Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-10-20

night she seed nadn-Wlth gan-gollls
'lonq-the road-on his shoulder-the man
gun going 'long--one night-.by Jones
house and she heer'd bark-and fire O
the gun, and she did not see no more-ant
she s'posed she must tell all she know'd--
and she would, if she died fort; and sht
blieved that man was Dobbins--and she
alters would b'lieve it. If thousand mer
swore it warn't."
| Dobbins declared that it was lie on the
spot. Whereupon Mrs. Kinter left the meet
ing with very red face, and war opened be-
tween the Kinters and Dobinses Immediately
and furiously, and. as their farms Joined, ii
resulted in border.hght.
Kinter sent home Dobbins' harrow, and
shovel, and trace chain, and demanded his
OK yoke, hammer, and an old bag. all Of which
he said he wanted straight" Mrs. Kinter
hurried after her fat.iron and candle. moulds
and wanted Mrs. Dobbins to "send back that
drawin' of tea as quick as time would let her,
and she advised Susannah Arabella Mary
Dobbins, to bring home that ERE book she got
of her Eliza Victoria, heavens knows how
long ago and she hoped she shouldn't hear
of a Dobbius agin the longest day she lived.
Dobbins told Kinter "he must move his
fence on the hne-and he could have jest
twenty.four hot IS to think on't-he had fur
nished him with place for his fence about
as long as he should-if he didn't, Squire
Bumbleton would be 'arter him with hot
blocks, and he'd law him as long as he could
see printer for forty miles round!"
Kinter advised Dobbins "to crack his
whip-and make his best jumps-and do his
very all. l.thunderest- if he couldn't stand
it as long as he could-why he'd come down,
and surrender-that was ALL"
So Dobbins did crack his whip-and did
make his best jumps-and forthwith brought
an action of trespass against Kinter in the
"high court" laying his damages at one thou
sand dollars, although the fee simple of the
land in dispute vas not worth 6ve-and the
"dance was fairly opened" between the Kin
tiers and the Dobbinses.
Dobbins threw down the fence some fifty
times during the pendency of the suit, be-
cause he meant to be boss on his own land,
if the ID stood at the door, and Kinter
put it up as often, "because he know'd the
line and his fe.ce was his fence, and should
stand thar as long as there was Kinter
above ground that could peep; and if he
died, he'd will bis property to some one pom
condition that he'd keep up that ERE fence y
Kinter's hogs and sheep came home with
their tails chopped off, and Dobbins' came
home with theirs chopped off little higher up.
Kinter's horses died suddenly, with strong
symptoms of poison, and Dobbins' horses died
suddenly, with like symptoms. Kinter's stack
of wheat was burned, and Dobbins' went Oft
by combustion soon after. Kinter's young
timber was girdled, and Dobbns' was girdled
too. Kinter, in fact lost one half of his live
stock, and Dobbns lost as much. The very
dogs-the Kinter dogs and the Dobbins
dogs-had caught the spirit Of war that ragged
around them, and growled as they passed
each other-and all about what happened in
that church h-meeting yet the question
was unsettled, "Who killed Jones dog?'
Kites, one of the worthy soldiers in the
Buzzardtown fight, made descent upon Jim
Snifer, another worthy soldier, because Snif-
fer said ESQ Aunt Farwell told him) that che
(Sniffer) shouldn't be tall 'sprised if Kites
killd that ere Cog his SELF" Whereupon,
Kites sued Snifer before Squire Bumbleton
"to recover that ere little balance Of thirty
one cents that Snifer owed him on that ERE
note agin him-and, also, whereupon SDiffer,
in defence, plead set off, "three dinners that
Kites had eaten at his table"-by invitation,
to be sure, at the same t;me-but, then, as
Snifer said, la is la, and if Kites wanted to
90 in for the last copper, he'd find him on
hand and doin' about as airly in the morning
as the next man! y
At last Jones concluded he had found his
mau-the villain who had killed his dog
and he owed it to the peace of the cou'muni.
ty, as we'll as himself, to prosecute before
Squire Bumbletou, and thus settle the vexed
question. 1t was quite clear that Buzzard-
town would blow itself all to pieces, like a
bomb.shell, unless something definite was
DONE The evidence upon which he relied
was crcumstantial- in circumstances,
in fact than in proof-but Jones thought it
would do to start upon, particularly as ne
had concluded to offer reward of ten dollars
to any man, woman or child, who would fur
nish conclusive evidence of the fact-the per-
son so furnishing the evidence to be released
from all suits and actions Of every nature
arising out of the transaction. This re-
ward and release was afterwards reduced to
writing, and publicly circulated all over
Buzzardtown, and, fnally, filed with Squire
Bumbleton, with the ten dollars, for the ben
fit of whom "it might concern"
This man was Hoscraft-Jo Hoscratt-
between whom and Jones feud long existed,
as bitter as between the Egyptians and Israel
ties. Jones knew that Hoscraft must
-,hat-'ere dog" and Jones de-
clared this with great emphasis. He had no
legal proof against Hoscraft-but, "then, of
course, Hoscraft killed the dog-nobody else
could have killed his dog, and, therefore, he
employed Mike Briar, Buzzardtown petit
fogger, to bring the suit against Hoscraft be-
fore Squire Bumbleton and suit was accor-
dinghy brought, Jones pledging himself to
carry it to the Supreme Court of the United
States-but "hed nail him if it cost twenty
farms"
Mike Briar was characterize was cr-
er, pettifogger, a horse-trader, politician,
general counsellor, &C., &c.-a kind of
walking on.nium gatherum. His dress was
full of the man-his clothes seemed to have
caught part OF his soul-and had become
electrified from sparks through his body.
His hat rim turned up in front, and ran off
behind like roof-his eyes shot up on line
with his hat rim, and when he walked his
whole body seemed to be pushing after his
eyes, as if he WAS in danger of going out of
his suspenders. He moved and spoke by
Jerks, and WAS as busy all over the settlement,
day and night, as the old fellow is said to be
in thunder storm.
We have already spoken of Squire Bum
h]oton of his qualities and the WEIGHT of his