Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-30
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

awaiting trial are three charged with murder.
The ferryman at Chappell's, in Newberry
county, was drowned on Tuesday of last week.
- The Sumter Adcance says that Sam Lee
will not contest the seat of f. w. VI. Mackey,
as has been reported by several papers.
- Mr.. +. G.. Boylston has been tried and ac-
quilted at the Barnwell Court of the murder
of J. \. Scott in February last
- The Hon. Robert W. Barnwell died at his
residence in Columbia, last Saturday afternoon,
in the S3rd year of his age.
49, Two boxes of firearms arrived one day last
week from the North, consigned to the Rev.
\. Webster. IL Republican leader of Orange
burg. Supposed to be delayed election matter
- f. Hyman, the man who shot and killed
the notorious Fannie Cochran in Charleston
OH Monday of last week, has been formally
! committed to jail charged with murder.
- Rice and Coleman, contractors, have a
| large force at work on the Greenwood, Lanrens
and Spartanburg Railroad in their camp five
miles below Spartanburg.
- The Columbia Register says it has been
! definitely decided that Governor Thompson
and the newly-elecied State officers shall be
! inducted into office on Tuesday the 5th of De-
cember. The ceremonies will be imposing.
- One set of Democratic managers and one
Radical. Supervisor have been arrested in
Charleston for election offences. The Demo-
Gratis were relieved on their own recognizance,
! the case being based on their refusal to allow
a black convict to vote.
! -- The Carolina Sparta. says it was not the
| fence law that drove the hogs out of that
county but it was lien corn at $3.50 per BUSH
el. That would soon drive out the cows, then
the horses, then the mp'ns then the people
will have to 80 too Or perish.
- Says the Newberry Herald: The defeat of
the new County Amendment was a severe
blow to aspiring politicians. There were many
who favored the movement from good motives:
but the basis of the matter was political aspi-
ration.
! - The Barnwell Railroad has been compile
ted Trains now run into the town regularly.
The material for the Barnwell and Blackville
| telegraph line has been received at the latter
place, and force of laborers is engaged in
clearing the right OF way preparatory to its
erection.
! - The Aiken Recorder expresses the reaSOlla-
! bic hope that the Legislature will frame law
providing for the payment, by the State, Of all
| the necessary expenses incidental to the cleo
tions. 1t says truly that the elections are held
for the benefit of the entire population. and
! that the State should, therefore, pay the ex-
penses.
- On account Of the great crops in Abbcville
county it has been necessary to build new corn
cribs in every neighborhOod this fall. More
have been built than were constructed during
the previous ten years Thousands of gallons
of sorghum syrup have been made and hun
dreds of families have enough molasses, corn,
wheat and oats to last them until next fall.
- The State Board Of Canvassers threw out
the vote poled at Lancaster Courthouse. I'm
! der tlesnew election law only one polling pre-
cinct is allowed at Lancaster but the COM
misSioners of election opened two precincts,
and the canvassers threw out the whole vote
at Lancaster, not being able to determine
which was the legal and which the illegal poll.
- 1t has just transpired that Professor E. W.
Remann has been engaged in forging school
certificates in Lexington county. He did his
work very adroitly, and made good his escape
before his operations were detected. Riemann
was regarded as an able scholar and an upright
man. The extent Of his forgeries is ascertain
ed to be l,176.25.
- The United States District Court, which
was to have convened in Columbia last Mon
day, has been adjourned, by order of Judge
Bond, until next Monday. 1t is not probable
that the election cases lying over from the last
term will he taken up. There will probably be
a few cases relating to the election, mainly al
alleged violations of law in the registration of
! voters
- George Graham, a young cOlOred man, was
burned to death in Sumter, November 81. He
was visiting some colored women who live in
the yard of Mr.. w. B. PEBBLES, and while sit
! ting before the fire suddenly fell forward and
was fatally burned. The other inmates of the
house claim to have been asleep at the time,
tion upon the fire. 1t is supposed he fell in
the fire in a fit Of epilepsy.
-- Says the Lancaster Ledger of Thursday :
At last something is being done toward the
building of the railroad bridge across the Ca
tawba River. Capt. Dwight, the civil en-
gneer of the road, was engaged last week in
surveying the river and sounding the depth
where it is proposed to cross. He says that if
the work of construction is commenced at once
that in less than six months the bridge can be
completed. So mote it be
- Gov. Hagood has offered reward of $500
for the apprehension and conviction of the
person or persons who placed the distractions
on the track Of the Charlotte, Columbia and
! Augusta Railroad near Leesville that wrecked
a train and caused the death of Thomas Mitch
ell. \ reward of 500 is also offered for the
apprehension and conviction Of any person who
may lately have placed distractions upon the
! track of any railroad in the State in violation
Of the statute prohibiting the same.
- The Chester Reporter of last week says !:
On Thursday of last week Mr.. JAS. g. Nc
ALLEY, while engaged in ginning cotton on his
plantation onSandy River, had his arm caught
in the machinery, and very seriously lacerated,
! from the ends of the fingers to the elbow. He
was removed to his residence in town on Fri
day, when medical attention was promptly
rendered, and he is getting on as well as could
be expected, considering the serious nature OF
his injuries.
- At the last session of the Legislature a
| special Act was passed forbidding the sale of
Intoxicating liquors in the Town of Chester.
On November Is, Major s. z. Hamilton Sc
cured writ from the Supreme Court requir-
ing the town council of Chester to show cause
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