Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-29

county, received an order on last Thursday
for trial lot of it's yarns for export to
China. 1t is thought that the yarns made
by the factory are especially adapted to
the China trade
In the Spartanburg court of Sessions, the
jury charged with the case of Sam Walker,
colored, indicted for the murder of Nose
Hawkins, also cOlored, returned a verdict
Of guilty last Thursday night. The result OF
the trial gives great satisfaction to the COL
cred people generally, most of whom have
been convinced of the prisoners guilt for
months past. The jury deliberated about
forty minutes.
The Rock Hill Herald of Thursday
says: Mr.. Dudley Jones, formerly a citizen
of York county, died in Floyd county, Ga,
on the 10th instant, aged about 80 years.
Mr.. Jones was we'll known in the Bethesda
section of this county and was highly es-
teemed. He was married three times and
all his wives are buried in the cemetery at
Ebenezer, where his remains were also in
tered on Monday last"
Capt. Barber, of Chester, has returned
from the North, where he purchased for
the use of the Cedar Shoal Factory four
Clement attachments, two carders and 1O4
spindles. When the machinery is put into
place the producing capacity of the factory
Philadelphia Capt. Barber had the yarn of
his factory tested by experienced handlers
of yarn. 1t ranked l2S; the standard be-
ing 100.
Some months ago man calling him.
self Adams and representing that he was
the correspondent of the Boston Journal,
went to Greenville. He went to the Pei
Zer Cotton Mills under the name of c. G.
Upham, and after working there awhile
was employed by the -Greenville Cotton
Seed Oil Mills to pat up its machinery.
He was discharged because he wouldn't
attend to his business and drifted to Angus
ia where he forged Prof. Harris name to
two checks and then left for parts unknown.
-Hoke G.. Secrest, who made his escape
from the Insane Asylum at Raleigh, n. G.,
last October, has been arrested in Fairfield
county, for stealing COW. He was calling
himself Thomas Medlin, and after he was
brought before the Trial Justice he told who
he was Hoke Secrest will be remembered
as resident of Union county, n. c., who
killed his wife and stepdaughter while
travelling through Burke county in that
State. He was declared insane at the time
and sent to the Asylum, and it is said
he shows evidences of insanity now, and
will probably be sent back to the Asylum.
john Kearney, aged about 20 years,
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from the depot in Chester on Wednesday of
last week. The unfortunate man was well
known, as having formerly been an eXten-
sive cattle dealer at Richburg, in Chester
county. He came up from his home to
Chester that morning and was on his way
to board the Cheraw and Chester train,
when in crossing the G. G. & A track he
was struck by the engine of the incoming
passenger train on that road and instantly
killed. He was partially deaf. He was un-
married and his only relative living in this
country is a brother.
The building of the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad bridge over the CataWba River is
under way and it is thought the bridge will
be completed by the first day of May. The
bridge now being built is only a temporary
affair until rock piers can be constructed.
It is built on large pine poles driven in
to the bottom of the river, five Of them be-
ing driven in q row every twenty feet. On
the top of these poles a cap is fitted, called
by railroad men bent, and on these bents
the stringers and iron rails are laid. So far
seven bents have been made, extending
thirty feet into the river. The river at this
point is five hundred feet wide; therefore
three hundred and seventy feet is yet to be
built.
Williamsburg Herald: The Kingstree
Musical Amateurs and the Georgetown So
cials indulged in a rare and novel telephone
entertainment last week. The club at
Kingstree played several airs which were
distinctly heard in Georgetown, and when
the Georgetown club played it could be
heard at Kingstree. When the familiar air
"Sweet Bye and Bye" was played at Kings
tree, Solicitor Dargan at Georgetown accom-
panied, in exact time, the chorus with the
bass, which could be heard at Kingstree,
and as "distance lends enchantment to the
view" 50 likewise a softness to the music
Conversation by telephone between parties
at these points, nearly fifty miles apart, is
a common thing.