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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

H. +. Schenck has received NUMBER OF
new looms which he will soon have in opera
ton in his cotton factory in Cleveland county.
Mr.. Spake of Jackson county has spoken,
and speaks to the effect that he is a Democrat.
He is a member elect of the approaching
Convention, and has been classed among the
Republicans.
Last Saturday morning thirteen convicts
at the State Penitentiary, attempting to make
their escape, were fired upon by the guard,
and two were killed and two wounded, one OF
them mortally. Eight Of them succeeded in
making their escape.
- The Greensboro Patriot announces the
death of Ralph Gorrell, of that place, which
event occurred on Saturday Of last week, in
the-73rd-year of his age Mr.. Gorrell was
one of the most distinguished members of the
North Carolina bar, and has held many posi-
tions of honor and trust in connection with
the improvement and progress Of the State.
- The Charlotte Observer says an effort is
being made to secure executive clemency for
VIM. Ellwood, who is confined in the Jail at
Charlotte, waiting to be sentenced to death for
the purder of Alex. Sanford, at Kings Noun
tain, of which ofense he was convicted at the
last term of Mecklenburg Superior Court.
The petition is being circulated by Elwoods
wife, who has secured the signatures of nearly
all the members of the Charlotte bar, the
sheriff of the county, and all the members of
the Jury who tried the case, except two, who
have not yet been seen. The petition has also
received 300 signatures in Cleveland and
CASTOR counties.
- The Wilmington Star records case OF
parricide, which occurred near Fair Bluff, in
Columbus county, on Saturday of last week.
1t seems that about four o'clock on the NOR
ming of that day, the dwelling of Eli Cole
man was discovered by his neighbors to be on
fire. They found it falling in, and learned
from his two children-a son of sixteen years
old and a daughter of fourteen years old
that their father was in the burning building.
The children had removed nearly all the fur.
nture from the house, except the lied on which
their father lay. After the fire subsidized, the
remains of the ill-fated man were examined,
and exhibited signs of his having been muir
dered. Suspicion at once attached to the
son, and on being accused, day or two after
the deed, confessed his guilt, and says that he
shot his father in the head while lying asleep
on the bed, and then fred the house. The
boy has the reputation of being very wicked
and vicious person, and has been heard to
make threats against his father. Both the
children have been committed to iail
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
The Aurkrille Guqnirer.
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THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 26, 1875
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Lancaster county will gather the largest
crop of corn since 1866.
Mr.. William c. Gist died at his residence
in Union county on the 18th instant.
- The Beach Island Samese twins have
died, and are now preserved in alcohol.
- Osmond Barber has been appointed a
trial justice for Chester county.
On the first of September, Charles P.
Pelham, Esq, will become the editor of the
Register, the new Columbia daily.
Mr.. w. M. Mason, of Fairfield, killed
forty three snakes few days ago, while clean"
ing up a small piece Of low ground.
A project is on foot to build railroad
from Barnwell Court House to the village Of
Elko, on the South Carolina Railroad, some
eight miles distant
- The Winnsboro Neos is informed that
there is more corn growing in Fairfield coun-
ty at the present time, than during any one
year since the war.
Three hundred barrels of -four have re-
Gently been shipped from the Campsen Mills,
at Charleston, to Baltimore, and about 500
more will follow.
The recent census gives the town ofSpar'
tanburg population Of 2,420-whites, 1898
colored, 1923. Greenville, 5,4S6-whites,
2,752; colored, 2,734 Camden, 2,172-
whites, 939; colored, 1888.
- After confinement of nearl y two years
in the Greenville Jail, on charge of contempt
of Court, for refusing to answer certain ques-
tions, Judge Cooke has ordered the release of
Mr.. Edwin F. Stokes. Physicians testified
that he is partially insane
Governor Chamberlain has issued a pro-
clamation, declaring vacant the Office Of r.
M. Thompson, one of the county commission
ers of Clarendon county, in consequence OF
the withdrawal of the sureties on his off,
cal bond.
Governor Chamberlain has pardoned Ben
jamin Cunningham, convicted of grand lar
ceny, at the June term of the Circuit Court
for Union county and sentenced to six months
Imprisonment in the pententiary. The par
don was granted upon the recommendation OF
Judge Moses, Messrs. J. B. steedman, R. w.
Shand and large number Of the best citizens
of Union county.
- The Clarendon Press says planters along
Santee have not suffered in comparison with
other sections the county. As far out from
the river as Mr.. Sprott, the present prospects
are good for fair crops. The crops along the
South Black river road are cut short, the es-
innate of the planters are varying from third
to a half In the "Fork of Black river" the
estimate of two-thirds crop is regarded as
moderate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
~ noyo~onr G1oovoo Eyn1oiuo

