Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-19
SOuTH CAROLINA NEWS.

lambda Register.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
-. The fourteenth annual meeting of the
South Carolina State Dental Association
will be held in Spartanburg on July 8.
-. Edgefeld now has three cavalry COM
panies which it is proposed to organize into
a battalion.
- The town council ofaDarlington have
passed a resolution enforcing the ordinance
against selling liquor on Sunday and gamb-
| ling at any time. They intend to enforce
| the law.
- Moses Williams, of Laurens county, is
81 years old. Recently he harvested his
grain crop himself with a cradle seventy
! five years old. The blade is very narrow,
but holds good edge yet. The cradle has
been mended with two new fingers in the
seventy-fve years. He has wagon thirty
five years old, and during that time it has
notlost so much as nail.
-. Owing to the small supply Of cotton on
hand and the present limited demand for
goods the Granitevilie cotton mill in Aiken
county stopped work last Saturday, and will
continue hereafter to run on short time, by
which with their remaining supply of cot
ton the company hope to be able to do til
the new crop comes in. For the present the
mill will stop one day in each week.
| - Cheraw Sun: Colonel Cash, on Monday
last, had the remains of his deceased wife
removed from old st. David's Cemetery, in
this town, to his home, six miles distant
They will be reinterred near his house be-
side the remains Of his son, the late Cap
| tain w. B. Cash. The monument was one
of the largest and handsomest in the ceme-
terry Its removal will greatly detract from
the adornments of the beautiful grounds.
-Pickens correspondent of the Greenville
Ne,Os says that Redmond, the noted moon
sinner, who was recently pardoned from
the penitentiary, is at the point of death.
He has sent for his nearest relatives to
come and see him for the last time on earth.
In contradiction of the above a correspon-
dent of the Easley Messenger says that Red
mond's health is improving, and that he is
gaining strength.
There are men now living in Spartan
burg county who have seen wheat cut with
the sickle, or old-fashioned reap-hook, ana
they remember the time when the cradle
was cautiously introduced. Three-quarters
of century has made wonderful change.
The very fields where once the reap-hook
was used are now cut by the reapers, and in
some instances the machine does the bind
ing.
The Lancaster Reuie,C says: ION last
Friday afternoon, while w. ]. Mcbride was
working in the fields about two miles from
TaxahaW, In this county, one u. A. King
approached him and demanded "satisfac-
tion." Mcbride stopped down and picked
up rock and threw it at King, whereupon
the latter opened fire upon him with pis-
tol. Mcbride fed when the balls began to
whistle about him, and King, thinking that
he had gone for his gun, fled also, but in an
opposite direction. A woman was the cause
of the difficulty"
Marlboro Democrat: Captain P. L. Bree-
den received telegram last week from
President Gray, of the Cape Fear and Yad-
kin Valley Railroad, announcing positive
ly that work would be commenced on the
road from Shoe Heel to Bennettsville on
the 10th of June. AS soon as work has
been commenced in earnest at Shoe Heel,
Major TWiggs, who has the contract for
building the road from this place to the
to the North Carolina line, will commence
work on this end Of the road. There is now
no doubt that the road will be built, and it
is to be hoped that it will not stop here,
but will 60 on to Augusta and give us what
we most need-good Southern connections.
"A dispatch of last Saturday to the
Charleston Sunday Neacs says that a white
man named John Foster Dew, aged about
% years, was lodged in Jail at Marion last
Friday night, on the charge of killing his
wife. The wife of Dew was about 81 years
old, and when married to him was widow
with three children. He was cruel both to
her and the children, and the neighbors say
that he would beat the children unmerciful-
ly. At the time at which the killing of his
wife is said to have occurred, he was beat
ing one of the children and she interfered to
protect it, when he turned upon her and
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death the next day. He had beaten her be-
fore, and it appears that they were living
together very unhappily. The woman was
in delicate health and was soon to become
a mother. Dew is man Of small means,
residing about twenty-one miles from Ma
rion in that part of the county known as the
"SlaShes."
Theodore Myler, United States post
office inspector, having his headquarters at
Atlanta, took before United States Com
missioner Bauskett in Columbia, on Thurs
day last, Susannah Arthur, postmistress
at Macedonia, Lexington county, George
T. Arthur, her son, deputy postmaster,
and d. F. Arthur, another son, assist
ant in the Office. The charge on which
they were examined was the violation of
Sections 5,41S and 5479 of the Revised Stat
utes-forgery of an official bond-the pen
atty being 1000 fine or ten years in the
Penitentiary, or both, in the discretion of the
Court The two first named prisoners were
charged with being principals and D. f:
Arthur with being an accessory before and
after the fact. After an examination, Com
missioner Bauskett held Susannah Arthur
for trial at the July term of the United
States District court in Charleston in the
sum of $500. She gave bail. Her sons
were held for trial in the sum of 81, 600 each,
but up to this time they have not been able
to give bond and are in the county jail.
The young men were also charged with
the embezzlement of registered letters.
THE SCHOOL QUEsTION.-The Abbeville
Press and Banner prints a number Of replies
to it's queries on the educational question.
The majority of its answers come from it's
own county the rest from some three or