Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-17
Straps and fafts.

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The business failures during the week
ending last Friday, as reported to r. g..
Dun & Co., number for the United States
1s4 and for Canada 10, against 156 the week
previous. The increase is altogether in the
Pacific and Western States.
Judgment in the Riel appeal case has
been given at Winnipeg confirming the
sentence of the court at Regina. The
French and half breed population is great
" excited in consequence, While the bulk
of the whites are jubilant. The general
opinion is that Riel will be hanged.
- Three hundred Mormons arrived at
New York, Wednesday, en- route for Utah.
They came from Germany, Scandinavia and
England. All paid their passage and
brought money with them. Several of the
women were much better looking than the
average of Mormon wives.
Walter l.. H. Maxwell, the presumed
murderer of Preller in st. Louis hotel last
spring, was taken into the court OF criminal
correction last Friday, and by agreement
until October 10Th, before which time the
grand jury will have an opportunity to take
the matter up.
The Mormons are not destined to occu-
py Mexico without opposition. The papers
are speaking out, and the FInd11cier says
they must be driven out. The papers urge
that if they are too filthy to be endured in
the United States that Mexico cannot stand
them The Roman Catholic priests are al
so active in the crusade.
Heavy rains last Thursday have done
untold damage to the crops in Mississip-
pi, especially in Yazoo county. The fall
of water is unprecedented, overtiowing, al
most washing away fields in some places.
The YaZoo railroad loses several bridges,
and the track is so badly undermined that
no trains can be run to YazoO City. The
cotton crop will fall far short of last tmonth's
estimate, and farmers are being discour-
aged because of the gloomy outlook.
At a meeting of the Republican State
Executive Committee, held at Jackson,
Miss, on Thursday, it was decided not to
place State ticket in the field, for the rea-
SON set forth in the following resolution,
which was adopted: That in view of the
fact that organized opposition to the Dem
ocratic party of this State this fall is useless,
because of the we'll known impossibility of
securing at the polls an honest election, it is
the sense of this committee that no conven-
tfon be called to nominate State ticket.
A chart prepared by the agricultural
bureau for the use of the Forestry Congress.
which will meet in Boston shortly, shows
that there are two hundred and eighty-five
million acres of improved land, four hun
dred and eighty-five million acres of forest,
seven hundred and thirty millions of unim-
proved and untimbered land. Incidental
ly it is found that the forests are disap-
pearing at the rate of twenty-five mil
lion acres each year. The forest product
during the census was year eighteen thous-
and million feet, board measure. Last year
it was twenty light thousand million feet.
William Mangum, aged II, left his home
in Atlanta on Wednesday night, and was
found dead in little cabin in the suburbs
of the city the next morning with blood
streaming from his nose and mouth. The
cabin was occupied by two negro Voodoo
women, fortune-tellers. Both have disap-
peared. 1t is thought that they killed
Mangum when he went to have his fortune
told. The negroes in the vicinity are Graz
ed with fear and say that he was conjured
to death. The authorities are investigating
the matter.
There is growing bitterness between
the Cherokees and the negroes who claim
citizenship in the Indian Nation. The
freedmen number between seven and eight
thousand and enjoy all the rights of native
born Indians. The present trouble is caus-
ed by the freedmen claiming share of the
100000 recently paid the Cherokee nation
by the government for land ceded to it by
the Cherokees. This claim is questioned
by the Indians who assert that the freed
men, not being of Cherokee blood, are not
entitled to any share of the money. The
colored men base their claim on the treaty
of 1866, which, they say, accords them the
rights of native born Cherokees.
Lawrence Brainerd, whose defalcation
as president of the St. Albans, Vermont,
savings bank ruined thousands of farmers
and working people year ago, has been
captured by American detectives in Winni-
months in Winnipeg, passing as absconding
crooks from the United States, and last
week induced Rrainerd to 60 duck shooting
with them. They got him in wagon and
made for the line, which they succeeded in
crossing, eluding the Winnipeg police who
pursued them. Arriving at Minneapolis,
while his captors were engaged in purchas-
ing railroad tickets for the east, Brainerd
slipped away and made his escape.
Belle Hasty lived with the Peabody
family at Urbana, Illinois, and was engaged
to be married to young Robert Peabody.
The young mans parents opposed the match.
On August End his mother died, apparently
with neuralgia of the stomach. On the 18th
his father died with the same symptoms.
On September 1st Miss Hasty and her lover
were taken sick with the same symptoms
and the girl died. Since her death pack
age of rat poison has been discovered in
some of her underclothing. Taken in con-
nection with other facts, it causes the belief
that Miss Hasty poisoned the older Peabod-
les to get rid of them and remove obstacles
to her marriage, and subsequently attempt
ed to kill her lover and herself.
Such speeches as that of Senator Sher-
man few days ago cannot do any harm
when the antidote of truth is promptly ap-
piled by newspapers of his own section.
Senator Sherman labored very hard to con-
vince the people of Ohio that the colored
people in the South are denied the right to
vote, but the Springfield Republican reminds
him that in the eleven States which seced-
ed Mr.. Blaine received 775, 900 votes, against
Mr.. Cleveland's 100000. "There was pro-
badly some suppression or intimidation Of
the colored vote in South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi," says the Republican, "but else
where the South never had fairer election
and Mr.. Cleveland "could have spared both
those States and still have been elected"
So it is-as the Republican says-false and
wicked to charge that he owes his election
to crime or crimes"
- The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
says: The Kings Mountain Gold Mining
Co. has been reorganized, with prof. J. c.
Horton as president and superintendent.
He is now at the mine, near Kings Noun
tain Station, on the A. d G.. Air Line Rail-
road, and is engaged in working some Of
the surface ores. The main shaft is over
800 feet deep and has Il fine vein of quartz
in limestone, sometimes having width of
Is feet. The ore is of grade that will pay
we'll if the proper mode of treatment and
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