Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-05

sion a day after the adjournment of the
Convention, having organized by electing
f. A. Gillette, of Iowa, and D. w. Ter
Undo, of New Jersey, Secretary.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The oat harvest has begun at Williams
burg, and is regarded as exceedingly good.
The Williamsburg secret societies are
accepting the due bills of their members for
fees payable in the fall.
- The Winnsboro Herald has positive in
formation that there will be no June term
of the Circuit Court of that county.
- Francis I. Sessions, Sheriff Of Horny
county, died at Conway, last Friday even
ing, aged 81 years.
In Greenville, last Friday, John Jackson,
colored, was committed to jail for thirty
days by trial justice for failure to pay the
poll tax.
One firm in Chesterfield county returns
fifteen thousand acres of land at s., $780, and
thousands of acres are returned at similar
valuation. The county is out of debt.
A farmer in Kershaw county now has on
hand 1900 bushels of home-raised corn.
His example is worthy of imitation by all
the rest Of the farmers.
The case ofyoung Lee, who was wound
ed when Boggan Cash was killed, and who
was tried in the Chesterfield Circuit Court
last week for aggravated assault, resulted in
mistrial, eleven of the jury being for ac-
quittal.
- Adutant- General Manigault has finish
ed the Spring inspection Of State troops.
He reports the condition of the troops as
very good indeed, and fully up to the STAN
dard of last year. Numerically the COM
mands are about the same as last year.
The Greenville Enterprise says: "Isaac
NJ. Bryan, Esq, has been retained as the
leading counsel for the defendant in the
case of the United States against A. Blythe,
late United States marshall for South Caro-
lina."
- Allen Delaney was shot by Sandy Rob
ertson, in Fairfield county, on Thursday
night last and died soon after. The affair
grew out of the fact that Delaney had taken
the part of woman who had prosecuted
Robertson. All the parties concerned were
colored.
A white man named Burns, from North
Carolina, made contract with Mr.. Logan
Webster, of Marlboro county, to work for
him during the present year. Burns got
dissatisfied and violated the contract. He
was taken up and sent to Jail by trial JUS
tice for thirty days.
Mr.. J. G.. Keys, who has farm near An
derson, is one of the champion farmers of
that county: His grain fields are exception
ally fine this year. 1t is expected that he
will make 1000 bushels of barley and sever
al thousand bushels of oats and wheat. Mr..
Keys is a very successful farmer, and the Sc
cret of his success is that he diversihes his
crops and makes cotton surplus crop.
- The Columbia correspondent of the Ne'cs
and Courier writes, under date of Saturday:
Private advices received here state that an
alarming amount of illness prev is at the
Clifton Factory, Spartanburg county, about
three hundred and fifty hands being sick
with black measles, mumps, dysentery and
fevers. 1t is reported that the deaths aver
age two day.
- The Charlotte Observer of Saturday
c., has an Ayrshire COW that gives seven
gallons and two quarts of milk every day.
The COW is undoubtedly magificent ami
NAL. Several parties refusing to believe it,
were invited to witness the milking and
measuring yesterday, and went away salts
fled on seeing the !! gallons measured be-
fore their own eyes,"
- Ex-Deputy United States Marshal Star
| ling P. Landlord, formerly of Woodruff g,
Spartanburg county, who ran away from
Greenville three years ago after forging an
others name to postoffice draft and doing
other rascally deeds, was arrested last FRI
spector l.. B. Lamson. Landlord was
brought to Greenville and turned over to
Deputy Marshal James King, who lodged
him in Jail to await trial at the August
term of the United States District Court.
Capt. Robert w. Andrews, of Sumter,
aged SO years, who recently left his home
for the purpose of making a pedestrian
tour to Boston, where he has son living,
reached Washington last week. He has av-
eraged 25 miles a day since undertaking
the trip. While in Washington, he called
on. President Arthur, and he says he has
spoken to every President of the United
! States from Washington down to Arthur,
with the exception of the late President
Garfield.
Columbia Register Saturday: 1t is
stated that gentleman recently from Ger
many, who remained in Columbia several
days, has gone to Oconee county to establish
rights to an immense body of land, the
titles to which run back to 1890. Over
thousand persons are now in possession OF
these lands, and they can only be ousted by
long litigation. The Registers informant
further states that the claim to the lands
in question has created much excitement
in the country, and that the lawyers are
looking for a harvest in the field of litiga-
ton.
- Joel Vaughn, who lives near Seneca
City, is said to have one of the largest fami-
lies in the United States. He is about eigh-
ty years of age, has been married four times
and now has an infant child. His last three
wives were widows, all of whom had chill
dren by their previous husbands, respective
Iy eight, seven and four, total of nineteen.
| These four wives bore Mr.. Vaughn twenty
seven children, which, added to the nine
teen step-children, gave Mr.: Vaughn con-
troll of forty-six children. There are thus
seven different sets Of children.
At the last term of Court suit was
brought against the county of Aiken by
Mrs, S. E, Twiggs for $4,000 on a charge of