Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26
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gu ny Cue CTldl, WHICH CerIIlludtSu lew
days ago, that she had never been his law,
She had never suspected any irregularity in
her marital relations before.
President Cleveland has refused to re-
move the Republican postmaster of West
Virginia village on account of request
from ex-President Hayes that he be retain
ed. It is the only request that Hayes has
made, and the President thinks that cour-
tesy requires that it should be granted, as
no objection is urged against the postmaster
beyond the fact that he is Republican.
H. A. Reland, of Noxubee county, Mis-
sissippi, had his arm cut by gin, and had
some skin from the arm of Mrs. Holland
grated over the wound. Both Reland and
Mrs. Holland have since died from the ef-
feet of the operation, and the doctor who
performed the operation is now in critical
condition. It is supposed that the knife
used by the doctor had been used in dis
secting.
The business failures occurring through
out the country for the week ending last
Friday as reported to R. G.. Dun & Co.'s
mercantile agency, number for the United
States PIP and Canada ga total of 240
against 223 the preceding week. The in
crease observable in the last two weeks
arises principally in the Western and Pa
cific States and Canada
"a dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says en-
{gration wagons are now steadily pouring
over every main road leading west. It is
estimated that 10000 people have crossed
the Central track in the last three months.
They are from beyond the Mississippi, from
Arkansas and Missouri generally with a
goodly number from Indiana, Illinois and
Kentucky. In addition to those in wagons,
f~osr full
coach of enigrants going to the middle and
:, western counties of Texas.
/-Another hegira of Southern converts to
Mormonism took place from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, last week. The converts gath
cred there from Georgia, Alabama, South
ern Virginia, North Carolina and East Ten
nessee. The party numbered about one
hundred land left in charge of Elder John
Morgan, who has charge of the Southern
headquarters. The converts are represen-
tatives of the poorest and most ignorant
class of people.
Several years ago joint stock company
was organized principally in Baltimore and
Philadelphia to mine for copper at Ore
Knob, in Ashe county, n. G. A similar
company was organized to mine for cop
per in Watauga county. The heavy cost of
mining together with the low price of met
al, has caused the suspension of both enter
prises after losing s1,5O0,O0O at Ore Knob
and S500,000 in Watauga.
From the Charlotte Observer we have
the particulars of an accident that occurred
near Matthew's Station, on the Carolina
Central last Thursday. Five men who were
digging dirt at an embankment were sud-
denly buried by the caving of the embank-
ment. A force of men, by hard work, soon
disentombed the buried men while they
still breathed. Two of the number were
seriously hurt, but the other three were un-
injured.
VA large crowd, including seven anna
teur photographers with cameras, attended
the whipping at New Castle, n. j., last
Saturday. William Turner, for the larceny
of a watch, took five lashes, Alexander H.
Fields, charged with larceny, ten lashes,
John Manlove and William H. Morris,
lory and received twenty lashes each. AT
ter the whippings New York newspaper
man present bought of the sheriff the 'cat"
) with which the lashes had been administer
Sd.
X ALI Little, called "the Breathitt county
desperado," has been sentenced in the Unit
ed States Court at Louisville, KY, to six
teen years in the penitentiary on the charge
of forging pension papers and Postoffice
orders. Little is now 45 years old and is
credited with the murder of fourteen men.
Before he reached the years of manhood
he killed one of his playmates. Later he
murdered three brothers. Once when pass
ing a sick mans house he entered the sick
and kicked him to death. A year or two
ago the militia had to be ordered out to sup
press Little.
IL
tana, last Thursday from the Fort Maginnis
country and tells terrible tale about two
of his companions being devoured by wolves
while on their way across the mountains.
Dempsey says that himself John Hoag and
Jacob Scheller were prospecting on the
Blue Ridge Mountains when a pack of
wolves attacked them. He succeeded in
getting away, and climbed tree ten yards
from where his companions were, and saw
them torn to pieces and devoured by the
animals. Dempsey says Hoag was resi-
dent of Cleveland, Ohio, and that Scheller
had lived for some time in Lafayette, Ind.
as it is told in straightforward manner,
and the locations are correct.
james Fauntleroy we'll known young
man Of Smythe county, Va, was walking
with Miss Mollie Downes, to whom he was
engaged last week. Pierre Dugan, a reject
ed suitor of the girl, met them and began
to reproach her. Fauntleroy knocked Du-
gan over the edge of. cliff, causing inju-
ries which may result in death. Fauntie-
roy was locked up in Jail. By the Virginia
law wife cannot be compelled to testify
against her husband. Miss Downes was
the only witness and on Friday night she
drove with her brother to the JAIL and by
standing on the shoulders of the brother,
who stood in the carriage, reached the
window of Fauntleroy's cell. Fauntleroy
stood on chair inside and also reached the
window and justice of the peace married
them then and there.
- Daniel Wilkinson was hanged at Thorn
aston, Maine, last Friday, for the murder of
Officer William Lawrence, whom he shot
when Lawrence attempted to arrest him for
burglary. Wilkinson is not his name, but
that is the one under which he has been
tried and convicted, and he refused to re-
veal his correct name. He walked to the
scaffold with firm step and stood upon the
drop without a tremor. He was clad in
black and his arms were bound to his side.
AS the moose was being adjusted he said to
the Sheriff, "You fellows get fifty dollars
further to say, but listened attentively to
the service for the dying At just - O'Clock
the trap was sprung and he fell distance
of seven feet, dying without struggle.
- The citizens of Helena, Arkansas, were
aroused at an early hour last Thursday
morning by what many Of them at first
thought very heavy rain storm, but on
looking out they were surprised to see a
clear sky filled with what appeared to be
snow flakes, and not rain, that was patter-
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