Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-11-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAKULINA NEHSs
James F. Walsh has been acquitted, IN
Charleston, of killing James D. Turner, a
member of the detective force, last September.
A party of twenty-five colored people
recently left Rock Hill and Fort Mill for
Texas.
But little more than half the taxes for
the present year have been paid in Greenvllle
county.
Steel rails are being laid along the Col
umbia and Greenville Railroad below and
above Greenwood. The road will soon have
steel rails on the whole line.
- Girard, eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Brainerd Mcclure, died in Chester on Wed
nesday of last week, aged three years and
two months.
Col. r. G. Watts, the junioreditor of the
Laurensville Herald, was recently married to
g daughter of Col. E. B. G. Cash, of Chester
field county.
w. j. Villeneuve was shot and seriously
wounded at Lancaster, on Saturday last, by
one McNinch. The latter was from Chester,
and was in the employ of Villeneuve, who is
the proprietor of a marble yard. McNinch
was arrested and lodged in Jail.
The joint Legislative committee on regis
tration and election laws has completed the
preparation of its report. 1t is understood
that the report will recommend the adoption
of system of registration in pursuance OF the
requirement Of the Constitution.
During the races at the State Fair, i'll
Columbia, last Thursday, DR.. j. Is. Patrick,
Jr, of Charleston, while crossing the track,
was struck by horse. His head was cut,
wrist fractured and ankle hurt. His injuries
are not considered very serious.
Governor Hagood has issued a proclama'
tion, appointing Thursday, the 24th day of
this month, as day of thanksgiving to Al
mighty God for the numberless blessings and
mercies which have been bestowed upon US as
a people.
- In Edge6el1 county, 1913 white voters
have petitioned ior the passage of stock
law, while 1901 have pettioned against it.
There are eight townships yet to hear from.
The Democratic vote of the county numbers
about 5000.
"A ride through the pine woods just north
of Camden, says the Journal, will show what
effect the drouth had upon the trees. Thous'
ands of the large pine trees have died for
lack of moisture in the soil. Such thing
has never been known in that section before.
-Seaborn Suber, the Newberry negro &C,
cused of whipping his child to death, has
been acquitted. One physician testified that
from the girls heels to her head there was
not a fingers width between the cuts and
bruises, and expressed his opinion that death
was the result of the beating. Another ply
sician, however, thought death was caused by
pneumonia.
Gen. John +. Erwin, of Lancaster, has
recently secured, through the Commissioner
of Immigration, nine white laborers who are
employed on his farm near the town of Ian,
caster. Gen. Erwin informs the Reuieao that
be is "perfectly satisfied that they will event
ually make the best kind Of farm hands, and
says that he put them all in the cotton field,
and they averaged sixty pounds of cotton
apiece the first day. This was the first time
they had ever tried their hands at picking
cotton"
- The Chester Bulletin is responsible for
the following stories: "a mule on Mr.. II. l..
Stroud's place, a few days ago, while rubbing
itself in a stable, got the hook Of pair Of
in its eye, and thus jerked down
q rafter from which the steelyards we're sus-
pended. The eye was badly hurt, but it was
a mules eye and soon got we'll. 1t seems that
horses can stand good deal, too. The horse
belonging to Mr.. T. w. Lipford that broke
its neck (D few days ago, is still in the
land of the living"
- The Bulletin of last week says that suit
has been brought by the widow of Jasper
5ledge, of Chester county, against the Cheraw
and Chester Railroad Company, to recover
$4,000 damages for the killing of Sledge
TWO years ago. Sledge was killed by the
breaking of the windlass of the fiat at the
railroad ferry, the windlass striking him
in the back and inAicting mortal wounds
from which he died few days after. The
river was very high at the time, and Sledge
was acting as ferryman of his own volition,
The ferryman and other employees of the road
refusing to attempt to cross the river.
- The Board of Directors of the State Pen
tentiary met in { Columbia on Tuesday night
If last week, and annulled the contract with
Mr.. seegers, whereby they were to furnish
1im one hundred hands another year, and en-
ered into a new contract whereby they are to
'urnish him twenty-five hands for two years