Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-26
SOuTH CAROLINA NEWS.

nays 70, strict party Vote Inc HOUSE
then adjourned.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Cotton blooms are reported in Abbevlle,
Lexington and several other counties.
- For the first time in many years, the Jail
of Barnwell county is without prisoner.
- The Grand Division of the Sons of Tenn
perance will meet at Camden on the second
Wednesday Of next month.
- The wheat crop in Abbeville county is
the best and largest that it has been for many
years.
-Smalls, the colored ex-Congressman, has
been given petty appointment in the inter-
nal revenue department.
up to Wednesday of last week, 1,O47
liens for supplies had been registered in the
clerks office for Newberry county.
A correspondent of the News and Courier
says that Charleston county pays seven times
as much State taxes as the average of all the
counties in South Carolina.
- Rev. J. C. Furman, D. D., and Prof. G..
H. Judson, have rendered their resignation as
Professors in Furman University, to take eff:
feet at the close of the present year.
1t is reported that ex-District Attorney
D. T. Corbin is to be solicitor Of the S. G.
Railroad, and to reside permanently in
Charleston.
AT Edge6eld, last week, Solicitor Abney
gave out two indictments for adultery, and
the grand jury returned true bills in both
| cases. ..
A man in Pickens county was recently
bitten by rattlesnake's pilot. Whisky was
administered in large doses and he recovered.
Boys, keep out of the way of the snakes and
whisky. The latter is the more dangerous Of
the two. .r....l -.. ..
The remains of Hon. Barnwell Rhett
were inferred in Magnolia cemetery, in
Charleston, on Wednesday oflast week. The
remains were brought from Huntsville, Ala,
where they were temporarily inferred at his
death.
At Langley, in Aiken county, on Saturday
of last week, a difficulty occurred at .barbe-
cue between H. H. Jordan, of Aiken, and
John Hester, of Langley, during which the
latter was shot in the face by the former with
pistol, the ball fracturing the jaw bone Of
Hester. 1t is not supposed that the wound is
dangerous. The difficulty was the result of a
sudden quarrel.
- the Edgefeld advertiser of last week says
"The Booth -Toney cases have been again con-
tinued. Of these cases there are three. The
State against the Booths for the killing of
Booker Toney, and the State against Mark
Toney and other parties, in two indictments,
for the killing of Thomas and James Booth,
The first of these was continued, on motion of
the defense, on account of the sickness of
Sampson Booth, who is in bed with fever.
The other two were then continued by the
prosecution. A negro man and woman have
been tried for assault and battery with intent
to kill. They beat a little colored girl very
numerically. The man was convicted and
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The
woman was acquitted"
The Anderson Journal records shock.
ing affair which occurred in that town few
days ago. The Journal says; "a man whose
name we learn was Hembree, living several
miles above this place, came to town, bring
ing his little boy about seven years old, and
while here he took him into the bar-rooms
and after drinking himself, gave the little
boy liquor to drink. In short while the
poor little fellow was helplessly drunk on the
street, and the inhuman father was incapable
of taking care of him. Pitiful in the ex-
treme was the little boys condition as he lay
in the broiling sunshine, and it excited the
indignity of many of our best citizens, some
of whom took the little fellow in charge and
did all they could for him"
A letter to the New York Times from
Greenville, gives cheering report from the
cotton mills in this State. Despite the gen.
eral depression in business from various
causes, among them yellow fever, last summer,
the cotton goods increased in quantity, and
improved in quality, and found ready sales
The chief obstacle in the way was the scarci.
ty of competent operatives, but with the aid
of few taken from Northern mills, sufficient
number of young native women have been
taught to feed and direct the machines. They
are furnished with neat cabins in the vicinity
of the mills, and their pay ranges from %
cents to SO day, according to their useful
ness. The increased local sales is specially
noteworthy.
- Thursday evening of last week, Mr.. w.
L. Palmer, a citizen of Union county, residing
about three miles from town, died at four
o'clock. He was taken sick in the field the
day before, it is supposed, from the effect of