Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-31
SOJITH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The Baptist congregation of Rock Hill
has secured the pastoral services of Rev. }.
A. Brown, of Virginia.
All of the State offices were closed on
Tuesday of last week in respect to the men,
Dry of Ex-Governor Jeter.
- Arrangements have been completed for
opening the white and colored dnOrmalschools
in Columbia-a faculty for each having been
secured.
- Beaufort Democrats cast 399 votes in a
primary election for Sheriff, and Capt. Hen
ry D. Elliott receiving 1S4, will be appoint
ed by the Governor.
Columbia Register Commissioner Huske
has returned from Washington, whittier he
went to procure supply of shad for CataW-
ba River. He informs us that he placed
300, 900 of the little fishes in that river.
Two negro prisoners attacked Sheriff
Spofford in the Chesterfield county Jail on
Saturday. He defeated their attempt to es-
cape but will probably lose his eyesight
from the gouging they gave him during his
gallant fight.
- Prominent members of the Baptist
church at Ridgeway, Fairfield county, have
subscribed one thousand dollars for the pur-
pose of building in the corporate limits of
the town handsome church. The work
Will commence at once.
The taxpayers of Bishopville, Lancaster
county, have held a meeting and heartily
and unanimously endorsed the project OF
building railroad from Georgetown to Lam
caster. A committee was appointed to cor
respond with the projectors about the mat
| ter.
- Mr.. Cassius NJ. Carpenter, Collector of
Internal Revenue for the First District of
South Carolina, who left Charleston on the
10Th instant for his home at Hartford, Pa,
on sick leave, died at the COlOnade Hotel in
Philadelphia on Sunday of last week, OF
consumption
The Charleston Cotton Manufacturing
Company shipped on Saturday the first pro-
ductiOn of its looms in the shape of a bale of
four-quarter sheeting, 900 yards. The mill
is now running fifty-three looms, but by the
end Of the present week will have one hun
dred looms in operation.
james Whitaker, colored farmer resid-
ing in the West Wateree section of KershaW
county, died on Thursday, the 18th instant.
He was the father of eXCadet Whitaker,
and was an honest, industrious man, having
accumulated nice property. He left about
50, 900 in money and a farm which is valued
at 1000.
- The Rev. d. w. Frazier, colOred, of
Fairfield, is going to Africans missionary.
A meeting was held at the Fairfield Insti-
tute last week on the eve of his departure.
He delivered an address on "The Hope of
Africa" Frazier was graduated at Howard
University in Washington, and his record
while there was commented upon in tiatter-
ing terms by the journals Of that city.
- Chester Bulletin, Friday: The court Of
reference in the Mills case was again in ses-
sion last Wednesday. All the evidence in
the case has about been concluded, the State
reserving the right to introduce further evil
dence ifit sees proper. The attorneys deem
ing that argument could not be concluded in
time to get the case into the June term of
Court, the reference was adjourned over till
July 1st.
| - Chester Bulletin: last week Mr.. j. n.
Whaite received by express two immense
Leonberg dogs from TpWanda, Pa. These
dogs are imported, and are the property Of
Father Kelly, Catholi ic Priest of ToWanda,
who has sent them here for breeding purpo-
ses. They resemble liohs in size and color
and looks, and are used lin the Alps for find
ing persons who have been lost in the snow.
They are much larger than the st. Bernard
| dogs, the two specimens here averaging
each 165 pounds weight.
Columbia Register IA reliable citizen of
Lexington brings intelligence Of dastardly
county, especially in the neighborhood Of
Bull Swamp. He states that the opposition
to the stock law is manifesting itself afresh
| in violent manner. Where farmers have
left their crops open and built pasture fences
the fences are burned down, graves dug close
to houses and threatening letters sent with
pictures of coffins to the farmers who persist
in enclosing their pasture lands. Several
fights have also occurred. The Outrages can
only result in the severest punishment
known to the law if the depredatOrs are ar
rested.
"A very serious shooting affair took place
last Saturday night about mile and half
from Aiken, in which an old white man,
Matthew Turner, was shot by young white
man named B. Weiss. About a week ago
report was circulated that a number Of
tramps or suspicious characters were lurk-
ing about near town. The report, however,
was unfounded, but appeared to have created
fear in Weiss, who was walking along the
road and saw Mr.. Turner advancing to-
wards him, and believing him to be one of
the tramps he fired without even hailing
him. The ball lodged in the lower part of
the abdomen and death is apprehended.
Columbia correspondence Neacs and C0,t-
rier t: Governor Thompson has received an
invitation to attend and request to ap-
point representative for the State to the
Tertio-M Millenial anniversary celebration of
the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This
celebration of the 333d year of European Oc
cupation Of the ancient Indian City of Pueb
10 is to be accompanied by grand mining
and industrial exposition of and for the
Rocky Mountain region. The festivities
promised are of novel character. The Gel
ebration is to last from July 2nd to August
3rd, and the exposition is to be kept open for
the same period, each day of which is to be
occupied with one or more amusements.
The Governor has pardoned John Black
well, who was convicted of manslaughter in
Laurens in September, 1879, for the killing
Of w. G. Kilgore, and sentenced to six years
of hard labor in the Penitentiary. At the
trial the jury unanimously asked the presid-
ing Judge to impose the lightest sentence
known to the law for manslaughter, which
is ten years in the Penitentiary. The par
don of Blackwell was asked for by eleven
Of the jury who tried the case, the twelfth
juror being dead, and by many of the most
prominent citizens of Laurens. Blackwell
was confined in the Laurens Jail from De-
cember 2, 1878, to September, 1879, when he
was sent to the Penitentiary. He has been
in confinement nearly four years and half.
MERE.MENTION.
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines proposes to be
reasonable and compromise with the city of
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