Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-24
SOuTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Senator Butler has returned to Wash
ingtOn.
- Mr.. John F. Hobbs, the Lexington
Greenbacker, who has been in Australia
for some time, is pleased with that country
and is doing well.
An encampment of the companies COM
posing the Palmetto Regiment, to be held
in Columbia, in the month of August, is
talked Of.
The amount expended in Edgefeld
county last year for implements to work
the roads and for bridges was 81, 1915. In
1860 the amount expended for this purpose
was about $4,000.
Gen. Crawford, distinguished soldier
of the United States Army, was in Edge
field for day during the past week, on
visit to obtain from Mrs. Pickens certain
records and data for his history of the ear
lier period of the war.
- Messrs. Butler & Simkins, of Edgefeld,
the attorneys for Malloy in the recent suit
for damages against the New York Herald
in which verdict for $500 was finally
obtained, have been notified that no appeal
will be taken from that decision and the
money will be paid.
Three negro murderers have been sem
fenced to be hanged together at Orange
burg on the 22nd Of June-Richard JeffcOat
for the murder of Louis Rumph, William
Trezevant for the murder of Frank Mitchell
and Horace Hall for the murder of Daniel
Glover.
Court opens at Abbeville on the second
Monday in June. Judge Witherspoon will
preside. This will be his first Court in Alb
beville. The business will be rather light,
but there will be enough of it to hold the
Court for the whole week. Very little civil
business is transacted at the summer term.
- Mr.. S. F., Hendrix, of Leesville, Lex
ington county, made shipments of cherries
on the 9th, 10th and 18th, receiving $13 per
crate for the first shipment and 81 for the
second. He will commence shipping peach
es in about ten days. He says the peach
crop will be very small this season.
- The wheat, cotton and corn crops in
| Abbeville are reported to be in most -four
ishing condition.. There is good stand of
cotton, and the farmers have begun chop
ping. The farmers there are well satisfied
with their prospects, and improvement and
advance are noticeable everywhere.
| - s. N. Hendrix, doing a large retail
grocery and provision business in Columbia,
failed last Saturday with heavy liabilities,
which cannot be estimated. The failure
causes much surprise, as the business of the
| house was large, and it was supposed to be
exclusively cash one. 1t is said that the
assets will only amount to 33 per cent. of
the liabilities. ...
- Chester Reporter: Farmers with whom
we have conversed in the past few days
report generally good stands of corn and
cotton; in some places, though, planting
cotton is just being finished up. Corn plant
| ing has been unusually late by reason of ex-
cessive rains. The condition of the small
ho 1oI ;o;n fba
| majority of farmers from whom we have
reports estimate that the yield will be about
half of what it was last year.
An election took place in the town Of
Aiken last Saturday, to ascertain whether
twenty-five hundred dollars should be SUBJ
scribed by the town for the purchase of ten
acres of land to be given to the Carolina,
Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad
Company, for the erection of car shops
upon the land by the company. One hun
| dred and eighty-siX votes were pOlled-one
hundred and eighty-five for the subscrip-
tion, and one against it,
- The Carolina Spartan gives the follow
ing as the law regulating cOroners' inquest:
| In all cases of casual or violent death an
inquest must be held by the Coroner. If
he should be absent from home or reside
more than fifteen miles from the place
where the dead body is, then Trial JUS
tice may hold the inquest. In all cases
within fifteen miles of the Coroner's resi-
dence he should be sent for. No other
person whatever is authorized by law to
hold an inquest.
Little Joe Gosnell, one of the most noted
moonshiners Of the mountain country, son
of the famous Jack Gosnell, was captured
last Friday morning in the Saluda Noun
| tains by Officer w. G.. Fisher, assisted by
sistance, but after some fighting was over
come, and brought to Greenville Jail the
same afternoon and incarcerated with his
father and two brothers, who are serving a
sentence for moonshining. The prisoner
has eluded the officers most successfully for
years past, and his captors regard him
as quite prize.