Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-02-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Peach trees are beginning to bloom in


SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Peach trees are beginning to bloom in
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- On Tuesday of last week, Carol P. Mas
ters, of Anderson, was killed by the running
away of a pair of mules.
The four military companies in kershaW
county have received from the State during
the past year $290.25 to aid in maintaining
their organization.
Assistant Fish Commissioner Huske has
fitted up trough in Columbia, for the hatch
ing of 5, 900 California trout, the eggs of which
are expected from Washington this week.
AN Atlanta correspondent says: "Im-
migrants to the West arereturning. A par
ty of seventeen from Aiken, >. G., came
back to-day. They are disgusted with Ar
Kansas"
The Georgetown Enquirer says that the
work on the railroad is making gratifying
progress. A cargo of iron is expected toar-
rive shortly, and the building of the freight
cars is now going on at the Palmetto Mills.
- There are dozens of prosperous families
by honest toll and the. greatest economy
saved enough money to buy themselves
homes.
- Rev. Theodore Whitfield, D. D., of
Spartanburg, has accepted the call rendered
borO, n. c., and will enter upon his pastoral
duties about the first of next month.
- DIR. Skies, who was tried Friday at
WinnsbOro for the killing of Bergman,
ten miles from Ridgeway, last September,
was acquitted by the jury after being out
for five hours.
A young man named Cook, residing in
Clarendon county, was bitten by dog a
few weeks since. Last week he was taken
with commissions, and died with the usual
symptoms of hydrOphobia in most horri-
BILE manner. safs
- The practical working of no license in
Spartanburg is shown by the fact that only
one policeman is required to look after the
peace of the city, and that there has been
but one arrest for drunkenness during the
past six weeks.
John Hetferman, a white man living
about one mile from Hodges, in Abbeville
county, was thrown from his wagon in that
town, and killed, last Friday afternoon.
His horse took fright at an engine and ran
about one hundred yards. Mr.. Hefferman's
head struck tree, fracturing the skull.
Chester Bulletin The Catawba Oil Com
pany made their first shipment of Cotton
seed oil on the Sth instant. Fifty barrels
were consigned to the Union Oil Co., Of
Providence, Rhode Island, they having
placed orders with Catawba Oil Co., for $50
barrels, at 81 cents per gallon, free on board
cars.
- Columbia Register, Sunday: A convict
by the name of Gatfney, who was tried and
convicted at Spartanburg in 1880 for assault
and battery with intent to kill, and SEN
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was pardoned yesterday by the Governor on
a petition signed by the bar and county Off
GERS of Spartanburg, the solicitor recon-
the pardon.
- Jane Haywood, notorious woman,
vile Railroad, was arrested in Washington
on a charge of being implicated in the re-
cent theft of a large sum of money at Green
Vile. A requisition has been sent for her.
Her husband, who formerly lived in Green
vile, is clerk in one of the departments
of the Government at Washington.
- The Charlotte Observer says that Col.
Horace Kellogg, who in 1880 was general
revenue agent for North and South Carroll
ma, with headquarters at Charlotte, but who
was transferred to California, has arrived
in that city after an absence Of three years.
He has been reappO1nted agent for the tive
States, and succeeds Crimson. His head
quarters will be in Charlotte.
Says the Abbeville Medium of Thursday:
The grand jury after exhaustive inquiry,
have eXonerated our officers of any want of
in the matter of the Roberts lynch
ing. So, the insinuations by some journals
that our officers are derelictin duty are with
out foundation and unjust. About enough
has been said about the affair anyway. We
do not approve of the transaction, in any
particular, but can see no reason why such a
general ado should be made about it, when
equally as terrible, have been en-
acted in other parts of the State, with scarce
ly any adverse comment.
The Columbia correspondent ofthe Ne,cs
md Courier says that the railroad commits
sion holds daily sessions of great length.
Meeting at A. NJ, it's members work until
dinner time, and after dinner return and
continue their labOrs until late at night.
They give no information of the character
Of their work, but itseems to be the COM
pilation in condensed form Of the rates
charged on the different railroads of the
State for number of years past, with view
to ascertaining the inequalities in charges
between the different lines and makinga ba-
sis for the forthcoming schedules Of rates.
The people of Spartanburg having voted
A large subscription to the building of the
Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Rail-
road, and finding said road not coming on
IS fast as they anticipated, have concluded
that they don't want the road now as much
As they did at first. The Spartanburg cOun-
ty commissioners have been enjOined from
collecting the railroad tax. The order was
obtained Saturday from Judge Witherspoon
1t Newberry by Jno. S. Wilson, Esq. The
injunction is only temporary, and the mat
Ter will come up for hearing on both sides
1t the Spartanburg court.