Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Liabilities, $4,000 assets, $4,000.
- Mr.. James BOnham, a son of eX-Gov
ernor Bonham, died at the residence of his
father in Columbia last Thursday.
Hon. d. w. Aiken has expressed the de-
sire to be his own successor at the next Con-
gressional election.
Joe Howard, colored, was convicted in
the Sumter Court of Sessions, last week, of
the murder of Simon Gaskins, also colOred,
about a year ago.
Work has commenced in earnest on the
Greenville and Laurens Railroad, and it is
contemplated to complete the road between
those towns by this time next year.
Not less than fifty cases are pending in
in the next term Of the Court of Sessions
for Fairfield county, presenting greater
amount of petty crime than has been known
in that county for twenty years.
The Press and Banner states that John
r. Taggart, who ran on the Radical State
ticket in 1876 for Comptroller Gene'al is
now making efforts to secure the appoint
ment of Postmaster at Abbeville.
The South Carolina Railway Company
has offered Mrs. Jennings, whose husband
was killed at Langley last week while coup
ling cars, the sum of $50 a month as long as
she remains widow.
Ned Hampton, colored, died on Mrs.
Chalmers plantation, near Jalapa, NeWber-
ry county, a few days ago, at the age OF Ill
years. He was once slave Of the grand
father of Senator Wade Hampton.
In Laurens, owing to the demoralizing
effects of short crop and the Arkansas fe-
yer among the cOlored race, farm laborers
are becoming scarce and demanding higher
wages.
- On the night of the 18th instant, mail
bag was stolen from the postoffice at Easley,
cut open with an axe and left in the yard.
The robber was evidently after money, but
he found none. He also attempted to break
open the money drawer, but failed.
In Greenvile county, astSunday, morn
ing, Ephraim Saxon, colored, was shot and
killed on slight provocation, his murderer
being James Mccullough, aided by Alfred
and Sandy Mccullough, all colored. They
have been committed to Jail.
- The relatives, friends and acquaintances
of Major Lewis R. Redmond, the famous
mOonshiner, who is yet confined in Auburn
prison, New York, are making efforts to
have him transferred to the State Peniten-
tiary at Columbia, on account of his ILL.,
health, and it is thought his transfer will
soon be successfully arranged for.
Charles Tinsley, white lad, formerly
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the mail while carrying the same on one of
the star routes in Greenville county, two
months ago, has pleaded guilty to that Of
fence in the United States District Court,
and has been sentenced by Judge Bryan to
a tWO-years' term in the refOrmatOry school
at Baltimore.
Rock Hill Herald: Mr.. Greene Fergu-
son went from Landsford to Brazil fifteen
wears ago. A kinsman has just received a
letter reporting the death of his wife, Mrs.
Minerva Ferguson, on the 30th of last March,
of<consumption. Mr.. Ferguson was good
citizen, and his many friends in this section
will be saddened at the announcement Of
his wife's death.
The election at Aiken for subscription or
no subscription of 900 to aid in build
ing the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chi
cago Railroad, took place Wednesday of last
week, and resulted in a victory for the mo
subscription" party by a vote of l67 to l5G.
Aiken, therefore, will not be the terminus
of the road. A connection will be made
with the, South Carolina Railway either at
Montmorenci or Windsor.
On Sunday night the building in which
Mr.. II. G. Smith lived and kept a store at
louisville, in Union county, was burned.
Mr.. Smith and wife were reused from their
Steep DCUWecl ollNi ut6 W IiiS
near approach Of the flames, and were bare
ly able to escape with their lives. Besides
the building the whole stock Of goods which
Mr.. Smith had recently laid in and all the
household furniture was consumed. The
total loss was about $4,000, insurance, ST. 200.
The Columbia Register is informed that
a Republican caucus was held at Sumter
last Saturday. Collector Il. B. Johnson was
present. The caucus was held to re-organ-
ize for the coming Congressional campaign
in the Seventh District. Some of the lead
ing colored Republicans of Sumter county
say that they are determined that the next
Congressman from the Seventh District
shall be cOlored man. 1t was expected
that the resolutions endorsing Smalls would
have been adopted, but they were voted
down.
Lancaster Ledger: Wash Ford, colored,
died near town on Saturday night last, it is
said, from poison administered in an apple
by an old rival. 1t appears that Wash was
recently married to a girl near Camden,
who had many beauN, and few days after
the marriage Wash was made the recipient
of package of two apples and two cigars
by one of his old rivals. He gave the cl-
CARS to a friend Of his, who got very sick
after smoking them, and ate the apples
himself. Shortly after he ate them he took
violently sick, lingering until Saturday
night, when he died.
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