Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-26
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The Fingerville cotton factory, near
Snartanburp. was burned last Sunday.
Loss $4,000.
One hundred thousand pounds of West
ern bacon and 1900 bushels of western
corn were received at Newberry last week.
- Miss Carrie Nesbit, of Spartanburg,
slipped and fell over the railing OF piazza
on the second floor Monday OF last week.
She died the same day.
The Walhalla Town Council has iald
off its cemetery in lots 16xl6 feet: The Ne
owee Courier thinks the allotted space too
small, but naireLy suggests that two or lour
adjoining lots may be combined.
- The school commissioner of Rich!and
county has dismissed R. J. Peacock from
the number of school teachers in the free
common schools of that county. HIS o.
fence was drunkenness, and unmercl1ully
whipping pupil.
In the Court of Sessions for Laurens,
last week, Judge Cothran presiding, rom
Harris was convicted of carrying concealed
pistol and sentenced to pay $50 and be I'M
prisoned in the county Jail one day, or SIX
months in the penitentiary and pay 81.
M. Foot, one of the largest merchants
of Newberry has made an assignment !or
the benefit of his creditors. His liabilities
are estimated to be about S6l 900, and his
| Most of his creditors are northern firms.
The Governor has declined to pardon
O. P. Williams, white, of Colleton county,
convicted of retailing liquor without a IL
cense, and sentenced by Judge Aldrlcn 10
pay fine of 5000 or 60 to the penitentlary
| for one year.
| A few days ago awhile man named An
drew Campbell met Jesse Lee, Jr., in the
road not far from Columbia, and in fun
aimed and cooked gun at Lee. The latter
had him arrested for assault and battery
with intent to kill, and now Campbell don't
see so much fun in his prank.
The German Fusiliers, of Charleston,
company organized in 1775, took part in the
dedication of the Washington Monument
last Saturday. The company was accom-.
panied by Col. J. Ancrum simons, one of
the Governors aides, as a representative OF
the State government.
-Alouis Portecsk, an Austrian youth en-
ployed in barroom in Columbia, commit
ted suicide last Friday by drowning him,
self in Congaree River. The supposed
reason for the act is chagrin at having re-
ceived and given change for a three-dollar
advertising greenback, which customer
jokingly passed upon him.
! The receiver of the defunct Piedmont
and Arlington Life Insurance Company an
nounces that a small dividend to policy
holders will soon be declared. This will be
gratifying intelligence to many in South
Carolina who had policies in the company:
1t is expected that another dividend Will
soon follow the payment of the first
Says the Columbia Register of Saturday:
Mr.. ]. w. Holeman, county treasurer OF
Oconee, is the second Treasurer to make
settlement with the Comptroller General
this year. Out of a total State tax OF SILL
1872, he paid into the State Treasury SIC, 1855;
nmla bona returns S20.93. The entire tax
in the county amounted S25, 1873, out OF when
only $40 was returned nulld bona. mere
were no delinquent lands.
Alta competitive drill held in Charleston,
Monday, of last week, between four colored
military companies, the South Carolina Vol
unteers, Capt. J. G.. Allen, made the highest
score and were therefore designated as the
company to represent the colOred militia of
South Carolinaat the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Cleveland, at Washington, on the 4th
of March. The expenses of the Volunteers
will be betrayed by public-spirited citizens
of Charleston.
-Greenville Ne,Us, Sunday: R. d. Crit
tenden, formerly of this county, but now
of Alaska, is here after an absence of
twenty-four years, renewing old acquaint-
ances, reviving old memories and making
new friends. 1t will surprise many people
to know that the trip from Alaska here can
be made in fourteen days. Mr.. Crittenden
is stopping on his way to Washington where
he will see Cleveland inaugurated, he hav-
ing made the trip partly for that purpose.
- Jonathan j. Wright, ex-Associate JUS
tice of the State Supreme Court from 1870
to 1877, and the only colored man that ever
held that Office in this State, died at Charles
ton on Thursday last, aged a years, Wright
was native Of Pennsylvania, and came to
South Carolina as agent of the American
quently appointed by Gen. O. O. Howard
I'm agent of the freedman's bureau, which
was his stepping stone to political prefer
ment, under the Radical regime.
In the United States Court at Greenville,
last week, NJ. Reese Hubbard, of Oconee
county, was put on trial for uttering coun-
terfeit coin in Greenville several months
ago. The offence consisted in the passing
of gilded nickles with the word ''cents"
erased, as five dollar gold pieces. The pros
ecuton presented its case, and no witnesses
were put up for the defense which was rest
ed on the claim that the alteration Of the
coin did not constitute counterfeiting in the
meaning of the statute. The Judge refused
to give instruction to that effect, and the
case went to the jury who returned verdict
of 'guilty."
Colonel s. NJ. Rice, of Union, railroad
contractor, states that the ten miles from
Asheville this way, of the Asheville and
Spartanburg Railroad, which is mostly
graded, can be put in repair ready for the
ties and trestling for SIS 900, and that his firm
once proposed to complete the other ten
miles to Hendersonville, on the old Cole
man line, for $4,000. 1t ought not now to
cost more than $5O000. The whole line
| from Asheville to Hendersonville can be
got ready for the ties and iron inside of
S65 600. The completion of this link of the
road will make a through line from Chicago,
Cincinnati, Knoxville, Asheville, Spartan
burg, Columbia to Charleston.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-About
10 o'clock last Thursday night the north
bound passenger train Of the Virginia Mid
land Railroad collided with south-bound
freight at Four Mile Run, three miles from
Alexandria, Va. The train was made up of
the engine, mail, express, baggage, one pas
senger and two sleeping cars. AS the pas
senger train emerged from the viaduct at
Four Mile Run it was struck by the freight
train The engineer of the freight train had
| both legs and one arm cut Oft and died be-
| fore being taken from the wreck. The con-
ductor of the passenger train was crushed
between two cars and the engineer and the
| fireman of the passenger train were evident
| ly killed when the engines came together.
Portions of their bodies were dragged out of
the burned wreck of the engines some hours
after the collision. The fireman of the
freight saved his life by jumping. The kill
ed are George Freer, engineer of the freight;
| Tom Darby, fireman of the passenger An