Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The work of grading the Greenwood, Lau-
rens and Spartanburg Railroad was commenced
at Laurens last Monday.
Mr.. John Means Thompson, formerly Of
Greenvile died in Charleston last Thursday.
He was a brother of Col. Hugh S. Thompson,
State Superintendent of Education.
Jesse Barber, colored, convicted, OF the
murder of Mack Perry, also colored, on the
night of the 31st of last July was hanged
in Winnsboro last Friday.
On Tuesday morning of last week fire
occurred at Johnston's on the c., G. & A.
Railroad, in Edgefeld county, and burned four
stores, dwelling and a partly completed
building. Loss, S52, 900; insurance, ST., ,4OO
The Hampton Guardian says there is not
one physician from Varnville to Grahamville,
nor from Stafford s to McPhersonville, IS miles
by 25, including the whole area of the country,
although there is All immense population in
the section.
The cotton gin of George Finch, who lives
about three miles from Spartanburg, was de-
stroyed by fire on Tuesday of last week. Sev-
eral thousand pounds of cotton seed were
burned. The fire is supposed to have been ac-
cidenta Loss about four hundred dollars.
Edward Billips, colored, was shot and kill
ed by some one unknown, about twelve miles
from Wedgefeld, Sumter county, last Friday,
while on his way home from mill. 1t is said
that his wife attempted to produce his death
last summer by putting concentrated lye in
his whisky.
The Saluda argus is justified in saying
there has not been that decrease in dairy pro-
ducts which many apprehended would result
from the stock law. The effects have been
every farm, to invite closer attention to good
blood and more intelligent direction to proper
breeding
The commissioners of the sinking fund of
South Carolina have sold to j. w. Clark, of
Augusta, Ga, the shares of the State in the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad for $12, 600.
The State held six hundred and twenty and
nine twenty-ffth shares, the par value being
twenty-five dollars per share. The stock was
closed out at $25.25 per share.
At horse race in the outskirts of Cheraw,
last Friday, a terrible accident occurred, which
resulted in the death of one of the riders, a
young colored man named Pickens Brown
His horse ran against tree which stood on
the side of the track throwing him against it
with terrible force, causing injuries from which
he died that evening.
Gen. Manigault has commenced his ar
rangements for preparing the rolls of Confed-
crate soldiers as authorized by an Act re-
Gently passed for that purpose. He will short
ly issue call through the press of the State
for information, and it is to be hoped that a
ready response will be made, and this long
delayed act of justice to our heroes consum-
mated in due time.
The grand jury of Sumter county, in their
presentment, allude to the Stock law as fol-
lows: That, as considerable opposition to the
enforcement of the Stock law has been evinced
by our citizens, we recommend quiet and
peaceabe submission. That while the law
may bear heavily upon some now, we hold the
opinion that it will ultimately result in the
greatest benefit to all.
held in Grcenville next May, when about six
hundred ministers will be in attendance. The
Ne,rs says Accommodations for this large
number of visitors will have to be furnished,
and many of our citizens are already beginning
to calculate their ability in this direction.
Little difficulty is anticipated in making every
one of them perfectly comfortable and all de.
nominations will unite in welcoming them.
On Wednesday of last week, Joseph Groes-
chel, merchant of Winnsboro, made an as
signment of his real and personal estate to
Capt. I. n. Withers, for the benefit OF his
creditors. The nominal assets amount to
about $4,000, and the entire liabilities to
about $4,000. The preferred claims aggregate
about three thousand dollars. j. B. Clark
& Sons, of Anderson, have also made an assign
ment. Liabilities not given.
Says the Newberry Ncrs: Mr.. David Rick
ard, near Prosperity put nine hundred and
forty dollars into potato bank for safe keep
ing but as potato banks are not very safe
and not infrequently broken into, two negroes,
George Johnston and Luke Wright discovered
the treasure, $240 of which was in gold, and,
of course "tookr it. The $500 greenbacks
tley did not find, or did not ''take." Johnston
was arrested, but the other fellow got off to
Kansas.
The most marked opposition to the stock
law seems to be in Kershaw county. Besidesa
violent meeting held there on the subject, the
Camden Journal of the 9th has the following
eve learn that in several of the remote por-
tions of our county there are still some men
who declare that they will not submit to the
action of the Stock law; and, furthermore,