Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-29

he had corn and bacon enough to do him
without having to buy-he is mot as other
men are"
The South Carolina Annual Conference
of the NJ. f. Church, South, will meet in
Sumter this year. 1t will assemble on the
18th of December, with Bishop a. W. Will
son, of Baltimore, in the chair.
- At Chester, on Wednesday afternoon of
last week, Joe Kennedy, Il decrepid colored
south bound train of the c. G. & \. Railroad
and instantly killed.
- Rock Hill Herald: The new engine for
the factory has arrived and will be put up in
few days. The parts of the old engine
which were shipped off for repairs have
been finished, and will, it is thought, be in
Rock Hill within the next two weeks.
- Georgetown county, it appears, will
have to remain under the stock law. The
petitions for exemption in that county were
not signed by the requisite number of free
hold voters, and the County Commissioners
therefore refused to declare the exemption.
- In the Court of Sessions at Greenville,
last week, William Carson and Thomas
Good, colored charged with the murder,
last summer, of James Massey, colOred, were
tried and found guilty Of manslaughter, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for term OF
ten years each.
- The fund for the restoration of the South
Carolina room at Mount Vernon now
amounts to $64S. OF this sum, Greenville
gave s165; Richland, S13l; Spartanburg,
Sl12; Anderson, $73; Edgefield, $5S; An.
dersOn, s73; Edgefeld, s5S; Union, $6S, and
York, 500.
Winnsboro dispatch of Thursday says:
'Nine dwellings were entered here last
s,.l.41 1>,,,,
stolen. One of the robbers was captured
to-day at Ridgeway and brought to this
place on the afternoon train and lodged in
Jail. Great excitement prevails here over
his arrest, and there is open talk of lynch
ing him."
- The Greenville Npws tell Of two farmers
named Austin and Dickey, who worked
Jointly farm of $50 acres which had been
in cultivation forty-five or fifty years and
was considered worn out. Their theory
was that by intelligent farming and good
management these lands could be made
productive, and the result was that they
realized some 81 200 for the crop they raised
this year. They did it by deep plowing,
fertiiizing and the use of labor-saving ma
chinery, thus not only demonstrating their
theory, but setting good example to other
farmers.
An extra term of court for Spartanburg
county is now in sessions, Judge Hudson
presiding. Some interesting cases were
tried last week. The case Of Finch VS..
Finch for SANDER occupied nearly two days.
The defendant is the grandfather of the
plaintiff, and had used towards her, in the
presence of her children, "words imputing
to her unchastity." Her character was sup
ported by score of the best men in the
community. The jury found for the plain
tiff in the sum of 81, ,66G. The detendent
has given notice of motion for a new trial,
principally on the ground of excessive dam
age.
- Columbia Yeonaaa: Asoutside contracts
expire, the convicts are returned to the Pen
itentiary, where they will probably remain.
There is plenty of room as well as demand
for their services in and about the Peniten-
tiary, where, it is thought, they will here
after be employed. Forty Of the cOnvicts
who have been engaged at work on the Lau-
rens Railroad, were returned few days
since, and it is more than likely that they
have come to stay. AS other contracts eX-
pire, the cOnvictS will probably be called in,
and their labor utilized on the canal and in
the various workshops and industries with
in the walls.
In the Court of Sessions at Greenvile,
last Friday. in the case of the State against
n. b. Freeman, convicted Of selling liquor
behind a screen, Il new trial was refused by
Judge Kershaw and the edetendantsentenced
to pay a fine of 5000 or be imprisoned for six
months in the county Jail. The decision in
Freeman's case resulted in a general taking
down of screens by the bar rooms of the
city. OF the eighteen retail liquor estab-
ments in the city one is in cellar and two
in back rooms. These continue business as
heretofore upon the assumption that the de-
cision does not affect their cases. The front
doors of the bar rooms have been thrown
wide open, and in the absence Of the screens
and blinds everything going on within is
fully open to public view.
- Rock Hill Herald: a special meeting of
Bethel Presbytery was held at Rock Hill on
Friday night, 10th instant, to make ar
rangements to ordain Licentiate w. B. Jen-
nings to the ministry and to install him as
pastor of the Rock Hill Church. In accor-
dance with the arrangements made at that
meeting, Mr.. Jennings preached his trial ser
mon on Saturday morning. 1t was highly
satisfactory and evinced the thorough fitness
of the candidate for the sacred duties upon
which he was about to enter. After the SER
mon and another by Rev. Mr.. Jordan, of
Winnsboro, the Licentiate was examined
and afterwards ordained. His examination
was thorough and was more than satistacto-
nv. On Sunday morning, after the morning
services, he was duly installed as pastor of
the church by the committee appointed for
that purpose-Revs. j. S. White and j. II.
Thornwel and Elder Peter Garrison.