Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Present indications point to good fruit
crop in the upper part of the State.
The corner stone of the new monument
to the Confederate dead at Columbia was
laid with Masonic ceremonies on Wednes-
day of last week.
1t seems to have been generally under
stood that the State Democratic Convention
in June will not nominate candidates for
State officers.
In the list of West Point cadets who
will graduate in June, the names OF David
B. Gaillard and John B. Bellinger, of South
Carolina, are given. In class OF 81, the
former stands No. 5, and the latter No. 81.
The grading of the Greenwood, Laurens
and Spartanburg road has been completed.
The only thing remaining to be done is the
removal of some rock in cut. The road is
now ready for the crossties and iron.
A destructive fire occurred last Satur-
day in the town of Walterboro, the county
seat of Colleton county. The Volger Hotel
was destroyed, together with several other
buildings, inf1icting a loss OF about S2l, ,OOO
on which there was but little insurance.
A Charleston special dispatch to the o.
serrer says that on Saturday last, Col. Long,
Postoffice Inspector, arrested Garret j..
Byrnes, money order clerk in the Charles
ion postofice, charging him with having
embezzled eight hundred dollars OF money
order funds.
The General Synod of the Southern
Lutheran Church; recently in session in
Charleston, decided to discontinue the The
illogical Seminary at Salem, Va. 1t is
probable that the Seminary will be trans
ferred to NeWberry and incorporated with
the Newberry College.
1T is said that Senator Colquitt, of Geor-
gia, is interested in the construction OF the
Marion, Marlboro and Horny Railroad, and
that after the adjournment of Congress he
will make trip over the proposed line to
take the preliminary steps toward its con-
struction.
- The petition praying for a communication
of the death sentence to life Imprisonment
of the negro Jim Coleman, convicted in the
Sessions Court of Richland of the murder
i'm December, 1882, of Sarah Willis, colored,
has been considered by the Governor and
refused. The day appointed for the execu-
rion of the death sentence is one week from
tomorrow.
In Greenville, on Sunday afternoon of
Il good deal Of comment and excitement.
A boy named Petty hired horse and bug
gy from Mr.. Charles who keeps a livery
stable in that city. He returned the horse
Late in the evening, after having driven the
animal nearly to death. Mr.. Charles made
him take off his coat and applied 3S lashes
TO his back in the presence OF an assembled
crowd. The next day suit was brought
against Mr.. Charles by Petty for $4,000
damages.
- The Charleston Ne1cs and Courier of
last Saturday announces the death, on the
previous day, of Mr.. R. A. Tavel, who had
been for forty years the commercial reporter
for the Charleston press, and for nearly
twenty years reporter for the Ne'os and
Courier or the paper of which that title is
the successor. He was promptly at his
desk every day until about a week before
his death. He was man of integrity, hon
orable and faithful, and had accumulated a
handsome competency. He was a native
of the Fort Mill section of York county,
and went to Charleston when very young.
-Abbeville Press and Banner: 1t seems
that our people are in great strait for cot
ton seed. Last fall many of our citizens
brought cotton seed to the village and dis
posed of them at twelve and half cents a
bushel. Now the same persons are going
from farm to farm in search ofseed to plant.
Lienors are making application to the stores
for the advance of seed. Those who have
seed have no trouble in disposing of them
at fifty cents bushel, and we learn that
some farmers are waiting on their neighbors
to see if any seed will be left which they
can get. When people become so improvi-
dent as not to save seed, they need expect
nothing else than ruin.