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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
THE WEATHER.

The snow of December 29th was succeeded
by rain which has been falling almost every
day of the present month. AS a consequence
the earth is saturated with water, and as re-
colnpense for bad roads and swollen streams,
wells that had not recovered from the drought
of 1881 are beginning to fill up again. We
learn that Broad and Catawba rivers are much
swollen, the latter being so high as to prevent
railroad communication between Chester and
Lancaster. The Cheraw and Chester Railroad
being without bridge at the crossing of the
river, uses ferry boats for transferring cars at
that point, which cannot be done with safety
at present. Two inches of snow fell on Tues
day night, and yesterday was the coolest day,
so far, of the winter, the thermometer indi-
eating 50 below freezing point.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

1t may be interesting to the members of the
Knights of Honor in this section-and there
are two thriving lodges in this county, with
the prospect of a third one-to know that the
order is in progressive and highly satisfac'
tory condition. From circular No 4 of the
Supreme Dictator, issued last month, we copy
the following paragraph:
Lodges and members may enter upon the
new year with an encouraging knowledge OF
the state of the order. They are advised that
a careful compilation made under my direction
up to December 1st shows the paying member
ship on assessment 103 to he Ia, ,S29. At nc
previous period was the membership so large
and it shows an increase over May, 1881, OF
7,526 members. Our growth is healthful
and steadily upward, and must so continue il
members and officers are faithful to their du'
ties. Let the new year awaken new zeal in
every member to strengthen his lodge and
bring to it's fold worthy and deserving men,
that ours may remain true knighthood-the
banner order of the world.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
is not vet known. but the treasurer estimate

is not yet known, but the treasurer estimates
| that at least one-half Of the entire interest on
the public debt has already been paid There
are sufficient funds on hand to meet the bal
ance of the interest
| - The Hon. William D. Porter, of Charles
ton, died on Thursday last. Mr.. Porter had
held a high position in South Carolina for
many years before Reconstruction. He serv-
ed in the Legislature from Charleston for
some years before the war, and was, in 1857,
elected President of the State Senate. In
1865 he was elected lieutenant-governor, thus
also retaining the presidency Of the Senate,
ment created by Congress. Of late years he
had held the office of Master for Charleston
county.
| - On Wednesday morning of last week, N.
| B. Barnwell, Esq, the Master for Richland
county, met with a serious accident which
| terminated fatally. He was riding on the
/ road from Columbia to Lexington, and on
getting into the buggy after walking little,
his shot gun was discharged, the heavy load
of birdshot striking him on the left arm be-
low the elbow From the effects of the wound
he died at half-past o'clock p. NJ, next day.
Mr.. Barnwell was the son of the late Hon. R.
w. Barnwell, and was a very popular gentle
| man.
- The Laurensville Herald of Friday tells of
the singular death of John Elmore, a negro
boy, on Wednesday at the plantation Of Mr..
L. +. Irby, in Laurens county. The cotton
press at which he had been working had been
stopped while the hands went to dinner, and
the boy, it is supposed, went to sleep snugly
ensconced in about two hundred pounds OF
cotton in the press. When The hands return
ed enough cotton was thrown into the press to
complete a bale and the screw of the press was
run down, crushing to death the ill-fated
sleeper, whose presence was only discovered by
the protrusion, after the packing, of piece OF
| his coat
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
Correspondence Of the Yorkvilie Enquirer
LETTER FROM BLACKS STATION.

BLACKS STATION, S. c., January S.-The
farmers of our section have closed the fall by
sowing a large crop Of small grain, which,
they are convinced, is the cheapest crop pro-
duced and will grow in Importance.
Mrs. Lucy Green Black, widow of the late
Thomas P. Black, and mother of Mr.. Joseph
H. Black, deceased, who was at one time con-
nected with the Yorkville ENQUIRER, died
in Pope county, Arkansas, on the 18th ultmo.
She was in the S}rd year of her age at the time
of her death. Her maiden name was Prince,
and she was a native of Abbeville county,
where, as i'll York, she had large circle of
friends.
A firm here has contracted to furnish a
Gaffney City lime manufacturer with so, 900
barrel slaves per month for the next twelve
months.
G. NJ Green, Esq, is on visit to his faith
er, Mr.. William Green, who lives in Rusk
county, Texas
Mrs. Hannah Goforth and her son, who
moved to Arkansas last year, have returned
with the intention of making their future
home in their old native State. Eco.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
TILE RITE OF INTER EST.


