Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The liquor license at LaurenS Y. II. Is
S4OO.
- There are only three prisoners in the
Chester Jail. ---.--
There were five small fires in Florence in
one day last week.
- The school debt of Newberry county is
1900 and the county debt $4,000.
The Town Council of Chester has passed
an ordinance levying a special tax on all kinds
of business, and taxing merchants upon the
value Of stock on hand. - 81
Mr. Frederick White, of Oconee, who was
arrested on the charge of being concerned in
the murder of W.. Hunnicut, has been dis
charged, there being no proof against him.
DR.. Leonard w. Dick, a prominent physi-
clan, and vino was assistant surgeon of the
23rd S. c. Regiment, died recently at his home
in Sumter county, in the 59th year of his age.
- Rev. Thomas w. Smith, Of Union county,
has accepted a call to supply the Baptist
church of Gaffney City two Sundays in the
month.
Miss Henrietta DeLeon died III Camden
on the 18th instant. She is said to have been
one hundred years old, and her death is at
tributed solely to old age.
DR.. Thomas Collins Austin, a soldier of
the warof 1912, died at his residence in Green
Vile county, last Saturday, in his ninety-third
year.
Eusebio Simo, a Spanish youth, IS years OF
age, committed suicide in Charleston last
Monday evening, by shooting himself with a
pistol. .as..
- Four Thousand, four hundred and thirty
four tickets were sold at the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad depot in Greenwood from
February 1, 1882, to January 10, 1888.
COL John G.. Haskell has been appointed
attorney for the Columbia and Greenville
Railroad in place of Gen. James Conner, re-
signed.
- Mrs Mary Brawley, the oldest person in
Chester, and probably of that section, died
last Thursday at the residence of Mr.. James
Hemphill. She was aged IS years and
months.
Mr.. J. C. Huske, Superintendent of fish
cries, is now at Georgetown for the purpose
of establishing stations for the capture of ripe
slad and Matching out the eggs procured du-
ring the approaching season.
"A young German, 10y the name of August
Tautz, was jailed in Lancaster last Monday,
ON charge of having stolen several fine gold
watches and pistol from L. G. Payseur's
jewelry establishment.
- Mr. John A. Graham, of Chester, last week,
expressed fine setter pup to Mr.. n. ?. Ap
polt, a sportsman of Baltimore. He will
shortly ship one to a gentlemen in New York
who has spoken for one at $50.
A Laurens county man returning from
Arkansas, to which State he and a party went
last year, reports good land but terrible un
healthiness. The South Carolinians there all
want to come back, he says. The chills drove
him back to South Carolina. ...
The City Council of Greenville has re-
solved to grant no additional liquor license
during the present year. 1t is said this ac
tion was in consequence of information that q
number of Spartanburg dealers, whose occupa
ton had departed as the result of the late
election under the local option Act, intended
to transfer their business to Greenville.
The Carolina Spartan of last week says
1t is very seldom that wheat makes as poor
show as at the present time. Very little Of
it has come up, for there has been no weather
since the first of December warm enough to
bring wheat up. Many persons have not yet
finished sowing. Wheat sOwed pretty thick
on strong land as late as the 1st of February
will make some years, a fine yield.
- Chester Bulletin, Friday: Mr.. William
Caldwell of Smiths T. o., while out cunning
on last Saturday with Messrs. Bob Gill ant
John Hinton, was accidentally shot by tht
latter. The gun was loaded with bird shot
nine of which lodged in Mr.. Caldwell's neck
and face. He was also shot in the nose anc
one shot cut the skin from one side OF hi:
forehead to the other The wound is moi
at all serious.
"A fire in Newberry on Tuesday of last
week destroyed two brick stores belonging tt
James A. Crotwell. Loss, $40, 900; insurance
81, 600. Other losses and insurance as follows
w. E. Pelham, drugs and medicines, $1,000
insurance, $4,000. Pease s. Co., bar and bill
lard saloon, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. Silas
johnson, law Office and books, 81, 900; no in
surance. Wheeler Bros, confectionery, S.,
500; insurance, S1,S75. L. A. East, drugs
and medicines, $4,000; fully insured. Dr.
E. C. Jones, dentist, instruments and office
furniture, $500; fully insured. Total loss
S25, 600 insurance, $4,000.