Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-17
THE NEW COUNTY BUSINESS.

We ask attention to we'll considered arti-
Gle to be found in another column of the Press
and Banner, which is taken from the YORK
VILE ENQUIRER. While it is possible that
it would have been better to have laid out the
different counties originally in smaller areas
than they are at present. it is now certain that
no advantage to the people is to be gained by
cutting off corners of the Well-established lines
to make new counties for the accommodation
of the little towns that may have been built
on the lines Gaffney City, a pump station in
the woods on the Air Line Railroad, is no
further from the Court House at Spartanburg
now than it was years ago, and if the few per-
sons who have recently bought land therea-
bouts, or who now want to fill the offices OF
the proposed new county, can persuade the
people to consent to the organization of a
county government to be supported at their
expense, the land within two miles of that
place may be slightly enhanced in value and
few thriftless otfice-seekers may thereby be
provided with fat offices. The few persons
who have settled at Gaffney knew perfectly
we'll the distance it was to the Court House,
and if they wanted to practice law, or to make
a business of attending court as hangers on, or
jurymen, or chronic witnesses, they should
have settled at Spartanburg. 1t is not lib
eral request for them to ask the people to es-
tablish new county for their especial benefit.
We say their especial benefit, because Court
House at Gaffney cannot be OF advantage to
any portion of the proposed new county, ex-
cept those who live in the Immediate neighbor-
hood, while the taxes on the people of the new
county will be enormous for many years, the
tax on the old counties will necessarily be in
creased for all time to come. Are the tax
payers of York and Spartanburg ready to do so
foolish a thing as to entail an increased taxa
tion upon themselves and their children, while
destroying the time-honored landmarks OF
glorious old counties, with such proud histo-
ries AS practical common sense should gov
ern us in all business transactions, we suggest
that it would be cheaper for the people of York
and Spartanburg counties to authorize the
County Commissioners to furnish the office
hunters with profitable employment, and to
pay to the property owners the little advantage
they might hope to gain by taxing the farms
so enormously to support new government,
in the destruction of the symmetry OF the old
This would be for the cheaper plan
of settling the matter.
We trust that the Executive Committee may
have the fairness to allow the opponents OF
new counties a fair chance to express their
wishes. Heretofore it has been the rule to
furnish only such tickets as the Executive
Committee wanted voted. Let those who wish
to vote "NO'' have an equal cnance, SO Iar dts
printed tickets are concerned.-Abberille Press
and Banner, A,yust 8.
AFTER Ten YEARs.-David Hall, who was
arrested at Floyd Court House, Virginia, a
few days ago, for stealing saddle, turns out
to be the murderer of Charles Bowyer of Mont
gomery county, Virginia, who was killed in
1872 Hall is the son of a wealthy citizen of
that county, and the murder was committed
under the following circumstances There
had been protracted litigation between the
Bowyers and Halls father, by which the lat
ter managed to recover the entire property OF
the former. After the suit Thomas Hall
swore out warrant for assault and battery
against the Bowyers. They were arrested and
brought to Chldress's store, and the trial was
adjourned to place near by called Auburn, to
which point all parties started. When Bow
yers came within sight of the cabin where the
trial was to take place, Dave Hall appeared,
and, after some words, raised his gun to shoot !
Bower begged piteously for his life-he not
being armed-but without avail he was shot
down like dog, his dead body remaining where
murdered until the following morning.