Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| IS. &. Cooley, merchant OF NalterDOrO'
has committed suicide.
- The Fall session of the Citadel Academy
at Charleston opened on Tuesday of last
week with full numbers.
| - The Greenville Fair opened last Tues.
day, to continue for three days. The pros.
poets have been extremely tiattering for a
successful exhibition.
Lynch, of Sumter, who recently left
his wife and ran away with q factory girl II
years old, has been sent to the penitentiary
| for two years.
&C. f. Jenkins, who killed Il negro named
| Joe Clyburn in Lancaster, about two weeks
ago, has been tried and acquitted, the de-
fendant establishing plain case of self-de'
| fence.
Chester Reporter: Rev. Geo. A. Tren-
holm has declined the call to the pastor
ate of the Presbyterian Church Of Chester
His congregation, the Second Presbyterian
Church of East Nashville, refuses to release
him.
- The Edgefeld Chronicle is very anxious
for the Gaffney City and Rutherfordton
Road to run by Edgefield, and thinks that
in Edgefeld county through which the road
"Oulu lull houib w so SooNt IA 'S'eiASAS'
In the Union Court of Sessions, last week,
Henry Long and his wife, and their son,
Charner, were tried for the murder of MIR.
Belew, last summer, full account Of which
we published. Henry Long and his wife
against Charner Long.
The assessment of real estate in Ker-
shaw county this year exceeds the assess
ment last year by $40, ,7S5. In the same
county only about 81, 200 taxes have been
collected 500 of the May installment, and
S1,1OO in September. The taxes for the
county amount to S32, ,5S3, IS; so that there
still remains uncollected about $29, 900.
Joseph b. Clark, who was charged with
an attempt to commit an outrage on the
person of Mrs. Began at Haile's Gold Mine,
in Lancaster county, was tried in Lancaster
last week. The case occupied three days.
The result was a mistrial, and the prisoner
was remanded to Jail to await new trial.
The case excited great interest
Major T. S. Mills has shown the Chester
Reporter letter from Latham, AlXander
several estimates on the cotton crop of last
year are within 244 bales of the true figures.
Maj. Mills estimate, as it will be remem-
bered, was within G2S bales of the mark.
So the Major is ruled out and Chester dosen't
get the prize.
The Abbeville Medium tells the fo, low
ing story of the rare quality of the W .lsky
sold in that town: "Wins. Weston, cOlored,
came to town on the 18th Of September and
took a good drink Of whisky. 1t made
him drunk, and he has been drunk ever
since. He will eat nothing, but imagines
that he is surrounded with piles of good fat
bacon. He hasn't the jimjams, but seems
to border on insanity"
- Chester Reporter: The Associate Re-
formed Synod of the South will hold its
next annual session in Chester, beginning
on Thursday, 25th instant. The Synod is
made up Of the pastors of churches and one
elder from each congregation. About one
hundred delegates are expected to attend
the approaching session. The citizens of
the town will be asked to entertain the
members of Synod during their stay in our
midst, and we know that they will respond
promptly and cheerfully.
Marion Merchant and Farmer: A nephew
Of Judge Presley, named David Adams,
who has been in Marion day or two, on
Thursday morning became deranged to
such an extent that he imagined he had
the control and direction Of II vast scheme
of some sort in Florida, and among other
acts telegraphed to Florence for q special
train to carry him thither; also ordered
all trains on the road between here and
Savannah to be switched off to permit his
rapid passage. He used Judge Pressley's
name to insure success. The special train
from Florence arrived, but we have not
heard whether or not further Inconvenience
to the road resulted before his demented
condition was discovered by his friends.