Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-08

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swindle by purchasing bills which he had
previously funded.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
There are seventy-seven active oranges
of Patrons of Husbandry in South Carolina
- The census gives Charleston population
Of 1924.
1t is claimed that onl ly one man has been
killed in duel in South Carolina since 1863
Mrs. Ann White, one of the oldest in
habitants of Rock Hill, died in that town, Of
paralysis, on the oath ul,imo.
- The confederate monument of Newberry
was unveiled on Wednesday of last week
with imposing and appropriate ceremonies
Gen. j. D. Kennedy delivered the oration.
ID. D. Gaillard, of Winnsboro, has pass
ed the preliminary examination, and been
admitted to the West Point Military Acsde
| my.
Walhalla celebrated the Fourth by ush'
erng in the day with salute of thirteen
guns, procession marching to music, read
ing the Declaration of Independence, orations
dinner, and display of fire works at night
- Capt. Lake, of Edgefeld, announces him
self as candidate for nomination for the
Legislature as in favor of the stock law in
that county, and proposes to fight it out on
that line if it takes all the summer.
- Ellison Hampton, colored, sentenced to
be hanged at Sumter last Friday, for the muir.
der of his son, was respited by the Governor
until August 18th.
- On Thursday last good rains fell along
the line of the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad, in Anderson. Abbeville and New
berry counties, thereby ending the long
drought which had oppressed vegetation.
- Mr.. William Ross, young man about
81 years old, was killed by falling tree du'
ring a storm on Tuesday afternoon last. He
lived in Lancaster county, near the North
Carolina line.
- The Governor has not yet made any ap
pointment to the vacant Office Of sheriff OF
Charleston county. Taft and United States
Marshal r. M. Wallace are at present the
most prominent candidates for the Republi
can nomination for the Office.
The Edgefeld Advertiser says: "On
Thursday night last, about 9 o'clock, a ne
gro man, named Harper Bauskett, living on
DR.. John Mobley's plantation, near Red
Bank Church, was shot and instantly killed
by some person unseen and unknown"
The Columbia correspondent of the Ne,os
and Courier says: II have it from an au.
thentic Republican source that the Republi.
can executive committee will not call their
State Convention before September, and per.
haps as late as October. My informant does
not think that any nominations for State off.
GERS will be made, but should they decide to
do so will favor short campaign"
The barn and stables of Mr.. John Funk
who lives about five miles south of Rock
Hill, were Frustrated Ly violent storm on
Monday afternoon of last week. His horses
escaped injury, as they we're in the lot at the
time A wheat stack was blown forty yards,
and trees two feet in thickness were twisted
off from the stock. The wind was accompa-
MED with heavy rain. Mr.. Funk lives on
Mr.. A. Williford's place.
Says the Charleston News and Courier
The Southern Life Insurance Company,
which failed about five years ago, has at last
begun to settle with its policy holders, and
upon a very liberal basis indeed-for the
company A gentleman of Charleston who
had paid up policy" for s4O0, the original
value of which was $4,000, has just received
check for t,oo dollars and forty fve cents,
"dividend in full from estate of the Southern
Life Insurance Company"
Says the Charlotte Democrat: "A serious
accident happened to the wife Of Mr.. Turner
Barber, who lives in York county, near the
North Carolina line, and who is we'll known
in this city. As Mr.. Barber entered his dwell
ing and was about taking his seat, pistol
dropped from his pocket and exploded, the
ball lodging in the ankle of Mrs. Barber.
DIR. Kell attended the wounded lady, and
hopes are entertained that no serious conse-
quences will result.
- The Ne,us and Courier says Sheriff Bow
ell left but little property, "and most of that
is in the names of other people. Holding as
he did for so many terms an office which un.
der his management could not have yielded
less than $4,000 or $4,000 year it, was
natural to suppose that his accumulations
would be considerable; but from the condi-
ton of his affairs, it is evident that he spent
the bulk of his large income upon the army
of retaners who Aocked around him and who
kept him in power"
- About o'clock last Monday Columbia
was visited by dreadful rain, wind and
hail storm, the damage resulting from which
was manifest principally at the Penitentiary.
The third story of the machinery building
was blown off, and at the time 233 convicts
were in the second story of the same building.
Escape by the regular stairways was impossi'
BILE for so large a number, and the whole
party, among them two or three white men,
were panic stricken. A number, in their