Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

neville county, there miles square, there
have been tWenty-one deaths in the last TWO
months.
The Easily Messenger says that during
the cold wave, week before last, ice formed
in Greenvile county, especially down OH
the river, in large quantities.
There are thirteen cases of a serious
criminal nature to be tried at the neNt
term of the Court of General Sessions 1or
Newberry county. Among them are three
cases of murder.
"A mulattO woman named Matilda NC
Nipht was found dead near her home III
Race street, Charleston, on Friday morning,
having been killed on the preceding night
by a heavy blow on the head. There is no
clue to the murderer.
The Greenwood Laurens and Spartan
burg Railroad is now completed and trains
are running regularly on it to Woodruff, a
distance of 47 miles from Greenwood. The
road will soon be operated through to Spar
tanburg, distance of 6G miles from Green
wood.
MIR. H. l.. Hill, a bachelor of the Dun
tonville section Of Edgefield county, has
adopted plan of firing three salutes with a
cannon every time child is born IN ms
neighborhood. He began this the first of
the year and alreadyi it is said he has spent
bafe of cotton for powder
Mrs. Busbee, of Pickens county, was
kindling fire in her stove last Friday
evening, July 3, when the stove and kero-
sense can exploded, burning her so severely
that she died on Saturday morning. She
left husband and five children, the young
est being mere infant.
MIR. William Ruff died at his home in
Newberry county on June 24 in the S3d
year of his age. The deceased was one of
seven brothers, five of whom lived to be
over 20 years of age and two were 30 years
old, when one was accidentally killed and
the other killed in the war. DR.. P. b. Ruff
is the only surviving one of the seven.
- Edsley Messenger: 1t is rumored in Alb
beville county thatsiX jurors went to Able
vile court week, sworn to acquit Ferguson,
if he had been tried. The rumor is true, but
surely the fact is not. Surely men who are
selected because they are supposed to be
good and true and willing to do justice be-
tween the State and prisoner, would not be
guilty Of doing such a thing. Such men
ought never to see jury box.
On Friday, July 3, in Florence, Mr.. J.
G.. Revill, after starting his grist mill to
work, was STOPPING down regulating the
feed, when a terrible explosion occurred,
was STOPPING down by him to one side.
Sam Evans, a colored man, who was stand
ing near at the time Of the explosion, was
killed by fragment of burr-rock which
was hurled through tho walls of the build
ing.
Samuel CroWell, an aged negro on the
farm of John p. Cuttino, twenty miles from
Orangeburg c. H., while chopping wood
last Thursday morning was taken violently
i'll. Dr. Sally, of Orangeburg, was called
and found the old man in commissions. lie
kept grasping at his side as if something
were at his vitals. The physician observ-
ing this, administered an emetic. Soon af-
ter taking the medicine the old man began
vomiting and within ten minutes had eject
ed from his stomach six full grown lizards.
The old man soon began to improve and in
couple of hours was able to get out of bed.
Investigation proves that four years ago,
while drinking from spring, the negro
swallowed what at that time he said was a
lizard, but sit gave him no trouble he soon
forgot about it. The one swallowed was
| doubtless female and the others were born
in his stomach. DIR. Sally has preserved the
| lizards in alcohol and they are the talk OF
the whole county.
Governor Thompson has commuted the
sentence of Samuel Crawford, who was con-
victed of murder at the June term, 1885, of
the court for Lancaster county, and senten-
ced by Judge Witherspoon to be hanged, to
Imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.
The petition, which prayed for commuta-
tion of sentence to ten years in the peniten-
tiary, was numerously signed, among the
signers being all the jurors in the case, the
county officers, and many members of the
bar in Lancaster. The jury recommended
the prisoner to the mercy ofthe court, under
the impression that this recommendation
would enable the Judge to impose penalty
and Judge Witherspoon unitein the opinion
that the jury, which was an intelligent one,
would not have found the defendant guilty
of murder, if they had believed the death
penalty would have been inflicted, and that
the Communication of sentence to imprison
ment for life would satisfy the demands of
justice.