Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Judge Mackey will deliver Masonic ad
dress at Lancaster G. H., on the 24th day Of
June-St. Johns Day.
- DR.. Wade Fowler, of Union county, has
recently thrashed out over four hundred
bushels of oats from six acres Of land-66s
bushels to the acre.
The Ninety-Six Guardian wisely says
"a movement should be inaugurated to kill
out those dead beats who lounge around coun
try post-ofices and rob regular subscribers Of
their papers"
- The Abeville Medium intimates that the
place of Col D. Wyatt Aiken as Congress
man from the Third District, is coveted by
other persons, and that he will have compe'
tion for the position at the next election.
In Kershaw county they are boasting Of
the "chanpion husband" He bitches him
self to the buggy and hauls his wife around to
visit her neighbors. He is afraid to risk her
precious person with horse or even mild
tempered OK.
"A Northern Adventist preacher has made
his appearance in Kershaw county, and
preached at one of the churches there on Sun
day of last week. He had pictures along
with him to show what kind of place Paradise
would be after the second coming Of Christ.
= The IntelHgencer mentions that several
patches of wheat were threshed in Anderson
county last week. The following fine yields
are noted: DR.. S. M. Hollands, II acres, 55
bushels; Mr. E. w. Byrum's, II acres, 6Oa
bushels; Mrs. V. Burress', 1t acres, "a bush
els; Mr.. P. spellman's, II acres, 634 bushels
- At meeting Of the directors ofthe Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, held
in Columbia last week, reports submitted to
them show that the net profits for the eight
months ending 31st of May, 1879, show an
increase of $4,000 over those for the same
period last year. -...
The trustees of the widows and orphans
benefit fund of the Knights of Honor, of Cam
den, on Tuesday of last week, paid to Mrs. j.
M. Gayle, the SUM of two thousand dol ars
being the amount which accrued to her
through the death of her late husband, Jos
M. Gayle.
- In consequence of the extortion practiced
by the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company, in the matter of freight
charges, the merchants of Winnsboro propose
to establish wagon train for the purpose o1
hauling cotton from Winnsboro to Littleton
depot, on the Columbia and Greenville Rail
road. The price now charged on bale Of
cotton from Winnsboro to Columbia is $780,
R. Lovat Fraser, aged about twenty.eight
years, committed suicide at Georgetown on
Thursday last, by shooting himself with
pistol. The ball entered his left breast and
passed through the heart, causing death with
in half an hour. The jury of inquest rem
dered verdict that the deceased "came to
his death by pistol.shot wound, inflicted by
himself, and, in the jury's opinion, while in
state of mental alteration"
- 1t is stated in Charleston, that while ex'
Governor Chamberlain was in that city re-
Gently, large number Of colored men met
one evening and sent a committee to invite
their former leader to address them on topics
of interest before the country at this time
Chamberlain, however, declined to do so, and
during his whole stay in this State was very
cool to those with whom he had been very
intimate as long as he could make anything
out of them. ..'...'
Judge Wallace is holding court at Edge
field this week. Four murder cases are to
be tried during the term, as follows: Cases
growing out of the riot between the Toneys
and Booths last August, including about one
dozen defendants Scurry Coleman indicted
for the killing of Trial Justice Taylor, in
1876; a negro woman indicted for killing a
child and negro man for stabbing another
at meeting. IT,.
- The crops ofsmall grain harvested on the
farms around Winnsboro this season have been
unusually fne Of wheat, Mr.. W. R. Gar.
rison made 27O bushels on eight acres-an av,
erage of 332 bushels to the acre; Mr.. e. H.
McMaster gathered 80 bushels from one acre;
Abraham Monroe, colored, 219 bushels from
two-ffths of an acre and Fred. Steele, col
ored, 313 bushels from an acre and half.
Of oats, Mr.. j. F. McMaster made 200 bush
els from four acres, and Mr.. D. R. Flenniken
900 bushels from twenty acres.
- The Simms Memorial Association OF
Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday after
noon, of last week, in White Point Garden,
the principal pleasure resort of the citizens OF
Charleston, unveiled bronzed bust of the
distinguished Southern writer in whose honor
the association was formed The bust was
executed by j. @. A. Ward, and is Of heroic
size, resting upon massive granite pedestal
1t was unveiled by two of the grand-daugh-
ters of Mr.. Simms. An address was deliver
ed by Hon. w. D. Porter, of Charleston.
Mr.. E. Frank Lyles, Of Fairfield county,
aged about nineteen years, son of the late
Capt. E. F. Lyles, was killed in the vicinity
of Monticello by the accidental discharge Of
his gun, on Thursday last. Mr. Lyles stop
ped to rest on a fence, where he was seen sit
ting by some negroes working a short dis.
tance away. He had been there but a few
moments when the discharge of gun was
heard, and the negroes saw him fall. Upon
arriving at the fence, they found him dead, the
contents of the gun having entered his head
near the eye and passing out at the back.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Hendersonville can now be reached in
sixteen hours from Wilmington by railroad.