An ACT to amend Section 1888 Of the General
Statutes regulating the Rate of Interest upon
any Contract arising in this State for the Hlr-
ing Lending or Use of Money or other conf
modify.
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State OF
South Carolina, now met and sitting in Cen
eral Assembly, and by the authority of the
same That Section 1888 OF the General
Statutes be, and the same is hereby amended
by inserting after the word commodity" on
the third line of said section, the following
words, to wit ''expect upon written con-
tracts, wherein, by express agreement, rate
of interest not exceeding ten per cent. may be
charged" so that said section, when thus
amended, shall read as follows ''No greater
rate of interest than seven per centum per an
num shall be charged, taken, agreed upon or
allowed upon any contract arising III this
State for the hiring, lending or use of money
or other commodity except upon written con-
tracts, wherein, by express agreement, rate
of interest not exceeding ten per cent. may be
charged. No person or corporation lending
or advancing money or other commodity upon
greater rate of interest shall be allowed to
recover in any court of this State any portion
of the interest so unlawfuly charged and
the principal sum, amount or value so lent or
advanced without any interest, shall De dee!n-
ed and taken by the courts of this State to be
the true legal debt or measure of damages to
all intents and purposes whatsoever, to be re-
covered without COSTS"
SEC. 2 That any person or corporation who
shall receive as interest any greater amount
than is herein provided for shall, in addition
to the forfeiture herein provided for, forfeit
also double the sum so received, to be collect
ed by a separate action, or allowed as a coun-
ter claim to any action brought to recover the
principal sum.
Approved December 81, 1882.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11

A GREAT RAILROAD SCIEME.-Two mort
cages in the Carolina and Cumberland Gap
and Chicago Railroad in favor of the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company of New York were
filed in the clerks office in Anderson shortly
before the holidays-one a first mortgage
amounting to SIC, 900, 900 and the other an in
come mortgage amounting to 100000. In
order to equip the the road the company have
resolved to issue ten thousand first mortgage
6 per cent. gold bonds Of 900 each, to run
thirty years, coupons to be paid semi-annually,
and in order to secure said bonds have given
to the Farmers Loan and Trust Company, of
New York, a mortgage of 5000 900 on the
right of way, road-bed, road fixtures, rolling
stock, &C., and also mortgage of $1,000, 600
on the profits of the road. The bonds are to
be issued at the rate of $4,000 per mile, and
the conditions provide that until default be
made in the payment of the interest and prin-
cipal of these bonds the company shall run
and enjoy the profits of the road, and if the
company we'll and truly pay the amount of in
terest and principal then the mortgage and
trust shall be void. These mortgages are
being recorded in every county through which
the projected line runs.-AnderSon Journal,
6h
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
TENNESSEE COAL.

The first shipment of coal to Yorkville for
heating purposes was received here last Satur-
day, three car loads having been ordered by
two of our citizens with the view of practi-
caly testing the relative difference between
it and wood for fuel. Commencing to-day,
we propose hereafter to heat the rooms of the
ENQUIRER Office with coal. This coal is ship
ped from Knoxville, Tenn, and costs, deliver
ed at the depot in Yorkville, S5.65 per ton.
With such railroad facilities as we are prom
ised, it can probably be delivered here next
fall at lower figure.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
A FRIGHTFCL TRAGEDY.

