Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10
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among Republicans to the reelection of Sen
ator Sherman, and those who are leading
the opposition have high hopes of defeating
him. They are pushing the claims of Gov
ernor Foster.
Five members of family were poisoned
at Knoxville, Tennessee, on the 2nd instant,
by drinking coffee in which the cook had
placed half pound of arsenic. Medical
assistance arrived in time to save their
lives, but two of them are still in critical
condition. The cook has been arrested and
jailed.
The members of Congress of both parties
are said to be almost unanimous in favor of
the immediate passage of the Hoar bill,
settling the right of succession to the Presi-
dency in case of the death of the Vice-Pres-
ident by making members of the Cabinet
succeed the President. This deprives the
Presidency of the Senate of most of its in
terest.
The result of the late English elections
brings into deserved political prominence
the two men who had formed the parlia-
mentary alliance which placed the present
British Government in power, Charles Stu
of these men have shown the courage, sa-
gacity and originality that distinguish the
statesman from the petty politician.
On Thursday last, Indians attacked the
town of Duncan, on the Pacific Railroad,
and killed one man. They cut the telegraph
wire between Wilcox and Fort Grant. a
courier from D. H. Smiths store, who was
sent to warn the people who live near
Stockton, was chased into Fort Grant. 1t
is feared that all families in that vicinity
have been murdered.
The pension matter has been finally ad-
Indicated in North Carolina. 1t appears
that there are 1,039 widows in the State and
979 old soldiers who are entitled to the ben
efits of the act and each will receive Sl4.75
per annum. This amount, small as 1t may
seem, will no doubt help along considera-
bly, those poor fellows who wore the grey
and who are now disabled, and the widows
of those who fell in defense of the State.
The Farmers National Congress met in
annual session on the End instant at Indian
apolis, Indiana, for the purpose of discuss
ing and advocating legal reforms of impor-
tance to agriculturalists. They recommend
the creation of Secretary of Agriculture as a
cabinet officer The Congress is composed
of representative farmers from nearly every
State, and they will doubtless exercise
great influence for good over the interests
of that class.
The body of George Parrish, the engin-
eer who lost his life in the late wreck on the
Western North Carolina Road, near Warm
Springs, has been recovered and forwarded
to Lynchburg, Va, his former home: The
body of the young man named Whitley,
who was acting as special fireman on that
terrible trip, has not been recovered. The
sadness of Parrish's sudden death is i'll
creased by the fact that he was quite
young man and was engaged to marry
young lady of Lynchburg on Christmas eve.
In Macon, Ga, last Thursday night,
Co,o Tor,;eop opd I'll CfrobooEar two Wol1
known young men, had an alteration in
which Strohecker was killed outright, by a
pistol shot and Jemison received wound
which is thought to be fatal. Strohecker
-sxas the attacking party. The only reason
given for the difficulty is that a day or
two previously Jemison refused to loan
Strohecker sum of money. Both young
men were we'll connected. A printer nam
ed Mcdonald has been arrested and COM
mitted to Jail as an accessory to the tragedy,
it being charged that he prompted Stro-
hecker to attack Jemison.
james Bayard, the son ofSecretary Bay
ard, who has recently been given a posi-
tion under the department of the interior,
was appointed by the efforts of Senators
Davis and German. His father refused to
have anything to do with him, having cast
off the young man because of an escapade
leading to his arrest by the police in Wash
ington several winters ago. The secretary
is said to be further disgusted with his son
because he is about to marry Miss Deak-
ings, farmers daughter who was employ
ed as waitress in hotel at Fort Sugg,
West Virginia, where he has been teaching
school.
Mrs: Hendricks, widow of the Vice
President, is left in comfortable circumstan-
es. She has herself largely taken charge
of the private business affairs of her hus-
band, and has managed them with signal
succesS-"much BETTER" the vice President
used to say, "than could have done my
self" The residence where Mr.. Hendricks
died, in indianapolis, is worth SlO,000 and
he had other property in the city valued,
all told, at about $60, 900. His life was al
so insured in considerable sum. Alto
gether it is estimated that his estate is
worth 100000. His will, bearing date
August 8, 1866, devises to his wife and her
heirs all of his property, real and personal,
and appoints her eXecutriX.
AS Alfonso has left only little girl of
five years old as heir to the throne Of Spain,
there is no telling what new outbreaks Of
radicalism and Carlism may suddenly de-
strOy all prospects of her ever ascending
the throne she would naturally claim. If
Spain only had a few more men strong
enough just now to organize the popular
sentiment into settled constitutional rev.
olution, another hopeful republic might be
plucked out of the effete civilization of
Spain. But the people as a whole are too
much like Alfonso himself to meet and live
by modern political ideas, and troubles will
most likely continue and multiply that will
make the regency of Queen Mary a very
precariOus settlement.
Marshall Clements was hanged at Sagu-
ache, Colorado last Thursday for the MUIR
der of his brother Thomas and the latter's
wife Susan, last August. The doomed man
seemed to be in excellent spirits. On the
way to the gallows he recognized several
acquaintances, boWing pleasantly and ad-
the scaffold the sheriff asked him if he had
was deserved, and he hoped to be forgiven.
He then bade his friends good bye and said
he was ready. His neck was not broken,
though the fall was seven feet. The knot
had been tied too loosely and had become
disarranged, causing death from strangula-
tion. The execution was witnessed by
about thousand persons, some of whom
came hundred miles to attend it.
Some months ago Newton Chance, an
aged itinerant preacher, from Indian Ter
ritory, was arrested in Sherman, Texas,
charged with the murder of +. JuniuS Fos-
ter, in that city, in 1868. Foster was the
editor Of newspaper. The killing occur
red during the late war, and caused intense
excitement throughout the State. The tri-
al of Chance has been in progress the past
few days. A sensation was produced in
court on Thursday by the voluntary testimo-
ny OF James Young, who swore that it was
he who killed Foster. 81 killed him." said
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