-Lieutenant.G Governor Gleaves has pub.
lished letter in vindication Of his recent ia--
reference in the sentence Of death pronounced
upon the murderer Gibbes, whereby he COM
muted the sentence to twenty years imprison'
ment in the penitentiary. He claims that
under the provisions of the constitution he
is empowered to act under certain circum-
stances, during the absence of the Governor,
and that the case in question was one Of emer.
gency, in which he believed the Governor was
not only disqualified from acting on account
of his absence from the State, but that it was
impossible to lay before him by telegraph all
the statements and circumstances which re.
quired immediate consideration. In the mean
time, the Lieutenant.G Governor desires that
the question involved shall be determined by
either decision of the State Supreme Court,
or by some specific enactment of the Legisla-
ture.
In reply to the letter of Governor Chamber.
lain, Judge Reed has written to his Excellen-
cy the following under date of the 18th inst.
DEAR SIR Your letter addressed to me,
in reference to the attempted communication of
the sentence of the convict Joseph Gibbes, by
Lieutenant-G Governor Gleaves, has just reach.
ed me at this place, where I am indulging,
temporarily, "a brief summer vacation. was
greatly surprised and shocked upon receipt of
the announcement of the action of Lieutenant.
Governor Gleaves, for Gibbes had been justly
convicted after an impartial trial and an able
defense, and was, in my judgment, the ring
leader, the head and front, as compared with
his associate, John Smith, who has suffered
the extreme penalty of the law, in one of the
most atrocious, pre.arranged robberies and
murders that has even been committed in the
country.
l had determined, therefore, at once that,
upon the reassembling of the Court Of Ses-
sions for Charleston county, it would be my
duty to take such action as might be deemed
necessary to determine the power Of the Lieu.
tenant-G Governor in the premises, if there be
any doubt about it, and to vindicate the con-
stituton, the laws and public justice. Enter.
tanning these opinions, I need scarcely add
that concur in the suggestion of your Excel
lency, that an official duty rests upon me to
see that the matter is properly inquired into,
and that justice, as it may be adjudged in mer-
cy, shall be done, however painful or prejudi-
cial the responsibility so unexpectedly thrown
upon me. -. ,..'' y.
I have the honor to be your Excellency's
obedient servant, j. P. REED,
Judge First Circuit.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
MERE.MENTION.

The Governor Of Tennessee has appointed
Hon. D. NJ. Key, Of Chattanooga, to the seat
in the United States Senate made vacant by
the death of Andrew johnson. '''''''''A COL
ored woman has sued the Pullman Palace
Car Company for $4,000 for refusing to al
low her to ride in Pullman Car from Gin.
cinnati to Washington. 1.-THE body of
Grimwood, who accompanied Donaldson in
his last balloon ascent, has been found near
Whitehall, Michigan, and returned to Chica-
60 for interment. '''''''''A Among the bids re-
Gently opened for printing check stamps, one
firm offered to do the work for nothing, and
another offered to pay $4,000 for the privilege.
The stamp affords an advertisement to the
printer. ..'''''"The New York State Demo-
cratic Convention will meet at Syracuse, on
the 9Th of September. .'''''.".Henry,T. Helm
bold, the Buchu man, has returned from Eu-
rope, and been placed in an insane Asylum
at Philadelphia. acknowledgements majority
for Governor of Kentucky is 36,139. The
House will stand Democrats 80 and Republi-
cans 10."'.'."N Nineteen hundred mortgages
have been recorded in Kinds county, Miss,
during the present year: ar.:.':'''''The Airline
Railroad makes the run from Richmond to
Atlanta distance of 548 miles-in twenty
six hours. 1.-THE largest mirror in the
world has just been put into the parlor of one
of the Saratoga hotels. Two platform cars
were required to transport it. ''''''''It is no.
table fact that while not one ex-President is
living, the wives of Eve of them survive
Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Fillmore, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs.
Lincoln and Mrs. johnson. '''.'.'. Postmaster
Pease, of Vicksburg has been sued for three
cents over.charge on letter. ''''''''' Benjamin
Barker murderer of Monroe county, Penn
sylvania, has been surrendered by his wife,
who receives reward of $1,100.' 1.-THE
Presbyterian population of the world is 3d.
100000. ...'"' A Kentucky court lately sent
man for two years to the Penitentiary for
killing man, and a second culprit was sent
for four years to the same place for stealing
hogs. '''''''"Three hundred passenger trains
daily enter and leave single depot in Jersey
City, opposite New York. 1.-THE hay crop
in the United States for the past year was over
27, 900, 900 tons, valued at s500,00O.O00.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
SEEKING PARDON.

