Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-01-12
SOrTH CAROLINA NEWS,

been tried in the wrong place.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The cotton receipts at Rock Hill, to the
last day of December, were about 8, 1000 bales,
against about II, ,0OG to the same date the pre-
ceding season.
- The Hon. VIM. K. Bradley, President of
the French Broad and Atlantic Railroad, died
at his home in Abbeville county on the Both
ultimo, in the 9th year of his age.
In the U. S. District Court at Charleston,
last Friday, Hicks G. Williams, a colored at
tache of the post Office at Camden, was tried
on charge of robbing the mails, and found
guilty.
AT Walhalla, during Christmas week,
Isaac Reed and Andrew Manninger, both col
ored, quarreled over piece of pie, and from
words they proceeded to blows, and Manninger
was killed.
While Jeff Hightower, of Graham's, was
hunting, one day last week, adog jumping on
his gun partially cooked the weapon with his
paw, causing it to discharge and kill Mr..
Hightower.
"A special committee appointed by the city
council of Spartanburg has reported number
of buildings, on Main street, to be in an lln-
safe and dangerous condition, and likely to fall
at any time.
There is said to be great unrest in Sumter
among the negroes there and that at least five
hundred families are preparing to leave the
county in the early Spring. The farming in
terests are alleged to be greatly imperilled.
On Tuesday of last week, eighteen colored
emigrantsleft Rock Hill, by railroad, bound for
Texas They were under the guidance of July
Mclean, colored, who admitted that he was
to be paid six dollars head for all he could
persuade to 60.
The realty belonging to the estate of the
late Judge Thomson and comprising sixteen
tracts and parcels. was sold by the probate
Judge of Abbeville county last sales-day. The
sales of this property aggregated thirty-three
thousand dollars. .
The Rev. R. D. Pratt is trying to introduce
into Fairfield county, South American emilio
maize," species Of corn that he says makes
good and nourishing bread and fodder, defies
drought, and grows so densely as to kill out
grass with it's shade.
Mr.. H. w. Finlayson, of Cheraw, whose
business suspension was announced few days
since, telegraphs the Neus and Courier that the
total amount of his Indebtedness, including
the claims of his preferred creditors, is SD, >
324.79.
According to reports of our State exchang-
es, more grain has been sown in South Carroll
ma this season, than in any other since the war,
and we take it as an auspicious omen. With
favorable seasons there will be food in abun-
dance, for both man and beast, when the next
harvest comes.
The Newberry Baptist Church having COM
pleted the fftieth year of it's existence with
the close of last year, in commemoration of
this event, the pastor, Rev. Luthur Broadus,
delivered on the 1st day of the year an inter-
esting discourse on the history of the church,
from it's organization to the present tilue.
james Anderson has been arrested at Ma
rion, charged with having murdered Chas.
Floyd, who resided near Bucks Swamp. Floyd,
was found in an insensible condition, alone,
out in the cold and with two small bruises on his
head. 1t was thought at first that he died
from the effects of undue exposure.
The Marion Star records the following sin
gular accident A young son of Mrs. Celia
Herring was accidentally shot last week with
a pistol. It seems that the pistol was lying on
the mantel, and he was twirlng a whip, when
it struck the pistol, jerking it off the mantel,
when it fired, the ball striking him in the head
opd oo,,e;no instant death
The Greenville Ne,cs says that the indica-
tions are that very large quantity of COM
mercial fertilizers will be used by the farmers
of this county on the next crop. Since last
Thursday eight hundred and forty tons have
been received by consignees in Greenville, and
immense consignments are awaiting shipment
from different points.
Meetings protesting against the stock law
have been held in various places, in the lower
part of the State, where the measure meets the
strongest opposition. Petitions are also being
forwarded to the Governor, invoking the veto
power but these can hardly be of avail, as the
Governor approved the bill on the goth of De-
cember.
The WinnsbQro Ne,os records the suspen-
sion of Francis Elder, a merchant in that town,
who has made an assignment of his entire es-
tate to J. E. Mcdonald, Esq, for the ben
eft of creditors. The deed of assignment re-
corded in the Clerks Office states the liabilities
at 1892. 900, of which the claims of creditors
preferred in the deed amount to about S2O, ,O0O.
The nominal assets amount to about $50, ,OOO,
and it is thought that about $4,000 will be
realized.
On Saturday night the 31st ultimo, Larkin
Little, employed as clerk in saloon at Calf
ney City, shot r. G. Bishop twice in the right
arm. One of the balls, after passing through
the arm and clothing, entered the right side.
The surgeon in charge of the wounded man
saws the wound is serious, though not necessa-
rily fatal Little claims to have acted in self
defense. He surrendered himself to Trial
Justice Gaffney and gave bond for his appear
ance in Court.
Israel Gittelson, a merchant in Abbeville,
made an assignment last week of all his assets
for the benefit of his creditors. Liabilities,
10000; assets $1,000 The Medium says ::
"The hard times are beginning to be felt in
this section" Besides the above assignment,
''three firms at Greenwood have adjusted their
business. J. H. Oldham for about $4,000, B.
Reynolds & Co. for about S13, 600 and Mcneil
& Davis about $1,000. They are among our
most respected firms and we regret their en-
barrassment."
Says the Lancaster RerieU: At the burial
of young child at Philadelphia Church in
Chesterfield county, on the 26th of last month,
a young man named Joseph Terrell, aged
about nineteen or twenty years. was carrying
two poles, one on each shoulder, to lay the