Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-31

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There are at present 543 inmates in the
State Lunatic Asylum. s@.
Allen Gale, colored well digger, was suf-
focated by foul air while cleaning out a we'll
in Chester last Thursday
= The Georgetown rice planters are jubilant
over the prospects of a fine crop The har-
vesting will begin in about week.
Charles Glover, notorious thief of Orange
burg, was shot and killed while attempting to
escape from a posse carrying him to trial.
- The new city council of Anderson has
granted retail liquor licenses to seven bar
keepers.
- Orangeburg is working for graded school,
Professor r.. Means Davis has visited them
and helped them in their good work.
- The next joint summer meeting of the
South Carolina Agricultural Society and State
Grange will be held at Marion.
Mr.. G. P Pelham, young lawyer, on
trial last week in the U. S. District Court at
Greenville, charged with purloining letter
from the Lancaster post-oftce, was acquitted.
- The Darlington Ne'os of August oath
mentions that DR.. J. F.. Byrd has introduced
the sea island cotton into that section of the
Sfattee-wth most satisfactory res ults.
Mr.. Dr. Phifer's large stable and barn
were burned at Newberry ON the goth instant.
All the hay and fodHer was destroyed. The
stock was saved witfr~great difficulty. The
fire originated from parfy>of gamblers.
- Joe Haines murdered Earpest Scott on
account of a difficulty about Hlog. Ihey
were both colored residents of Pine Grove
Township, Orangeburg county. IIaines>ls a
desperate character and is at large.
- The executive committee Of the board of
trustees of the State University have author-
lied the Faculty to elect chairman to act as
president of the institution until the office
can be filled permanently.
Rev. w. NJ. Grier, d. D., and General Ste
phen d. Lee, are spoken of in connection with
the Presidency of the South Carolina Univer-
sity. There will be no election until the regu-
lar meeting of the Board of Trustees in De-
cember.
Says the Register: Columbia possesses a
musical prodigy in the person of Prof. Plates
eleven year old daughter, Edith. She is one
of the most wonderful pianists of her age liv-
ing, being able to play the most recondite
compositions of Mendelssohn and Beethoven
with accuracy and expression. She has a
bright future before her.
Says the Lancaster Ledger of Saturday ::
A party of disguised colored men went to
the house of George Burgess also colored, one
night last week, took him out in the woods
and whipped him so severe thathe was unable to
walk for several days. George is an industri-
Gus man, quiet and inoffensve. No cause is
assigned for the cowardly act.
u. B. Whites, the defaulting and abscond-
ing treasurer of Newberry county, was arrested
in Alabama, and is now in Newberry jail
His account is short some seven or eight thou
sand dollars. lie claims immunity on the
ground that he has always been good Demo-
crat and hard worker for the party. Whls-
ky and cards brought him to his present
trouble.
- On Saturday of last week, says the Chester
Bulletin, Matt McKelry and Giles Faucette,
both colored, caught two surgeons in Sandy
river, one weighing 129 pounds and measuring
seven feet in length, the other four feet in
length and weighing 66 pounds. They were
caught OH Mr.. Andy Crosby's place in water
about feet deep. They were caught in
hand-to-hand struggle.
- Says the Kershaw Gazette, August Ath !:
From 1866 to 1S62-a period of seventeen
years-there have been fifteen murder cases
tried in Kershaw county. Ofthis number nine
were acquitted of murder, of which latter num-
Der three were found guilty of manslaughter.
Six were found guilty of murder and senten-
ced to be hung. Two of these six convicts
escaped punishment three had their SEN
tences commuted to Imprisonment for life,
while only one was hung.
- The fifteenth volume of South Carolina
Supreme Court reports is just out. 1t con-
tains sixteen cases. OF these Judge Wallace
had 9 affirmed, reversed and partly revers-
ed and affirmed. Judge Aldrich had l affirm
ed and 2 reversed. Judge Mackey had af-
frmed, 3 reversed and partly reversed and
affirmed. Judge Kershaw had 2 affirmed and
two reversed. Judge PRESLEY had affirmed,
4 reversed and partly reversed and affirmed.
Judge Fraser had affirmed and l reversed.
Judge Hudson had affirmed and 2 reversed.
In one of Judge Hudson's reversed cases the
opinion was rendered by a Circuit Judge, and
was dissented from by the Chief Justice; in
the other the opinion was rendered by Cir
cult Judge and was concurred in by Circuit
Judge.
- Miss Rochella Blair, third daughter of
the late COL l.. w. r. Blair, aged 18 years,
went into the lot at her home in Kershaw
county, about O'Clock on Tuesday morning
of last week, to milk a cow. After milking
she sent the milk back to the house by her
younger sister and wandered off into the
woods. She did not return, but was found
about half past 10 in gully, near the base of
a very high hill near Col. Blair's house. When
the young lady was found life was extinct, but
her body was not cold. 1t was supposed at
first that she had taken fit, to which she was
subject, and had fallen in the gully, but it
subsequently transpires that bottle OF strych-
nine was found upon her person when the
body was removed to the house. The jury of
inquest found that the deceased came to her
death by taking. strychnine with her own
hands.
The Columbia correspondent of the Char
lesion Ne,rs and Courier writes to that paper
under date of last Sunday: A horrible murder
occurred last Friday night on the plantation of
Mr. Feaster Lyles, near Buckhead Postoffce,
in Fairfield county. Two negroes, brothers,
Bob and ''Sic," their surnames cannot be as
certained in Columbia became involved in
dispute about watermelon, when Bob seized
shotgun and fired upon his brother with fatal