Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

AThe South Carolina college mas opened
with ITO students against l4O last year.
- Major B. D. Townsend, president of
the CheraW and Salisbury, and CheraW and
Darlington raj ilroads, died on Tuesday morn
ing at Society Hill.
The body of Harry Scott, the Orange
burg colored desperate, who resisted arrest
by officers in Georgetown and was fired on,
has been found in Black Mingo swamp.
EA "shoo-fy" train is now run daily be-
tween Charlotte and Chester for the purpose
of relieving the narrow gauge railroads and
the stations along the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad Of the large amount
of cotton being received.
An Orangeburg farmer has experimental
in raising tobacco, and comes to the con-
clusion that it is more valuable crop than
cotton, and that it would require less culti-
walton and less fertilizer than cotton. 1t
would do we'll for some of our farmers TO try
the experiment.
Winnsboro Ne,cs: The total number Of
liens indexed by the clerk of the court for
the year 1855, as in round numbers 3,lOO,
and represents credit of $290,0O Several
of the liens are given for 5000. This is an
enormous amount, and it is hardly prob
BILE that the whole will be paid from this
years crop.
- The Synod of South Carolina will meet
in the Presbyterian church in Chester on
Wednesday, the 2lst, at u P. NJ. Among
the interesting matters will be the observ-
ance on Saturday, October "a, of the CEN
tennial of organized Presbyterianlsm IN
this State, and the consideration OF the
Woodrow case.
At a meeting of the citizens of Summer
ton, Clarendon county, on October 2, a reso-
tuition was offered and unanimously adopted
that a vigilance committee be appointed,
whose duty it shall be to take such steps as
may be deemed necessary to suppress the
illicit traffic in spirituous liquors and seed
cotton in the community. The committee
consists of twelve citizens.
: In Cheraw, about o'clock last Saturday
night, John R. Mcdonald, of Richmond
county, N. c., shot and mOrtally wounded
Andrew Butler, a friend who had come to
town with him. The shooting occurred at
the corner of Market and Front streets, not
far from where Cash shot Richards. The
shot was evidently not intended for Butler,
but for Mr.. Thos. Farrelly, a policeman.
Mcdonald was promptly arrested.
- In Lancaster Sessions Court, last week,
James M. Mothershed was convicted of
-manslaughter for killing Henry j. Black
rnan. The trial consumed three days.
lie WAS SelllcuCeu Ol ottIuiuoJ w % WI
years hard labor in the State Penitentlary:
The Jury and the solicitor recommended
him to the mercy of the Court, which the
Judge considered. The prisoner is young
man of about % years, OF medium size and
light complexion. He has wife and three
small children, the two youngest being
twins. All were continually present in the
Courthouse during the trial. The case was
we'll argued on both sides and we'll consld-
cred. Hiram Boyd (colored) was convicted
and sentenced to the Penitentiary for three
years for an Infamous offence, and lsam Eos
ter (colored) was convicted OF burning the
Clubhouse of J. NJ. Moore and sentenced TO
ten years.
The Columbia correspondent Of the Ners
and Courier writes: "There are now SIX
hundred patients in the State Lunatic Asy-
lum. Superintendent Griffith tells me that
for eight years previous to the last twelve
months there was an annual increase IN the
Asylum's population of from fifty to sixty
patients. To-day the number in the Asy-
fum is forty-eight less than on!the lst OF last
November. If the old rate of increase had
been kept up the population at this time
would have been at least six hundred ana
eighty. The decrease shown is largely due
tothe operation of the new law enforcing the
most stringennt examination OF the appll-
cants and their finances, but it Is IN part
attributed to the return ola number OF hope
less imbeciles to their families and friends.
The Superintendent will report to the Leg
islature this fall very handsome balance
of money on hand, the savings out OF the
last annual appropriation for the support OF
the Asylum"