Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The cash balance in the State Treasury
on the 3lst of August was s93,l4963
Ex.Judge Carpenter returned to Colum'
bia, on last Saturday.
The President has accepted the resigna-
ton of Wm Stone, United States District
Attorney for South Carolina.
A large quantity of steel rails have been
ordered for the Airline Railroad, and they
will be laid down without unnecessary de-
lay.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin, an influential
Republican newspaper of the. Northwest, men,
tions Governor Hampton favorably as pos
sible candidate for President in 1880.
-Cush Harris, a negro, who brutally mur.
dered Mr. Holloway last spring, was hanged
in an old field near Edge6eld Court House,
last Friday.
Judge Mackey will address the Mexican
veterans of the United States army, in the
city of New York, on the 18th instant the
anniversary of the capture of the City OF
Mexico.
At an election held in Kershaw county
last week, Capt. S. G. Clyburn was elected
Clerk of the Court, and Capt. John Burdell
and Allen McCaskell County Commissioners.
All are democrats. The Radicals had no
nominees.
Mr.. w. S. Westbrook brought bale of
new cotton to Chester on Tuesday, September
9TH. 1t was sold to I. L. Clubhouse & Go. at
81 cents per pound Mr.. Westbrook has for
several years been the first to bring new cot
ton to the Chester market.
- The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company has proposed that if the
citizens of Edge6eld will grade and cross-tie
road from the Charlotte, Columbia and Au,
gusta Railroad to Edge6eld Court House, the
railroad company will lay the iron and furnish
the necessary rolling stock. 1t is stated that
the Edge6eld people have accepted the propo-
sition, and made requistion upon the Gov
ernor for fifty penitentiary convicts.
Several letters from Liberia, have been
left at the Office of the Columbia Register.
The letters show that the writer, "James Gads-
den, colored, a shoemaker who formerly re-
sided in Columbia, is anxious to return. He
begs for food, clothing, money, in short every.
thing that he can make use of. He is dis
satisfied after his long experience and indus
trious efforts. He has discovered that this
land does not flow with milk and honey, that
all the pancakes that grew on trees were gath
cred before he got there, and that the lakes Of
rnolasses have long since dried up. This is
encouraging to those who want to 60 to Libe-
ria"
- The Lancaster Ledger or last week says :
"We are credibly Informed, though without
details, that on Sunday last three infant negro
children we're killed at the negro camp meet
ing at Steele Hill, in upper Lancaster, by
being stamped and rolled upon by shouting
women. Strange to say, too, these tragic pro.
ceedings took place not under the arbor where
the main crowd was gathered, but off little
way in tents, no two deaths occurring in the
same tent, either These circumstances throw
around this extraordinary occurrence horri-
BILE suspicion of murder under the guise of
religion. As far as we have particulars,it it ap.
pears that number of women we're carried
from the arbor to tents in very excited state,
and that after being placed in the tents where
the children were, these tragic scenes were en-
acted. Later information states that two of
the children were killed almost instantly,
while the third one is alive, but with its back
broken and many other bodily injuries, and
is expected to die. This place, Steele HILL,
was the scene of some ugly rioting during a
camp meeting there one year ago, and we
think it is now time for some legal proceed
ings to be instituted against somebody"
The Newberry Herald of last week, gives
the following particulars in regard to case
of hydrophobia in that county: "On the morn
ing of July l, Tommie, sixteen years old, son
of Mr. G. c. league, living three miles from
town, was bitten by cat while feeding his
fathers horses. The cat, which had always
been very gentle and kindly disposed, follow
ed the young man to the stable as it was &C.
customed to do, and while he was putting
corn in the through it seized him by the hand,
planting its teeth deep in the flesh, and retain
ed its hold till he returned to the house and
his father choked it of. The wound was eau
terzed by physician an hour or two after
wards. The young man went about as usual
till last Friday, the 24th instant when the
first symptoms of ofhydrophobia appeared. He
found it impossible to swallow anything.
This was followed by convulsions, occurring
at intervals of about two or three hours. A
breath of air, or the slightest noise, or the en-
trance of any person into the room, would
cause convulsions, or they would come on with
out any apparent cause. Sunday, the 18th,
at P. NJ, he died, just eight weeks from the
time he was bitten.
- DR.. John #. Dent son of the Sheriff Of
Richland county, shot and killed John W..
Leckie, at Leesville, Lexington county, on
the evening of the 26th ultimo. Leckie was
about 16 or 18 years of age, and the only
child of his parents, who reside in Columbia.
He has been student for two years at Da-
wilson College, where he was preparing to
enter the Presbyterian Theological Seminary
at Columbia, and was engaged at the time of
his death, in teaching school, at Leesville,
during bis vacation. There are several con-
Trajectory stories in regard to the affair, and
the circumstances giving rise to it. One state
ment is to the effect that Leckie expelled one