Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-08
Straps and fafts.

In the case of Maxwell, who murdered
the English traveller, Preiler, in hotel in
st. Louis, two years ago, and who was
sentenced to be hanged on the first of next
January, stay of execution has been
granted until February lst, that a transcript
of the case may be finished before an ap-
peal is taken.
-"Bob" Taylor, who recently defeated
his brother "Alf" in the election for Gov
ton, and the accounts he gives of the poll
tics and trade of Tennessee are most en-
couraging. He says that his State is sol.
idly Democratic, and that her prospects for
business are grand and improving every
day.
Mr.. Arthur's last words, spoken in
scarcely audible tones and addressed to no
one in particular, were uttered while the
dying mans eyes were closed and while he
still suffered severe physical pain. "Good
night" he said, and was quiet for mo-
ment, and then. "good night" in still lower
tones. When the watchers looked again he
had fallen asleep.
A case has Just been filed in the Supreme
Court at Columbus, Ohio, to test the
c0nstitutionality of the law making a
third term In the Penitentiary q life SEN
tence. It seems to be question whether
depriving man Of fourth, fifth, or sixth
term in the State prison is not an unwar-
ranted restriction of the rights and liber-
ties which every free born Ohio citizen is
supposed to inherit.
Mr.. Hugh T.. Inman, of Atlanta, has a
suit of clothes that cost him $4,000. 1t is
a suit that could be bought in any clothing
store for $50 or $40. Mr.. Inman invested
$500 in the Sheffield, Ala, Improvement
Company, and when the stock sank to a
very low figure, in disgust he gave his
stock to friend for suit of clothes. Now
the stock, has risen, and can be sold at
$4,000
The national drill, which it is proposed
to be held in Washington next May, prom
ises to be the grandest military display ev-
er witnessed in our country. Already one
hundred and nine organizations, including
two from South Carolina, and representing
twenty-seven States, have made known
their intention of taking part in the drill.
Fifty thousand dollars, to be expended in
prizes, has already been subscribed by citi-
zens of Washington.
"A. bill has been introduced into the
Alabama Legislature to remove the legal
disabilities of women, and 1t will proba-
bly, be passed at the present session. 1t
puts married woman on precisely the
rights. Another bill has for its object the
protection of the wives. and children of
hard-labor convicts. 1t gives half the
price 0fthe hire received by the county
to the wife and children.
"A convict's mail is declared, in an opin-
ion said to have been given by Assistant
United States Attorney s. D. Dodge, to be
as sacred as that of other people. The
opinion grows out of the action of prison
authorities in Cleveland, who opened let
ter addressed to convict and laid away
money it contained until the expiration OF
his term, when, through some cause, it
was still withheld until the matter was
traced by the postal authorities. The opfn-
ion of Attorney Dodge is that no prison
official has the rightto open prisoners let
ter.
Gen. r. NJ. Logan, of Richmond, Va,
who has made hit in the financial world
by the recent deal in Terminal stock,
which was carried up from % to n on the
stock market, is slender man of small
stature, with small head, large forehead
and squarecut brown whiskers. He lives
with his family at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York. His profits in the Terminal
deal are said to have been three-quarters Of
q million. Gen. Logan is native of South
Carolina, and was the youngest Brigadier
in the Confederate Army, having been COM
missioned before he was q years OF age.
The fate of the Indians captured in the
Miles campaign is practically settled. 1t
was not decided when they were first sent
East whether any of them would be tried
for their crimes or not. The President has
examined the case very carefully and has
come to the conclusion that life confinement
for all of these Indians in Florida, where
they can do no harm, will be the most thor
ough punishment which can be visited on
them. 1t is the only practical way. by
which they can be punished. If the crimi-
military commission would have any au-
thority to try them. They would have
to be turned over to the civil authorities
in the place where the crimes were COM
mitted. ...
-"I am frequently called on by young
men," said Mr.. Stanly, ''to advise them
concerning missionary journeys into Africa.
I always paint Africa on such occasions in
the blacklist colors, that they may know the
worst. They have no idea of the cost of
travel in Africa. Here, I understand, the
elevated roads take passengers dozens of
miles for five cents. But in Africa stran-
ger could not travel for less than $40 a
mile. / spent over million pounds ster-
ling in my several trips to Africa. My
first trip after zLivington cost me, after
was ready to start, $l2 or $l5 a mile for three
thousand miles. One cannot travel in
Africa without carrying with him his own
police force, lawyers, soldiers and means
of furnishing supplies of all kinds. I tell
all this to the missionaries, but many of
them forget about it until they find them
selves in the continent and then they re-
member nv wordsn
The growth of the Baptist Church in
North Carolina is thus recorded: In 1884
there were AZ churches, Al ministers and
3,776 members. In 1912 there were 2O4
churches, III ministers and 1857 mem
bers. In 1882 there were 1872 churches, I'll
ministers and 41,674 members. In 1851
there were 500 churches, 347 ministers and
42.674 members. In 1860 there were 692
churches, 374 ministers and 59,77S men,
bers. In 1876 there were 1,442 churches,
1893 ministers and 1877 900 members. In 1880
there were II associations, 1905 churches,
and ,951 members. In 1888 they num-
manac gives these statistics for 1888: SO as
sociations, 1905 churches and 225, 1922 men,
bers. This estimate includes only Mission
ary Baptists, but does not embrace the COL
ored churches, which number few more
members than the whites-the exact figures
being: Total colored members, 1885;
total white, 112,476. The denomination
has nearly doubled in numbers about every
twenty years.
The horrible death of Joseph G. Lynah,
formerly citizen of Charleston, is thus re-
ported as occurring on Sunday of last week,
at Galveston, Texas: Mr.. Lynah went to
Galveston to negotiate the sale of large
quantity of powder which had been stored