Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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to death in Abbeville county last week.
The parents were not about the house when
it caught fire.
ALI the newspapers that have spoken
thus far favor the selection of candidates Tor
Congress by primary elections in each DIS
trct.
Charleston had hard freeze on Friday
and the strawberries and green peas on the
truck farms are put back and seriously dam
aged.
- The Gatfny GuOlmiaa learns that there
is an old-fashioned bar post in Union coun-
VII reG m@ae hS 1et tEe tattrtth the 6 aape }ae
Cowpens.
The residence of Lieutenant-Go
Sheppard, at Trenton, Edgefeld county,
was destroyed by fire at five o'clock last
Thursday morning. Most of the furniture
was saved in damaged condition. Fully
insured.
- Two illicit distilleries were recently de.
stroyed by DIR. EnsOr-One a seventy-tive
gallon still, found in Panther Mountain
Greenville county, and the other twenty
gallon "copper"" on Broad River, in York
county.
Charles Sowell stabbed policeman Camp
bell in the left breast in Camden last week,
while resisting arrest. He also split one
of Campbell's hands open with his knife
He has been held under heavy bond for his
appearance for trial for assault and battery
with intent to kill.
- The dwelling and outhouses Of the Rev.
Simpson Drummond, near Woodruff, Spar
tanburg county, were burned on last Mon.
day morning. The fire commenced about
o'clock. Its origin is unknown. But lit
tie of the furniture and bedding was saved.
There was no insurance.
- Brooks Lathem, colored, alias Brooks
Ferguson, was shot last week by the officers
of the law in Pickens county. He was
charged with hOuSebreaking, and when the
officers attempted to arrest him, ran and
was fired upon, receiving flesh wound,
which it is thought will prove fatal. He
made his escape.
A negro man living in the Mars Blut1
neighborhood took his gun to 60 hunting
one day last week, and went to throw it
over his shoulder with swing. AS usual
in such cases the gun went off, depositing
the load in his abdomen, causing wound
from the effects Of which he soon afterwards
died.
- A few days ago tobacconist, Mr.. j. r.
Rierson Of Dalton, n. c., was robbed OF $6l
few miles from Laurens, by his negro dri-
yer, Bill Lucknow, who halls from Winston,
n. G.. Mr.. Rierson and his driver were
sleeping in the wagon, and some time dur
ing the night the negro slipped the sum OF
money from under Mr.. Rierson's head and
Immediately decamped. He was captured
on the Laurens Railroad train by Conductor
Meredith and has been lodged in Jail at Lau-
rens for trial.
- Mr.. Jay Gould arrived in Charleston
last Saturday morning by the fast mail train
on the Northeastern Railroad. He came in
! his -a.un ,ariuata- ca tand made the tourney
from Jersey City to- Charleston in safety and
comfort. He was accompanied by his wife
and by his two younger sons and daughter.
Mr.. Gould and his family drove directly
from the Northeastern depot to Boyce's
wharf, and went directly on board OF his
yacht, which has been anchored at Charles
ton for several weeks. Mr.. Gould and his
family are on their way to Florida.
BY blunder in the drawingof the juries
for Lancaster the recent term of the Circuit
Court for that county was adjourned on
Wednesday evening of last week-the third
day of the term. There was little or nc
business transacted in the Common Pleas,
nothing but orders and matters of course
The lawyers and everybody else expecting
long term of the General Sessions were
taken somewhat by surprise when it was
developed that the juries were illegally
drawn, and the homicide cases were post
poned. The judgement to his home in Barn
we'll on Thursday morning, and will have
more than week to rest before the Chester
Court opens.