Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-29

D. Fraser; Treasurer-T Grange Simmons.
- Senator John H. Kinsler, of Richland,
has recently been sorely afflicted. A fort
night ago he buried a daughter, a young
lady of eighteen years, and on Monday of last
week another daughter died, two years the
junior of the one mentioned above. On the
following Wednesday, the wife and mother
was buried. Senator Kinsler was an officer
of the Twelfth Regiment S. c. v, and has the
sympathy of his old comrades in York county.
- The latest news from young DR.. Bland,
who was shot in the recent afray at Edge6eld
G. H., is given by the Augusta Evening Ne,os
of Saturday, which says: "From gentleman
just from Edgefeld we learn that the condi-
tion Of DR.. Bland is little more hopeful to-
day. DR.. Taylor, of Colum )ia, who is in at
tendance, expresses the belief that the crisis
has now passed, though his recovery will be
necessarily SLOW"
- The Anderson IntelHgencer says that the
business men have taken steps to build the
Anderson and Easley Railroad, in order to
give Anderson the full benefit of the Air Line
Railroad and competition in freights. Sufti
cent funds have been raised by private SUBJ
scription to survey the road, and a committee
has been appointed to select competent en-
gineer to do the work, to confer with the
Airline authorities, and make necessary ar
rapgements.
j. H. Fisher, Receiver of the South Car
olina Railroad, has fled in the United States
Court his report of the operations of the road
from October, 1878, to December 81, 1879.
For this period the earnings were 81 ,423,3 $40,
expenses sS74,177, net earnings $549,l52.
The receiver has paid out for interest on the
first mortgage bonds 1888, PIG; for legal ex-
penses S23 .7O7, and for freight cars S42,lO5.
There is due for first mortgage interest, prior
to and including July /, 1879, s99,4SS. The
cash balance ON hand is sl84,O5l, to which
must be added the balances due by agents and
others amounting to S75,545.
Notice of appeal has been served in the
DNSSS'
four of the negroes sentenced to be hung at
Greenville in June, for burning the Green,
vile Opera House. The grounds are various
exceptions to the rulings of Judge Thomson
and to the manner in which the confession of
the parties was obtained This action will
ensure a postponen,ent Of the execution, as
the appeal cannot be heard without the con-
sent of the defendants until November. Mat
tox, who turned States evidence, will be re-
commended to executive clemency.
- Mr.. E. S. Fickling, at one time cadet
at Kings Mountain Military School, and who
has been for long time freight conductor on
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road, has been elected Chief of Police in Co.
lumbia. The Charlotte Observer says Of him
"He is one of the tallest men that ever pulled
a bell-rope or faced mob. Mr. Fickling
was Chief of Police in Charleston for several
years after the war while the city was under
military rule, and resigned when the carpet
bag and negro administration began. This
was a terrible time in Charleston, and Mr..
Fickling distinguished himself by his cool
hess. He stood fire innumerable times during
this period
- The Charleston Neps and Courier, of
Thursday, says: "The friends of Mr.. G. w.
Williams will be gratifed to learn that the
numerous suits brought against him in con-
sequence of the speculations of William Bir-
ME, the Junior partner of the New York firm
of Williams, Birne d Co., are in course Of
adjustment During the nervous pros!ration
of Mr.. Williams, caused by these suits, a com.
mittee of his friends, composed of leading
Charleston merchants and bankers, united in
an effort to procure an adjustment Of the
litigation. Mr.. Williams would not listen to
any compromise until his character had been
fully vindicated in the courts. The foregoing
statement is authoritative. 1t is reported on
the streets that the adjustment effected is at
different rates, forty per cent, being the stand
ard in the cotton cases. The amount of cash
required for the settlement is said to be about
S300000 We are assured that the arrange,
ments are such as to secure Mr.. Williams
against any possible afterclaps, and we hope
soon to see him again actively in business as
one ofthe first of Charleston merchants. Ev-
cry cent of liabilities in Charleston, contract,
ed by Mr.. Williams or G. w. Williams &,
Co., has, moreover, Geen paid to the last far
thing"