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

- Ninety-Slx shipped Slo,U worth OF oats
last year, which proved and invaluable sup
plement to the short cotton crop.
- The town council of Sumter have resolved
to grant no more licenses for retailing liquor
during the term of their administration.
Upward of ten patients have been received
into the Lunatic Asylum during the past
week, of whom large majority are from
Charleston. .......-...
-Four deaths have occurred from the recent
collision on the Charleston and Savannah
Railroad near Charleston. The accident is to
be fully investigated.
A Sumter correspondent Of the Columbia
Register says that it is stated on good author
ity that as soon as the Central Railroad is
completed through daily trains will be run
from Charleston to Columbia ria Sumter, in
opposition to the South Carolina Railroad.
A public meeting of the citizens of Lang
ley passed resolutions denouning the stock
law, the registration bill and the prohibitory
liquor law The citizens of Beulah township
in the same y-,Aiken-denounce the
stock law and consider the present Legislature
a "humbug."
- The President has nominated T. 3. john
son, of Sumter, for collector of customs at
Charleston. Johnson is Mackey friend, and
the Mackeyites are jubilant over the nomina-
tion. Senator Butler authorizes the state
ment that no action will be taken by the Sen
ate until full time has been had for obtaining
information concerning the candidate.
- The Methodist Church at Florence was
burned last Friday morning at 2 O'Clock. 1t
was set fire under the south corner SILL the
flames catching between the weather boarding
and lathing. Shavings saturated with kero-
sine were the combustible material used, as
was discovered by parties first OH tile spot.
No motive can be assigned for the act. The
parsonage, only fifteen feet distant, was saved
by the steam fire engine. Loss on the church,
$500; insurance $1,000. Damage to the
parsonage $500; insurance, 500.
On Sunday morning after the recent col
lision on the Charleston and Savannah Rail-
road while a construction train was aiding in
clearing away the debris from the scene of the
accident, two negro children, a boy and girl,
attempted to jump on one of the platform cars.
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his sister, but she slipped and fell, and the
wheels of the last two cars passed over her
neck, completely severing her head from her
body. Trial Justice Taylor held an inquest
over the body, and from the evidence it ap-
peared plainly that no one was to blame except
the children themselves.
"A force of revenue deputies, under the
command of Deputy Marshals Stolbrand and
Kane, left Greenville on whisky raid .or
Wednesday of. last week. At Terry Creek
they destroyed two stills, which had been
erected only twenty-four hours, and at Chin
quapin two more stills were found and three
distillers, Davis, Allan and John Gosnell, cap
tured. The district raided is said to be one OF
the most dangerous in the State, and this is
the only occasion that officers have escaped
without battle with the moonshiners. The
Gosnells, says the Greenville NeWs, are young
men, and one of them is remarkably fine look
ing. Their family is an extensive and highly
respectable one.
Says the Lancaster RerieU of January 25th
1t has been rumored upon our streets that the
body of Mr.. Thomas Baskins, who has beer
missed from his home for the past eight or ten
days, was found in one of the pits of the Huey
Gold Mine with his throat cut. 1t seems that
Mr.. Baskins had been to Monroe to sell cot
ton, after which he left and had got as far as
the mine when the horrible deed was commit
ted, the perpetrators throwing the body in the
pit to prevent detection. 1t is the supposi.
tion that he was murdered for money, which
the perpetrators supposed he had about his
person. When discovered there were only fif
teen cents found in his pockets. Mr.. Baskins
was young man, being about twenty years Of
age, and we hope the above may prove to be nc
worse than mere rumor.