About a month ago, DR.. II. G. klugh, a
reputable physician of this county, when pur-
suing some cotton thieves, was knocked from
his horse, in the public road, near his home,
with rail and left upon the ground for dead.
The people of that section were greatly excited
and aroused by this outrage. DR.. Klugh lay
unconscious for a good while, being desperate
ly hurt. The day after this assault Dave Rob-
erts, colored, was arrested and charged with
the offence On the preliminary examination,
the evidence was so clear as to his guilt that
he was committed to Jail, at this place, to
await trial at our next term OF the Court OF
General Sessions. The excitement about the
outrage on DIR. Klugh apparently died out, and
those who thought of the case at all, presumed
that the accused would be tried before a jury,
and be punished according to law, after fair
and impartial investigation OF the evidence.
Such, however, was not the case. Last Sab
bath, about midnight, party of unknown
horse thief. UIider this pretence, they gained
access to the Jail, and overpowering the sheriff
and his son, took the keys, seized the unfortu-
nate prisoner and carried him away. The par
ties were heavily armed and the sheriff so sud
denly surprised, by such numbers of apparent
ly desperate and determined men, was helpless
in their hands and could do nothing to save
the life of the unhappy Roberts. The party
came into town quietly, and having possessed
themselves of the prisoner, left without noise
or confusion. Monday morning Roberts was
found hanging, cold and dead, to the limb of
a tree, on the Greenwood road, about two
miles from town. He was hung with COM
mon cotton plow line, his feet nearly reaching
the ground. In his struggles he had kicked
his pantaloons off and, naked and ghastly, he
swayed to and fro in the icy breeze of morning.
An inquest was held over the dead body. No
trace of the party was left behind.
So far as we have heard, this deplorable at
fair has met with the unqualified disapproba-
tion of the people of the county. The hang
ing is regarded as wrong and unnecessary.
The prisoner was in confinement. Our courts
are open. No murder had been committed by
him. The evidence against him was strong,
and, if convicted, his punishment would have
been sure. If, Immediately upon the commits
sion of the assault, Roberts had been hotly
pursued and slain, in the excitement OF the
hour, there might have been some palllatlon
for the unlawful act. AS it was, though, the
people can see no circumstance that excuses or
justifes the tragedy of Monday. The life OF
the humblest citizen should be held sacred and
be taken from him only by the rules of lawand
evidence. .--1JJcrile Medium, 4h
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
MERE.MENTION.

The legislatures of twenty-seven States will
be in session this month. There were T.
574 business failures in 1882, against 5.929 in
1881, an increase Of 1,645. In the South there
were 1872 against 1913 for 1881. JEFF
Walker, mail carrier between Belfeld and
Hicksford, Va, has been arrested on the charge
of robbng the mails. He confessed that he had
been robbing for three years. The Gar
field monument fund of Cincinnati now
amounts to s9,699 II. Take new grip
on your New Years pledge if you have broken
it. 1t is still worth keeping. Capt. Ed.
Cox, the slayer of Col. Alston, and who was
recently pardoned from ihe Georgia peniten-
tiary, has gone into business in Atlanta.
Some friends have backed him with ample
means, and he will deal in mules and hors-
es 1.-The people of Louisville, KY, have
subscribed S225, 900 to the cotton exposition
proposed to be held in that city. The amount
required is 100000. Texas has school
fund of 81, 100000 of interest-bearing bonds
and money, and thirty million acres of land
worth now $1.50 All acre, and which will be
worth much more as the State increases in pop
ulation and development. "A negro entered
planters house near Darien, Ga, last Satur-
day, and assaulted him at the dinner table.
A fight ensued in which both the negro and
the planter were mortally wounded: '''''The
remains of John Howard Payne have been
shipped from Tunis to the U. S.. S.''''''A Con-
federate bond is worth now exactly what it
was in 1864 '''.'. Honest John Patterson is
in trouble in Baltimore, it being alleged
against him that he wrecked horse railroad
and gobbed the proceeds. An nincendiary
fire last Sunday night destroyed twenty-five
thousand dollars worth of property in the su-
burbs of Macon, Ga. '''.'.At Cheney, Wash
ington Territory, last Sunday night, eighty
citizens took Chinaman from Jail, who was
arrested for killing and robbing Chinese wo-
man, and hanged him to tree. The 6Sth
anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was
appropriately celebrated in that city last Mon
day night. Senator Butler has returned
to Washington, and reports that his son, re-
Gently so i'll, is recovering. Small pox is
raging to an alarming extent at Atlanta, Ga,
Wilson, N. c., and Lynchburg, Va. Among
the most important bills under discussion in
Congress is one relating to the Presidential
succession in case of the death of the President
and Vice-President bill to establish postal
telegraph, and for the reduction of letter pos
tage to one cent, and in similar proportion on
other classes of matter. On Monday Senator
Hampton presented the credentials of his col
league, Butler, which were read and filed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HONOR.

