Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
= There is now not a town in Sumter county
where liquors can be legally sold.
= The Chester Cotton Seed Oil Mill was put
to work for the first time on December 30.
- Charles S. West, native Of Camden, has
been elected junior member of the Supreme
Bench of Texas.
- Mr. Thomas Conner the nominee of the
delegation for treasurer of Union county, has
been pronounced Ineligible by the Governor.
About $50 colored emigrants have pur-
chased tickets for Arkansas, at the Air Lire
railway depot, in Greenville.
- A daughter of DIR. Thomas Center, OF
Richland county, was accidentally burned to
death on Tuesday of last week.
- The St. Luke's Colored Episcopal congre-
CATION of Columbia, have made contract for
the erection of a church building to cost
800.
- Pursuant to the local prohibition Act all
but two of the barrooms in Chester have been
closed, and these will close early in February,
when their licenses expire.
| - Don. Thomas, Sumter compound OF Cau-
casian, Indian and African is, according to
the Adrotnce, an artistic painter and speaks
and writes several languages.
- The Abbeville Medium thinks that the
new railroad law sis unnecessary and that it
will greatly retard and hinder railroad enter
prises throughout the State"
- The house of Tenepey Williams, colored,
at High Shoals, Anderson county, was des-
troyed by fire few days ago, and her young
est child whom she had left alone in the house,
burned to death.
- The dwelling house of Warren Snoddy at
Woodruff's, Spartanburg county, was destroyed
by fire, with all the furniture and clothing OF
Mr.. Snoddy. The building was valued at
SO, 900 and was insured for S2, 400.
- In Pickens county, one day last week, the
body of young man named Fortner was
found beneath the trunk of decayed tree
which had been blown down. The head of
the body had been nearly eaten off by hogs.
- Two runaway couples from North Carroll
ma arrived at Gaffney City, during Christmas
week, with matrimonial intent, but at the
last moment the young ladies declined the riv-
citing of nuptial bonds.
- A revenue raiding party from Greenville
made trip to Panther Mountain, destroyed
gallons of low wines and captured Joe Cos
nell, who was running one of the stills.
Mr.. DeSaussure Bull of Sumter took the
premium of S110 offered by the Stateburg
Farmers Club for the best acre Of cotton.
The yield was 2,629 pounds. w. w. Ander-
son, Jr, came in second, with 2,611 pounds.
- Mr. Julien Bland, a prominent young
citizen of the town of Edgefeld, has been
appointed it's postmaster, and no Federal ap-
pointment in the State of late has given as
much satisfaction.
- The Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Com
pany near Gaffney City, have just made an adj
dition of $4,000 worth of machinery to their
factory on Broad River, which increases its
capacity to 45, 000spindles
- Members of the 10Th regiment, S. c., Vol
unteers are contemplating reunion of the
survivors of that organization. Nearly every
member of the regiment was from Greenville
county, and many of her best citizens were on
it's rolls.
- Captain G. S. Dwight, of Winnsboro,
formerly Chief Engineer Of the Chester and
Lenoir Railroad, has been appointed chief
engineer of the Augusta, Elberton and Chica'
90 Railroad and will at once assume the duties
of the position.
- On the oath ultimo, at the residence of
Mrs. Clark, near New Hope, Chester county,
pistol in the hands of Colly Quinton was ac-
cidentally discharged, the ball entering the
head of Jackson, youth seventeen years old,
and causing instant death. The jury of in
quest rendered verdict of accidental death.
- Governor Thompson has appointed Mr.
Legare J. Walker, of Charleston, to be Rail
road Commissioner in the place of Gen. James
Conner, who declined to qualify. The board
now consists of Messrs. Bonham, Jeter and
Walker. The Commissioners organized yes
tesday, on which day the new railroad law
went into effect.
- The liquor men Of Spartanburg have not
yet given up their fight. Mr.. Wilson, their
attorney, will have another hearing before the
Supreme Court, when, he hopes to get an
order passed for the City Council to hold a
new election, with registration preceding it,
which, he thinks, will reverse the decision of
the last.
- Kershaw county brings to the front the
model colored farmer, who, without using a
pound of guano and with an OK as his only
plow animal, has the following exhibit as the
fruits of his labor for 1882: Thirteen bales
of cotton, averaging $50 pounds each, 125
bushels of corn, IS bushels of peas, 100 bushels
of potatoes and As gallons of molasses.
- Charlotte Observer A policeman whose
name is Benjamin Ross, was shot twice, i'll
Spartanburg, last Saturday night, by man
named Little. Mr.. Ross was trying to arrest
Little when the latter drew his pistol and fired
twice on the officer, one bullet taking effect in
the officers mouth and the other in the stom-
ach. Little was released on bond of $50 for
trial. The officers injuries are not thought to
be dangerous.
- Up to the close of business last Saturday,
the State Treasurer paid about $4,000 inter-
est on the consolidated and deficiency bonds
and stocks had been paid at the treasurer's
office in Columbia and in Charleston. The
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