Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-09
SOIJTH CAROLINA NEWS.

day with appropriate services.
- The United States Circuit Court is in
session at Greenville-Judge Bryan presid-
ing.
- Bishop Howe will consecrate the new
Episcopal church at Chester on the third
Sunday in this month.
- Flora Moorer, colored, died in Orange
burg county, recently, aged 10 years. She
was brought from Africa about the time OF
the Revolution.
Calvin Hood, of Cowpens, Spartanburg
county, while fooling with an old pistol,
shot himself in the side, from the effects Of
which he will probably die.
- Mr.. J. II. Swygert has resigned his po-
sition as the superintendent of the Catawba
Oil Mills, at Chester, to be succeeded by Mr..
w. P. Ferguson, of Charleston.
1t is rumored that the Barnwell Radi-
calls will run q candidate in the special elec-
tion to the vacancy in the House occasioned
by the appointment of Representative Bel
linger as Master in Equity.
- 1t is estimated that there is already in
sight enough criminal business to occupy
the greater part of the two weeks allotted
for the October term of Court for Chester
county; and there is still two and a half
months to hear from.
- The Edgefeld Adrertiser tells of a prom
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| his northern factors eleven barrels Of superb
Irish potatoes, and the factors returned to
him as his net profits serenteen cents in pos
tage stamps.
| - AbSalOm Chapman, an industrious col
ored man, while engaged in digging well
in Dunklin, Greenville county, was over
come from the effect of noXiOus gases and
died before he could be brought to the sur
face.
II public meeting of the citizens of Spar
tanburg city and county was held in the
| Court House last Monday to consider what
steps are necessary to be taken in order to
bring about change in the place of holding
the United States District Court for that Dis
trict.
- A young white man named James Will
liams has been committed to Jail in Ander-
son charged with bigamy. The prelimina-
ry hearing elected the fact that he had two
| living wives in that county. Williams is
not yet q years old, and was married to his
first wife at the age of Is.
- On Wednesday night the stOrer0Om and
stock of goods of r. 7. MOckbee & Co., at
Cornwell's, Chester county, were destroyed
by an incendiary fire. Nothing was saved.
The building was insured for $500 and the
stock for $500. The incendiaries have
been spotted.
- Senator Fishburne, of COlleton county,
died on Saturday of last week at the resi-
dence of relative.on Sullivan's Island. A
week preceding his death, he went over
from Charleston to the Island, saying to
friend that he intended to 60 there to die.
He was suffering at the time from an attack
of bilious fever.
Stephen Green of Colleton county, re-
Gently administered to his children sulphate
of morphine, supposing it to be sulphate of
quinine as cure for fever. Very soon one
fOf the children died, and while engaged in
burying the first a second one expired. 1t
is feared that the others will share the same
fate.
| - Two Mormon missionaries made their
appearance in Chester, last Sunday, register
ING at hotel as &C. E. Robinson, Idaho
Territory" and "Henry Miller, Am Fork,
Utah Territory" The next morning they
attempted to convert the hotel clerk by Civ.
ing him a pamphlet entitled, Doctrines of
the Church of Latter Day Saints; Its Faith
and Teachings" They soon after skipped
out, going in the direction of Yorkville.
- James w. Martin, of Andersen county,
wanted to discharge his gun, as it IVES over
loaded. Putting the buttn his abdomen,
he attempted to cock the hammer, wl,en
| both barrels were discharged almost simul-
taneously, the rebound Of which was SO Sc
we're against his abdomen as to produce par
alysis of the bowels, which was soon follow
ed by inflammation. He fingered in great
agony four days, when he died. He was %
years old and left wife to whom he had
been married about nine months.
The Greenville Ne,Us mentions the death
in the Jail of that city, last Friday, of James
Thompson, a mountaineer, who was arres-
| ted six months ago for some violation OF
/ tho Tptorpo1 Poyapua loWS and who rafllS.
ed to become an informer, remarking that
he was a white man and would die first.
He remained in Jail, was stricken with dis
ease, but held steadfast, refusing to betray
his associates, and died when hemight have
secured his liberty by turning States evil
dence.
- Columbia Register Saturday A delega-
| ton of citizens from Lexington called on the
Governor yesterday and represented an
alarming state of affairs in parts of that
county, where the opponents of the stock
law daily violated its provisions that the
laW-abiding citizens were at the mercy of
| these desperadoes, who used the torch and
threatened the shot gun to intimidate the
peaceful inhabitants. The delegation petit
toned the Governor to take steps for the
protection of the farmers against these in
cendiaries, which will be done at once. We
have heard recently that this band of out
laws have defed arrest.
A Spartanburg dispatch says that the
family of Andrew Daniel, a planter, living
three miles from that town, while at break
fast last Friday morning, discovered some
thing wrong in the taste of the coffee. The
coffee pot was emptied into slop bucket in
order to draw fresh pot. Two dogs drank
from the bucket and shortly went into con-
vulsions, which, however, did not result
fatally, owing to the dlution of the coffee
with the contents of the bucket. a search
revealed the fact that bottle ofstrychnine,
purchased for the purpose of rat poisoning,
was missing. Two negro men and colored
house-girl have been arrested on suspicion
and lodged in Jail.
On last Friday afternoon, the ladies of
the Baptist church at Camden, served ice
cream in behalf of their church, and a num-
Der of people partook of it. Saturday and
Sunday fifty-nine persons were taken vio-
lently i'll, and every physician in town has
been constantly engaged in attending them.
ter of Mr. G. d. Shiver The cause of the
poisoning has thus far battied explanation.
Whether it was in the favoring or from the
vessels used in making the custard or from
the freezers, has. not yet been determined.
Some say the symptoms indicate arsenic,
others say zinc. The whole town is excited
about it, and great sympathy is felt for the
afflicted.
How IT FEELS TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHT
NING.-H. NJ. Burt, editor of among the
Clouds, published on the summit Of Mt.
Washington, was struck by lightning on
Saturday night. He writes:
ga little after o'clock Saturday night
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