Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Diocesan Convention of the Episco-
nal Church met in Columbia yesterday.
The Air Line Railroad annually pays
into the treasury of Pickens county S6,ooo
as taxes.
There has been frost in Oconee county
during the past week, but the fruit crop,
nevertheless, promises fair yield.
"A new stamping mill is in operation at
the Halle Gold mine, Lancaster county. lts
capacity is 200 tons per day.
The new Court House at Bennetsville
was dedicated on the End instant with ap-
propriate ceremonies.
james Henderson blew down into the
chimney of lamp and the resulting ex-
plosion and fire nearly destroyed his house
and himself.
The present system of road working is
disturbing the citizens Of Friendship town
ship, Clarendon county. They greatly dis
approve of their existing road law.
The President has appointed Mr.. B.
F. Huger, postmaster of the city Of Charles
ton, uice w. n. Taft, commisson expired.
There was only one application for this
office.
- Lancaster Rerie,U: A party of fisher
men in the river came across what is known
as "loop snake" on Friday last, about two
yards long. It is the first of the kind ever
found in this section Of the State. Its move
ment is exactly like that of a caterpillar.
-Barcus Richardson, a colored man re-
Gently released from the Penitentiary at
Columbia, has been ordered to leave Clar-
endon county. He is believed to have been
connected with the shooting Of the Misses
Brew.
Sea Island Ne,cs: Phoebe Jenkins, prob
ably the oldest colored person in Beaufort
county, died on Tuesday last at her home on
Sans Point, Ladies' Island. The deceased
was said to be 120 years old at the time of
her death, and was quite large girl during
the Revolutionary war.
Mr.. E. Richardson, of Sumter, has grow
ing in his yard flower that entraps hum
ming birds. Several of these little birds
have been caught by their bills becoming
fastened in the flower. 1t is certainly a
curiosity in the shape of flower.
The investigation into the accounts of
ex-Treasurer Mills, of Chester county, has
proven to be costly thing for the county.
The costs amount to $646.15 and the attor-
neys' fees $500, which make 81 46.15 In all.
The question is now raised as to whether
the State should not bear part of the ex-
penses.
Major D. F. Bradley, of Pickens, who
was recently appointed collector of the in
ternal revenue for this State, went to Co.
lumbia Wednesday morning with his bond
in his pocket. 1t is justified as required by
law, and is for $4,000. He will enter upon
the discharge of his official duties in about
week.
On the 1st instant Thomas Dean and
one Mays, white laborers on j. G. McCalPs
plantation, Marion county, were leading
their mules to work, when Mays kicked
Deans mule. Dean took the singletree
from his plow and struck Mays over the
head, fracturing his skull. Mays is dead,
and Dean has escaped into North Carolina.
Sheriff King made search through the
Chesterfield jail on the 30th ultimo and
found in the cell of Bob Short near half
bushel of bread and meat. Bob explain
ed that his family were at home suffering
and had no one to provide for them. The
sheriff gives it as his opinion that Bob
thought of breaking Jail and was providing
for the future.
The Governor has appointed DR.. P. E.
Griffith, Superintendent Of the State luna
tic asylum, Colonel II. J. Lipscomb, super
intendent of the State penitentiary, and
Prof n. F. Walker, superintendent of the
State institution for the deaf and dumb and
blind, as delegates to represent this State
at the twelfth national conference Of chari-
ties and corrections to be held in Washing
ton, D. c., on the 4th of next month.
Last Saturday night white shoemaker,
who was tramping from Ninety-Six to Co.
lumbia, stopped beside the railroad between
Newberry and Prosperity to cook some
thing to eat. While thus engaged he was
approached by three white men, two of
| whom seized him by the arm, while the
third, with pistol pointed at his head,
robbed him of his pocketbook, containing
S73 in cash and $50 note. The highway
men also took the mans hat and bottle of
whisky which he had in his pocket. The
name of the shoemaker has not been learned.
H. L. Brown, recent settler in Oconee
county, hailing from williamsburg county,
was arrested by sheriff Breazeale and lodg-
ed in jail at Walhalla last Monday upon
warrants for two offenses. The first war
rant had been issued in Georgetown, upon
the charge of obtaining goods under false
pretenses and forwarded to Oconee. The
latter warrant sworn out in Oconee, charg-
es him with arson in attempting to burn
the dwelling house of Mr.. G. w. Sadler, in
West Union. Brown recently removed to
that county and purchased the property of
Mr.. J. j. Hooper, in West Union, where he
has since lived.