Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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bia on Monday last.
- Maj. j. J. Pope, at one time lawyer of
considerable prominence in Charleston, died
in Savannah on the 4th instant.
- The South Carolina Railroad now runs
fourteen through freight trains daily, and can
hardly fulfill its engagements.
Hiram w. Duncan, State Senator for
Union county, died at Union Court House on
Sunday last.
- The dwelling of Judge Samuel w. Mel
ton, in Columbia, narrowly escaped destruc-
ton by an accidental fire on Monday evening
last.
- The cornerstone of the new United
States Court House and Post Office, in Col
umbia, was laid with imposing ceremonies on
Monday last.
49, The construction of the Port Royal Rail-
road is now progressing rapidly. Regular
train service has been extended to Allendale,
sixty miles below Beaufort.
j. G. Winnsmith, Esq, has assumed edi-
torial control of the Carolina Neao Era,
Radical paper issued at spartanburg Court
House.
A Touring mill near Landsford, in Ches-
ter county, owned by James B. Heyward,
trustee, was destroyed by an incendiary fire
short time ago.
No Court was held in Lancaster last week.
The jurors were impaneled by the Clerk,
after which, in obedience to orders from Judge
Mackey, the Court was adjourned until the
18th of November.
Hon. Lewis M. Aver, Of Barnwell, for
merly member of the Confederate Congress,
has recently connected himself with the Bap-
tist church, and has entered the ministry Of
that denomination.
The Charlestonians propose to have a gala
week in their city next spring. The attrac-
tions will consist of schutzenfest, several
rowing and yacht races, and a parade Of the
fire department and of the various rifle and
sabre clubs.
The Chester Reporter boasts of chestnut
white oak in that county that measures twen-
ty.fve feet in circumference two feet above
the ground. The Reporter wants to know if
any county in the State can beat the Chester
tree.
The veritable sea.serpent, sixty feet long,
with head as large as barrel, has been
seen off Bay Point. We remember seeing a
number of things in front of Bay Point, in
November, 1862, that troubled US much more
than sea.serpent would have done.
The Fairfield Ne,us mentions that Mr.
James Jones, of that county, has this year
raised on seven acres of river bottom, 711}
bushels of corn and $4,000 pounds Of fodder.
In addition to this crop, the ground is covered
with pumpkins.
DR.. j. F. Ensor, Superintendent Of the
State Lunatic Asylum, gives notice in the
Charleston Ne,os that he has succeeded in
making arrangements whereby the Institution
will be amply supplied with provisions and
all medical supplies for the balance Of the
year.
- The Grand Jury of Richland county
have found "true bill" against George Tup-
per for killing CALDWELL a few weeks ago, du-
ring the Melton and Montgomery fracas
The case has been continued and will not
come up for trial at the term of Court now in
session.
Major L. E. johnson, ex.United States
Marshal of the District of South Carolina,
and now the candidate for Congressman at
large on the Boilers ticket, eloped from
Washington one night last week with charm
ing young lady. The happy couple are spend
ing the honeymoon in Charleston.
The Columbia Union of Monday last says:
"Mr. VIM. E. Rose, of Roses Hotel, has been
making extensive Improvements. Two splen-
did billiard tables, in dne room, are among
the latest. He talks of building wing to
the hotel, which will give forty additional
rooms. The finest stock of everything needed
in first class hotel has been laid in for the
winters demand"
The Union Times Of last week gives the
following particulars in regard to murder
committed near Fish Dam, in that county, on
Saturday of the previous week: "It appears
that four colored men, Haywood Lyles, JEFF
ferson Spencer, Pearce Lyles and Robert Jeter,
with bags of cotton on their heads, were pass
ing along the road near the Polly Sims place,
when they were halted by two men on horse
back, who asked where they got the cotton.
The colored men said they had worked for a
colored man who had 40 money to pay them,
so he gave them cotton instead. The white
men told them they Intended to kill all the
Cd d-n cotton ste.lers. They then shot
jeff Spencer. The oall struck him in the
mouth, inAicting a very severe wound !; then
they shot Robert Jeter dead, the ball passing
through the heart; they attempted to shoot
Pearce Lyles but missed-the powder from
the pistol burned his lips. Six witnesses were
examined and although the murderers were
not disguised and each witness saw the men
commit the murder, no one could identify
them. One colored witness swore that Nc.
English was one of them, but Mr.. A. G. Lyles,
respectable white man, who is we'll acquain-
ted with Mr.. English and who saw the men
plainly, when the deed was committed, swore
positively that neither of the men was Mr..
English"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Presbyterian Synod was in session in
Charlotte last week.
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