Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-31
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| -Ihe antl-llQuOr sentiment is rapluly
gaining ground in Walterboro.
w. J. Moultrie, a Republican member Of
the Legislature, has received the appoint
ment Of postmaster at Georgetown.
In WalterbOro on the 18th instant, DIR.
w. Miller, while crazed with whisky, shot
and killed his step-mother.
Henry M. Wood, a young man former
ly of Greenville, died suddenly in Savan.
nah, Ga., last Friday night, of congestion OF
the brain. ..
Richard Massey, colored, has invented
very useful washstand which he expects to
have patented. 1t can be easily taken apart
and carried in trunk.
| The board of examiners of Orangeburg
county have just completed the teachers pa
pers for the July examinations. There were
seventeen applicants. Six passed and elev-
en- were rejected.
The father Of Comptroller-General Sto'
ney died at his residence in Berkeley coun.
ty on Sunday and his remains were inter.
red on Monday. The deceased was far ad,
vanced in years.
| After deducting s21 ,134.59, the allowance
to commissioners for recovering from the
United States Government the direct taxes
paid by citizens of this State soon after the
war, a balance of $39, 44.39 is now on depos'
it in the Central National Bank of Columbia,
awaiting the action of the Legislature.
- Winnsboro Ne,rs, Tuesday: 1t is given
us on authority that the large corn and flour
mills of Mr.. A. B. Douglass. near Black
stock, were burned down on last Saturday
night. The loss is estimated at about So, ,000
We are not informed as to whether it was
covered by insurance. The fire was prob
ably accidental.
| AN Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church was organized at Lancaster on Mon
day last by Rev. E. E. Pressly,'. under ap-
pointment of Presbytery, assisted by the
Rev. Mason W. Pressly, of Chester. The
new Church enrolled sixteen members and
elected two elders, Ira B. Jones, Esq, and
Mr.. w. B. Knight.
MIR. IT. Ed Greneker, one of the editors
and the publisher of the Newberry Herald
died on Friday morning after brief ill,
ness from typhoid fever: He was proba-
bly, the youngest editor in the State, being
only in his nineteenth year, and was a
young man of great promise. We tender
heartfelt sympathy to his sorrowing parents
in their bereavement.
A Bennettsville dispatch of Monday to
the Ne,rs and Courier says: Andrew X.
Jackson. respectable white citizen of this
county, living below Clio, was killed at his
supper table last evening by negro named
Eli Gale, who cut his throat. Gale was in
Jackson's employ and they had had a slight
difficulty on Saturday. A large party are
in pursuit and every effort will be made to
capture the murderer.
Col. Cash publishes card in the Colum-
bia Register, in which he takes the ground
that j. P. Douglass-the man who guided
the posse to Boggan Cash's residence on the
night that he was killed-was shot by a
member of that posse, and not by a friend
of the Cash family. The impression Col.
Cash would convey is that members of the
posse, were fearful that Douglass would be
tray them, and hence the desire to get him
out Of the way. 1t is generally understood
that the names of those composing the Sher-
ifs posse that shot Boggan Cash have been
published and are known to all neWspa-
per readers.