A petition has been prepared and will be
forwarded to the Governor, asking for the par
don of James Moore, convicted at the last
term of Fairfield Court of forgery, and sen.
cenced by Judge Mackey to two years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. The petition
has received the approval of Judge Mackey,
and we learn that the representative of the
Singer Machine Company, who were the prin'
cipal losers by the populations of Moore, has
also signi6ed his willingness to sign the peti'
tiOn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

G.. g. Parish-Dry Goods-Tea-Tobacco-K
vors-Lard-Turnip Seed-Oats-
acon-Corn-Attention Sportsmen.
j. H. Clawson-Assignees Sale-In Bankruptcy,
In the Matter of j. r. Castles, Bankrupt.
William L. Webb-Oldest Crockery House in
Charleston.
T. N. Bennett, Chester-Guns Made and Repaired
Willie Ferguson-News Agent.
J. C. II. Duff-Wool Carding.
E. Bell, Agent-Singer Sewing Machine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26

hostile character will be made. Three OF
the ringleaders in this county have been cap
tured, the other three succeeded in making
good their escape. The following letter has
been found in the house of the negro Gambia
Harris:
Hon Mr. Gambia Harris DEAR SIR-1 received
your kind Express Communication all Right Dut
sir will say to you please to send me ssoo more
Dollars your convention will be very Importance
please to send it in private letter Wlll get II
have envited Genl P Rivers from Aiken County
South Carolina with 1000 Mems With arms will
send You the Mnnies Right away your conven-
Very Respectfully JosEpH MORRIS
Waynesboro Burke county Ga.
The Atlanta Consultation Of Thursday says :
Yesterday morning Governor Smith received
kilograms from Capt. William Warthin, ex-
member of the legislature, and Mr.. Wylle,
editor of the Sandersville Herald, stating that
a formidable insurrection was brewing among
the negroes This dispatch was confirmed by
another from Mr. Reuben Mayo, sheriff of
Washington county, stating that he had sew
eral of the ring leaders under arrest, but
feared that an attempt would be made to res.
cue them. Governor Smith at once tele-
graphed back to Sheriff Mayo to summon
such posse con,ttutals of the citizens as would
enable him to hold the prisoners.
Several of the negroes under arrest have
made confessions to the purport that nineteen
counties were to be embraced in the insurrec-
ton, and that Friday of last week was ap-
pointed for the uprising. All the land and
spols captured were to be divided out among
the negroes. All danger is now regarded as
over, and no further trouble is apprehended.
1t is not believed that the great mass Of the
colored people really knew of the gravity and
danger of the plot into which they were being
led, the instigators of which, it is hoped, will
be punished as their crime deserves.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
REVENUE CAPTURE.

On Wednesday evening Of last week man
named Jacob Null, from Catawba county, N.
c., who was engaged in illicit whisky traffic,
was captured, with his team and wagon, near
this place. Null, who was committed to Jail,
is said to be an old, experienced "blockade
runner" and had in his wagon, when captur'
ed, seven empty whisky barrels, the stamps on
which were uncancelled.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
SUDDEN DEATH.

Rebecca Moore, respectable colored wo.
man aged about seventy years, who lived in
the northern part of town, suddenly fell dead
last Tuesday morning. 1t is supposed she
was the victim of heart disease.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
PERSONAL.

Rev. Henry R. Dickson, Pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of this place, who has
been absent on a vacation of several weeks,
returned home on Saturday evening last.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
END OF THE PARKER CASE.

AS we stated last week, Parker was dis
charged from imprisonment by Judge Mack
ey on Monday night, and afterward, when
under arrest on the charge of grand larceny,
he was admitted to bail by Trial Justice Nc
Cord in the sum of $2000 Parker left Co
lumbia on the same night, or early next NOR
ming, on the Augusta train, which was the
first to leave the city after the close of the ex-
traordinary proceedings preliminary to his re-
lease
The absence of Attorney General Melton
or other couuss for the State from the pro-
ceedings before Trial Justice McCord is ac-
counted for by the statement, that upon the
withdrawal of the aforesaid counsel from the
courtroom after the snubbing they received
from Judge Mackey, they requested McCord
to apprize them if Parker should be re-arrest-
ed and brought before him that night. This
the Trial Justice promised to do, and says
that after Parker was brought before him he
dispatched messenger to the solicitors office,
but that official failing to appear, the Trial
Justice heard only the side of the accused,
and in fixing the amount of bail was governed
by the arguments of Parker's counsel.
From the Columbia correspondence Of the
Ne,os and Courier, we are led to infer that the
case is not yet considered as finally disposed
of, and that it may assume different phase,
involving others who have been conspicuous
in the proceedings. The correspondent al
luded to says:
Col. Rion, who arrived in the city on Tues
day, says that he has no Intention Of dropping
the matter On the first day Of the October
term of the Court of Sessions, the State will
apply to Judge Carpenter for rule compel
ling the sheriff to show cause why he should
not be attached for failing to arrest Parker
The State will also appeal from Judge Mack
ey's decision in the habeas corpus case, and
from his order vacating the arrest of Parker
on the sinking fund case. Another warrant
is to be issued, and as soon as Parker's where
abouts are ascertained, requisition will be
made for him. The officers who represent the
State say that they will follow him through
all the country with view to bring him back
to justice.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.

