Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-14
MOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

unmarried man about 3O years OF age, ana a
native Of Due West, S. c., where his pa
rents now live.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The May weeds are waist high on the
streets of BarnWell.
The crops in Barnwell are reported to
have suffered very much for want of rain.
South Carolina graduates one cadet at
West Point this year, Mr. Davis, of Fair
field, who stands number four in class of 52
The monument at the grave of Gen.
Marion, in Berkeley county, was partially
destroyed bya recent storm.
Mrs. G. R. Rains, the widow Of the late
Fen. Gabriel R. Rains of the Confederate
army, died at Aiken on last Saturday.
The sales of cotton at Lancaster have
amounted, since the first of September to
II ,OO7 bales.
A cannon ball weighing four pounds was
picked up in the old British fort near
Ninety-Six last week.
1t is against the law to fish with net
between the 1st Of May and the 1st Of Sep
tember in South Carolina.
In the recent big cotton fire in New York
Messrs. J. NJ. Ivy & Co., Of Rock Hill, had
44S bales burned, but it was fully insured.
A. drug store in Barnwell county has
hanging in it's southeastern corner over lot
of patent physic the sadly suggestive legend,
"Nearer my God to Thee"
Col. Thomas l.. Jones, who was recently
defeated, or cheated out of the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Kenthckey is
native Of this StatesI
Fred Nix, the noted Republican poll
tician of Barnwell county, lost two of his
children last week from diphtheria, both dy-
on the same day.
The Lancaster Ledger says: A white
man, named Smith, is suspected as the in
cendiary who fired the barn of Mr.. w. D.
Hyatt at Pleasant Valley.
More than thirty persons, white and
colored, have been arrested by the town au-
thOrities of Anderson for the nOn-payment
of the street tax.
Mrs. Martha Boyce, wife of Rev. James
Boyce, D. D., associate editor of the Asso-
ciate Reformed Presbyterian, died at Due
West on the 4th instant The deceased had
been for years quite helpless with paralysis.
The story of the child of one of the Turk
ish bear exhibitors having been killed and
partly devoured by one of the bears in Ian.
caster county, the other day, is contradicted
by the Lancaster papers. The Turks have
not been in Lancaster for several weeks.
In Berkeley county the law against liquor
selling in the country districts is resisted on
the ground that the prohibition Of liquor
selling in the country is discrimination
other. Judge Wallace sustained the law,
and the case goes to the Supreme Court.
Rev. J. N. Craig of Holly Springs, Miss,
who was recently elected by the General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church, which
met at Lexington, KY, to the secretaryship
of the commission of home missions, was
pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lam
caster for ten or twelve years.
1t is fact not generally known that the
distinguished divine, DIR. McTyeire, OF the
NJ. E. Church South, was born and raised in
the. Sleightown neighborhood in Barnwell
county. He owns considerable land in that
section, and frequently visits the place of
his birth, and on every such occasion he
spends for presents for his renters fully the
amount many of them pay as rent money.
The total receipts of the first instalment
of State taxes up to June 8th this year
amount to about $4,000 more than those OF
the corresponding period of last year. 1t is
estimated that if this ratio Of increase con-
tinues the receipts of State taxes payable in
May will reach, by. the end of this month";
$171 900. This will be over one-fourth Of
the total amount of State taxes due this
year, and will be a very considerable in
crease over the ratio of May payments of
previous years.
Wellington Stepp, aged II, a son of Rev.
A. G. Stepp, was drowned while bathing in
the mill pond of Mr.. j. R. Hutchinson, near
Gowensvile in Greenville county, on Sat
urday last. He started to swim across the
pond, which is about one hundred and fifty
yards wide, and on reaching the middle of
it sank, mysteriously, and was drowned be,
before assistance from his comrades could
reach him. It is supposed he was attacked
with cramp on getting into the cold cur
rent of the middle of the pond, and thus
lost control of his limbs. His body was re-
covered after draining the pond, and was
inferred on Monday.