Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-28
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

ance will meet at Marion on July 3rd.
One firm in Anderson has sold over
thirty reapers this season.
| The oat crop of Chester county this year
will be about half of that of last year.
The county commissioners of Edgefeld
have been indicted for failing to keepa pub
lie highway in good repair.
| WIN. Schmitt, German of Charleston,
committed suicide by shooting himself with
a pistol last Monday morning.
| The experiment of raising upland rice
has been satisfactorily settled by Mr.. Cely
in Greenville county. 1t can be made a
paying crop.
Mr.. J. d. Higgins, of Mullins, Marion
county, gathered last week ninety barrels
of potatoes from an acre and an eighth. He
shipped them to New York.
| Dave Jackson, colored, who was arrest
ed by the sheriff of Lancaster county on sus-
picion of having committed murder in
Jackson county, Ga, in 1881, has been re-
leased. He was not the man.
| - The trial of Emil Hyman, charged with
the murder of Fanny Cochran, in Charles
ton, on the Goth of last November, was COM
menced in the Charleston Sessions Court last
Monday.
Last Saturday morning John II. Camp
| Seu, NndSlcl VI Cllo Slty IAliiAoliooHS, Va
Charleston, committed suicide by shooting
himself with pistol No cause is assigned
for the act.
Governor Thompson has appointed Col.
Dancy p. Duncan, of Union county, to fill
the vacancy on the board of Railroad Com
missioners caused by the death Of eX-Gov-
ernOr Jeter.
"A gentleman Of Anderson says that he
has been living there for forty-tve years,
and he has never known the farmers SO
prosperous as now. Corn is selling there at
fifty cents per bushel.
Wheat in Oconee county is better than
it has been in years and fall oats have not
been injured much, while the summer crops
of corn and cotton, though small, have been
thoroughly cleaned and are in fine growing
condition.
The residence of Stephen r. Ferguson,
near Mount Prospect Church, Chester coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire week ago last
Saturday night. A portion OF the house
hold furniture and wearing apparel were
saved. No insurance.
-Chas Goings, colored, of Fairfield coun-
ty, met with a horrible death last week.
While riding mule he was thrown to the
ground and his foot becoming entangled in
the gearing, he was dragged for a considera-
Ole distance, anu So Dduly llJuIcu GlldG llc
only lived fifteen minutes.
The order of the knights and Ladies of
Honor has grown to such proportions in
establish Grand Lodge. Past Protectors
Of the various lodges will assemble at Flor
ence on the 10Th of July for this purpose,
and to elect the grand officers.
A week ago, last Saturday, Daniel Har-
lee, colored, about 10 years old, living on
the plantation of Captain A. T. Harlee,
Marion county, went to a well to draw some
water, and as he turned to leave the well
was seized with a fit of epilepsy, fell back
ward in the water and was drowned.
After visit of a week of unbroken pleas
ures in New England, the Washington
Light Infantry, of Charleston, started on
their return home last Sunday. At New
York they were met by a committee of the
Old Guard and escorted to their armOry,
where the whole party breakfasted.
The Rev. J. w. TarbouX and his wife
have left Spartanburg for New York, where
they will embark for Brazil. For a year
past Mr. TarbouX has felt it his duty to en-
ter the foreign missionary field, ana IN look !
ing around Brazil seemed to attract him.
The missionary board of the NJ. f. Church
accepted his offer and at last have started
him forth.
A very severe storm struck Florence
about half past three o'clock on Wednesday
of last week. A large shed built by the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road Company, back Of their shops, under
which cars were being built, was blown
down and the workmen narrowly escaped
with their lives. Nobody was seriously
hurt.
In Greenville, on Wednesday of last
week, Mrs. Jane White, wife OF Charles
White, was seriously burned by the eXplo-
sion of can of kerosine oil from winch she
was pouring oil to kindle fire. One of
her children, small boy, was also severely
burned. Her clothes ignited upon the eX-
plosion of the can and were burned almost
off her before assistance reached her.
The Winnsboro NelcS of Saturday says:
The numerous friends of Judge VIM. R.
Robertson will deeply regret to learn that
he was stricken with paralysis on Thursday
morning, his left side being affected. On
Wednesday he was in his usual health.
There were no premonitory symptoms of
the disease whatever, and the stroke which
came at an early hour on Thursday morning
was quite sudden. There was no change IN
his condition Oh Friday.
Columbia Register, Sunday: The county
commissioners Of York, Lancaster, Sumter
and Lexington have sent to Commissioner
Butler reports of the number of miles OF
public roads worked, number of bridges,
days of work, cost, &C., in their respective
counties. These are all that have been re-
received, except the counties of Marion,
Richland and Laurens, previously mention
ed. There must certainly be some way. to
reach the delinquents, as the commissioner
should not be balked in his laudable under
taking by the dereictiOn of those whose