
son-in-law, Col. Edward S. Wheat. Col.
Spence is 70 years old, and was formerly a
merchant and banker and United States
marshal. The killing took place on March
over the United States marshalship, Spence
claiming unfair treatment at the hands of
Wheat, who succeeded him in that position.
- The chief of the bureau of statistics, re-
ports that during the month OF December,
1884, the value Of our exports of merchan-
disc amounted TO $9l ,294 $40 or about S3 ,O0O,-
600 a day. Thts has been exceeded but
twice before, viz: During the months Of
December, 1880, and December, 1882. The
value of our imports of merchandise during
the month of December, 1884, amounted to
only $42, TX, ,3H and was less than during
any previous month since the month OF
July, 1879.
Speaking of the revival of Southern cot
ton spinning, the Boston Herald says: There
will be no begrudging the renewed prosperi-
ty at the South, lift shall be maintained and
increased. If the Eastern mills cannot hold
their own against their new competitors,
they will either wind up their operations or
transfer their machinery and capital nearer
to the cotton supply. There are no indica-
tions that any such step will be necessary at
present And any demand for cotton goods
that will give full occupation and living
profit to Southern manufacturers must bene-
fit those of the North as well.
WIN. Houck, of Colebrookdale township,
Pa, died on Thursday, aged seventy-seven.
He had foretold his death, although he was
never sick. He had an old horse which
He priced the animal very highly, and his
eccentricity ran in the line of his love for
the animal. He always said that he and
the old horse would die at the same time,
and that if the animal died he wanted to
follow. At noon the animal was taken out
of the stable to water, slipped on the ice and
broke his leg, whereupon the family decid-
ed to kill him. The horse was shot, and
Just as he expired Mr.. Houck, who was
near by, fell dead.
Few people have any idea of the num-
Der of men now living who fought in
the late war. 1t is estimated that fully
million of the veterans still survive. There
are some six thousand posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic, having member
ship of nearly three hundred thousand. In
Pennsylvania soldiers seem to stick closer
together than in any of the other States.
She has larger number of Grand Army
posts and more yearly reunions of regi
ments than any other single State. 1t is
estimated that about seVenty-five per cent.
of the old soldiers in Pennsylvania are
members of the Grand Army.
A recent Washington letter says: The
late E. w. Macksy has not been eulogiZed,
and understand that no day has been fixed
for that performance. Perhaps there will
be an eternal silence and it may be better
so. 1t would be pitiful mockery to see
men who allowed small shower Of rain to
drive them from his unburied coffin, rising
in solemn hypocrisy to proclaim his presum-
ed virtues and their alleged devotion. Be
fore Mackey was put in the ground his So
called friends fled from the cemetery, leav-
ing Col. Aiken, of South Carolina, who was
his pall-bearer but not his friend, to see that
the earth covered him. This is a fact of
history, and one, too, that points Republi-
can moral if it does not adorn Democratic
tale.
John Francis Quarles, the we'll known
colored lawyer, died at his residence at
Flushing, n. Y, last Thursday, from pneu-
monia, aged thirty-eight years. Deceased
was son of the late Rev. J. f. Quarles, of
Atlanta, Ga, and was born slave. lie
was educated at Westchester college, Penn
sylvania, was appointed United States con-
sui at Port Mahon by President Grant, and
was afterwards transferred to Malaga, Spain.
He has been practicing law in New York
since his return in 1880. He was counsel
for Cadet Whitaker, of vest Point, for
VIM. Seyton, who murdered his mistress
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