Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02
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- Last week ia cattle from the Dunbarton
section, Barnwell county, were shipped by
steamer to an island below Savannah, where
they will he fattened for market. They were
bought by Georgian, who paid in no case
more than five dollars for the largest COWS
and oxen. Scarcity of forage and pasturage
and the approach. of. the stock law forced far
mers to sell at the spectators figures.
- The Chester Bulletin of last week says that
since the books of subscription were opened
in that town, $4,000 in amounts varying
from S6, 600 to SIS, 900 has been subscribed to
the capital stock of the Magnetic Manufactur.
ing Company. Hon. J. J. Hemphill, Col. Fl.
P. Hammet and Hon. j. j. McLure are the
corporatorS The mills are to be erected at
the magnificent water power on Broad River,
formerly the site of the old Cherokee Iron
Works. The factory will be on the Spartan
burg side of the river and nearly opposite the
cotton mills now being erected by Mr.. Deal
and Others The Magnetic Company has a
capital stock of 100000 and will commence
business when $3.50, 900 shall have been paid in.
Mr. Hemphill says the prospects of the enter
prise are flattering.
- One of the most discraceful rows that
Columbia has known for many years, as the
Register characterizes it, occurred on Friday
night, in McCreery's wagon yard, the aggress'
ors being Il party of wagoners, who wantonly
attacked policeman Mckenna, while he was
passing through the wagon yard. lie then
called number of policemen to his aid, and
lively scrimmage ensued before the party
could be arrested. Policeman McKenna receiv
ed severe stab in the shoulder, the blade Of
the knife puncturing one of his lungs, and q
man named Goodwin, from Lexington, who
was also camping in the yard, but not engagedir
the melee, received pistol wound in the foot
The rioters were committed to jail, in default
of bail, to await their trial at the next tern
of the Court, on the charge of rioting and as
sault and battery with intent to kill.
- The memorial services held in Trinity
Church, at Charleston, last Sunday, upon the
death of the late Bishop Wightman, were at
tended, probably, by the largest audience that
has been gathered within the walls Of tht
church, an audience which, composed as il
was of representatives of every creed ant
class in in the community, was voluntar!
tribute to the esteem and respect in which thu
great and good man whose death was com
memorated was held in the community il
which he spent the best years of his life. II
the pulpit were the Rev. A. Coke Smith, pas
tor of Trinity Church, the Rev. S. A. Weber
of the Southern Christian Adrocate, and thu
Rev. w. S. Martin, of Florence. The servi
ces were opened with memorial ode writer
for the occasion by the Rev. Thos. o. Sum
mers, d. D., which was rendered by the choir
This was followed by the singing of a hymn
by a prayer by the Rev. A Coke Smith, ant
the reading of Scripture selections by TIN
Rev. S. a. Weber. The Rev. A. Coke Smith
who has just returned from the death-bed O.
his father in Sumter county, then delivered
an eloquent sermon upon the death of the dis
tinguished prelate. The text was from Phil
i, 21: ''For to me to live is Christ, and tt
die is gain"