Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-12-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

1t is stated that j. Hendrix McLain, the
Greenback apostle has gone to Boston.
The citizens of Aiken county are hold
| ing public meetings in opposition to the
formation of Butler county.
Cotton pickingeis, over in Darlington
county, and her farmers are planting largely
of wheat and oats.
- The grading of that portion of the Green
wood, Laurens and Augusta Railroad which
lies in Laurens county, IS now finished.
Both the white and colored teachers of
NeWberry county have formed teachers as
sociations "for the mutual benefit of the
teachers in matters educational"
- Mr.. William 7. Anderson, of Rock Hill,
has recently been granted patent on wise
of his own invention. 1t is quite an in
genious device and he may realize fortune
from its sales.
- The Darlington Ners says: The cotton
crop is out and ginned up and the farmers
are left in debt, the crop not paying scarcely
fifty cents on the dollar Of expenses to
make it.
In obedience to the concurrent resolu-
tion adopted by the Legislature, Attorney
General Miles will take part in the de-
fense of the States officers now being pros,
ecuted in the United States Circuit Court at
Columbia.
With all the economy practised by the
County Commissioners for the last six years,
it seems that Barnwell finds it exceedingly
hard to redeem her obligations. This year
alone the shortage will be something over
two thousand dollars.
In compliance with the requirements
of the Constitution, Governor Thomson has
sent to the Legislature a statement of all
pardons and combinations granted by him
from December 5, 1882, to November |, 1888,
and the reasons therefor. Thirty four cases
| were acted upon. Fourteen of the prison
ers to whom Executive clemency was eX-
tended were white, and twenty were cOlored.
In nine Of these cases the sentences were
commuted, in one case the fine was remit
ted, in another a pardon was granted on
conditions, and in tWenty-three cases par
dons were unconditionally granted. In the
exercise of his clemency the Governor was
no respecter of persons, and the number
of colOred convicts in whose cases action
was taken was in excess of the whites.
Among the convicts who were pardoned
there was one white woman and one cOlOred
| woman.
- On Wednesday of last week, a serious
wreck occurred on the c., G.. & A. Railroad,
thirty miles this side of Columbia. The
pay train was coming this way under full
head of steam, when it was suddenly stop.
ped by coming in contact with the rear end
of freight train that was standing on the
main line. The pay. train was going at
full speed and it crashed into the freight
train with terrible force. The engine of the
pay train split one of the freight cars COM
pletely in two and ran on the side track
CARRYING another car with it, something
after the style of turtle and its she'll The
impending catastrophe was seen in time to
avoid a loss of life. All the hands on the
freight train hoped to the ground, and en-,
gineer, fireman, conductor and all aboard
came and escaped with their lives. The
officers of the road had a court of inquiry
and found that the accident was due to neg
ligence on the part of the freight train in not
tagging the pay train that was known to
be coming behind. The conductor and all
the crew Of the freight train, with the ex-
ception of the engineer and fireman, were
discharged.