The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-02-19

Tho formers liabilities woro about
$4,000, with nearly assets enough
to cover them. The latter has OBJ
tanned the Indulgence Of his crodi
tors, and will probably ply out.
Thoro are now twonty-seven
prisoners in the York county jail
awaiting trial, twenty~six of whom
are colored. Their effcnccs range
from murder to petit larcency. The
white man, Joseph NIillwood, is
under confinement on the charges
of arson, and assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Suit has been commenced by the
county commi ssioners, on behalf Of
the county Of York, against John l..
Watson, late county treasurer, to
recover certain funds Of the county,
lost in the Citizens Savings Bank
through tho alleged unauthorized
deposit therein by Watson, while
treasurer. Besides this, tho suit is
also for general accounting for
county funds alleged to be in Wat
sons hands.
Tom Brown, colorod, has been
arrested near Monroe, N. c., for
stealing five hundred dollars from
Mr.. J. II. Latham, of Lancaster
county. He had spent but twenty
cents, and all but that amount was
recovered. He had upon him thir-
ty-four dollars in cash, two watches,
one pistol, and a lot Of clothing !;
five Hundred dollars Of scaled notes
he left in the house properly
weighted down upon Il table.
Sol Limo, III oryiaasr on tao
Glcenvillc and Columbia railroad,
and one Of tho most faithful ser.
wants any corporation ever had, died
last week. Some weeks since III
coming up from Columbia he was
stricken with paralysis while on his
engine, and was carried to his home
in Columbia to die. When first dis
covered the old veteran was stand
ing IN the cab with his hand upon
the throttle and his eyes looking
straight to the front-palsicd at his
post.
Robert McEvoy, who killed Capt
James Gregg, of Augusta, Ga, was
tried, convicted Of murder and
sentenced to bo hanged, and has
been conGnod in the Ri:hland jail for
some time past, left Columbia for
Aiken last week, where he will be
roscntencod-the Supp mo Court
having refused to grant his motion
for n now trial. McEvoy is a young
man in the prime of life, about
twenty-four years of age, sf dccidcd-
ty preposscssing appearance He
uses II crutch, having lost one leg
by being run over on tho Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta railroad
some years ago. /}.
The Edgefeld 10certiscr says !:
"On Wednesday evening, tho 9th
instant, horrible murder occurred
in the upper part Of our county
some nine miles below Hig gins
Ferry on Saluda. Hero lived Mr..
Pickcns Goggans, one of the sons
of the Goggans who was murdered
ut the same place two Or three
years back, by Smith. This man
Smith, it will be remembered, fled
to Georgia and has never been ap
pretended. Pickens Goggans was
n young man Of twenty-five or
twcnty-six years lie had been
married some six or eight weeks to
very pretty young girl Of only
fiftcon or sixteen years, On the
evening above named, at nightfall.
while Gogggans was lying before the
fire in the dining room, with his
head on chair, and while his wife
was in an adjoining room getting
supper, tho latter hoard the report
of a pistol in the Dining room. In
terror she rushed out of the house
and summoned neighbor who
lived within call. And when she
and the noighbor entered the dining
room they found Goggans dcnd,
shot through the head as he lay
before the fire"
NEWS OF THE DAY.