Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The recent term of Spartanburg Court
contributed thirteen convicts to the penl-
tentiary.
Thomas Hunter, of Oconee county, fell
into a we'll forty feet deep last week and
was instantly killed.
1T is alleged that one of the men connect
ed with Sells circus threw negro man
from the train, near Central, on the Air
Line Railroad, and killed him.
The Orangeburg Baptist Association met
last week. There are eighteen churches
with about seventeen hundred members
within the bounds of the association.
The question Of holding an election in
Camden in December on the question of
"licensen or ''no license" is now being agi-
tated.
The gin-house of Henry Kirkland, COL
ored, in Hampton county, was burned last
week. The gin-house of Mr.. H. H. Peoples,
also in Hampton county, was burned last
Saturday night. Both fires were incendiary.
A fire in Charleston, last Monday morn
ing, destroyed between fifteen hundred and
two thousand bales of cotton at the South
Carolina Railway yard. 1t was Through
cotton" from New York. Loss, 100000,
fully covered by insurance.
- The meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, to take place in Col
umbia to-day, is understood to be called for
the purpose of considering the political sit
uatiOn, and more directly to take steps for
the defence of the political prisoners at their
trial in the United States Court, which, it
is understood, will take place next March.
Whites, the defaulting treasurer of New
berry county, pleaded guilty, last Monday,
to the charge Of failing to turn over the
moneys of his Office to his successor, amount
Il f,,yr,t, ri 10, q
umbia Register Alright, the State and cOun-
ty will thus recover the amount of the de-
falcation, and Mr.. Whites will again occupy
his previous good standing.
- Edwin d. McKittrick, who resided on
the Spartanburg side Of the line between
that and GreenVille counties, was killed by
a train of the Airline Railroad near the
city of Greenville last Thursday night. He
was seen about 6 2. NJ, making his way
from town towards the place where he was
killed, having jug of whisky in his pos
session, and was considerably under the in
tluence of liquor.
Mitchell Putnam, who left Laurens coun-
ty in 1877, is now on visit to his friends in
that county. He is lO3 years of age and in
"a remarkable state Of preservation lie
was in the war of 1872, and also in the war
for Texas independence, and for his partici-
patton in each of those conflicts he receives
an annual pension. He has about 300 rea-
tives living in Laurens county, and for the
purpose of visiting them he has made the
long journey from his Texan home alone
and unasSisted.
An effort is being made by the friends
of Major Lewis r. Redmond, the famous
moonshiner, who is now confined in Erie
county prison, New York, to have him re-
moved to the State Penitentiary at Column
bia. This is on account of his failing health.
1t is understood that the Erie prison keeper,
the prison physician, chaplain and wardens,
all recommend the change, and the movers
in the majors behalf, headed by Judge
Field, of Pickens, are hopeful of ofhaving him
transferred within a week or two.