Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-13
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na-to be United States Consul at Nuevo
Georgia number 143, All. .'..:..""A sexton in
Plymouth, Mass, has just died, having dug
in his time $3.50 graves for other peo-
pie. .'''''''"New York has twelve hundred
clergymen, four hundred Of whom are Cath
olics. .''''''''Since 1851, 5000 lives have been
lost in the coal mines of England, an aver
age of 1900 year. ''''''.''The Republicans
will open the campaign in Ohio on the 1st
of September. In the meantime MIR. For
aker is getting in a few speeches on his
own account. .''.''''"Portsmouth, n. H., elect
ed Democratic mayor Tuesday by over
600 majority. For the first time in its his
tory the Democrats made a clean sweep,
carrying every ward. .''''''''It is estimated
that the cost of Gen. Grants funeral includ-
ing the cost of transportation for military
bodies that attended, funeral decorations &C.,
will foot up at least 81 100000.
A NORTH CAROLINA AEXECUTION.-Th
men, all convicted Of atrocious murders,
were hanged at Fayetteville, n. c., last Fri
day. They were Joseph o. Howard, white,
who killed E. E. Brakeman, a farmer, after
robbing him Tom Gee, colored, who cut to
pieces with an axe his white paramour,
Mary Hughes, and Tom McNeill, who kill
ed his brother, Steven McNeill. The exc
cution took place at 1.3O P. M. None of the
men made any confession. They were pro-
nounced dead in eight minutes after the
drop fell. An immense throng of people
witnessed the execution which was public.
Fully five thousand people were present.
Perfect order was preserved. Companies A
and B of the Second Regiment, North Car
olina State Guard, were present. All three
pf hn convicted
time since. Howard, who was sentenced
to be hanged on the 18th of January, took an
appeal to the Supreme court and was again
sentenced to be hanged on July 18th. Ap-
peals were taken by the other prisoners,
who like Howard, were to be executed on
July %. Governor Scales granted respite
from that date until last Friday. He posi-
lively refused to grant another respite. At
tempts were made last week to prove How
ard to be insane, but they failed completely.
GENERAL CROP REPORTs.-The July re-
port of the National Cotton Exchange, New
Orleans, says of the cotton crop that the
weather conditions during July over the
whole belt have been very favorable to the
growth and development of the plant, such
as were needed, whereas last year they were
abnormal Then the drouth in Texas and
the excessive rain in Alabama and the At
lantic States put the plant in very critical
condition, requiring most favorable circum-
stances to maintain its healthfulness. This
year there was no extreme in any State,
and the conditions were, as rule, alike
favorable to bottom lands and uplands.
Cultivation has been pushed and crops
have been laid by in good time, with very
little loss to the stand in cutting out grass.
The plant has grown rapidly and has main
tanned almost perfect health except IN some
localities, and as rule the backWardness
due to late planting has been nearly II not
entirely overcome. Percentages have been
advanced to 81, against 92 at the close of
June. The following is the condition of the
crops by States: Virginia, so; South Caro-
lima, 81; Florida, 80; Tennessee, "a Louisi-
ana, 9S; Arkansas, 81 North Carolina, 20
Georgia, 9S; Alabama, 95; Mississippi, SO;
Texas, 9S.
"A letter purporting to have been written
by President Cleveland to a man who con-
fessed that he had signed the petition of
ed in some of the New York papers, and
bears internal evidence ofauthenticity. Ac-
cording to the story attached thereto an ap-
plicant for an important office brought with
him recommendations from so many appa-
rently trustworthy men that on the strength |
of their endorsement he was appointed
afterwards President Cleve-
land received letter from one Of the sign
ers of the petition saying that mistake
had been made, and that the writer's of the
petition had given the applicant their en-
dorsement merely to get rid Of him, and in
the belief that he would not even be con-
sidered, as he was notoriously unfit for the
place. This frank and open confession nat
uraly excited the President, who replied
with warm denunciation of the 'lying and
treacherous" representation made to him.
If this case is not literally true it is represen-
tative of some that have occurred not only |
with President Cleveland, but with his pre-
decessors in office. There is one comfort
to be derived from it, however. MIR. Cleve-
land is pledged to give the people better
government and better officers, and every
Experience of this kind will make him more
wary of the professional politicians and of
the men who sign petitions for business or
social reasons, without regard to their effect
On the Administration. The influence OF
such men grows less and less as their treach-
cry to the Administration becomes known.
A curious and humiliating chapter of
reconstruction politics is brought to men,
ory by the death of Hiram H. kimptOn in
an insane retreat in New York a few days
ago, says the Springfield (Mass.) RepubA: /
,dn. When Kimpton was arrested and
allied in this city a few years ago in an at
;empt to make him produce the books of
The South Carolina financial agency at New
York in the time of the Chamberlain-Mo-
,es- Parker carpet bag administration, he
vas remarkably fine specimen of man
lood-tall, portly, (but not too portly) dig
lifed and gentlemanly, and dressed with
elegance; evidently used to