Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-01

CanaQa -; COCdl lS0. Inc western ana fd-
cific States furnish exactly one half of the
total number Of failures this week.
The devastation by prairie fires from
Fargo to Bismarck, Dakota, far surpasses
the destruction of any previous year. The
amount of wheat burned in North Dakota
the past week is immense. It is estimated
that the entire crops of one hundred farms
between Jamestown and Bismarck have
been DESTROYED.
There is man in Americus, Ga, who,
when child lost an eye. A cat was caught
and while under chloroform one of its eyes
was transposed to the boy. After many
months he found himself possessed of per-
feet sight, being able with his cats eye to
see as we'll at night as in the day time.
The pupil of the latter will expand and con-
tract as that of cat.
In the Boston Superior Court, last Fri
day, Franklin J. Moses, Ex-Governor OF
South Carolina, pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with obtaining money
under false pretenses from ex-Mayor Cobb
and others in February, 1884. The judge
deferred passing sentence upon him until
to-day. Moses has recently served out a
term in Middlesex county Jail for similar
offence.
Messages have been received at st.
Louis from London, England, stating that
Samuel n. Brooks would soon start for st.
Louis to ascertain definitely whether the
man now held in Jail there as the murder
er of C. Arthur Preller and known various
ly as Hugh NJ. Brooks and Walter H. Len
nox Maxwell, is his son. 1t is said if such
should prove to be the case Brooks will be
prepared to present some important docu-
mentary evidence for the defence.
1c
Beck, on trial at GAINESVILLE, Ga, for the
Clayton, returned a verdict of guilty and
recommended that he be imprisoned in the
penitentiary for life. The verdict was re-
turned after an absence of nine hours.
The peculiar feature of this case was that
the deed was committed while the prisoner
was laboring under delirium tremens, and
the plea of insanity was set up.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "Ohio,
in the coming battle, occupies peculiar
ground. tits the first State to vote succeed
ing National Democratic Administration.
Carried by the Democrats, it would be the
first blow struck in the annihilation of the
Republican party. There can be no doubt
that if Ohio is anchored safely in the Dem
ocratic column both New York and Virgin
ia will give Democratic maiorities, and
this means the overthrow of party which
has survived for ten years past only upon
sectional hate"
-Governer Hoadly puts the case straight
ment: "Eight million bales of cotton pro-
duced by working men in the South-both
black and white-is fact that outWeighs
your pretence. If Southern labor were dis
organized and Southern laborers under tyr
amy, this magnificent result would not
have been achieved. Your whole argu-
gument is based on the claim that when
the black men of the South ceased to be
chattel slaves they at once became slaves of
the Republican party, and must thereafter
vote at its dictation to the day of judg-
ment."
An Akron, Ohio, dispatch Of Friday
says: Several carcasses of diseased pork
have been seized in the Akron markets.
An investigation shows that hog cholera
exists in every quarter Of the county, sew
eral hundred pokers being down with the
disease. AS soon as it appears the owners
kill the afflicted hogs and send them to
market. The discovery has caused much
commotion in this city, and Council is ask
ed to forbid the sale of pork in Akron for
amonth. Hog cholera threatens great dam
age to the pork interest in Iowa, and in
thirty counties in Kansas, the losses from
the same cause will reach 1000 or more.
Prof. r. NJ. Davis, of tt South Carolina
College, contributed to the Cincinnati En-
quirer, last week, a comprehensive sketch
of the rascality practiced by the Republi-
can party in South Carolina from 1865 to
1876, which is designed to illustrate the
methods by which the party committed
self-destruction in this State, and at the
same time to answer some of Senator Sher-
mans charges against the South. The story
is familiar one in these parts, but Prof.
Davis has put it in highly interesting shape
for Ohio readers, and has supplied Mr.. Sher-
man and his lieutenants with nuts enough
to crack to keep them busy during all the
rest of the campaign.
At Battleford, last Friday, the following
sentences were pronounced upon actors in
the Riel outbreak: Wandering Spirit was
sentenced to hang for the murder of Agent
Queen, at Frog Lake. Some dozen other
Indians were sent to prison, from four to
fourteen years, for arson and horse stealing
at the time of the rebellion. Dressyman
and Charfeboise were convicted of murder
ing squaw, and were sentenced to hang.
Gonizen Mongrand was found guilty of MUIR
dering constable at Fort Pitt, and receiv-
ed similar sentence. Bright Eyes was Civ
en- twenty years for manslaughter. Wan
dering Spirit and Mongrand are to hang
November o. at Regena. Big Bear and
eight of his band were sentenced to three
years in the Manitoba Penitentiary. Left
Hand, Poor Crow and two other Sioux
Indians got two years.
There was dramatic scene in court at
Muncie, Indiana, last Friday. Bishop and
Oney Scott and Frank Poor were on trial
for the murder of VIM. Haynes, on March
INo%o Dscho,> hot Hnx,n
and Oney and Poor are alleged accomplices.
Bishop Scott, whose wife is seriously ill
and whose father is almost blind with grief,
was testifying when suddenly his mind
gave way and he became helplessly insane.
The crowd surged around, his sister scream
ed, and amid wild excitement he was re-
moved to Jail. Four men were required to
hold him. On the next morning, physi-
clans who examined him, testified that he
is insane, perhaps permanently. The court
thereupon terminated the trial and dismiss
ed the jury. The State had just closed its
testimony and Scott was the first witness
for the defence.
News comes from Letcher county, Ken
lucky, of another bloody encounter more
bloody, in fact, than all the bloody difficult
ties that have occurred in that county here
tofore reported between the Jones and
Wright factions. Early last Sunday morn
ing, about seven miles above Whitesburg
Daugh Drawn, deputy sheriff of Knott
county, together with eight or ten other
resolute and brave men as his posse, was in
search of Wright and his crew, consisting
of 8 or 10 men, against all of whom Drawn
had warrants without bail issued by Speci-
al Judge John Dishman at the last regular
term of the Letcher Circuit Court, but the
Wright party-one of whom is the famous
Wash CraftShad been apprised of their