Or. John F. Lindsey, Of this place, owns
small tract of land about four miles south of
town, on which there is bottom piece of nine
acres, that only few years ago was morass OF
cane and flag, on the outskirts of which grew
spontaneously the varieties of grass known as
oat grass and blue grass. At no season of the
year could a man attempt to walk in any part
of this swamp without miring. It was one OF
the waste places so commonly found in all
sections of the country, the native grass it
produced being attended with more trouble
and expense to procure it than the hay thus
saved was worth. The Doctor decided to re-
claim this marsh, and cause it to produce some
thing more beneficial than rank weeds and
cane and 80 far, did he succeed, that now, in
stead of the wild bog which originally flour,
ished there, the entire bottom is wilderness
of waving corn, the finest field Of this cereal
that we ever saw growing. As the plan pur-
sued by DR.. Lindsey for the reclamation Of
this swamp is simple, and inexpensive when
compared with the results obtained, We deem
it but proper to call attention to this instance,
and urge upon those whose lands contain Sim
liar swamps, the importance, in an economical
point of view, of bringing them to state OF
cultivation.
The plan adopted by Doctor Lindsey was
simple, consisting only of system of under
draining by means of "blind bitches" cut
through the swamp, to convey the water to
main open ditch on one edge. These bitches,
which now serve to carry of an excess of rain
fall, soon drained the water with which the
ground was impregnated to the depth of from
two to four feet, and after the growth of vege-
tation was cleared away, a rich, loose soil was
found ready for the plow. The expense of
ditching this land and preparing it for cult
vation was about $50 per acre, and no year
since it has been cultivated has it produced
less than SO bushels to the acre. Last year
the yield of the nine acres was SIS bushels, OF
which $40 bushels was good, merchantable
corn. This season it will not be less, while
the Doctor feels confident that by composing,
which he contemplates doing next year, the
nine acres will yield 1000 bushels. The plan
of cultivation pursued is not different from
that under general adoption, with the excep'
ton that the present season, instead Of plow'
ing the crop three times, rs is usual, this re-
ceived but two plowings, in consequence Of
rapid growth, it being so large at the proper
time for the third blowing, as to render it
liable to be broken down. The same swamp
extended on Mr. B. T. Wheeler's land, which
adjoins DR.. Lindseys place. Mr.. Wheeler
pursued the same course as did the Doctor,
and with similar results.
There are, in York county, and especially
on the Fishing creek bottoms, hundreds OF
acres of similar swamps, which could be made
equally productive as the one under notice,
and we hope the gratifying results of Doctor
Lindsey's efforts in this direction will induce
others to similar spirit Of enterprise.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
ACTION OF TRESPASS.

The case of John E. Austin, of Union coun'
ty, N. c., charged with feloniously taking a
mule from the premises of John Caldwell, Of
this county, on the night of the 26th Of last
July, was heard before Trial Justice Williams
in this place last Monday. 1t will be remem'
bered that the ownership of the mule was
subject of dispute between the parties, and
Austin availing himself Of the opportunity
seized the mule and rode into CASTOR county
N. c., where he was arrested and committed
to Jail. Subsequently he was released, and
he now brings an action Of tresspass against
Caldwell for the recovery of the mule. w
B. Williams, Esq, appeared for Austin, and
Messrs. Beatty and Bell for Caldwell. The
jury decided in favor of Caldwell, and the
plaintiff gave notice that he would appeal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26

lg- Minnesota woman killed eighteen BUSH
els of grasshoppers in one week, and got one
dollar bushel.
s9- The new style of pantaloons this fall
will be large enough to tie back.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
THE CASE OF FRED. JONES.

Fred. Jones, colored, who shot and killed
Leonidas McNeel, near McConnellsville, in
this county on the 5th of June last, and who
on the next morning surrendered himself to
the Sheriff, in whose custody he has been
since that time, appeared before Judge Mack
ey in the Court House at this place last Mon
day evening, on writ of habeas corpus, pray
ing to be discharged from arrest. Instead OF
submitting an affidavit, the prisoner made an
oral statement, in which the Staying was not
denied, though he urged that the deed was
committed in selfdefense The evidence ta'
ken at the coroner's inquest was then read,
when, after short argument by T. j. Bell,
ESQ.,, counsellor for the petitioner, Judge
Mackey decided that the case was bailable,
and fixed the amount of bond at $500, with
two good sureties, for the appearance of the
prisoner at the next term of the Court OF
General Sessions to be held for this county.
The prisoner has not yet succeeded in giving
the required bond.