Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-08
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


at Walhalla with capacity of forty dozen
stockings per day.
- Trial Justice c. j.. Mcdowell was muir
dered by A. II: Perry with, a shot gun in
Kershaw on Wednesday.
A number of COWS are dying in Able
vile county by some sort of plague, the
name of which is notyet known.
About o'clock last Saturday evening
the passenger depot at CheraW was Destroy
ed by fire, communicated by a spark from
all engine.
- Spartanburg township, Spartanburg
county, has voted subscription of $4,000
to the Spartanburg and Rutherford Rail
road, and Mr.. Justice, prominent lawyer
of Rutherfordton, says this vote will secure
Spartanburg the road.
- Many of the farmers in Kershaw county,
intend using kainit in the low lands as a fer
tilizer for corn. 1t is said that there is no
surer means of destroying bugs and other
the use of kainit say about one hundred
pounds to the acre.
- Mr. Samuel Lambeth, one of the most
successful and well-to-do farmers of Lancas-
ter county hasn't planted any cotton in
twenty years. He makes everything to eat
at home, and always has plenty of corn,
fodder, &c., for sale. He has fodder in his
barns thirteen years old.
The Clarendon Enterprise says: "For
nine weeks preceding last Monday the doors
of our jail were left open, and the Jail was
of no service but on that day white man
was committed on charge Of obtaining
money under false pretences. This is the
third white man incarcerated in the jail
during the past four years."
- At Tiller's Ferry, in KershaW county, a
i uaor
reprimanding Lewis Clyburn, colored, one
of his laborers, for some dereliction of duty.
Clyburn pulled out pistol and fired twice
upon Mr.. Hearon, one ball taking effect in
the back, but not making dangerous
wound. Clyburn Immediately left and has
not been heard from since.
- In Abbeville county, one day last week,
Rufus Hughes, white, accidentally shot his
sister, Miss Ann Hughes. The wound is
painful but not necessarily dangerous. They
were scutf1ing together when a pistol which
Rufus had in his pocket was discharged:
The ball entered the young lady's arm and
lodged near her collar bone after passing
through her right breast.
- Orangeburg Times and Democrat The
buffalo gnat, which is doing SO much harm
in the West, has made its appearance in our
county. DR.. M. j. D. DantZler informed us
last week that they had killed two mules in
the Vance's Ferry section. Use kerosine
oil freely on your stock twice day should
they be attacked, and it is said that it will
drive the pest away.
"A white man by the name of Brough-
ton. who was employed at Kelly's saw mill,
or Six-mile Creek in Pickens county, met a
fearful death on April %. He was bearing
off lumber from the saw, and by some accl-
dent plank that he was carrying struck
the saw which was in motion, and jerked
him across the saw and his body was sawed
almost in two, causing instant death.
- The Lancaster Ledger says: "Up to date
], ,49S liens have been filed in the clerks Of
flee at this place. Of this number 179 are for
rent and the remainder ,3O1-are for agri-
cultural advances. The average amount
which these liens are to secure is between
$40 and $50. The largest amount ofany one
lien is 5000 and the smallest is $3.50. The
number of liens filed so far this year exceeds
the number filed during the whole of the
year 1885,"
The South Carolina State Press Associa-
ton will meet in Charleston on the 14th in
stant. The Ne,cs and Courier says "It is
probable that the North Carolina Press AS
sociation will also attend the meeting next
month. A formal invitation has been ex-
tended to it, and the hope is that arrange
ments can be perfected for joint meeting
of the journalists of the Carolinas. Aside
from the great pleasure that such gather
ing would afford to those who should attend
business interests would be incalculable."
- Columbia Register The Department of
Agriculture is in constant receipt of encOur-
aging letters regarding exhibits at the New
Orleans Exposition. The assistants OF the
department are pushing the interest, and in
many localities associations and individuals
have gone manfully to work preparing ex-
hibits of farm products, minerals, wood,
stone and manufactured articles. The finny
tribe will receive special attention. Mr.. e.
l.. Roche has arranged for $4,000 feet OF
SPACE in the Exposition buildings, which it
is believed will be fully occupied by the
South Carolina exhibits.
- Laurensville Herald: John Vinson, COL
ored, who lived on Mr.. Pat Todd's place,
shot and killed Robert Byrd, also colored,
last Saturday afternoon. The murderer had
had some words with Byrd some days be-
fore, and on Saturday evening was engaged
in planting cotton in field near the public
road, when he chanced to see Byrd passing
by riding a mule. Byrd was allowed to
pass unmolested, but Vinson, seeing him
returning, went to his cotton seed basket
and drew therefrom pistol with which he
SHOT Byrd as soon as he came IN shooting
distance. The murderer escaped.
In conversation last Thursday with a
resident of Cash's Depot, a reporter for the
Columbia Register learned that Mr.. Coward,
who was one of the parties shot by Boggan
Cash at CheraW is in no immediate danger
of death from his wound, but that the par
alysis of the lower portion of his body re-
mains as when it first occurred. There has
been no change for the better. 1t was also
learned that the reports which have been
published to the effect that Colonel Cash
was exceedingly attentive to the wants OF
the unfortunate young man ana that ne
would bear all the expenses consequent upon
MIR. Coward's illness, were without founda-
ton. The Registers informant did not give
the whereabouts Of Boggan, though ne
claims that there has been a strong reactl0n
Of public feeling in Boggan's favor since the
passions aroused by the homicide have ceas-
ell to be famed with angry breezes.
w. K. Blake, a lawyer of Greenwood,
Abbeville county, was committed to jail 1or
twenty-four hours, one day last week, by
Trial Justice Tarrant for contempt OF Court.
MIR. Blake publishes certificate signed by
the jurors who sat in the case, and they say
that the cause Of contempt "Was simple
request addressed in respectful language and
manner to the Trial Justice, that his own
witness, on his direct examination, might be
required to restate his testimony, so that
the attorney might know whether ne un-
derstood his witness as the Trial justice un-
derstood him to which the Irla! Justice
replied, that he had recorded the statement
of witness as ne understood him, and 1t dld
not matter whether the attorney understood
L. r., D1nlyn