Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-21
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

and Pickens. Four aspirants for Sheriff
are reported in the latter county.
Harrington Hawkins and his wife, an
aged couple, of Edgefeld county, died last
week of measles. The wife died on Tues
day and the husband on Friday.
- The annual inspection of the First Regi-
ment of Cavalry will be held at Hampton
on the 18th of March, There are eight COM
panies in the regiment
| - The wife of the 'Rt. Rev. w. B. w.
Howe, Bishop of this diocese, died in Char
lesion on Wednesday of last week, and
was buried from St. Philips Church on the
following day.
- Mountain Shoals is to be the name of a
new town, in Laurens' county, on the line of
the Greenville, Laurens and Savannah
Saturday, at from $40 to S56 for half and
one acre lots.
| Perry Abraham and Catherine Stepp,
colored, have been arrested and committed
to Jail in Greenville, suspected of being the
perpetrators of the murder of Mrs. Edna
Black, in that county, in the month OF
August, 1873.
1t is stated that the Raleigh and Angus
| tn Railroad, which will reach Cheraw du-
ring the year. is to be pushed rapidly through
to Columbia. When completed it will
place Cheraw within three hours of the
capital, instead of tWenty-four, as at present.
- The Governor has issued writ of elec-
| tion to the Commissioners of Election for the
counties comprising the Seventh Congress
sional Districts for the election Of a MEM
ber of Congress to fill the vacancy created
by the death of f. w. NJ. Mackey. The
election is to take place on the 18th OF
March.
of nnf1y iS. n
remarkable man. He is in the 91st year OF
| his age; had has bacon for sale every year for
fifty years; never planted seed of cotton
| in his life raises his own tobacco, never
having. bought but one and a half plug !;
has plenty of money; is native OF An
derson county.
- Bennettsvile expects to come out Of the
wilderness shortly. The S,la 6nd Monitor
says: "The Sout.ks% carolina Pacific Road
will be completed to Bennettsville by next
4 November. The Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Road will be completed as far as
Shoe Heel, N. c., within the next sixty
days"
Near Batesburg, Lexington county. on
Sunday of last week, Stanmore Walker shot
and dangerously wounded his brother-in-
law, Jesse Scott. They had quarrel last
summer ABOUT very trivial matter and
ing by Scott's, deliberately shot him in his
own yard without notice or warning. Wal
ker cannot be found.
- The Sumter IPatchmon, printed at the
home of Mr.. Tuomey, nominated by the
President for the position, of U. S. Marshal
for South Carolina, speaks i'll the highest
terms of that gentleman's qualifications for
the Office. Although the nomination has
not been confirmed by the Senate, MIR.
Tuomey receives daily, hundreds of appli-
cations for appointment to office.
About the first week in January Laura
Kinard, a maiden lady aged 40 years, liv-
ing alone with her father in NeWberry
county, was found in the house badly burn
ed and dead, and under circumstances that
gave rise to strong suspicious OF foul play,
or at the least that she was the victim of
malpractice by her father, who is an &C.
centric sort of man, and an herb doctor
Efforts were made to obtain an analysis Of
the contents of the stomach of the deceased; :;
bus the coroner failing in this, the jury of
inquest have returned a verdict that she
came to her death from burning and from
other causes unknown.
Union Times: On the 7th instant, as
Foster Garvington, colored, was taking
plank from the saw, at fuckers saw mill,
in Santuc township, a plank struck the saw
and knocked him down, throwing him
across the saw while it was running. His
leg was cut off just below the body in
shocking manner, and one arm and a
hand were dreadfully mutilated. Medical
aid was procured as quickly as possible, and
every care and attention was given the un-
fortunate man, but all were unavailing, and
he died Thursday night.
Two Mormon apostles are on mission
work in the northeastern part of Spartan
burg county. They generally seek the dark
corners, where there are no post ohices and
where the people do not read. Speaking of
their movements in Spartanburg, a CORES
pondent of the Ne,rS and Courier says I:
''They find entertainment with the kind,
good people of the neghborhood where they
are working. 1t is a very difficult question
to settle as to what ought to be done with
these men. They are not disturbers of the
peace they do not attract crowds; in fact
they move about quietly and cautsously.
There is therefore, no chance to have them
up before the mag gistrates, and what is to be
done with them is a question not easy to
answer,