Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-20

perance paper, opposes the idea of running
candidates for office on the Temperance
question, because, "it would no doubt di-
vide the Democratic party, which must
never be DONE"
w. II. Barrett, a native of Binghampton,
n. Y, but since 1866 citizen OF this State,
committed suicide in Greenville, last Friday
night, by swallowing ten grains Of NOR
phine He was employed as life insurance
agent.
Near Walhala, on the 18th instant, an
aged couple-John Sharpe, Esq, and his
wife-died within two hours of each other.
They lacked only few days of being the
same age, seventy-eight years, and had
been married fifty-eight years.
The new census of the town of NeWber-
nv, which has just been completed by Mr..
John S. Fair by order of the town council,
gives that place population OF 2,62S as
compared with 2342 by the United States
census of 1880.
There have been 1,243 agricultural liens
recorded in Spartanburg county this year.
In Sumter county 3, l40 have been recorded.
The number recorded in Sumter last year
was 1852. In Orangeburg county 900 have
been recorded, and the Clerk of the Court
thinks that not more than half of the re-
turns are in yet.
A dispute arose between two colored
convicts in the penitentiary last Saturday,
when one struck the other on the head with
a shoemaker's Furnishing iron, inf1icting
wounds that may prove fatal. The wound
ed convict is from Chesterfield, and his as
sailant from Abbeville. Both are convicts
for life.
MIR. J. F. Henderson, of Laurens county,
sold a bale of cotton in the Laurens market
last week, which was grown and ginned in
the year 1861, making it twenty-three years
old. He was offered thirty-three cents for
it at one time, and since 1861 he could have
sold it at sixty cents per pound. The price
paid was ten cents-grade, good mlddllng-
cotton in excellent state OF preservation.
- The prospects of railroad from Gaffney
CITY to Rutherford, says the Spartan, now
seem better than they have been for some
time. A proposition has been made to the
Rutherford people by certain capitalists to
build the road, provided the Railroad Com
mittee of that county would turn over the
500, 900 in bonds as soon as the road is grad
ed. They are to have a meeting at Ruther-
ford the oath instant, when the sangulne
friends of this movement believe that steps
will be taken for going to work immediate
ly. The general proposition is to build a
road with Cincinnati as one terminus and
some point on the Atlantic as the other.
= Says the Columbia Register of Sunday
At o'clock last evening death came to the
relief of Miss Eliza Cornelia, eldest daugh-
ter of Governor Hugh S. Thompson, who
was fatally burned on the evening of the
18th instant. Miss Thompson was sitting in
front of an open CRATE reading book when
her dress took fire, and before the flames
could be extinguished she received the in
juries which have terminated fatally. The
deceased was little over IS years of age
The Governor and his family have the sim
cere coincidence not only of this community
but of the entire State in their sad bereave-
ment. The funeral services will be held at
Trinity Church this afternoon, at half-past
4 o'clock.