Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-01-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Walterboro on Friday for the murder OF an
other colored man committed two years ago.
Master Thomas Blease, sprightly lad and
only son of Mrs Emma Blease, of Newberry,
accidentally killed himself with toy pistol on
Thursday last.
- In Aiken county. on the 1st instant, after
a preliminary examination, Robert Parker
was committed to Jail on the charge of causing
the death of his wife by administering poison.
The Methodists of this State contributed
for educational purposes, during the last Con-
ference year, the sum of s2,2S7. The present
wear So, 900 is to be raised, to be appropriated
to Wofford College.
- Mr. M. Ehrlich, one of the oldest shoe mer
chants in Columbia, died at O'Clock Monday
morning of congestion of the lungs. He was
a native of Germany, but had been resident
of Columbia for about forty years. He was
in his 18th year.
- The prisoners-eleven in number-contin-
c,l in Anderson county jail, attempted to make
tileir escape, last Saturday night and had
reached the lower door, when their noise
aroused the sheriff, and he promptly returned
them to their quarters.
- Of the twenty prisoners confined IN the
jail at Spartanburg, nine escaped last Sunday,
by tearing down the door of cell, and with
it battering down the outside door. One OF
the prisoners was shot, but not captured. The
gravest charge against any of them was grand
larceny.
- On Tuesday night before Christmas the
cornerstone of the new Presbyterian church
at Anderson, which had only been recently
lain, was broken open and it's contents pilfered,
The vandalism is supposed to have been COM
mitted for the purpose of obtaining the few
coins deposited in the cornerstone.
The Abbeville Medium pointedly says !:
Not an extra dollar was given by the Legisla-
ture to the common schools of the State, which
are left to take care of themselves or perish.
Education for the masses must be neglected
to lavish money upon the few who are fortu-
nate enough to have means to educate them
selves.
- The Aiken Journal learns that the negroes
in the neighborhood eight miles north of All
ken are selling off their worldly goods and
making arrangements to move to Kansas. On
some plantations not a negro will be left.
The farmers, fortunately, have sown largely
of wheat and oats, and will not be entirely
dependent next year on their corn crops, as
they have been in the past.
When the stock or no fence law was passed
10y the Legislature, portion of Aiken county
asked to be exempted from its provisions.
This was granted on condition that that Sec
ton fence itself in from the rest of the State.
1t is computed that it will take fence eighty
miles long to enclose the portion of the county
so exempted, and that the first cost of such
fence will not be less than SAC, 900.
- On Tuesday morning of last week, the
residence of MI w. w. Keys of Anderson,
was destroyed by fire. Mr.. Keys and his
family were absent at the time. He is -one of
the editors of the Intelligencer, and besides the
total destruction of his house and furniture,
all the account books of the Intelligencer office
were destroyed. The fire is thought to have
been ncendiary, for the purpose of concealing
robbery.
Says the Banwell People: ''The passage
of the stock law marks another revolution in
South Carolina. The friends and enemies of
the law should unite in the effort to make it
popular and profitable. Those whom it bene-
fits should generously aid the less fortunate
in adapting themselves to the new order of
things. No excuse should be given any DEM
ocrat to desert the ranks of the party. Not a
man can he safely spared.''
- There has been recently remarkable ex-
odus of colored people from Edgefield county,
the number who have actually left up to this
time being estimated by a staff correspondent
of the Neys and Courier, who was despatched
to investigate the affair, at not less than 5,0O0
and to use the correspondents own words,
''the exodus has only just begun" This
is engineered by two Edgefeld
negroes Lawson and John Hammond, and
has been under way for several months, there