Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLlNA NEWS.
The corner stone of the Court House for
Marlboro county was laid at Bennettsville
on the 9th ult This is the third Court
House erected on the same spot within a
century.
The municipal election in Columbia, on
Tuesday of last week was the quietest ever
known in that city. Mayor Rhett was re-
elected, there being no opposition to the
Democratic ticket which his name headed.
The people of Oconee county are now
provided with storm pits and feel more
comfortable. The proprietor of the keo-
wee Hotel is engaged in preparing one
large enough for the accommodation of his
guests.
Candidates for legislative honors and
county Offices are coming to the front rap
pidly all over the State, and the country
press is teeming with addresses to voters"
and cards of nomination, and so there is no
danger of the offices going begging.
ON April /, 1859, Hugh Wilson bought
half interest in the Abbeville Press and
Banner and he celebrated his 25th anniver-
sary last week. He has prepared review
of some of his history during his quarter of
a century in the publishing business.
AT the recent term of Greenville Cir
cult Court, Alfred and James Mccullough,
convicted of the murder of Ephraim Saxon,
were sentenced to be hanged on May 10th.
Riley Anderson, who murdered Leon Grif-
fifth and an infant, was also sentenced to be
hanged on the same day.
"A little daughter, about ten years of age,
of Mr.. w. n. Payne, who lives at Central,
was killed by the explosion of lamp on
Friday night of last week. In passing
from one room to another with the lamp
in her hand, it exploded, set her clothing
on fire and burned her to crisp.
f. L. Roche, Esq, assistant of the Com
missioner of Agriculture, has telegraphed
Colonel Butler that he left New Orleans
Wednesday night on his return to South
Carolina after completing every arrange
ment for the South Carolina exhibit ut the
New Orleans Exposition.
Mr.. w. F. Smith, who lives near Bethel
Church in Greenville county, says that he
measured hail stones which fell at his house
on the evening of the recent cyclone that
measured nine inches and nine and half,
respectively. They were picked up fifteen
minutes after the hail, and were rough like
an Irish potato with knots on it.
During one or two days last week ex-
tensive forest fires prevailed for several
miles along the railroad between Columbia
and Winnsboro, the fire being on both sides
of the track. Two dwellings and eight or
ten barns and OuthOuses were burned. No
lives were lost, though many were endan-
gered.
Parish Smith, colored, died near Rome,
Ca, the other day. He was LOG years old
last December. He was born in Virginia,
but spent most Of his younger and middle
life in South Carolina. He was born in the
year 1779, and hence was six years old when
the Revolutionary war ended, and was %
years old when Washington died.
The white man who has been turning
Union county upside down by pretending
to be prophet and to possess the power OF
healing all diseases, has left. His departure
was sudden and was not wholly unconnect-
ed with visit from committee of citizens
and volunteer prophecies regarding what
might occur if he remained.
Louis R. Redmond, the noted moon
sinner, has arrived at the penitentiary in
Columbia, having been transferred to that
institution from the Albany penitentiary.
He is represented as poor in health, having
wasted from an athlete mOuntaineer to an
emaciated invalid, caused by lung disease
contracted soon after his exposure to the
rigor of a northern climate.
A fearful hurricane prevailed at Colum-
bia on Wednesday of last week. Trees were
uprooted, miles Of fencing leveled, gardens
DESTROYED, windows demolished and out
houses blown down throughout the city.
The iron roof of the State House that cost
s., 900 was blown off, and the palmetto mon
ument was greatly damaged. For miles
around Columbia the damage by the storm
was also severe.
- The Republican County Convention of
Abbeville county met at Abbeville G. H.,
last Saturday to elect delegates to the State
Convention. I. L. Guffin went up from
Charleston, to control the Convention and
secure the election of Arthur delegates. 1t
seems, however, that the Abbeville Repub-
licans are in favor of Blaine, and they ig-
nored Guffin and his mission.