Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-30
Straps and faets.

really getting better. Such a case
is that of Celina Lapierre, of Sher'
brooke, in the province of Quebec,
whose inhuman father and step-moth-
er seem to have exhausted ingenuity
in finding methods to torture her.
After beating her, starving her, depri-
wing her of sufficient clothing, and
forcing her to sleep in cold garret
without bed or bedding until her ex.
tremi.ies were frozen, the step-mother
put peas in her nostrils and forced
them up with lead pencil so that the
child could not remove them, and the
peas sprouted, causing almost unen-
durable torture. The girl was little
more than q skeleton when taken to
the hospital, and the inhuman parents
have been arrested.
- In response to numerous inquiries
on the subject, the number of appoint
ments of colored persons to positions
in the government during the periods
from Marth 4 last, to October l5, are
ascertained to have been 179, carrying
salaries amounting to $129, ,39Oper year.
Of these appointments four were made
under the state department, 70 in the
treasury, 1S in the interior, 10 in the
department of agriculture, in the
navy, IA in the postofice department
and So in the government printing
Office. The number appointed during
the same period in 1889 was 96, carry
ing annual salaries amounting to $751;
$50. The promotions during the per-
iod from March 4, 1897, to October 4,
number 125, carrying salaries aggre-
eating $S5,74O. The number promo
ted during the same period in 1889 was
20, with salaries amounting to $17 $3.50.
- The Carpenter Steel company, OF
Reading, Pa, home Office, l Broad
way, New York, has received con-
tract from the United States govern
mens for nearly $36O,OOO worth of ar
mor-piercing projestiles, to be held in
reserve for the use of the navy. IL Is
an unusual contract, not only in the
large amount of projectiles ordered,
but on account of the comparative
short time in which deliveries shall be
completed, indicating that the determi-
nation of the administration is to have
as little delay as possible in dispelling
the feeling of insecurity which has
been caused by the lack of war ma
terial in case of emergency. The first
lot of 100 is to be delivered within 80
days, and the remainder within nine
months, the period for the whole con-
tract, however, to be reduced to i've
months if demanded by the United
States, according to a special provision
of the instrument.
An interesting companion-plece
to the Hazelton incident occurred in
New Jersey last Sunday. Two rival
companies were contending over the
right 10 build trolley line between
Bound Brook and Summerville, n. }.
One had the right of way and the 9TH
Or was threatening to take it. To pro.
tect its right, the first company secured
a writ of certiorari. The second com.
pany made all arrangements to COM
plete the work on Sunday and COM
menced operations. The sheriff at
tempted TO serve the writ; but the
employees of the tresspassing company
laughed at him. Although the sheriff
had q large force of deputies at his
back, he made no effort to compel
the tresspassers to desist. The work
was completed, and the company
which put down its track in defiance Of
law, now explains that the writ of GER
tiorari could not be legally served on
Sunday. In the case of the peaceable
Hazelton miners, the sheriff first Or
dered his deputies to fire and investi-
gated the situation afterward.
Mob law was severely condemned
by Governor Atkinson in his message
to the Georgia legislature, which con-
vened in Atlanta last Wednesday.
The message bristles with scorching
and sensational attack upon the law
less spirit that fosters the lynch law in
the state. He says that 10 exterminate
the practice of lynching the crime
must be made odious and shameful.
He advocates stringent legislation
against the mobs and insists that the
legislature pass a law laying every
county wherein such crime is commit
ted subject to large indemnity to the
relatives Of the mob's victims. The
northern lynchers are spoken of by the
governor. Of this he says: "It is no
excuse to say that the northern people,
who have less to provoke them to it,
lynch. Let us not take them as a
standard but rather show a higher
type of civilization in our state, and
erect here standard to which they
may aspire" He is in favor of arm
ing the prisoners and allowing them
to protect themselves from mobs. He
says: "The arresting officers should
be clothed with authority to take
the life of the assailants when resist
ing their efforts to take prisoner from
his custody, and it is his duty to take
life if necessary to protect the prisoner
and retain him in custody. This he
should be required to do at the hazard
of his own life, or the prisoner should
be unshackled, armed and given an
opportunity to defend himself. The
knowledge on the part of the mob
that this would be done would deter it
from pursuing its lawless purpose and
the law should be permitted to protect
the innocent and punish the guilty."
"A big government steal has just
been scotched with the assistance Of
the newspapers of the country, espe-