Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-23
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SreSSlIdll dU large.
- On Monday, S. T. Blanton, supervisor of
the Augusta division of the G. G & A. Rail-
road, while riding over the track on hand
car was struck bya freight train, receiving Sc
rious, if not fatal injuries.
| - A dispatch to the Ne,cs and Courier says
that Norwood Bros, general retail merchants
of Abbeville, made all assignment last Thurs
day for the benefit of their creditors. Amount
of liabilities not stated, but preferred credit
ors come in for about s., 600.
- The Bulletin says For seven months past
the trade of Chester has been unaccountably
| dull. The fall season was one of paralysis
winter has almost gone and there is no revi-
val yet. Nevertheless it is claimed that in
this country the cotton crop of 1881 brought
more money than the crop of 1880.
- The 18th of March next will be the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth of John G..
Calhoun, the Southern statesman, and the
| Abbeville Medium suggests that it would be
proper for the young men at Due West to get
up celebration OH that day i'll respect to his
honored memory and remembrance of his great
talent and patriotic public services.
| A special dispatch from Orangeburg to the
Ne,rs and Courier, says that on Monday Charles
S. Jackson, bright young mulatto, assistant
postmaster at Orangeburg, received fatal
pistol wound in the forehead, killing him in
stantly, and that persons present at the time
allege that he inflicted the wound himself. An
inquest will be held to determine the matter.
- Mr.. T. G. Lanier, of Sumter county, sent
last November a few pounds of the white mari,
found on his premises, to Professor Goodale,
of Maine, who is considered high authority,
to analyse, and he now reports that the sample
sent is the richest, simply calcareous mari,
that he ever tested It contains nine per cent.
of carbonate of lime.
- The Sumter Spirit of the Times, says that
the laying of about six miles of iron between
that place and Manning will complete the
Central Railroad. When finished, it will be
one of the most substantial railroads in the
State, and trains can be expected to attain
safely the high rate of speed necessary to car.
ry out the purpose of the road
- The Columbia Yeonaan says that some OF
the German carp taken the other day from the
lake on Gervais street looked as if they might
weigh nearly five pounds. There were about
t two hundred deposited there, and they all seem
to be living and growing well. The object in
taking them out was to put them in larger
and more convenient basin in another locality.
- Under the heading. can Expensive Fail
ure," the Greenville Neus of Sunday says
Sam Brown, colored, was before Trial Justice
Croft yesterday charged with failing to pay
his one dollar poll tax. The cost and penal
ties were S5.65, and the fine imposed upon the
consequent conviction was So. Total cost
$1O.65. In default Of the payment of this,
Sam was committed for 80 days.
- The Greenville Ne,cs says that Wells
Thompson, colored, who recently, went from
that town to Arkansas, has written letter to
a relative in Greenville, telling her to tell ''all
inquiring friends'' that they had best remain
where they are. He says that $1.60 day was
promised as an inducement to emigrants to
60 out there, but that on their arrival, fifty
cents der day was obtained with difficulty.
- The Edgefeld Chronicle says that Captain
Kirk, of the French Broad Railroad, has ar
rived in that town and will remain for several
days for the purpose of locating depot and
securing right of way for the road. He rep
resents that Messrs. Oliver & Child, who
have contracted to build the. road, have met
with complete success in securing capital fol
that purpose, and are ready and anxious to
commence work at once.
- The Chester Bulletin learns that the Hes
sian fly has appeared numerously in wheat
fields in that section, and is doing large
amount of damage to the growing crop. The
Bethesda community especially complains
of it. Mr.. r. S. Hope, near Lowrysville, has
plowed up some of his wheat, so extensive has
been the damage. Wheat and oats through
out this section are looking fine and are prom
ising, if the fly does not ruin the prospect.
- Says the Winnsboro Neus: It is reported
on what seems to be good authority that the
Richond and Danville Road is about to gain
control of the South Carolina Road. If the
result of this will be to establish close relations
between Charleston and the up-country with
out subjecting shippers and traders to the
effects of monopoly, nobody will complain.
The charter of the "South Bound Road" re-
Gently obtained was possibly the lever used
to bring the South Carolina Road to terms.
- The Greenville Ne,cs has the following
concerning the moonshiner, Redmond: VIM.
Kennedy, U. S. Deputy Marshal, who has visit
ed Auburn, N. Y, where Redmond isconfned,
writes to r. H. Kennedy that Redmond is
favorite of all the officers in the penitentia-
ry. His leg is still crooked, nothing having
been done to it. lie is at work in the tailor
shop, and is we'll treated, and evidently quite
comfortable. lie desires his friends at home
to know that he is comfortable, aside from
his confinement, and sends his regards to all
his friends in South Carolina.
- The Camden Journal says touching
scene was witnessed in the Circuit Court of
Cheraw on Saturday of last week, when the
sentence of death was again passed upon James
J. Clyburn. He was convicted last Fall OF
the murder of Aleck Sheorn, and was SEN
fenced to be hanged on the 18th of October.
His counsel, however, appealed to the Supreme
Court for new trial upon various grounds
of irregularity and informality. The appeal
was dismissed, and a new trial refused. The
duty then devolved upon Judge Wallace to
pass the awful and fearful sentence. The
poor boy (for he is not yet 81 years of age,)
when asked if he had anything to say why
the sentence of death should not be passed
upon him, asked permission from the Court to
read all address which he himself had prepared.
lie looked banched and serious. His conduct
showed that he appreciated the terrible SOL
emnity of the awful hour. lie poured out his
grievances, acknowledged the frightful deed,
and appealed with more than sympathetic ten
derness to the mercy of both his God and his