Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04
The Murkrille Gmqnirer,
YORKVILLE. S. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 4, lS'
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Carolina have more money invested in useless
fences, than they have in railroad property
The Lancaster Review says the prospect
for good crop of corn on the Catawba river,
near Landsford. was never better than it is at
present.
- Mrs. Sophie Haskell, daughter of the late
Judge Cheves and mother of Judge Haskell,
died suddenly at her home in Abbeville coun-
ty, on Saturday last.
Out of over six hundred persons on the
rolls of the Penitentiary, there are only about
three hundred confined in the institution.
The others are hired out in various sections
of the State.
- Thos. S. Moorman, Esq, of Newberry,
and Prof. w. w. Duncan, Of Spartanburg,
will start in a few days to London to attend
the Methodist Ecumenical Council. They
will sail from NV York, August 6, in the
steamship Berlin, If the Inman line.
The Herald says: "One of our Rock Hill
farmers has thirteen acres in cotton from
which he expects to gather twelve bales. A
Fishing Greek farmer expects togather bale
to the acre from large amount of his cotton
crop. While having so much bad news about
the crops, it is we'll to report something good"
Deputy Collector Noah, in charge of the
Revenue District in which Central, Pickens
county, is located, N Saturday last telegraph
ed to Commissioner Raum at Washington,
that Gassoway, one of the confederates of Nc
Dow, the murderer of Brayton, has surren-
dered himself and been lodged in the Jail at
Greenville Mellow has not yet been ar.
rested.
- is rumored that Redmond, the noto
rious outlaw and moonshiner, who is now in
jail at Asheville, N. c., will be brought to
Greenville and tried before the August term
of the United States Court for his various
violations of law, as it is believed that the
evidence against him in North Carolina is
not sufficient to convict him of the murder
with which he stands charged of having COM
mtted in that State.
The Grand Division Of the Sons of Tenn
perance met in Columbia on Wednesday of
last week, with about thirty delegates present
The annual address Of the Grand Worthy
Patriarch, Rev. S. Lander, D. D., was read,
and showed that the orderwas in prosperous
and progressive condition. The report of the
Grand Scribe shows thirty Divisions organ
lied throughout the State, with membership
of about twelve hundred. Applications for
several new Divisions are now on file and the
work of the Order is generally reported in
healthy condition. Greenwood was selected
as the next place Of meeting, and the follow
ing officers were elected to serve for the en-
suing year: Grand Worthy Patriarch, Luther
P. Smith of Anderson, No. l Grand Worthy
Associate, j. N. Vandiver, of Broadway, No.
II; Grand Scribe, Andrew G. Dibble, of
Orangeburg. No. "a; Grand Treasurer, P. D..
Jefcoat, of Pleasant Hill, NJ. 46; Grand
Chaplain, Rev. J. L. Stokes, of Columbia,
No. 6; Grand Conductor, M. P. Tribble, of
Belton, No 90; Grand Sentinel, c. c. Lang
ston of Anderson, No. 1.
Col. Junius A. Law, prominent citizen
Of Darlington county, and brother of Gen.
E. Nj. Law, of York county, died at his
home in the former county on Thursday last
He was born in Darlington village. He grad,
uated at the Citadel Academy in Charleston,
and afterwards finished his course in civil
engineering in the University of North Car
olina. Just before the war he, with his
brother, Gen. E. NJ. Law, established mill
tary school at Tuskegee, Alabama, and soon
built up fourishing school. At the first
call to arms he volunteered in the service,
and served at the forts at Mobile and Pensa.
cola, and rose to the rank of Colonel of
Regulars. Near the close of the wsr he was
captured and kept under guard by negro
troops, on one of the islands of the Gulf
coast, where, owing to harsh treatment and
exposure, his health was undermined and
from which be never recovered. After the
surrender he came to Darlington and engag-
ed in planting until appointed County Treas
urer under Hampton, which position he re-
signed this year. In 1876 he was elected
County Chairman Of the Democratic party in
Darlington, and conducted the campaigns of