Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-15
just attained his manhood, was accidentally
drowned near Wilmington.


pitch fork, while in the act Of ;deposting his
vote, which was for the Democratic ticket.
The murderer was arrested.
A man in Alamance county owns an Aus
trian rife over one hundred years gid: It
was used by the Americans in the battle of
Guilford Court House, and was present at
Yorktown when CORVALLIS surrendered. This
relic of the revolution is considered quite
curiosity.
- Gen. Leach is reelected to Congress from
the 5th district by majority of 262 There
are eight counties in the district, four of which
gave majorities for his competitor, Judge Set
tie. Settles own county, in which he was
born and raised, voted against him, while
Leach was defeated in his native county, and
also in the county of his adoption, where he
has lived for thirty years. ...
B. B. Bulla, a prominent politician in
Randolph county, and at the recent election
nominee of the Republican party for the
Senate, died at his home in Ashboro just on
the eve Of the election, having been confined
by sickness for several weeks previous to his
death. He had been clerk of the Superior
Court of his county for the past four years.
Newton Chandler, white man, was
hanged in Charlotte last Friday, in expiation
of the crime of rape, committed upon res
pectabie young lady of Lincoln county, in the
spring of 1871. The Charlotte Observer
gives brief sketch of the culprit's past life.
He was born in Cleveland, N. c., in 1847,
of respectable parents. But on the death of
his father, which occurred when Newton was
twelve years of age, lie fell in with bad COM
panions, and his course of crime commenced.
At the age of fourteen, to crafty a small
grudge, he burned the dwelling-house of Ja-
cob Fronaberger, Of CASTOR county, of which
crime he was never suspicioned. In 1870,
while employed at Kings Mountain, s. c.,
he was with party who murdered a negro
near that place for alleged intimacy with
white woman, after which he went to Yam.
cy county, N. c., for concealment. In the
spring of 1871 he returned to York county,
S. c., where he met Miss Mary Jane Byers,
a daughter of Mr.. G. B. Byers, very respect
able citizen of York, whom he married on
the 18th of May. A few days. after the mar
riage he borrowed horse and buggy from
his father-in-law for the purpose of going to
Yorkville, but instead went into North Caro-
lima and sold the horse and buggy, pocketing
the money. Mr.. Byers, on learning this for
bid him his house and kept his wife at home,
whom he has never seen since. 1t was shortly
after his marriage that he committed the
crime for which he suffered on Friday. He
expressed his willingness to die; assembled the
scafold with the utmost nerve and composure,
and after the usual religious exercises observed
on such occasions, was launched into eternity.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
MoL1No, Mississippi, Aug. 2, 1872.
I have been regular reader of the ENQUI-
RER for many years past and have ever ap-
preciated it; but I assure you, never before
so highly as I have done during the few
months that have passed since 1 left South
Carolina-the place of my nativity. Its fa-
miliar appearance, conveying to us weekly
the local as we'll as general news, makes it in
daed g. welcome r;e;tor.' -"------------ "
A few items from North Mississippi may
not be entirely void Of interest, at least to a
portion of your readers.
THE WEATHER,
for some time past, has been oppressively hot.
I am told the thermometer, few days ago,
indicated temperature as high as 1O4 de-
grees. The mercury has been known to rise
to 1O5 degrees in this country.
HEALTH.
The health of the Molino country during
the present season has been, thus far, unusu.
ally good. I have heard of but few cases Of
disease of very serious nature in this vicini.
ty, since my arrival here in December last.
a few cases of cerebro spinal MENINGITIS
created some alarm throughout the country a
few months ago, but the disease appears to
have entirely abated. Small pox is exciting
some solicitude in the vicinity of lines of rail-
road, as there are scattering cases in various
towns and stations along those highways of
travel. 1t is to be hoped, however, that the
disease will not become spread generally
throughout the country.
CROPS.
Notwithstanding We had protracted
drought during the early part Of the growing
season, crops of corn and cotton at present
make a very fattering appearance. The
oldest inhabitants say the prospects never
were better. Without some disaster, the yield
of both corn and cotton, will be considerably
above an average in this portion Of the State.
The wheat crop was good-oats, nearly fail
ure.
THE BARBECUE.
It appears that the people in this country,
after finishing the labor of cultivating their
crops, or in more familiar style, after they
are "done laying BY" have way of enjoying
some of the "good things of this life," to
some at extent, at least. An invitation was
extended throughout the neighborhood gen.
orally, for all to attend at Molino, on yester-
day, the 1st instant, to partake of a barbecue,
prepared by some of the good people of this
community. At an early hour in the day,
persons of both sexes and all ages, were seen
approaching from different directions some
on foot, some in various kinds of vehicles,
from an OK wagon to buggy, and others on
horseback, until several hundreds were assem-
bled in beautiful grove, near where there
was an abundance of savory meats undergo
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