Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

lIlC l-lll luStttilt.
- The Court of Sessions for Lancaster
county will convene on February %. Judge
Wallace will preside. The criminal docket
is heavy.
- The Rev. John Kershaw has resigned
the rectorship of the Episcopal Church in
Rome, Ga. 1t is probable that he will take
charge of the church at Winnsboro.
The people of Georgetown county have
voted subscription of $780, 900 to the capi-
tai stock of the Georgetown and North
Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company.
-Seventy-five families of colored people
left Florence on Sunday last, and still there
is no complaint among the farmers OF any
scarcity of agricultural laborers.
- Cadet NJ. F. Smoake, Of Orangeburg
county, S. c., died at the Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Nd, on Wednesday of last week.
The remains were forwarded to Orangeburg
by direction of Cadet Smoakes father.
Mr.. Willie Burns, of Lancaster, was ac-
cidentally shot by Mr.. Clark Presley while
out target shooting several days ago. The
ball entered Mr.. Burns right arm near the
elbow and came out under his arm.
Mr.. Britain Parker, of Lancaster county,
took his little daughter, five years old, to the
field with him last week, where he was
burning broom sedge. The little girls
clothing caught fire and she was burned to
death.
- On account of the severe cold weather,
which Judge Presley severely felt in the
present state of his health, he adjourned
Abbeville Court last Saturday sine die,
promising an extra term in April, when the
weather moderates.
- The Rev. II. ID. Witherspoon, ID. d.,
of Louisville, KY, has been elected presl-
dent of Davidson College. w. S. Graves,
A. NJ, of Liberty, Va, has been elected
professor of Greek and German. DIR. With
erspoon is a native of South Carolina.
- John F. Hobbs, who acquired some no.
toriety in this State several years ago by his
desertion of the Democracy, and is now liv-
ing in Atlanta, Ga, wants to go to Austria
liza or South America as United States
consul under Cleveland's administration.
| "A white woman who left her husband in
Pickens county and eloped to Texas with
another man has been recently heard from.
She has been abandoned by her paramour,
and now writes begging her husbands
forgiveness and asking for money to return
home.
- The small grain crop in Spartanburg
county has suffered much in consequence of
the recent cold weather. Wheat is very
small and weakly, and the fall sowing of
oats has been thinned very much, and killed
in some instances. A large area has been
sown in oats since the middle of January,
and these are not hurt as they are not up.
| There has been no Criminal Court in
Chesterfield since May, 1884. This is great
prisoners, who will probably be compelled
to remain until court. Some of the prison
ers have been in Jail upwards of one hun
dred days already. The expense to the
county for feeding the prisoners is 500 per
month.
The Aiken Journal and ReUie,D says that
the county Jail at that place is in deplora-
able condition on account of defective drain
age, and that the stencil from the cells is
horrible. There are twenty-fOur prisoners
confined in the Jail, and of course they are
the immediate sufferers from the condition
of things complained of. The Journal in
sists upon it that the Jail should be i'm
proved. .... .....
- The Newberry Observer says: CDR. II.
p. Tarrant, an experienced and skillful
druggist, but for several years past victim
| to strong drink, was committed to New
berry Jail Thursday upon warrant charg-
ing him with forging the name Of Geo:
O. Robinson & Co., Of Augusta, to draft
and collecting the money 1851 from Mr..
Beckman, of Aiken. A deputy sheriff came
up Tuesday and carried the prisoner to
Aiken, where the offence is charged to
have been committed sometime in 1884,"
About four o'clock last Sunday morning
the ceiling of dungeon in the Greenville
Jail was discovered to be on fire. Eight
prisoners were confined in the dungeon.
Their purpose was to fire the building with
the hope Of making their escape. The fire
was discovered in time to prevent any Sc
rious damage to the Jail, and also to Illustrate
the plan Of the prisoners. The sheriff of
Greenville will prosecute the offenders for
the crime of arson.
TRAIN ROBBERS IN TENAs.-A Harwood,
Texas, dispatch of Monday says: Two men
boarded a passenger train on the Calves
ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad
at Luling about 10 o'clock last night, and
when the train was about half way between
Luling and Harwood the passengers in the
first class coach were surprised at beholdlng
their two supposed fellow passengers stand
ing in the centre of the car with hanker-
chiefs over the lower portion of their faces
and revolvers in their hands. The men
quietly demanded the cash from the passen-
sengers in the coach, eschewing all men
ton of iewelry. They made no attempt
on the remainder of the train, but jumped
from the platform while the cars were in
motion. 1t was done so quietly and quick
ly that the passengers in the other coach
es and the conductors knew nothing of the
TODUeTy dG Glc lASJ oSSoiSo etoOuo
$500 in cash.
WAS IT ACCIDENT, OR MURDER R?-Ac-
cording to a lengthy account of the affair in
the Charlotte Observer of Sunday, B. Allen
Freeman, a gunsmith, was found in his store
in that city last Saturday night, lying face
downward on the floor, with bullet hole
in the centre of his forehead. The bullet
went clear through his head, dropping out
when the surgeons shaved away the back
hair The wounded man tried to recall the
circumstances, but with blood and brains
oozing out of his bead he could only manage
to say that he thought the shooting accident
al He thinks he shot himself, although
there was some one else in the store at the
time, who appeared to have fled when the
accident occurred for fear of being charged
with the shooting. The wounded man will
die. The strangest part OF 1t is that the
former proprietor of the shop was also killed
by the accidental discharge OF pistol.
KENTUCKY TERRORISM REBUKED.-A
Lexington, KY, dispatch of Saturday says:
The ATTEMPTED rescue from the Rowan coun-
ty iail of four men, convicted of numbering
John g. Hughes in November last, led
Judge Cole to have summoned twenty
armed men as special guard. Six who re-
fused to servehe caused to be indicted. Two
of the prisoners turned States evidence, and
on their testimony, supported by other wit
nesses, VIM. Garner, the leader of the band
of Regulators, was to-day convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment. Judge
Cole has, during the trial, punished several
gross contempts, and his action is doing
much to induce the people Of that region to
resist the terrorism to which they have