Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-25

county, which was destroyed by fire few
months ago, has been rebuilt and will be in
running order again by the first Of September.
A few days ago the Coosawhatchie
Swamp, in Hampton county, was reported to
be drying up so rapidly that quantities of fish
were being devoured by buzzards.
About thirty negroes left Anderson coun-
ty, on Monday of last week, to work on the
extension of the Northeastern Railroad in
Georgia, between Lula and Clarksville.
The late c. G. Bowens widow, who is a
daughter of Ex-Governor Franklin j. Moses,
was married to Postmaster William n. Taft,
of Charleston, on the Sd instant.
Mr.. J. W. Stribbling was digging we'll
on.his place near Glenn Springs, Spartanburg
county, last week, and found piece of pine
log and several hickory nuts embedded in
the clay eighteen feet beneath the surface Of
the earth.
Mr.. w. P. Calhoun, of Fair Play, Oconee
county, writes to the Agricultural Depart
ment, that many persons in his county are
building carp ponds, and that the only thing
lacking to make them happy is the carp.
Some of them have received few of these
fish from Georgia.
- w. J. Kelly, charged with resisting,
shooting at and wounding the United States
Revenue Officer Gary, was found guilty,
Friday, in the United States Court at Green.
vile, and recommended to the mercy of the
Court. His trial lasted several days and
the jury was out with his case for thirty hours.
"A company has been formed in Charles
ton, of which Colonel John S. Fairly is Presi-
dent, for the establishment of cotton seed
oil mill. All the stock has been taken, the
buildings will be erected at once, and it is ex.
pected that the mill will be operation early
in November.
- Mr.. E. F. Stokes, counsel for the Green
Vile incendiaries sentenced to be hanged on
September 9, has filed the necessary papers for
an appeal with the clerk Of the Supreme
Court. This would operate to stay the execu'
ton, but Mr.. Stokes will probably obtain
an order restraining the sheriff from execu'
ting the sentence of the Court from one Of the
Justices. The Supreme Court will not meet
until November, and even if the new trial
asked for is not granted, the prisoners will
have to be re.sentenced. They will, there
fore, it is thought, not be hanged before De-
cember at the earliest.
In the forenoon'o of Saturday last, at Black.
stocks, negro named Charles Nicholson was
instantly killed while attempting to board a
northward bound construction train on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
He had been standing on the passenger plat
form and endeavored to stop the train by
waving his coat as signal to stop or slacken
the speed. No notice was apparently taken
of his signal, as the train did not carry pas.
sengers He then attempted to board the car
next to the last one attached to the train, by
grasping the hand.rail on the platform, but
was knocked down, and fell under the wheels
of the last car. The body was horribly man,
gled !; the legs and arms broken, his right ear
cut off, and gashes about the head and face.
- The Ne,us says that the official roll of the
pupils of the Normal Institute, now in session
in Greenville, shows the number i'll atten'
dance from the different counties of the State
as follows Abbeville, IS; Anderson,9 Al
ken, 2; Barnwell, 10; Beaufort, l Colleton
l !; Chester, 8; Charleston, IL; Chesterfield
/; Darlington, 4; Edge6eld, 3; Fairfield
5; Greenville, 1909; Hampton, l; Horny, q
Kershaw, 2; Laurens, 10; Lexington, 81
Marion, 6; Newberry, Is; Oconee, l; Or
angeburg, g.; Pickens, 3; Richland, Is;
spartanburg, II; SUMTER. 13; Union, IL
York, 4; Williamsburg, l; from other States
5. Total 3O2. Of the 33 counties in the
State, those not represented are, Clarendon
Geol -etown, Lancaster and Marlboro.