Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-19

sci for the State were not present, and counsel
for prisoner waived an examination, demand
ing bail in small amount. The Justice fixed
the bond at $4,000, which being signed by
Mrs. Parker, George Waterman and P. F.
Frazee, Parker was again set at liberty. tits
thought that Parker will seize the opportunity
now given him, and make good his escape.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
There are at present confined in the South
Carolina penitentiary, 30S prisoners-25
whites and 2S3 blacks-including three wo-
men, one with an infant.
The population of Columbia, according to
the recent census, is 14,455. White males,
1884; white females, 2,5O6; colored males,
4,576; colored females, 1929.
-Messrs. Butler, Gary and Sheppard have
been employed by the citizens of Edgefeld to
assist Solicitor Runkle in prosecuting the
Edgefeld officials.
The Boston Light Infantry Association
has accepted the invitation of the Washington
Light Infantry, Of Charleston, S. c., to par
ticipate in the centennial celebration of the
battle of Fort Moultrie on June %, 1876.
Governor Chamberlain has removed H.
G. Brawley, trial justice of Chester county,
and appointed Chancey L. Cherry and VIM.
Worthy trial justices for the same county.
He has also appointed George W. Curtis Jury
Commissioner for Chester, in place of Carter
Ross removed.
The Ledger says that at the late term of
the Circuit Court for Lancaster county, jury
No. 2. composed of nine intelligent white men
and three colored men, was presided over by
an illiterate colored man, who could neither
read nor write, by direct appointment of Judge
T. J. Mackey.
- The Lancaster Ledger states that negro
scoundrel, near Fort Mill, wrote an insulting
note to respectable young lady one day last
week, proposing conference. The young Ia
dy handed the document over to her father,
who appeared upon the spot designated and
emptied thirteen buckshot into the villains
carcass. At latest advices the negro was not
dead.
Upon the recommendation Of many citi-
zens of Lancaster county, of several public
officials, including Senator Clinton and Thos
Clyburn, clerk Of court, and on the special
recommendation of his honor Judge Mackey,
the governor has pardoned Geo. Redding,
convicted Of larceny at the February, 1875,
term ofthe court for Lancaster county and
sentenced to one years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
1t is said that in eight years there have
been but eleven burials of whites in Winnsbo-
70, while in the same time the burials of ne.
groes aggregate one hundred and forty-se7en.
In small section southeast of Winnsboro,
where there were seven hundred and fifty ne
groes, there are now buttwo hundred and fifty.
The negroes are dying Of consumption, dis
ease formerly almost unknown among them.
Idleness and bad living seem to be the chief
cause of the mortality.
The preliminary proceedings have been
taken, and are now before Judge Maher at
Barnwell for his signature, to try by suit in
the nature of quo aoarranto, the title Of Mr..
Dunn to administer the Office of Comptroller
General. The ground taken is that the con-
stitution requires that the Comptroller-Gener-
al be elected by the qualified voters of the
State, and that Mr.. Dunn has never been so
elected. The case is made in the name Of the
Attorney. General for the State, on the COM
plant of the Hen. James B. Campbell, and
alleges that the incumbent has "intruded into,
usurped and unlawfully holds and admins.
ters" the office.
"A colored woman, named Sarah Jones, at
Beech Island, gave birth short time ago, to
colored Siamese twins. One of the children
is perfectly developed female, large for her
age, and with every appearance of health.
The other, who is male, is but imperfectly
developed, has only the rudiments of limbs,
and does not eat, depending for sustenance
upon its sister. These two beings are Joined
together by wide band, in the centre of
which one of the lungs of these strange crea'
lures seems 10 De lOCdIeu' 1ouCh Iio 'n''o
and the female will shrink; pinch it and she
will cry. Reverse the operation, and still it
is the female who manifests sensibility. The
head of the male is small and misshapen, the
ears presenting more the appearance of those
of an animal than a human being. The pull
sations of the heart and the act Of respiration
can be plainly perceived in the ligament
joining the bodies. This ligament, if such it
can be called, is joined to the girl at the end
of the breast bone and to the male lower down.
1t is broad and thick, covered with skin like
the rest of the body. Whether there are two
distinctive sets of vital organs, or whether
both are dependent upon one, has not yet been
determined. The latter opinion seems to pre-
vail, however. 1t is apparent at any rate
that the male receives nourishment through
its companion.
AN INCH OF RA1N-Rain is caught and
measured in such way as to give what would
have been the actual depth of water on the
surface if it had not soaked in or run oh An
inch of rain is of more consequence than
would be generally supposed. On an acre OF
ground it amounts to 6,272,64O cubic inches.
This gives 22,622.5 gallons of water, which
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