Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Greenville, Tuesday, for Arkansas.
There are only four inmates in the Lam
caster aims house-one white and three col
| Ored.
The Anderson grand jury recommends
the building of more cOmmodious Court
House for that county.
A colored ex-warden of Anderson is now
confined in the county Jail charged with
stealing 5000.
The Rock Hill Herald says that Mr.. Thos.
D. Falkner, Of Fort Mill, has obtained a
patent on the spring motor for running a
sewing machine, recently invented by him.
The Chester Bulletin says: "It is rumor-
ed that fifteen citizens of Lancaster are soon
| to be arrested on charge of completely in
the recent riot at that place."
- On Saturday night last the yarn factory
of Searles & Dallas, on Little River, in Alb
beville county, was destroyed by fire, to-
gether with forty bales of cotton and $500
worth of yarn. No insurance.
Josh Wardlaw, prominent negro poll
tician in Abbeville and an active member OF
the State constabulary force during the
Scott regime, died some days ago in the Lu-
natic Asylum at Columbia.
| Incendiaries attempted to burn and rob
the cotton warehouse of Mr.. John O. Hardin
at Chester the other night. The fire was
extinguished after having damaged the cot
ton to the extent of $40O.
| General James Walker, the we'll known
| Washington artist, will paint General NJ. c.
Buffers cavalry fight at Trevillian Station
The picture will be 9x12 feet and will be
painted from Southern standpoint.
DIR. S. S. Marshall, citizen of Greenville
was accidentally shot and killed near Green
Vile, Florida, on Monday of last week
while shooting ducks. His remains were
brought home for interment.
The Spartanburg Herald says that cot
ton is coming in that market slowly. Low
prices deter many from selling, they prefer
ring to hold on to what they have in hopes
of rise in the market.
The Camden Journal tells of wild,
wOolly black woman who is at large in the
wilderness of Lynches Creek. She has re-
Gently attacked several persons, biting and
beating them in fearful manner. A par
ty has organized to capture her.
Mr.. w. B. Cash, son of Col. E B. G..
Cash, was in Chester last week, the popular
impression of his visit being that he was
trying to find out if any fraud was COM
mitted in that county in the election for
member of Congress last November.
The consolidation of the general man.
agement of the Columbia and Greenville
Railroad and the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, has been fully consum-
mated, and Mr.. E. F. PelOt, who was pay
master of the Columbia and Greenville
Railroad, has been made paymaster of both
roads.
On Wednesday of last week the United
States Circuit Court of Greenville adjourned
until the first Mondayi in Augustnext. Du-
ring the term just ended LOG cases were dis
posed Of Of these, 40 were found guilty, II
not guilty, Is entered pleas of guilty, and 81
continued.
Columbia Register: applications have
been received from farmers in Georgia
and Alabama, for copies of the Report
of the Commissioner of Agriculture, the
faith in the analysis Of fertilizers which it
contains than in the work of their own
States. 1t is a high compliment to the fdel-
ity with which the work in this depart
ment has been done. The reports are now
ready for distribution to any one applying
for them.
AT the Lunatic Asylum, last Saturday,
telegraphs the Columbia correspondent of
the NeiCs and Courier, a patient from Edge
field county, named Il. F. Whatley, a suffer-
er from acute mania, while ina sitting-room
with half a dozen other male patients, man.
aged to free his hands from the straps which
bound them to his waist. He then tore off
the arm of wooden settee and made wild
attack on those in the room. He struck
patient, named James A. Darlington, from
Marlboro county, in the back of the head,
fracturing the base of the skull. He then
t aner ne pp pespeE pah keSpes up and ss Scaled ae
Whatley. Darlington died Sunday morn
ing. Cantwell is not dangerously wounded.
The facts were not known out of the Asy-
lum until Sunday when an inquest was held
on Barrington's body. The coroner's in
quest exonerated the officers of the Asylum
from all blame in the matter.