Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-12
S0UTH CAROLINA NEWS.

oliver Watson, OF Lancaster county,
while cleaning pistol one day last week,
was accidentally shot in the leg.
"A bald eagle, measuring over five feet
from tip to tip Of his wings, was killed in
Spartanburg county last week.
The resignation of Rev. G. A. Trenholm
as pastor Of Purity Presbyterian Church in
Chester has been accepted.
MIR. Guerry, the artist, has painted a
life-size portrait Of the late Gen. NJ. T. Gary,
which he will present to the State.
B. Presley Barron, prominent lawyer
Of Clarendon county, is confined to his home
by paralysis.
-Spartanburg county returns $685., 1880
worth of real and personal property inclu-
ding COG, 400 acres of land worth 81, ,67O, 900 {;
and pays on 1892 polls.
Mrs. Chaplin has organized atemperance
lodge 145 strong among the whites, and 14O
strong among the blacks of Allendale, Barn.
we'll county.
The Pickens Sentinel says that nearly all
the citizens Of that county who emigrated
West last fall have returned to their native
homes, wiser if not richer by their expert
ence.
"A number of people in the Raley's mill
section, KershaW county, are still opposed
to the stock law and threaten vengeance
against any one who interfereS with the
liberty Of their stock.
"A man named David A. Keesler, pro-
prietor of livery stable at Central, in Pick
ems county, was thrown from a wagon, while
the team was running away, on Wednesday
Of last week and instantly killed.
James Coleman, colored, who killed a
colored woman on the college campus in
81, 1,,3 F,n fnI in, q
Sessions Court of Richland last week, and
sentenced by Judge Hudson to be hanged
on the 18th Of next month.
Maj. r. w. Woodward, of Fairfield, has
accepted the invitation of the executive
committee of the Survivors Association of
the Sixth Regiment to deliver the customa-
ry oration at the next reunion, to be held
at Richburg in August next.
- The question as to the best means of
getting the public roads properly worked is
now receiving a good deal of attention all
over the State. The grand jurors of various
counties have recommended, in recent pre-
sentiments, that the roads be worked by a
system Of taxation.
An effort is being made by certain par
ties in Orangeburg county to get the Cover
nor to pardon the men convicted in that
county about a year ago and sent to the
penitentiary for five years for whipping
a colored man for voting the Democratic
ticket.
"A negro named Frank Johnson, an es-
capped convict from the South Carolina peni-
tertiary, was arrested in Augusta, Ca, last
Friday night. He was sentenced for ten
years, for larceny, and escaped five years
ago, since which time he has been living
continuously in Augusta.
The machinery of the Pelzer cotton mill,
in Greenville county, was put in operation
for the first time last week. Work was
commenced on the mill in 1881, and every
thing pertaining to buildings and machinery
is Of the most approved kind. The cap
ital stock of the company is $50O,OOO, the
most of which is held in Charleston.
j. D. Montgomery, supervisor of regis
tration fer Marion county, has been bound
over for trial in the U. S. District Court,
charged with registering voters not entitled
to registration, and for entering names on
certificates different from what he did on
his books. Capt. b. B. McWhite and Mr.
B. II. Myers for conspiracy, and James
Cory for voting underage, were also bound
over last week.
In Charleston, last Friday, United States
Commissioner Gayer dismissed, for want OF
proof to sustain the charges, all the election
cases brought before him from Williams
burg county. There were seven of these
prisoners, all Democrats, and it seems that
the most serious feature of the charge against
them was that they "voted at places where
they were not entitled to vote" In the
examination before the commissioner the
fact was developed that Republicans and
Greenbackers of Williamsburg county were
liable to the same charge, and the cases were
dropped.
Near Easley, in Pickens county, on
Wednesday of last week, while a party of
hands were working the highway, William
Wood, an energetic industrious citizen, was
killed by the falling Of a tree upon him.
Mr.. Wood was assisting in cutting the tree
down, when it fell and lodged in another.
The falling tree, it is said, broke in two and
part of it fell upon Mr.. Wood, striking
him on the head and killing him almost in.
Mr.. Wood was young man and
leaves a wife and child. He was exempt
from road duty, but volunteered his services.
"A tramp attempted to shoot Maj. ThOm-
as w. Woodward of Fairfield county, last
week but was disarmed before he could ac-
his purpose after tough struggle.
Mai. Woodward charged the tramp with
shooting and wounding a favorite dog be-
longing to the Major, which gave rise to the
alteration. According to the account of
the affair as published in the Winnsbcro
NeaCs, only the Majors GOODNESS saved him
from great bodily harm. He escaped unin-
jured, however, and secured the tramp's
pistol besides.
Columbia Register: About o'clock last
morning two white men named