Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30
SOTjTH CAROLINA NEWS.


monism will deter others from joining, and
thus prevent it spreading further.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
A temperance society has been organized
by the colored people of Aiken.
- The town of Marion has six barrooms,
three drug stores and thirty-six general mer-
chandise stores one store to every twenty
five inhabitants
- Miss Hattie Gale, of Montreal, Canada,
has been added to the faculty of the Deaf and
Dumb and Blind Institute at Limestone, Spar
tanburg county.
- Richmond and Danville combination will
sell tickets to the delegates to the Baptist
Convention, which meets in Greenville, for
five cents mile the round trip.
According to published reports, an alarm
ing state of affairs exists in Kershaw county,
brought about by the opposition of persons to
the stock law, who threaten violence to all
who attempt to comply with it's provisions.
On Friday last the City Council of Ander-
son subscribed unanimously twenty-five thous-
and dollars in bonds to the Savannah Valley
Railroad, subject to ratification by the voters.
1t is confidently thought that the Councils
action will be endorsed by large vote.
A two-year old daughter of Mr.. r. NJ.
Huey, at Winnsboro', was strangled to death
on Sunday of last week, by piece of candy,
which became wedged in her windpipe and
produced death before it could be removed.
The parents were at church when the accident
occurred.
- The Kershaw Gazette says: 'Present in
dications point to diminished acreage Of
cotton in this immediate section this year.
The large increase in the acreage devoted to
small grain will partly tend to this result, and
many tenant farmers are forced to curtail their
operations this year on account of the want
of supplies to run on large scale.''
The usually placid precints of ConWayboro',
Horny county, were disturbed on Tuesday,
Court day, by a riot between the whites and
blacks caused by whisky and the apparent
indscretion of the Sheriff. A white man was
struck on the head by negro and probably
fatally hurt, and knives and pistols were freely
drawn but not used. The race feeling is now
said to be very bitter.
- In the Spartanburg Court of Sessions, last
week, Judge PRESLEY presiding, Charles Carr,
VIM. Arnold and B. Owens were each fined
five dollars, or thirty days in jail for carrying
concealed weapons. There were extenuating
circumstances in all three cases. Some amuse-
ment was caused in the courtroom by the
attempt of an old colored man to kiss an at
torney who had secured the acqulttal OF his
son, indicted for burglary.
Says the Chester Reporter, of last Wednes-
day: A meeting of the "Hardin board" of di-
rectors of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad
was held at Lancaster last Saturday, at which
certificate of 1000 shares of capital stock of
the company was issued to Lancaster county.
On Monday meeting of the "Agurs board"
was held at Chester, and a resolution passed
calling meeting of stockholders at Lancaster
on the 2Sth instant.
james J. Clyburn, convicted of the muir
der of Alexander Sheorn and sentenced to be
hung on the 18th instant, and respited by the
Governor until the 18th of April, made his
escape from Camden jail last Saturday morn
about O'Clock by boring holes with gimlet
in the floor until he made an opening large
enough for his body to pass through. He
then let himself down into the jailor's room,
shouldered musket which he saw there, and
took his departure. Though he was seen by
several persons while he was making his way
towards the river, the alarm was not given for
some time after he escaped
The following sentences were imposed
by Judge Cothran at the recent term of the
~ of Ioo 1arpQnV
of live stock, one year in the penitentiary !;
VIM. Washington and Jim Sanders, burglary
and larceny, the former two years, the latter
three years in the penitentiary Edward Nc.
Elhaney, assault with intent to kill, two years
in the penitentiary; Edward Holly, house.
breaking and larceny, five years in the peni-
tentiary; Richard Davis and John Halsell,
arson and grand larceny, imprisonment for
life in the penitentiary.
According to the following statement in
the Greenville Nesrs of Friday, the farmers of
that county are preparing to use fertilizers
extensively the present year: Within the past
week or ten days large quantity of guano
has been delivered to the farmers, and the de-
mand is exceedingly brisk. One firm has for
a fortnight delivered at the rate of eight tons
per day, and the large quantities of the article
which have blocked up the platforms at the
Railroad depot are rapidly disappearing. The
tension at the ware houses is considerably re-
lieved, and dealers seem to be very we'll satis-
fed with their sales.
of the progress towards organizing man.
ufacturing Company in Winnsboro, the Neaos
of Thursday says: A meeting Of the gentle
men interested in the proposed cotton factory
at this place was held on Tuesday morning
Mr. T. X. Elliott was, at his own request, re-
lieved from acting on the committee appointed
to raise subscriptions, Mr.. w. B. Creight was
appointed in his place. and Mr.. 7. w. Lauder
dale was added to the committee. 1t was re-
solved that the capital stock of the proposed
company shall be not less than 1000 and not
more than 5000, Interpretations to begin when