Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-01-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

ROddy, OF ROCK Hill, a Notary PUBIC.
- The saloons in West Union, suburb in
Walhalla, have been closed on account of
the passage of the prohibitory law in Oconee.
The Greenville Neus notes that several
of the eighteen bar-rooms Of that town have
closed for want of business.
Col. r. NJ. Wallace, president of the Ma
tional Bank of Sumter, has moved his fam
lily there. The bank will soon be in readi-
ness.
In accordance with the recent election
on the subject of the license question, the
bar-rooms in Orangeburg closed their doors
last Monday evening for good.
The mail service on the route from
Fort Lawn to to Wylie's mills and Lands
ford, in Chester county, has been increased
from semi-weekly to tri-weekly trips.
The Town Council of Brunson, Hamp-
ton county, has adopted an ordinance max
ing the license to retail spirituOus liquors
81 900. This means dry town.
"A Marion county man elOped with ~
neighbor's wife last week. The runaway
pair were caught at Florence and taken
back to Marion, where they were lodged III
Jail.
The iewelry store of Mr.. Stain, in Ches-
ter was burglariously entered through the
glass front window on the night of the 27th
ultimo, and about 500 worth OF goods
stolen.
- The Town Council of Newberry has
licensed several saloons, including two
drug stores, at s4O0 each, and it is thought
that the number will reach ten. Last year
license was granted to twelve saloons, in
Guiding three drug stores, at $500 each.
Mr. II. D. Gillespie, so well known as
the division superintendent, in the territory
embracing South Carolina, of the Southern
Express company, has resigned that posi-
ton, and is succeeded by Mr.. O. NJ. Saddler,
late route superintendent.
Chester Bulletin, Friday: Near Black
stock on last Friday Mr.. VIM. McDaniel's
little son, about six years old, was crushed
to death almost instantly by a log. Several
children were playing on hillside rolling
logs, when one accidentally rolled over the
little fellow, causing immediate death.
Rock Hill Herald: The shipments Of
Cotton from Rock Hill for the month of De-
from September 1st to December 31st ag-
gregate 0,1S5 bales, against 1904 for the
same time last year and S,O34 the year
| before.
Prof. J. NJ. Hughson, a deaf mute, and
professor in the institution at Cedar
Springs, Spartanburg county, was set upon
and badly beaten by gang of tramps on
New Year night. They also robbed him of
his watch and about seventy-five dollars in
money.
In Union county, last week, John Roun.
tree, white, was exhibiting the qualities or
pistol to negro named Choice Herndon,
with a view to selling it. Whilst in the
act of swapping it the pistol was discharg"
ed, the ball entering Herndons breast and
killing him instantly.
Tho bpcipocc 1,rOprpcc Of COlOnhi0 1S
shown by the annual report of COL S. A.
Pearce, President of the Board OF Trade,
has been very gratifying. Col. Pearce shows
that "the increase in the receipts of cotton
in Columbia last year QSS2) Wasabout 20 per
cent. The decrease so far this year QSS3)
with a short crop is less than per cent.
The total receipts since the 1stof September
last have been g, 43S bales.
- Union Times: The town council has
been engaged for some days trying cases for
selling liquor without license. Three cases
have been tried so far, resulting in one &C"
quittaI and two convictions, each of the
imprisoned 20 days. There are 6 or other
cases on the docket, and the members of the
council are determined to do their duty
without fear, favor or affection. The cOun"
ell must be respected and the laws obeyed.
About o'clock last Thursday morning
four prisoners who had been sentenced to
the penitentiary for life made their escape
from that institution. Their names, pre-"
vious residence and crimes are as follows:
Charles Cesar, Aiken, burglary; Thomas
Adams, Charleston, burglary; Henry Mack
Sumter, arson Jacob johnson, Lexington,
manslaughter. They escaped through O.
sewer and as their striped garments were
left at the outlet of the sewer, it is believed
that they effected their escape through the
aid of outside parties.
The Newberry Observer of January 3rd.
says: "Between one hundred and one hun
dred and twenty-five negroes will leave
Newberry tomorrow or neXtday for Texas.
These 20 to Col. H. r. Hearne, of Robert"
son county, Texas, one of the solid men Of
that section, being worth S75, 900 or $780,
This lot will make about two hundred and
seventy-fve from this county. The colored
majority is being gradually reduced" On
the same subject the Newberry Herald says:
"The Texas fever has laid strong hold upon
the NeWberry negroes. The week before
last one hundred and fifty left this place for
Texas; we learn that large party will GO
ing Friday Some of these emigrantS are
well-to-do negroes, but they say that labor
is too cheap here and their wages too hard
to collect after they have been earned.'
- In the Montmorenci portion of Aiken
county, that community was much shocked
on the morning of the 22nd ultimo, by the
discovery that some ghoul had entered the
old cemetery, two hundred yards east ofthe'
depot, and dug into the grave of we'll
known citizen of twenty years ago, James
A Woodward. Mr.. WOodWad was Con-
federate soldier, and died in 1864. This old
cemetery was very near the stockade or
temporary defence made by the Federal
cavalry during their occupancy of that place
in February, 1865, and it is believed by
many that something of value was secreted
there at that time, and that the robber Of
that era has returned, after the lapse OF
nearly twenty years, to secure his booty.
The remains were not mOlested, but MIR.
Marion Woodward and his brothers, James
and Henry, sons of the deceased, had the
grave reopened and the remains carefully
gathered up and put in aneat box and rein
| tered
SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
"Richland," the usually well-nformed
Columbia correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle and Constituencies writes to that
paper under date of last Saturday:
1t would seem to be rather early for the
friends of aspirants for political preferment
to begin to canvass in South Carolina, but
the boys like to be always on time and al
ready we hear denominations for the various