Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-21
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The tenth annual meeting of the South
Carolina Press Association will be held at
Gaffney City on the 3rd of July.
The Palmetto Lumber Company, of
Georgetown, has suspended, throwing 200
men out of employment.
A gentleman from Rossville informs the
Chester Reporter that there have been about
twenty deaths among the negroes on lower
Little Rocky Creek in the last six months.
MIR. J. w. Rush celebrated his ninetieth
birthday at Blackville, recently. There are
1870 persons in the family, and of these 1874
were present.
- The white Baptists of South Carolina
have $40 churches, and 5S,7S2 communi-
cants and the cOlored Baptists number 90,-
900.
ID. b. Free, a prominentcitizen of Union,
fell on driving wheel band in his mill on
Monday of last week, and was dangerously,
perhaps fatally, injured.
The Edgefield Aduertiser, after contem-
plating the enormous estimated cost of the
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago
Railroad, evidently despairs of seeing it
built in this century.
A negro calling himself Dave Jackson
was arrested and lodged in Jail at Lancaster
last week on suspicion of being Lum Cooley,
VIII lluiueIeI ICoUeTt DeulletC, III odChooll
county, Georgia, in'OctOber, 1881. Jackson
is held by the sheriff Of Lancaster for iden-
tifcation. ''.'.'2;
- The Washington Light Infantry, with a
select number Of distinguished guests, left
Charleston Saturday by the City of Atlanta
on their pilgrimage to Connecticut: The
detachment numbers about forty men, all
told.
The oldest dry goods house in Columbia
has been forced to succumb to financial pres
sure the house failing being the firm of c..
Bouknight, Executor, & Co., successors to X.
G.. Shiver & Co. An attachment was levied
on the stock by II. B. Clafin Co., to whom
the firm owe about $4,000. The indebted
ness of the house is about 900 with NOM
inal assets Of $4,000.
-Abbeville Medium: Mr.. James R. Gun
ningham tells us that there is drop of blood
in every cotton leaf. In fact he showed us
one in every leaf of cotton stalk in his
hand. We never knew it before and cannot
understand it. Perhaps it means that all
farmers who raise too much Of the staple
are sure to "bleed" when they come to
sell it.
The Pickens Sentinel says: "Mr. Ballin,
special agent of the Department of Justice
at Washington, was at this place several
days last week and the week before, inves-
tigating the conduct Of revenue officials.
OF course he gave us nothing for publica-
ton, but rumor has it that considerable
crookedness was discovered, and especially
among the deputy marshals."
There are several cases Of typho-malarial
fever in the town of Marion and a case re-
ported of scarlet fever. The Merchant and
Farmer says: "This sickness is the result of
want and vigilance on the part Of the citi-
zens in the first place, the health board in
the second, and the town authorities in the
third place. They are responsible, for with
out such negligence there is no local cause
for such fevers in Marion"
-Winnsboro Neus, Saturday: The case
of w. D. Aiken VS.. the County Commits
sioners of Fairfield was, on Friday, the
18th instant, tried before Justice Cathcart-
Messrs. Ragsdale & Ragsdale appearing for
the plaintiff and Col. j. II. Rion for the de-
PENDANTS. The action was on account of al
legged injury to the plaintiffs buggy from
the bad condition of one of the public high
ways The jury found for the defendants.
The plaintiff appealed to the Circuit Court.
-Spartanburg Herald: Two indictments
have been lodged against John w. Garrett,
foreman of the Grand Jury Of this county,
for retailing lager beer without license.
He set up a saloon at his spring on Law
sons Fork, and claims that he or any other
man has right to sell this beverage, and
that the State and county laws and officers
cannot restrain him. At least, we under
stand that is the ground he takes. That
matter will no doubt, be tested at the next
term of court. He has employed w. Magill
Flemming to defend him in the prellmi-
nary hearing Of these cases.
: The Camden Journal says: "On the af-
ternoon of the 7th instant, last Thursday, a
fearful thunderstorm visited this section, do
ing much damage. Two and one-half inches
of rain fell in about one hours time. The
streets were so flooded that a batteau could
have been f1oated in them; bridges were
washed away on all sides; cotton fields were
washed up very badly, doing conside cradle
damage to the growing crop; the oat crop
has been injured great deal, as many peo-
pie had their oats already cut down and
living on the ground, where they were soak
ed through, and the continued rains since
have not allowed them to dry, but instead
have caused them to rot The damage to
the crops is so great that it cannot we'll be
estimated"
THE GALLONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
The hanging of Solomon Hewitt and VIM.
Hardee, both colored, took place at Conway,
the county-seat of Horny county, last Fri
day. The morning of the execution Hewitt
ate but little breakfast while Hardee re-
fused everything but a few crackers. Hew-
lit denied all knowledge Of the crime for
which he was to be executed and also of
the cutting of Ben Mcmillan, their fellow
prisoner, at the time of their recent es-
cape from Jail. At 1890 o'clock, the cord
holding the trigger was loosened, and HeW-
lit died without a struggle in fifteen min
,,fo hrnupht fnp
galloWs at II o'clock and also denied all
knowledge of the crime for which he is CIV
ing up his life or of the cutting Of McMil-
Ian. He made a long rambling speech,
asking for drink of water and for chew
of tobacco and time to chew it. He talked
all the time, begging that when he was
buried the black cap might be united. AS
the trap fell he exclaimed, "Oh, Lord, have
mercyW He died hard and struggled sew
eral minutes. Life was extinct in ten min
utes.
The crime for which these men paid the
extreme penalty of the law was one of those
brutal, cold blooded murders which are SO
terribly frequent in the sparsely settled
portions of the South. The murdered man,
jeremiah Stalvey, was the proprietor of a
little country store situated in a wild coun-
try about fourteen miles from ConWayboro,
in Horny county. He was an old man, be-
tween sixty and seventy years of age, and
lived in a little dwelling house few
yards from his store with his wife, who
was eighty-one years of age. The motive
for the crime was the robbery of the store
and the securing of a pocketbook which
the old man nearly always carried with
him, and in which, it was said, large sum
of money was boarded.
The murder was committed on the night
of the 18th of last October, and suspicion
led directly to the guilty parties. On be-
intr nnnfr0ntad with the crime Hardee |