At regular meeting of Home Lodge, No.
60, knights and Ladies of Honor, held last
Monday night, the following officers were in
stalled for the ensuing term
II. F. Adickes Protector; Miss Annie E.
Ferguson, Vice-Protector Thos. c. Dunlap,
Treasurer II. w. Hope, Guide, j. G. Fergu'
son, Secretary and Financial Secretary G. H,
Dixon, Sentinel. Trustees-J. G. Kuykendal
I. d. Witherspoon and J. A. Mclean. Med
ical Examiner-Dr. J. F. Lindsay.
The times of the meeting of the Lodge have
been changed from the second and fourth Fri
day nights Of each month to the second and
fourth Monday nights
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Hugh Schmidt Laundry. .-a.aa-1'a-~'
7. R. Magill-Wholesale Grocer.
w. H. Observation-Disclosures Sale.
JOS. F.. Wallace-Clerk's Sale.
John r. Roller. Tenn.-Horses and Mules.
DR.. J. b. Patrick, Jr., d. S.-Dental Notice.
Sam NJ Grist-News Agency.
Lost.
Hart & Hart, PLAINTIFFS Attorneys-Notice to
Defendants.
d. A. A. Watson and j. A. Watson-Executors'
Notice.
J. NJ. Adams-Job Work, &c.
Kennedy Brothers & Barron-Millinery Room.
NJ. Strallss-Now is the Time
II. Nj. Dobson--To Give Away-keep Clean.
Wihels Adickes-Groceries.
Ierndon Observation-Disclosures.
DObSOn d PariSh-Our Stock.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
CHURCH NOTICES.

Episcopal-Rev. A. Prentiss Services in
the Church of the Good Shepherd, Yorkville,
in the forenoon in the Church of Our Saviour,
Rock Hill, in the evening.
Associate Reformed Rgesbyterian-Rev. r.
Latham, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regu-
lar appointment at Tirzah next Sunday.
Methodist Episcopal-Rev. r. p. Franks,
Pastor. Services in the Church at Yorkville,
morning and evening.
Presbyteran-Rev T. r. English, Pastor.
Services at the usual hours, morning and
evening. . .......
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RELATING TO JURORS.


AN ACT to Amend and Declare the Law Relating
to the Empaneling and Challenging Of Jurors.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the State of South Carolina,
now met and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority of the same.
SECTION l. That in all civil cases, except
in Trial Justices Courts, in which a jury shall
be charged with the trial of any issue, each
party shall have the right to challenge without
cause therein two of the jury so empaneled
and the place of the jurors so challenged shall
be supplied as provided by law.
SEC. ?. That the right of challenge shall
extend to jurors drawn to fill the place of
those challenged Provided, The party chal-
longing has not already exhausted the number
of challenges allowed by law. AS a juror is
challenged his place shall be filled by another
juror before the challenging is further pro-
ceeded with. The plaintiff may first challenge
one Juror then the defendant, and so on alter
nately until each party has made two chal-
lenges.
SEC. 3. That any person who shall be ar
raigned for the crime of murder, manslaugh-
ter, burglary, arson, or rape, or grand larceny,
shall be entitled to all the incidents of an ar
raignment and to peremptory challenges, not
exceeding twenty, and the State in such cases
shall be entitled to peremptory challenges not
exceeding two, land may be allowed TO require
jurors to stand aside until all the jurors have
been drawn.) And any person who shall I've
indicted for any crime or offense other than
those enumerated shall have the right to per-
emptory challenges of five, and the State in
such cases shall be entitled to peremptory
challenges, not exceeding two, (but shall not
be allowed to require jurors to stand aside as
provided in cases where the prisoner is ar
raigned.
SEC. 4. That Sections 1862, 2263 and 264l,
Title II, Part III, of the General Statutes of
South Carolina be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
THE SOUTHERN LIND LO.4N.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Southern Land Lo
Association,

