Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-22

The failures occurring throughout the
country during the week ending last Fri
iay. Numbered, for the United States 26O
and for Canada %; total 28S against 274 the
preceding week. The casualties ip the
Middle, Western, Southern and Pacific
States are about the average in number,
which is also the case in Canada. In New
York city Is failures are reported, only two
of which are of consequence.
Mr.. Charles ID. Philpot, young farmer
residing near Hogansville, Ga, sets an ex-
ample worthy of Imitation. With an eight
horse farm this year Mr.. Philpot's profits
were enough to pay on land ne purchasea
last Fall 5000, for mules $3.50. contingent
expense for operating his farm S4SO
amounting total $1,000, and he has twelve
heavy bales of cotton yet to sell, with am
ple supplies ofcorn, fodder, oats, etc., to
supply his farm another year.
The Virginia (Nevada) Chronicle says
sssThe combined outflow from twenty.six
Artesian wells sunk in Sierra Valley is 767, )
$40 gallons every twenty-four hours. The
most expeditions work done was the sink
ine of three 800 foot wells in one week. The
wells range in temperature from 4O' to l3O':
In all cases the water has proven to be good
and palatable, both for drinking and culina-
ry purposes, and much superior to any sur
face water for washing. Cattle and horses
Invariably drink of it with great avidity."
- James McDerinott, of Franklin, Mass,
was indicted by the grand jury last Sep
tember for burning Lucius Daniels barn,
and had two trials. On the first trial the
tury disagreed, and the second trial ended
FRIDAY with a verdict of guilty. McDer-
mott, who was q well-known liquor dealer,
broke down at the announcement OF the
verdict, and seemed within an hour to have
grown aged and infirm. Before leaving the
court to be taken to the Jail to await his
sentence he bade his wife and children
farewell, and Friday night he hung himself
to the door of his cell with sheet.
- Instead of decrease in the Prohibition
vote last November, compared with st.
an increase of one hundred per cent. The
figures stand thus: St. Johns vote for
President, l50,369; the vote in November
last, 100000. The New York Sun, in COM
menting on this, says: "'All this amounts
to saying that the voting strength OF the
Prohibitionist party has doubled in two
wears, a fact sufficiently remarkable to en-
gage the attention of all students of the po-
litical situation. These men mean busl-
ness.D
DIR. w. H. Barker, the noted .phrenolo-
eist. and well known throughout the coun-
try, died very suddenly at NeWberne, n. c.,
on Friday night, Of organic disease OF the
heart. The Newberne Journal speaks thus
of him: CDR. Barker was by profession a
phrenologist and q man of keen intellect,
great depth of thoughtand always impress
ed his audience when speaking on matters
touching his chosen profession. He was a
native of Scotland, and came to this country
por rQvpiad
constantly, though his home wasin Eastern
North Carolina.
- A letter from Sassakawa, of the Semi
mole nation, Indian Territory, gives an &C
count of the death there, on the 9TH instant,
of Mrs. Susanna Warren, perhaps the oldest
person in the United States, if not the
world. She was born in the old town of st.
Augustine, Fla, in 1850. She was born a
slave and was the property of Spanish
masters until 1918, when she, with other
Spanish slaves, fed from the town of Pen
sacola, when it was taken by Gen. Jackson.
She lived in the Seminole country from
then until the second treaty of peace with
the Seminoles, when she was regarded as
their common property, and was removed
with them to the Indian Territory.
At tParowan, Utah, last Thursday, Dep.
uty Marshal William Thompson shot and
killed Eward Dalton, indicted for unlaw-
full cohabitation in March, 1885. Dalton
had been arrested, but succeeded in making
his escape. He frequently declared that he
would never be taken alive. Thompson
and Deputy Orton saw Dalton on Thurs
day in Parowan on horseback. They call
ed on him to surrender. Dalton, however,
turned his horse to run when Thompson
shot at him, intending to fire over his head,
l.,k ;oe ho ho1 offoat n
He died from the effects of his injuries
about an hour later. Thompson and Orton
were arrested by local officers. They were
taken to Beaver. There is a good deal OF
excitement over the affair.
Chairman Henderson, of the Indiana
Democratic central committee, in speaking
to the Washington correspondent of the
New York Star the other day, said: "Cleve-
land is the choice of the Indiana Democra-
CIV for the next race, and in either Mr..
VOORHEES, or Mr.. Mcdonald we can furnish
the party with capital man for second
place. The President, Notwithstanding idle
and irresponsible gossip to the contrary, is
very highly appreciated in New York
State, and the party will rally to his stand
ard with enthusiasm. For platform we
shall need no more than the success of the
first Democratic Administration in a quar-
ter of century, achieved in the face Of man.
fold difficulties and discOuragements, and
the promise that the same level head and
firm will can be relied upon safely and skill.
fully to direct the affairs of the nation
through second term in Office"
A white woman was convicted in North
Carolina last week as an accessory to the
murder of her husband, and was sentenced
to Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
life.,IOn the 23d of last September, A. D.
Owens, merchant at Creswell, Washing
ton county, was shot by Jim Ambrose, a
noted negro desperado. Ambrose was kill.
ed in the attempt to arrest him. Isaac
Jones and Stark Simpson made voluntary
statement of the whole matter, duplicating
Mrs. Sarah Owens, wife of A. D. Owens, as
one of the leading principals in the terrible
deed. The two negroes and Mrs. Owens
were placed in Jail at Plymouth and at the
fall term of Washington county court re.
moval was secured to Beaufort county, and
they were tried in the latter county last
week. Simpson was convicted of murder
and Mrs. Owens and Jones as accessories
It is such an unnatural murder that it has
attracted much attention.
"A dispatch of Thursday, from Edwards
this vicinity continues unabated. Every
train carries off carloads of men, women and
children, victims of emigration agents
who made them believe that the bottom
land section is veritable negroes heaven
The country hereabouts is fast being de-
populated, many large planters not hav
Ing family Of negroes left on their places
Merchants and planters are becoming appre
hensive for another years crop, and the in
dignation of the people is increasing agains
emigration agents, who seem determined t.
= wit !, fhn nyNn
groes. A mass meeting of the best citizens
white and colored. was held here to-day