Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- More corn is being planted in NeWberry
county this year than for several years past.
Oats are growing very rapidly in Clar-
endon, and give promise of making large
crop.
- The Grand Lodge -ef Good Templars
will meet with Piedmont lodge in Green
Vile county, April 2sth. -.
-Speculators stand about the Court House
at Marion and buy up jury and witness tick
cts at ninety cents on the dollar.
An Edgefield man gave his entire pay
as petit juror, amounting to ten dollars,
to the village Presbyterian church.
The annual meeting of the South Carroll
ma Medical Association will be held in Char
lesion, beginning on the 2lst instant.
An eagle measuring six feet seven inch
es from tip to tip, was killed near Summer
ton, in Clarendon county, few days ago.
Mays, the negro Radical postmaster at
Branchville, has obtained several Demo-
cratic signatures to petition asking for his
retention in Office.
Reports come from all parts of Spartan
burg county of the fearful prevalence OF
pneumonia. Not infrequently almost a
whole family is stricken down.
Richard Fraser, colored, was hanged in
y
Friday for the murder of Jack Gethers, also
colored, in July last. He died without a
murmur.
j. NJ. Mackay, who will be remembered
in this State as interested in Blue Ridge
scrip and other financial schemes of the
Republican State government, died in Hud-
son city, N. Y, on the 4th instant.
The railroad depot at Barnwell was
struck by lightning early on Wednesday
morning of last week and burned to the
ground. About thirty tons Of guano and
all the other freight stored in the building
were destsoyed.
j. H. Livingstone, carpet-bag politi-.
clan in South Carolina in the days of good
stealing, and who has of late held the posi-
tion of postoffice inspector, credited to this
State, has been invited, with thirteen others
in the same department, to resign.
William H. Phillips, printer, of Aiken,
was tried last week in Washington, d. c.,
for killing James F. Shober, a brother typo.
The evidence showed that it was a case of
self-defence and the defendant was acquit-
ted. He was defended by Senator Butler.
james J. Willard, of Oconee county, who
was so seriously wounded in the head, in an
attempt to arrest a number Of negroes in
Swain county, North Carolina, on the Bird OF
March, 1885, died in Macon county, North
Carolina, on the 2nd instant.
The first death benefit in the Abbeville
Lodge of knights of Honor was paid on
Tuesday of last week to Mrs. Jacob Kurz.
This lodge was organized in 1876 with ter,
charter members. 1t has now on its roll
between fifty-fve and sixty members and
has paid into the benefit fund over $4,000.
The Newberry Herald of Thursday says !:
"We note with pleasure that the Associate
Reformed church has had an elegant organ
placed in it, through Mrs. c. Mower. We
Judge that this is present to the church by
that lady, and if SO it shows the largeness
of heart of one who never does things by
halves"
The people of Lancaster have at last be.
come thoroughly aroused upon the subject
of the unhealthy condition of that town.
Two public meetings have recently been
held to discuss the matter, and as result
the sum of 5000 has been raised by private
subscription for the purpose of cleaning the
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