Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-05
FERGUSON'S EVIL WORK.
4 PATHETIC RESPONSET TO HIS PISTOL SHOT
FROM BEYOND THE SEAS.
From the GreenUiLLe MeNs.l

H P4THETIC RESPONSET TO HIS PISTOL SHOT
FROM BEYOND THE SEAS.
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From the GreenUaLe Neps.
Two or three days ago Solicitor J. l.. Orr
received letter, written in German, from .
Leopold Benedict, of Karlsbad, Germany,
father of the young man shot by Ferguson
at Abbeville. 1t will be remembered that
Ferguson was recently tried for the murder,
which the evidence showed to be one of Pc
cular atrocity. The defense was insanity
and the result wasa mistrial. Here is what
the father of the I'D Jew" whom Fergu-
son called somebody to 60 along and see
him kill, writes. The letter was translated
almost literally by Prof. f: Won Fingerlin1'
and is evidently written by man of intel
ligence and some education:
"KARLsBAD, 25th January, 1885.
"Excuse very sad father, broken in body and
soul who does not find words to express his
sorrow caused by the terrible death of his much
beloved, murdered child.
"Take pity on an old, sick man who now
stands alone with his old wife and abandoned by
everybody, without means any hope for the
future for all this the murderer has taken
from me in him who lived only for his parents
and who worked and saved to support his old
parents. For it was always great pleasure for
us whenever he wrote us and sent us money.
The letters were so full Of consoling words and
hopes that he would soon establish himself per-
mancntly, ana would then enable us 10 pass our
old age without any care.
"And just now at this juncture comes the muir
derer destroys his plans well as his life, takes
my much beloved child and renders me the most
unhappy and miserable of men, and makes me
beggar, for we will have to 90 from house to
house for aims. 1 would like to do even that if
I had for moment the opportunity to see my
most beloved child but the miserable murder
er has destroyed his and my future.
"There could be justice if this miserable
NH r6a nanaltv death.
1t is now my only hope that my loved and
never-to-be forgotten child shall be avenged.
beg you, therefore, to do everything in your
power to this end that the murderer shall be
punished who went with full premeditation to
murder my beloved child. You will do work
pleasing in the eyes of God if you contribute all
of your powers that the murderer shall not es-
cape his we'll deserved punishment. l am unable
to offer you anything but thanks.
LEOPOLD BENEDICT"
Solicitor Orr has replied, explaining that
the mistrial merely means new trial, prom
ising to devote his utmost efforts to secure
Ferguson's conviction and further explain
ing that as he is paid by the State no other
payment is required or could be accepted
under any circumstances.
SOME RELICs.-Jay Epps, writing from
Kings Mountain to the Irulesnadn, says
that "on the headwaters of Long creek,
of Mr.. Giles Ormand, is venerable white
oak tree, measuring at the roots, above
ground, 81 feet, six inches in circumfer-
ence; a few feet above, the trunk meas
ures around its waist q feet, inches. Its
wide-spreading limbs cover a plot OF ground
40 feet in diameter, Notwithstanding its
lower and longest branches have been time
and again shortened in order to preserve
the ancestral home of the patriot Ormand
of 1779, whose name and fame are associat-
ed with the battle and the heroes of Kings
Mountain, and whose valorous deeds rem
dered them especially obnoxious to the ad-
marauding tories rested their horses while
plundering the home of all the contents,
including the blanket of the baby in its
cradle, and the family Bible, which was
converted into a saddle for stolen horse
from the farm. This improvised saddle
was recovered, a little the worse for its
rough usage, and with the house and the
tree, constitute trio of well-preserved rel
les of the past"
TIE DECAY OF WILL POWER.-Strong
wills are becoming as rare as healthy phys
ical organizations. The world is ''fussy,"
but only because humanity is working it.
self too much. Brain tissue has increased,
but healthy, vigorous thought has dimin-
ished. Alterations have become realities,
and realities affectations. A toothache con-
verts US into invalids, where our ancestors
laughed at the gout We have beaten the
gold leaf so thin that it has lost its own
color, and shines with a CHASTITY green light.
Sentiment has carried us past common
sense; we have had such a terror OF the
flesh that we have cultivated brain at the
expense of motive tissue, and have produc-
,I-, hat Sc tor
the dwarf legs to bear. Emotions have
ben improved brain has increased but
strong, vigorous thought has diminished.
Humanity has made rapid journey to-
ward perfection; but the point has now been
reached when rest and relaxation become
a necessity. We have conquered worlds;
let us now return for while to the old
Greek proverb and try to conquer ourselves.
MAN IN LOVE AND OUT.-What is there
that man will not do when he is in love?
What else will drive him to such lengths or
brilliancy and daring? 1t is then that he
puts on his most brilliant plumage, struts
about in his greatest glory and reaches the
most beautiful perfection of his nature: He
writes long letters, spends his money like
prodigal, is ready to 60 here, there and eV--
erywhere, rain or shine, at the beck and
call of his fair mistress; wears his pest
clothes, walks with erectness and elasticity
of a trained athlete, smiles on all mankind,
and is being much beyond and above the
common run of the race. All this he is to
the woman to whom he is playing the lover.
She takes him for what he seems to be, not
for what he is. Perhaps he may turn out
to be what he seems to be, perhaps not
generally not Most husbands are disap-
pointing to their wives because they imme-
diately after marriage collapse into mere
matter of fact, plain, every day men, who
seem to think about as much of one thing
as another.
Two THOUSAND DEAD.-Late reports
from Spain say that the whole southern por-
ton of the country has been shaken by earth
quakes, which have followed one another IN
Quick succession, each adding to the destruc-
ton wrought by its predecessor. So fast
did the shocks occur that the terror-stricken
and bereaved inhabitants had no time to
recover from their fright, and little opportu-
nifty to search in safety for the bodies OF their
relatives and friends buried in the ruins OF
towns and villages. Beginning on Christ
mas Eve, the earthquakes chased each other