Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-28
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Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last week, reported
to r. G. Dun & Co., number for the United
States 3G3, Canada 26. Total 329 against
3S2 last week. More than two-thirds Of the
whole number are reported from the South
ern, Western and Pacific States.
"A gang of nine cowboys rode into Bur-
lington, Texas, on last Thursday and paint
ed the town red. The town marshal and q
posse undertook to arrest them, whereupon
a desperate fight with revolvers ensued.
Four cowboys were killed, two others were
wounded and the survivors were chased out
of town.
On last Friday, Governor Hughes, of
Arkansas, pardoned thirty colored men,
known as the Howard county rioters, who
participated in riot two years ago in that
county, when white man named Hyatt
was killed while working in field. An
other of the rioters had been convicted of
murder and hanged. The sentences ranged
from five to fifteen years in each case.
Minda Campbell, colored, died at Sa-
vannah, Ca, last Thursday, aged 81 years.
She was the mother of Tom Simms, the fu-
gitive slave, whose trial in Boston in 1850
created great excitement and resulted in
decision sustaining the validity of the fug--
tive slave law. A Boston man purchased
Simms' freedom after he had returned
South.
At Cork, Ireland, on the Goth instant
William Sheehan, convicted on December
18th, of the murder of his mother, sister
and brother, at Castleton, in 1877, was
hanged. The condemned man became
greatly agitated as the hour for his eXecu-
ton drew near and was so weak that he
had to be assisted to the scaffold. He re-
sponded feebly to the prayers of the priest
and was trembling violently when placed
under the gallows. He died almost in
stantly, his neck being broken by the fall.
The liquor sellers and brewers in Kansas
are rejoicing over decision of Judge Brew
er, of the United States Circuit Court in the
a brewer, to the effect that the State should
pay Lawrence $50, 900 for his brewery, or let
him proceed with the manufacture Of beer.
In effect the decision declares the State
must pay for all property rendered useless
by the prohibitory law, and it is claimed
there that the decision covers not only the
breweries and distilleries, but vineyards,
which aggregate an immense amount IN
value.
- The abduction of Charley Ross, several
years ago, from his home in Philadelphia,
caused the spending of a moderate fortune
by his father in a fruitless effort to recover
Hill. IdSG year oVei ooo Pelooil "oiI ~:
ported to the police as missing from their
homes in Philadelphia. Of these Sc were
young girls and "A boys, between the ages
of IL and 81 years. Many of these were
never heard of again, and no particular
fuss was made about them outside of the
limited circles in which they moved. 1t is
impossible to estimate even how many of
them have gone to the bad, or been drown
ed or killed by accident or otherwise.
- Henry Jackson, colored was hanged at
Minden, La, last Friday for the murder of
H. A. Britton, at Minden on the night of
July 25, 1885. The execution took place
in the Jail in the presence of legal wit
nesses. When told that his time was about
up, Jackson made short speech. The
sheriff then pinioned his arms and read the
with the condemned man to the scaffold.
The prisoner continued to sing hymns,
stopping once to bid the Sheriff goodbye,
and invoked blessings on his head. The
drop fell at 1905 p. M, cutting short a
hymn. The fall broke his neck, and Jack
: son died without a struggle.
The negroes around Atlanta are in a
terrible state of excitement over the dis
covery that ghouls have gotten into the
cemetery of Decatur, a suburb of that city,
and have taken therefrom several bodies.
1t was examined last Thursday, and of four
pauper graves two were found empty.
Jos. Smith, sexton of the cemetery, was sus-
pected and arrested, with George Vaughn,
the colored janitor of the Atlanta Medical
College, and both are now in Jail. The ne
groes would lynch them if in their power.
There will be a general digging up of
graves to see if any more are empty.
Vaughn has been arrested several times be-
fore on the same charge, and has cost his
college several thousand dollars in fines. "
of the $50 Senators, Representatives
and delegates catalogued in the Congression-
al directory, 208 received only an ordinary
or academic education, Isl went through
college, four are West Pointers and six are
self-educated. Harvard has eight gradu-
ates enrolled, University of Virginia sew
igan five each, Union four, Bowdoin three,
Dartmouth, Hamilton, Amherst, Williams
and Trinity, two each. There are 274 law
yers, forty business men, twenty farmers,
ten editors and ten doctors. There are
eighty-six veterans of the Union army,
sixty-seven Confederate veterans and four
ex-members of the United States navy.
The cotton crop for the crop year ending
with the 31st of August last, appears to
have been the largest ever grown, with the
exception of that of the year ending August
3lst, 1884, which was $500, 900, and that of
the year ending August 81, 1882, which was
6,5O0,0OO, bales. A New Orleans firm,
Messrs. H. & B. Beer, have compiled re-
ports, indicating crop of about 6,290000
bales for the cotton year last ended. About
eighty per cent of this has been marketed,
which goes to show that the business re-
vival has gone far enough to make buyers
willing to take most of the cotton raised,
as if anticipating higher prices before the
crop now coming in will all reach the
market.
On Wednesday night of last week, near
Rochdale, Texas, Samuel Ford, farmer,
while returning to his home, was waylaid
by negro named Sydney Brown and beat
en- over the head with an iron bar, until his
assailant thought he was dead. Brown
then robbed his victim and dragged his
body upon the international and Great
Northern Railroad track, where he left it to
be mutilated by a passing train. Ford re-
covered consciousness however, and drag
ged himself home, distance of two miles.
One of his eyes was knocked from its sock
ct and his skull was fractured. Officers
started in pursuit of Brown and captured
him with Ford's property in his possession.
After being lodged in Jail he confessed his
crime and gave as the reason for commit
ting it that Ford had made him mad.
Thursday night it was announced that Ford
was dead and an infuriated mob attacked
the Jail, got possession Of the negro, took
him two miles from town and hung him to
hickory tree. Brown is supposed to have
been implicated in the recent Austin MUIR
derS.
Maxwell, the defendant in the Preller
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