Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-23
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

been so seriously injured as was feared some
weeks ago
Rev. A. B. Lee, we'll known Metho-
dist minister, stationed on the Branchville
circuit died on the 18th instant, of pneu-
monia.
Albert Foster, Enoch Foster and Tandy
Cannon, all negroes, are in Jail at Spartan
burg, on the charge of burning Fingervlile
factory.
Tom Hamilton, the colored Democrat
of Beaufort county, has been appointed mail
agent between Charleston and Jacksonville,
Florida.
Major Anderson, the Superintendent of
the Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad is
sapguine of the completion of the road to
Asheville by fall.
R. X. Charles, a young lawyer of Dar-
lington, has invented and patented cotton
picking machine, which is intended to be
an Improvement on Mason's picker.
An Edgefeld minister, sixty years OLD
and a widower, travelled twenty miles last
Sunday, preached two sermons and got mar
red in the evening.
Fuller Courtney, white, Of Vaucluse, is
in Jail at Edgefeld for counterfeiting quar-
ters, and nickles some of which are said to
be clever limitations.
-Ex-Governor Moses is said to be prepar-
| ing lecture on the reconstruction era in
South Carolina, which he proposes to deliv-
er after his term in the Massachusetts, House
of Correction expires.
An Anderson county farmer lost his
watch in field last fall. While ploWing
in the same field few days ago, he found
the watch, wound it up, and it started rum
ming as well as ever.
Il. M. McRoy, Jr., who was injured last
winter by falling from ascaffold while build.
ing the Foreston Methodist Church, died
last Wednesday. He was not able to leave
his bed after the injury, and suffered un-
told agony.
-Adger Fair, the youth who ran away
from his home in NeWberry some time ago
and tramped back from Charleston, has gone
to sea, with his fathers consent, on one of
the Clyde line schooners running between
Charleston and New York.
Quite storm occurred at Cheraw at 6
o'clock last Thursday afternoon. A heavy
wind prevailed, accompanied by rain and
considerable hail. Near Hamlet, n. g., the
storm was terrific, unroofng houses, uproot-
ing trees and blowing down fences.
John Williams, negro tramp, is in Jail
at Marion for boarding passenger train at
Fair Bluff, Friday night, and putting out
the rear lights. The train was over an hour
behind time, and only fifteen minutes ahead
of the fast MAIL which runs about fifty miles
an hour.
On the night of the 10th instant, the dwell
ing house of Frank MillWood, near Wilkins
vile, Union county, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire, together with all his furni-
ture, wearing apparel, smoke-house and
large quanty of provisions. Loss about
81 200, no insurance.
Rev. DR.. A. D. Mayo arrived in Colum-
| lnof do frNsS nf11 n
several weeks in Florida. DR.. Mayo comes
10 South Carolina at the invitation of Col.
A. Coward, Superintendent of Education,
to spend a month in educational work in
the State.
The Rev. G. R. Hemphill, D. D., has
been dismissed from the Bethel Presbytery,
at his own request, to 60 to the Louisville
Presbytery, in Kentuckey. He will leave
the Theological Seminary at Columbia in
May, and become pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, in Louisville, Ky.
- The Winnsboro News and Hearld warns
the emigration agents to steer clear of Fair
field county. It says that the farmers Of
that county are not in humor just now to
have their business interfered with. The
story goes that an emigrant agent was re-
Gently escorted from Laurensville by band
of armed men who meant business.
A negro boy of an inquisitive turn Of
mind picked up an axe and monkeyed with
railway torpedo which had been placed
on the track near Branchvlle. Should that
young coon ever develop into a fugitive
from justice he can easily be identified by
long and deep furrow in one side of his
face.
- Charles A. Emanuel, of Bennettsville,
who killed w. d. Curtis in Lancaster on
Sunday night of last week, has surrender
ed himself to the Lancaster authorities.
Emanuel appeared before Judge Wither-
spoon, in Columbia, last Saturday evening,
on writ of habeas corpus, and was admitted
to bail in bond of $4,000.
Amos D. Williams, q member of the
holder of the South Carolina "Revenue
bond scrip" has issued circular intimating
that it can be used in payment of State taxes.
In May, 1882, Judge Bond sustained the
validity Of the "scrip." The State appealed
from his decree to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and the case will probably be
heard by the Court early next year. Mr..
Williams is little too previous.
The Columbia Register says that at
colored church on the outskirts of that city
on Sunday afternoon, the preacher notified
the congregation that he must have s. before
he would preach. The hat was passed round
and when returns were made $3.50 was in
the pot; whereupon the preacher said he
must have 81 80 more before he would preach
The hat was passed around the second time
and the S. made up, when the congregation
was treated to one of the best efforts of the
PASTORS life.
PLAIN WORDS FROM A ADIsTILLER.-Pres-
ident Miller, of the Western Whisky Asso-
citation, in a recent interview at Chicago,
said: "The distillers are only running %
per cent. of their capacity, and only 25 per
cent. is put on the market, the remaining
per cent. being kept in bonded ware
houses. There is no demand for the liquor,
state of affairs that never knew to exist
in the past. The temperance agitation has
nothing to do with it. 1t is hard times.
The brewers felt it first. The foreign labor
er, who largely drinks beer, was the first to
have his. wages cut down. He stopped
drinking his glass Of beer, and the demand
diminished. The Americans drink the
whisky. They were the last to have their
salaries reduced. When they stop drink
ing the distillers appreciate the fact. The
distillers and jobbers are all in favor Of
high license, as are also the better class of
saloon men. 1t is now apparent to all that
the fight against the Scott law in Ohio was.
mistake, although it was precipitated by
the brewers, who, having started numer-
Gus saloons to sell their beer, were obliged
by the Scott law to pay out large sums to
keep the places running. A high license
decreases the saloons, improves their stand
ing, and renders it an easy task for the
police to watch them. A high license,
coupled with local option, is about the best
thing for all parties concerned"