Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-01-31
GOOD PRICES FOR GRAIN.

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diana. The resignation has been accepted
by the churches of both parishes.
GOOD PRICES FOR GRAIN.
At the administrators cash sale of the
personal property Of R. NJ. Lindsay, deceas-
ed, last Friday, corn sold at from 10 to 764
cents, wheat at 95 cents, and oats at G5 cents
per bushel The aggregate of the sale will
reach near $500.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Judge Witherspoon will leave tomorrow
for the purpose of presiding over the Courts
of the Second Judicial Circuit, his first term
beginning at Beaufort next Monday. The
Second Circuit includes hecounties of Beau
fort, Colleton, Hampton, Barnwell and
Aiken.
= ROCK HILL POST OFFICE.
BY Washington dispatches we learn that
on Friday last the Senate confirmed the
nomination of Miss Buena Vista Wood for
Postmstress of Rock Hill, S. c. This is a
triumph for Miss Wood, who seems to have
been preferred by majority of the business
men of that town, and against whose adj
ministration of the office we have never
heard any complaint.
NETTING AND TRAPPING PARTRIDGEs.
The following is the full text of the
law in force, passed at the recent session OF
the Legislature, making the netting and
trapping ofpartridges unlawful:
An Act to prevent the netting and trapping OF
partridges except by persons upon their own
lands:
SECTIoN1. That it shall not be lawful for
any person, except upon his own land, to
net or trap a partridge.
SECTION 2. That any person violating
this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be punished by
a fine of thirty dollars, or by imprisonment
in the county Jail for the term of thirty
days.
SECTION 3. That this Act shall 60 into
operation Immediately after its approval.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian-Rev.
Robert Latham, Pastor. Services next Sun
day at 1890 A. M. Sunday-school at 8 A. M.
Episcopal-Rev. Aug. Prentiss, Rector.
Morning service at 1890 A. NJ, next Sun
day. Sunday-school at3P NJ. Also, even
ing service.
Presbyterian-Rev.T II. r. English, Pastor.
Services at the usual hours, morning and
evening, next Sunday.
Methodist Episcopal-Rev. J. A. Mood,
Pastor. Services at Shady Grove next Sun
day.
Baptist-Rev. J. +. Covington, Pastor.
Services at Union next Sunday at II A. M.
At the church in Yorkville, at p. NJ. Sun
day-school at 3 P. NJ.
COLORED METHODIST CONFERENCE.
The annual Conference Of the Northern
M. f. Church of this State was held in
Sumter last week, Bishop Bowman presid-
ing. The attendance was large, and the
annual meeting is represented as having
been highly satisfactory in every respect.
Benjamin f. Witherspoon and Henry f.
McElwee, of York county, were ordained
elders in the church. The following are
the appointments for Greenville district:
T.. NJ. Pinckney,P. +. Anderson, B. F. With.
erspoon; Anderson Circuit, II. {. Dennis; Broad
River, G. w. Beckham; Centre Circuit, l.. l..
Townsend; Chester Circuit, y. Harris Cowpens
Circuit Patrick Fair; Early Circuit, 5. 5.
Thompson; Gattney Circuit, +: Kirby; Green
wood Circuit, s. A. King; Golden Grove, n: Z.
Davies Greenville, J. B. Middleton; Greenville
Circuit. York Goodlett; Grier Circuit, A. Lewis;
Liberty Circuit, b. Robertson Marietta Circuit,
C. r. Hopkins; Rock Hill Circuit, A. B. Frank
lin; St. Marks Circuit, H. +. McElwee, Seneca
and Walhalla Circuit, j. r. Rosemond and L. >:
Clark Spartanburg, n. T. Bowen; Welford
Circuit, S. Thomas Westminster and Belton, A.
McLees Yorkville Glover S. Green.
F. f. Mcdonald, for the past two years
pastor of the congregation of Yorkville, is
assigned to Columbia; and J. R. Beckham,
of this county, is assigned to Hickory Hill,
in Port Royal district.
x ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL.
Between and 10 O'Clock, last Tuesday
night, six of the eight prisoners confined in
the jail at this place attempted to effect
their escape. The Sheriff and the members
of his family had retired to bed, and were
alarmed by the shouts of those not in the
plot, that the attempt was being made.
Hastily drawing on his boots and pants and
providing himself with Spencer rifle and
a revolver, the Sheriff, followed by his
little ten-year-old son Jimmie, armed with
a double barrelled shot gun, rushed to the
third floor, on which the prisoners were
confined.
BY the time the Sheriff reached the door
leading from the landing of the stairs into
the iail-room, there was much commOtion
among the prisoners who seemed to be con-
gregated in the ante-rOOm of the prison
floor. All were intent upon giving the
alarm, and more than one urged the Sheriff
to open the door quickly, as an attempt had
been made by some of the prisoners to break
out. But the Sheriff did not deem it neces-
sary to make undue haste to open the door,
preferring first to sound an alarm, which
was promptly responded to by DIR. Allison,
his son Willie Allison, Mr.. Dunlap, Frank
f. Smith and G.. T. Schorb, who live near
the Jail, and when these gentlemen COM
menced making their appearance, the Sher-
iff announced himself ready for business,
and ordered every prisoner to the cells,
warning them that when he opened the
door he should shoot the first man who pre-
sented himself near the door except by his
permission.
The tumult among the prisoners subsidized
at this turn of affairs, and they quietly
skunk away. The Sheriff then called a
white man named Medlock, recently COM
mitted from Rock Hill for the illicit sale Of
whisky in that town, and he came from his
cell to the ante-room. Medlock was not in
the plot, and was one who sounded the alarm
in good faith. After he came to the ante
room and assured the Sheriff that the pris-
oners had retired to the passage between
the rows of cells, and by the Sherff's direc-
tion had closed the iron grating of this pas
sage, the Sheriff, again to give fair notice,