Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

ana higher than Tor any previous year Sllce
1877.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Samuel Lore, ,vSr., one of Charleston's
oldest merchants, is dead, aged ninety.
Congressman Mackey has been serious
ly i'll at his home in. Mt. Pleasant, but at
last accounts was much improved.
- The President has detailed Second
Lieutenant Erasmus NJ. Weaver, Jr., Sec
ond Artillery, U. S. A., as Professor of Mil
itary Science and Tactics of the South Car
olina Military Academy at Charleston.
At Richburg, Chester county, on Satur-
day afternoon a horse of Mr.. w. P. Fergu-
son became frightened at a passing bicycle;
he was seized with violent shaking, from
which he became unmanageable and died in
half an hour.
A petition is in circulation in Sumter
with a view to reopening the liquor ques-
ton. Forty-seven families in the coun-
ty have pledged themselves not to pa
troniZe any merchant who lends his name
to such a movement.
Wilson Owens, Richard Owens and
James Winfield, the latter coloredO who
have been in jail at Abbeville for the past
two weeks, charged with the murder of
William Maddox, have been admitted to
bail by Associate Justice MCGOWAN.
- The Williamsburg Herald says: Mr.. j.
A. FoXworth was arrested for carelessly
placing the strychnine that caused the death
of Mr.. Cox. He asked the sheriff to let him
return home and get a bondsman. lie re-
fused to return and defied the deputy in
charge. The sheriff is after him.
The South Carolina colony that left the
Cannon's Camp Ground neighborhood, in
Spartanburg county, in the Fall Of 1882 and
located on Brinalee Mountains, Blount coun-
ty, Alabama, are disappointed and home
sick, and are preparing to return to their
native homes.
w. J. Carr, white, who has been a citi-
zen of Greenwood, on the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad, since last January, was
shot in the arm by j. S. Bailey last Sat
urday night, while committing robbery in
the store Of Bailey, Barksdale & Co. Carr
is from Hamburg.
Governor Jarvis, of North Carolina, has
notified the officers in Wilmington having
charge of Lynch, the party who is charged
with abductine a Young girl from her pa
rents in Sumter, telling them to hold him
until he is called for by the authorities OF
South Carolina. Lynch still remains in the
Wilmington Jail.
james Brown, colOred, of Walhalla, who
was tried and convicted of arson at the last
term of court for Oconee, and sentenced to
be hanged last Friday, has been reSplted for
thirty DAYS, in order to afford the Governor
time to examine into the merits of the ap-
plicatiOn for communication of the sentence
to life Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
-Rev. G. w. Manly, former pastor of the
Aiken Baptist Church, has written letter
to the intendant of Aiken from Leipslc,
Germany, asking for papers to establish MS
identity, so that he can prove to the ponce
that he is not a dynamite conspirator., MIR.
Manly is prosecuting his studies at the
University of Leipsic.
A pleasant reunion of the Pickens Senti-
nels, Company X, 9th Regiment 5: Z. Nolun-
shooters, was held on the End instant at
the romantic falls Oh Chinquapin Creek,
the dividing line between Lexington and
Aiken counties. Twenty eight veterans
were present. General Paul Quattlebaum
was the orator of the day.
- The State Normal School for white
teachers opened its proceedings on the !th
instant in the chapel of the South Carolina
College, Columbia. The exercises were
properly opened by Col. Coward, State su-
perintendent of education, and the institu-
ton bids fair to prove successful as it surely
will be beneficial to the teachers OF the
State. There are about $50 teachers in at
tendance.
- The Newberry Observer announces upon
"good authority that while Senator Hamp-
ton would prefer to retire to private life, so
that he could devote more time to his prl-
vate business yet while the people Waht al1 ms IS
services he is at their command" This Is
taken as indication that Senator Hampton
is willing to be his own successorin the Sen
ate. This will be very interesting piece
of news to many prominent gentlemen III
various parts of the State
The stockholders of the CheraW and
Chester Railroad Company held their an,
nual meeting at Chester on Tuesday of last
week. John b. Erwin, B. j. Witherspoon,
II. ID. Twitty and M. l.. Lemmond, of Ian
caster; w. A. Evans, of Chesterfield; W. II.
Hardin, O. Barber, Joseph Wylie, j. H.
Mcdaniel, S. J. Lewis, of Chester, were
elected directors. The board of directors
elected w. II. Hardin president, and ID.
TIemphill secretary and treasurer.
Governor Thompson has appointed the
following delegates to the proposed educa-
tional convention to be held in Louisville,
Ky, on the 10Th, Goth and 21st of next
month Col. A. Coward, State superinten-
dent Of education Hon. d. S. Henderson,
Aiken, chairman Of Senate committee on
education Hon. c. j. G. Hutson, Hampton,
chairman of House committee on education ;
Hon. J. S. Murray, Anderson, Prof. II. p:
Archer, Charleston, members State board
examiners Hon. Charles Petty, Spartan
burg Rev. G. +. Chichester, Florence.
- At the preliminary examination of the
prisoners accused of attempting to poison the
family of Mr. Daniel, near Spartanburg,
last week, held last Thursday before Trial
Justice Elford, evidence was elected which
caused all three-the girl and two men-to
be remanded for trial. 1t was proven that
the girl, who is a delicate octoroon, confess
ed that she stole the bottle Of arsenic and
gave it to one Of her. fellow prisoners, for
which service she was promised calico
dress, or, if she told any one-death. Prof.
Dupre, by chemical test, found arsenic in
the coffee grounds, anda spoonful OF the fluid
from them killed a cat in five minutes.
GREENvILLE DISTRICT CoURT.-The fol-
lowing sentences were passed by Judge Bry-
an, last Saturday in the U. S. District
Court at Greenville, upon persons VINO nave
pleaded guilty or been convicted OF Of
fences against the interna! revenue laws,
such as working in an illicit distillery, re-
moving or concealing and retailing liquor
without having paid the special tax pro-
vided by law: Henry Williams, colored,
ten months in the county jail and SlOo tine:
John Galloway, three months in Pickens
Jail and 5000 fine; Willis GWynn, two
months in Walhalla Jail; Waddy Young,
blood, ten months in Columbia Jail and $500
fine; Lew Mandrum, colored, three months
in Spartanburg jail and 500 fine; Thos.
Lynch, colored, one month in GreenVllle
jail; Warren Williams, colored, one month
in Greenville jail; Dean Gibson, colored,
two months In Pickens Jail; Adam Ridley
one month in Walhalla Jail Joseph Chap