Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

killed IN Williamsburg county.
- The total amount of taxes collected by
the county treasurer of Lancaster on the first
installment, was S1,11000.
The Port Royal Railroad was recently sold
at auction and bought by the Union Trust
Company, of New York, for S500,000.
- Congress has appropriated two hundred
thousand dollars for the improvement of
Charleston harbor
- The revenue officers charged with the MUIR
der of Ladd, in Pickens county, have been
admitted to bail.
- The Ledger reports the cotton crop of
Lancaster county as looking we'll. Corn,
what was left by the bud worm, is growing
rapidly. .
"A live rattlesnake which had been bu-
ried in box at Walhalla since the 29th Of
last October, was dug up on Tuesday, and
after eight months of close confinement, was
found to be full of life and vigor.
- An incendary attempt was recently made
to fire the Office of the Register at Gafney
City. Had the attempt succeeded, three
stores, tin shop and private residence would
also have been destroyed.
- The Augusta Chronicle learns that on last
Monday evening negro named Gus Harris,
was killed in the public square at Edge6eld
Court House, while Court was in session, by
Brooker Toney, white. The cause Of the diff.
ficulty is not stated.
- The people Of Townvile, Anderson coun-
ty, where the opposition last summer to the
new fence law was stronger than anywhere
else in the county, now that they have tried
the plan, are almost unanimous in its praise.
Most of the beneficial results which the ad-
vocates of the change predicted would follow
are fully realized.
- The confidential clerk of the State Treas.
urer informs correspondent that it seems
certain enough money will be coming in to
pay in full every appropriation made by the
last General Assembly. The bulk of the
spring taxes is in already, and the Treasury
office presents the appearance of bank. The
Treasurer and his clerks are now busy consol-
idating.
- The centennial anniversary of the siege
of Fort Ninety Six, and the Continental sue
cess at that British stronghold during the
Revolutionary struggle, was celebrated at the
spot where the Old Star Fort stood, near the
present town of Ninety.Sx, with due and i'm
posing ceremonies on the 18th instant. Gov
ernor Hampton and other prominent State Of
icials participated.
Says the Spartanburg Herald: Mr.. S.
T. Poiner, on coming up from Glenn Springs,
the other day, was thrown from buggy at
the narrow place in the road at Golightly's
Gorge and came near being thrown down the
steep precipice He fell on the edge of the
precipice, bruisug his face badly. Had he
fallen two feet farther he would have gone
over precipice of thirty feet
Speaking of Judge Hudson, who presided
at the Circuit Court of Newberry, last week,
the Herald says: "The presiding Judge, j.
H. Hudson, of Marlboro, is one Of the new
ly-elected, and has been but short time on
the bench. His rulings gave entire satisfac-
ton. There is no doubt that he is good
lawyer. His only fault as Judge, in our
humble opinion, is that his charges end in
structions are too prolix and too frequent"
The Marion Merchant and Farmer claims
for that county the model colored farmer in
the State, the Rev. Silas Cook, who com.
menced, when freedom came, with nothing
except large family to raise and support,
going to work with will, and attending to
his own business strictly. He has bought
and paid for a two-horse farm, built frame
house in good style, and has to-day one of
the best crops, both corn and cotton, in the
county.
Mr.. VIM. E. Bryan, young man resid-
ing at Edgefeld Court House, shot himself
with pistol in his room, in the village at
halfpast ten o'clock a. M, Friday. The ball
entered the right temple, and passed to and
lodged in the left temple, causing death in a
few hours He left letters addressed to his
mother, the Edgefeld Rifles, DIR. Bland and
others. In one of these letters he assigned
pecuniary embarrassment as the cause of his
committing the rash act He was q most es-
timabe young man and was very popular
wherever known.
- The Marion Merchant and Farmer men
tions the following remarkable case, occurring
near that town: About four years ago, Mr..
Cade Thomas, who was then in robust health,
accidentally sucked piece of green cedar
leaf, about two inches long, down his oesepha-
gus into his lungs. 1t has ever since caused
considerable irritation and considerable hem
orrhages. Recently he purchased some lung
medicine, 1--WE have not heard what kind,)
and after taking the third dose he put up an
unusual hemorrhage, and also the piece of
cedar, which, when cleansed of the blood and
matter that had coagulated round it, looked
just as it did when swallowed.
The grand jury of Charleston county, in
closing their presentment to the Court of Ses-
sions, last week, made the following allusion
to Judge Mackey, who presided: "The grand
jury congratulate your Honor, upon return
ing to your native place, that you come
clothed with judicial honors which you have
so worthily won and gracefully worn, and
most heartily do they endorse the sentiment
of your Honor in causing to be removed from
the scenes of the courtroom the prisoners
dock; fully agreeing with your Honor that
the badge of guilt should not be placed upon
any person until he has been found guilty by
jury of his countrymen. Returning our