Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SUUIh CAhULlNA NLHS.
- Meat and flour have both jumped up in
Spartanburg Bacon is now II cents there
and flour has advanced 80 cents barrel.
There are now 564 lunatics in the State
Asylum and the number is constantly in
creasing.
The Columbia stocking factory has com
menced operations, and when fully under
way will turn out 5000 to $500 pairs per
day.
j. Middleton Whitesill of Cow Castle
| township, Orangeburg county, was kicked
by a horse one day last week. from the ef-
| fects of which he died.
A colored woman was washing clothing
under tree in Barnwell county last week,
when q storm of wind came up, blew the
| tree down on her and killed her instantly.
Rev. w. M. Grier, d. d., of Due West,
has been selected to deliver the Grafton in
Greenville on Memorial Day, the 10th of
May.
Mr. l.. b. Toole commenced shipping
cabbages from Williston, Barnwell county,
on the 18th ultimO He expects to ship
2O,OOO this month.
- The total taxable value of property in
Aiken county by the recent assessment is
81 $50. The total assessment for school
purposes is Sl3,179.32.
A number of pasture fences in Chinqua-
pin and Gilbert Hollow townships, in Lex
fngton county, have..recently been destroyed
by the opponents of the Stock law.
The ice mandatory, machinery, and
forty tons of ice belonging to c. G. Haber-
NIGHT, in Columbia, and valued at $2O,0 600,
was destroyed by an accidental fire on Mon
day afternoon.
- The general opinion is that there will
be pretty fair peach crop in Spartanburg
county, if there are no frosts after this. In
some places they are not injured at all,
while in others they are killed entirely.
- Mr.. Thomas f. Enright, of Abbeville
county, died on last Monday. He left the
greater part of his estate, amounting to
about $4,000, for the building of a Catholic
church in Abbeville.
MIR. Thomas Miles, of Philadelphia,
owns plantation containing 5000 acres, in
Clarendon; and yet our northern friends
declare that the plantations are all too large
in the South.
The old grave yard at Newberry, in
which Judge John Bolton O'NealI is buried,
is greatly neglected, and an effort is being
made to preserve it from further desecra-
ton.
- The Agricultural and Mechanical AS
sQciatiOn of Greenville has decided to add
another interesting feature to the agricultu-
raj gathering on the 9TH instant. A Jersey
cattle and butter show will be given in ad-
dition to the addresses.
There are twenty-fou counties in South
Carolina that have a gre dater number Of
acres Of land than Newberry county; but
there are only eleven couhties in the State
whose real estate has greater total value,
according to the comptr6ller's books.
-Precept and practice: The editor of the
A 110 D,,ooo hot
just now he "is paying some attention
to farming. He has some corn to sell to
any cotton farmer who may be behind on
bread, and is preparing to plant more corn,
to sell next Spring"
R. C.. Crockett, white, of Lancaster, who
is accused of shooting Harriet Belk, colored,
has been arrested in Monroe, n. c. Sun
day night placard signed "COlOred Peo-
pie" was posted on store door in Lancaster
denouncing the deed, accusing the white
people Of conniving at the outrage and
making threat of retaliation. A public
meeting of the white citizens of Lancaster
was held next day denouncing the outrage.
The Anderson Journal says the small
grain crop of Anderson county generally is
reported as in very promising condition,
fully as much so as last year, though by no
means as extensive. A number Of causes
combined last fall to prevent the seeding
of large areas, but we hear of one now and
then who has a larger crop than he had last
year. All such are fortunate, and the next
in order will be those who plant plenty of
corn this year.
Professors Boggs and Hemphill, of the
Columbia Theological Seminary, will be for
mally inaugurated some time this month,
probably on the week preceding the meet
ing of the General Assembly. 1t is expect
ed that the annual meeting of the Alumni
Association will take place at the same
time, and that the Alumni lecture before
the students by the Rev. Dr. B. NJ. Palmer,
on "The Theology of Prayer" will also be
delivered on that occasion.
j. w. Billings, who has been the cashier
in General I. S. Bamberg's bank at Bam-
berg, Barnwell county, since August, 1879,
was arrested on April Is upon the affidavit
of General 'Bamberg, charging him with
breach Of trust and the fraudulent conver-
sion of various sums of money, amounting
lars Billings gave bond for his appearance
| for trial at the June term of Court in the
sum of 81, 100, Colonel J. T. McCounts of
Bamberg and the Messrs Fairy of Branch
vile becoming his sureties.
The Supreme Court of this State decided
a somewhat novel case on Friday. A man
| was convicted of rnanslaughter in Edgefeld
| in 1876, and sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Having served five years of his term he ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court for release on
ha6eas corpus on the ground that under the
law the circuit court had no right to in
fict life sentence on him. The Supreme
Court ruled that under the decision in the
Bond case it had no right to interfere after
Judgment had commenced to be executed
although it intimated the opinion that the
sentence was erroneous. The prisoner will
probably obtain his release by pardon.
Frazier Copeland, colored, was hanged
in the county Jail at Walhalla, at II o'clock
last Friday, by Sheriff Robbins for the
murder of William J. Hunnicutt in De-
cember last. AT 10 o'clock Copeland spoke
from window of the Jail for one hour
to mixed crowd of white and colored
people. 1t was rambling talk, chiefly
denying that he killed Hunnicutt. He adj
mitted, however, that he was near enough
to hear the licks struck. He was attended
in his last moments by Rev. c. d. Mann,
white, and Rev. T. j. Clark and Rev.
Young, colored. Although Copeland was a
Baptist minister, he was denied burial in
their cemetery. Rev. Clark, pastor of the
Methodist Church at WaIRalia came to
the rescue and had his congregation to take
charge of the body giving it a decent burial
the next day after the execution.
OUR PUBLIC ROADS.
|, 1t seems that Senator Butler means to
| fight out our public roadquestion, if it takes
IiVe-long Summer through. The Senator
promises to colate the road systems Of the
several States and publish the same. 1t is
we'll that the Senator should turn his atten-
ton to this important practical matter, but