Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SprOutlng in the shock IN consequence Oh Tile
continued rains"
| SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
| Chesterfield county has a postoffice nam
ed Catarrh.
- The survivors of the Twelfth S. G. Regi-
ment will meet in Winnsboro next Satur-
day.
| There are fourteen barbecues advertised
in Lexington county for July and August,
and the candidates are expected to patron
ize all of them.
"A citizen of Fairfield county values his
hunting dogs at S2l each and pays taxes on
them accordingly. The fellow that steals
one of them commits grand larceny.
| The statement that son of the Rev. DR.:
Meynardie lost both his legs in railroad
accident was an exaggeration. He had only
one leg broken.
Moses Goldsmith, a citizen of Charleston,
committed suicide on Saturday of last week
by shooting himself dead with a pistol.
| The victim of his own rash act was 10 years
of age. ~
Wilkinson, the colored youth who was
appointed to West Point by the late e. w.
NJ. Mackey, has been rejected on the physic-
al examination, and therefore, leaves a va
cancy to be filled.
A convention of the colored people Of
the State was appointed to be held in Col
umbia on the End instant: but from the
failure of delegates to attend, the move
ment was unsuccessful.
Congressman Evins has fatal case of
Bright's disease and has gone to Waukee-
sha Spring, Wisconsin, as last resort. The
latest accounts represented that he was I'M
proving.
The Newberry Ne,cs states that the Sec
retary of State, James n. Lipscomb, was
recently married to Miss Ella Motto of
Newberry county. This is the Secretary
of States third marriage.
The taxpayers of the Camden school dis
trict have refused to levy a special tax for
the support of the graded schools in Cam
den next year. A movement is taking
some definite shape to organize a joint
stock company to establish good school
at that place.
- The candidates for the Radical nomina-
ton for Congress from the Second District
are Paris Simkins, politician, Edgetield !;
Rev. w. H. Heard, preacher, Aiken 5. r.
Smith, mail agent, Port Royal Railroad,
and Fred Nix, Jr.,, postmaster ana PROBES
sional politician, Blackville. All negroes.
"A man named G. Johnson, living on
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county, was killed by lightning last week.
He was lying on the floor of his house play
ing with his little child at the time. The
child escaped unhurt, but its mother who
was sitting near by, was badly stunned,
and dog was killed in the yard.
Mr.. w. I. Coins, who left Lancaster
county and went to Florida in December
last, has been arrested and committed to
Jail at GAINESVILLE, charged with breach OF
trust with fraudulent intent. Shortly be-
fore leaving, Coins was deputized by Sheriff
Hunter to collect delinquent taxes in Gills
Creek and Cane Creek Townships, Lancas-
ter county. After making some collections
he left and went to Florida.
= For the first time in the history of the
Clifton Cotton Factory, in Spartanburg
county, it was forced to stop on Wednesday
and Thursday morning on account of high
water. The recent rains had swollen the
river so much that it came over the Wheel
Nothing was lost, however, as it was neces-
sary to make repairs Of shafting, and this
was done while the mill was idle. The
Pacolet at that point was higher than it
had been for four years.
About year ago the wife of Marcus
Schell, of Newberry county, deserted her hus-
band and eloped with fellow named McGlli,
from Lancaster, who left wife and chill.
dren. Mr.. Schell shortly afterwards moved
TO North Carolina, where he recently OBJ
tanned a divorce and married again. Moth
ing was heard of the runaway pair until
Thursday last, when Mrs. Schell returned
to NeWberry and went at once to the house
of her father, Mr.. Thos. Phillips, near
Mount Tabor Church, where she IS now
staying.
- A quacll doctor has come to grief in
Orangeburg. A white man named John
Yon claimed to be root doctor, and in this
capacity attended a little girl of Mrs. n. F.
Dantzler, of Goodby's Township, who was
sick. The child grew worse under Yon's
treatment, and the mother finally called in
DR.. Bates, who found the child in dying
and so could do nothing. After the death
of the child, a warrant was issued for Yon
on the charge of malpractice and he was
arrested and lodged in Jail.
On the night of the 1st instant, the dead
body of man by the name of Sessions was
found between the residence of SamI. A.
Wood and Robbins Station, in BarnWell
county. The body was very much mutlla-
ted by dogs. The head was severed from
the body and buried at the feet of the corpse.
The body was buried without coffin. The
skull was fractured in several places and
the coupling pin of a car was found in the
hole with the body. S. A. Wood, a white
man who is highly connected, and John
| Terry, negro, have been arrested for the
murder and sent to Barnwell Jail.
- The State Normal School for colored
teachers opened at Orangeburg on the End
instant. A correspondent of the Ne,os and
Courier says: At II o'clock, Col. Asbury
Coward, the State superintendent of educa-
ton, called the Institute to order, and in
his usual attractive style made an earnest
address to the teachers assembled, in which
he reminded them of the high and impor-
tant responsibilities resting upon them in
the training of the youth, and urged them
to improve we'll the splendid opportunity
which they would enjoy during the present
session of the Institute in fitting themselves
for the discharge of their duties as teachers.
Col. Coward's address was very appropriate,
and his foreible and eloquent words show
that he is thoroughly in earnest, and has
proper appreciation of the great work COM
mitted to his charge and over which he pre-
sides in his official capacity.