Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-21

vitation, at Greenville, on July 26th probably,
instead of August 9th as foreannounced.
The change is expected to be made so as not
to conflict with similar meeting in Georgia,
and to allow the attendance of large dele.
CATION from that State.
- The Greenwood correspondent of the
Abbeville Press says: 1.-TWO German immi-
grants, recently employed in the vicinity of
Anderson, passed through town last Thursday
on foot for Charleston, from whence they will
take ship for the old country. 1t seems that
they engaged on farm under misapprehen-
sion of the terms of the contract, became dis
satisfied and left"
- The Lee Light Infantry, of Chester, have
decided to attend the Cowpens centennial at
spartanburg on the 18th of May. The COM
pany declined to accept the resignation of
Captain Marshall, who was recently elected
Major of the Palmetto regiment. When
Captain Marshall is required to act as major
of the regiment, the company will be under
the control of a subordinate officer.
Mayor Courtenay and the Rev. H. F.
Chreitzberg, of Charleston, have had a severe
correspondence regarding statement made
by the latter that the city council had made
bargain not to interfere with liquor dealers.
The Mayor denounced the statement as q
slander and falsehood, and council approved
his action. The whole trouble seems to have
originated from misunderstanding by the
minister of something he heard.
- With regard to the recent appointments
for United States District Attorney, and
United States Marshal, the Abbeville Press
ind Banner says: "Both these gentlemen
are natives of our State, and the appoint
ments are by far the best that could be made
out of the Republican material in South
Carolina. Judge Melton is a man of ability,
fine personal appearance, and ranks with the
first lawyers in the State Mr.. Blythe was
for several years the Solicitor of this Circuit,
and discharged his duties with fairness, zeal
and mercy, and was liked by the people OF
the Eighth Circuit for his agreeable and gen.
ial disposition"
A correspondent of the Ners and Courier
gives the following particulars in regard to
the lynching of a negro woman in Laurens
county: Sunday night, the Sd instant, the
barn of Mr.. j. S. Blalock, at Martins depot
Laurens county, was set fire to and burned
The barn was near the dwelling house.
so near that the inference was that it was
the purpose of the incendary to burn the
dwelling house too. Mr.. Blalock made in
vestigations which satisfied him that the in'
cendiary was negro woman named Judy
Metts, living on his place. On Saturday
the 9th inst, he went to Trial Justice N. s.
Harris, at Clinton, and swore out warrant
against the woman. The Trial Justice placed
the warrant in the hands of Constable Samuel
Gary, who arrested Judy Metts at Martins 5
depot, on Saturday night, and started With
her to Clinton. Two miles above Martins
a party of men on horseback overlook the
constable and his prisoner. The party were
disguised, having cloth over their faces
with eyeholes to see through. Some of the
party took charge of the constable and Others
took the prisoner, and carried them off in diff:
ferent directions The constable says he was
kept about an hour and then told to "git,'
which be accordingly did without delay, 60
ing to Clinton. The woman was found the
next morning, about two hundred yards from
where the lynchers took her, hanging about
twenty feet from the ground by the neck tc
a tree dead The coroner's inquest, on Mon
day, returned verdict that she came to her
death by hanging at the hands of persons
unknown to the jury. Nothing has been
done, so far as l have heard, to discover the
lynchers. The woman leaves husband and
children. This same woman was accused
two years ago, of burning the dwelling house
of Mr.. Simpson"