Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-24
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Georgetown crops are reported to be
in good condition.
- Three negroes, within three weeks, have
been arrested in Anderson county for at
tempted rape.
The Sumter cotton mill has shut down
until fall, and in the meantime the proper
ty is for sale.
The Richland county Democratic Con-
vention endorsed, by a large majority, Nc
Master for Congress from the Fourth Con-
gressi onal district.
One hundred and ten teachers are at
tending the State Normal School now in
session at Spartanburg. The school is an
assured success.
The Abbeville Press and Banner says
stock in the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and
Chicago Railroad is now offered at fifty cents
on the dollar.
Lieut.. David Gaillard of Winnsboro, who
graduated at West Point with second honor,
and has been assigned to duty in New York
harbor, is on visit to his father, in Columbia.
THE joint summer meeting of the State
Agricultural Society and the Grange will
be held in Greenville, on Tuesday next, the
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he $50 delegates in attendance.
Charles Hardin, a white man and alleged
leader of the Spring Hill gang of negro rob
bers, in Sumter county, was committed to
jail Thursday morning. Much indignation
is felt against Hardin, and further develop
ments are expected.
Mrs. John d. McCarly, of Winnsboro,
who sailed for Ireland under the protection
of DR.. Latham, has returned to her home.
She reports that her visit was altogether a
very pleasant one, and that the ''Old coun-
try" is as homelike as ever.
Mr.. Thomas Lenoir, editor of the CheraW
Stn and Monitor, was decoyed into store
in that town last Friday evening, by an old
Greenbacker named A. G. Johnson, and
assaulted with a pistol. He resented the
attack with his fists. An article in the SIN
and Monitor brought on the difficulty.
Due West has completed her arrange
ments for a telephone connection with
Donald's. The capital stock has been sub
scribed. Mr.. Samuel Agnew was elected
president and treasurer, and Messrs. Fl. p.
McGee, H. E. Bonner and R. S. Galloway
were chosen an executive committee. Due
West is about to organize national bank.
Recently, Mr.. John Gregory a citizen OF
Edgefeld county, residing about seven or
eight miles north Of the Court House,
through mistake gave his little daughter,
aged fourteen years, dose of morphine for
quinine. She died shortly afterwards from
the effects. He had purchased it for qui-
nine from a country store, without motto
ing the label.
The grand jury of Edgefeld county, in
their presentment to the court, on Monday
of last week, say: All admit the advantages
of education, and we earnestly hope that
the germ of our free school system, planted
in the constitutional two mill tax, may con-
tinue to grow, as the ability of our people
to meet its requirements increases, till the
hopes of the most Jealous advocates OF free
education shall be realized"
Willie Henderson,, a son of c. G. Hen.
derson, Esq, a prominent citizen of Wal
terboro, was killed instantly by lightning
last Friday evening. The bolt struck the
window which he and little Delaney lizard
were endeavoring to close, shocking L.
ard severely and penetrating Henderson's
breast, passing out under the right foot.
The deceased was worthy and well es-
teemed boy of about 16 years, and the en-
tire town join in the sorrow of the bereav-
ed family. lizard is not seriously hurt.
- Columbia Register: Our neighbors in
Lexington are again agitated in the mind
over the new county question:, because out
of ten candidates for the Legislature from
Edgefeld five Of them are committed to a
new county. Ifit is revival of the county
of Saluda, it proposes to scoop in part OF
Lexington, hence the interest Of the in
habitants of the State. Lexington voted
against it two years ago by a majority OF
1000, and that vote can now be increased.
"A dispatch of last Friday from Cheraw
to the Columbia Register says: j. PaWley
Douglass, who was thought by the Cash
party to be the man who led the posse
which killed Boggan, was bushwhacked
yesterday morning, at 10 O'Clock, while
blowing in his field and fatally wounded:
He says he knows who shot him; thought
it was with Winchester rifle. He was
shot in the back near the spine, the ball
passing entirely through the body. Doug,
LASS plantation is two miles from where
Boggan was killed. He had been threaten.
ed BY Cash and his friends ever since the
killing of Boggan. There is good deal OF
feeling in the matter here and it is deter
mined to find the guilty one. Douglass
lives two miles from Society Hill.