Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-21
S0UTR CAROLINA NEWS.

nights ago, killed the tops of Irish potatoes
and other tender vegetables.
The Governor has appointed +. b. MUIR
raw. of Anderson, director OF the Penltell-
tiary, vice Major D. F. Bradley, resigned.
REV. Thomas F. Gilbert, late of the
South Carolina Methodist Conference, was
chosen one of the assistant lecturers OF the
New York East Conference (of, when ne
has been member since April, 1854, at
it's late annual session at Hartford, conn.
George C. Tanner has been appointed
by the President to be Consul OF the On1teu
States at Chemnitz, Saxony. This sis is spoken n
of as a good appointment. MIR. Tanner IS
we'll known in railroad circles, and has
friends all over South Carolina.
AT Bolton, Anderson county, on Mon
day, seven negroes, Allen Gaillard,. wife
and five children, were poisoned by bread
eaten at the family meal. One of the chill
dren died Wednesday. At the inquest the
poison was traced to the bread. An analy-
sis will be made.
- William Logan, negro barber, OF Ian
caster, while on visit to Monroe, y, u,
last Monday, got into difficulty with Hen
ry Stockton, another negro, abouta woman,
and shot him through the bowels. Logan
fled, it is supposed, back into South CARROLL
ma. Stockton will die.
tains an illustration of new cotton picker
invented by R. K. Charles, of Darlington,
which may come in and take the place OF
all Others It is made on an entirely new
| principle, and the inventor claims that 1t
will work.
-Greenville Nems: The revenue officers
report signs of increased activity. among
the moonshiners in the upper end or this
county and in Pickens, and Collector Brad
ley will not have to wait long for an oppor-
tunity to begin operations. Three or four
stills in upper Greenville and the same
number in Pickens are said to be known of
by the revenue officers.
| -Vanus Hawkins, good citizen OF Green
Vile county, came to his death last Thurs
day in singular manner. He rode up to
a country store, and after alighting from his
horse, and while in the act of hitching it to
the limb of tree, the animal gave Vlo-
lent jerk which had the effect OF breaking
Mr.. Hawkins neck. Death resulted almost
instantly.
The case against the three negroes, Peter
Scott, William Burden and Ralph Mills,
for breaking into the Darlington postothce
and stealing between $500 and s1oo, ma mas
been discontinued in the United States Dis
trict Court at Charleston and the prisoners
have been turned over to the State authori-
ties of Darlington on the charge of burglary.
AT the annual meeting of the board of
directors of the Columbia Theological Semi
nary, last week, eleven of the thirteen
members being present, the following Off
GERS were elected President, Hon. James
Hemphill; Secretary, Rev. j. B. Mack, ID.
D.; Treasurer, r. A. McCreery, Esq. Libra
rian, Rev. j. L. Girardeau, D. D. Rev. c.
G.. Hersman, D. D., President OF Westmln-
ster College, Missouri, was elected as Per
kins Professor, to fill the chair formerly
occupied by Professor Woodrow.
The United States fish commissioners
car reached Columbia last Thursday with
million and half of young shad to be placed
in rivers in this State. Sergt. Brainerd, of
the Greedy Arctic Expedition, was one OF
the party having charge of the fish. Sergt.
Brainerd made the famous expedition
northward from the Greedy headquarters
with Lieut.. Lockwood, and reached the
furthest point north ever attained by man.
AS his companion died from the hardships
of the expedition the sergeant has approach
ed the North Pole more closely than any
living man.
- Laurensville Herald, Friday: Miss Lu-
Ia West, of this town, who was spoken OF
in this paper two weeks ago as being totally
paralyzed for over thirty days, yet fingers
in that deplorable condition, and has not
tasted any nourishment for forty nine days
without any perceptible change, only as she
weakens down the last few days. 1t is
noticed she can move her hands and feet
at times little, yet she has little color of
blood at times about the face, and appears
to know her friends when they go about
her.
The Greenville Neaus of Thursday says:
Two Mormon missionaries are at work in
the mountains along the line Of Spartan
burg and Greenville counties. They have
travelled around about three weeks, but had
not made any converts at last accounts.
Their plan is to go among the poorest and
most ignorant people and preach their doc
trines in private houses where they are al
lowed tospend the night. Excitementisris ris.,
| ing and indignation is developing, and
| it is not at all unlikely that the unwelcome
visitors will feel the weight of public wrath
very distinctly. and forcibly before many
more nights. The people Of upper Green
Vile do not propose to stand any nonsense
of the sort being taught among them now.