AN ACT to Incorporate the Southern Land Loan
Association.
SECTION 1, BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
South Carolina, now met and sitting in Cen
eral Assembly, and by the authority OF the
same That William Fielding, Morris X.
Jesup, Frederick Wolfe, Charles +. Lewis,
John b. Palmer, James H. Rion and John r.
Abney, together with other parties who now
are OF hereafter may be associated with them
and their successors, be, and they are hereby,
declared body polite and corporate under the
name of the Southern Land Loan Association.
SEC. 2 That the capital stock of said asso-
citation shall he one hundred thousand dollars,
but the association may increase the same to
the sum of three million dollars, and after it
shall have been in operation two years it may
further increase it's capital stock to the sum of
five million dollars.
SEC. g. That said Association shall have
power to lend money on real estate security at
such rate of interest not to exceed the rate
of ten per centum per annum, as may be
agreed upon in writing between the borrower
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11

turned over all that he had to his creditors.
He made enough as dry goods jobber in New
York to support himself, wife and daughter
in an uptown tenement but, although he
won many friends. he kept his poverty Sc
cret. Although there were many in the dry
goods trade who would willingly have assisted
him, his, pride prevented it. He eleftless than
SO for his wife and daughter, and had only
seventy-fve cents in his own purse. His body
was sent by friends to Charleston for inter-
ment.
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COTTON SALES.

Despite the bad weather and almost impass-
able condition of the roads, a few bales of cot
ton are brought in every day. The shipments
from this placce from the 1st of September up
to Monday last, amount to 4,91S bales.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
LARGE TURNIPS.

Mr. J. Leander Parish has favored us with
Il basket of turnips averaging in weight 44
pounds and measuring 25 inches in circum-
| ference.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11

THE FLOODS IN EURoPE.-By the recent
floods in Europe, ten thousand persons were
rendered homeless in the district near Worms,
and are in danger of starvation. The railroad
between Geneve and Belgrade was washed
away. At Ludwigshafen three thousand per-
sons were rendered homeless, and an equal
number at Mannheim. a dispatch of the 4tll
instant says that town then appeared to stand
on an isthmus in the middle of vast sea.
The great Rhine dam gave away on the night
of the third, and as the town was inundated the
inhabitants were rescued by a steamer and for
ty-fve boats by torchlight. The village of
Triesenheim has been deserted and one-third
of the inhabitants of Oppan have abandoned
their homes. A Berlin dispatch of the 4th to
the London Times says The inundations are
taking the form of great public catastrophe
The distress is increasing hourly. The militia
ry or civil authorities are making great ex-
ertions to mitigate the misery Of the disaster.
There is no sign yet that the crisis of the ca
lamity has been reached. High temperature
and rains continue. At LudSwighafen, Oppo-
site Mannheim, where the great Rhine dam
gave way last night, the lives of hundreds of
people are imperled The deepest distress
prevails. The Danube has risen to a height
of 470 centimetres. A thousand persons re-
siding in the lower part of the city have been
compelled to quit their homes. Traffic on the
railway connecting Vienna with Moravia is
suspended. The large bridge over the Danube
has been demolished and the Vienna terminus
of the road is flooded. A bridge of boats at
Ottensheim was washed away to-day, with
several persons on them. The boats hoated
down and in All hour reached Lisle, where
those OH board managed to run them ashore.
The Paris and Lyons Railroad on. the French
frontier, is washed away. Direct railway SER
vice between Switzerland, France and Italy is
interrupted.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11

law of the last session Of the Legislature will
operate so seriously against the successful
management of the railroads as to render re-
trenchment necessary. @z
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11

A STRANGE STORY.-A few days ago re-
liable gentleman said to US: ''In my neigh
borhood nine young men, intimate friends Of
good families and in comfortable circumstan-
ces, have died in the past three months. They
all died of the same disease, typhoid fever,