Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-12
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Bishop keener will preside at the South
Carolina Annual Conference, to be held in
Columbia next month.
Rev. f. E. Presley, of Lancaster coun-
ty, has removed to Arkansas, having ac-
cepted call te New Hope and Prosperity
a. r. p. churches in Fulton county.
The grand jury of Charleston found a
true bill against DR.. A. n. Bellinger for the
murder of Stephney Riley, colored, and the
trial of the case commenced last Tuesday.
II. X. James, white farmer, has been
acquitted in the court at Walhalla of the
murder of Barney Williams, colored, upon
the ground of self-defence.
jenkins Wright, Hampton county ne
gro, knocked his wife senseless, MASKING
her skull, and then threw her into the fire.
place, where she was burned almost be-
yyond recognition. The murderer is in Jail.
Oscar l.. Stringer, young man of eX-
tor at the Columbia and Greenville Rail-
road depot in Greenville, died in that city
last Monday, of consumption.
The Pickens Sentinel says that one night
last week Deputy Marshal Gaines accompa-
MED by two guards, made a raid in the
mountains on Cedar Creek and captured
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the moonshiners fled, but John Holden,
James Holden, w. J. Crenshaw and S. A.
Bryant were ca ptured and are held for trial.
Records in the Clerks Office in Green
Vile show that there have been twenty
homicides in the county during the past
ten years from 1875. This includes acciden-
tai killings, cases of self-defence and Kill
ling of prisoners while resisting arrest.
Ten were acquitted, three hung and the
others have gone to the penitentiary.
MIR. John Terry, of Edgefield county is
90 wears of age, having been born in 1892,
and Notwithstanding his great age, he fire.
quently works from sunrise to sunset. Mr..
Terry is quite intelligent and remem-
bers we'll the days of indigo and tobacco
raising in that county, long before cotton
was staple crop, or even the cotton gin in
vented.
A tornado passed over Spartanburg last
Saturday at 10 o'clock A. NJ. 1t came from
the northwest and was generally above the
tops of the houses. The iron roof on the
Baptist church was lifted up, but dropped
back in place again. About half the tin
roof on the Windsor House was rolled up.
A few small outhouses were blown down.
Nodamage is sreported in the country. Dur
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der prevailed and much rain fell.
Last Friday night, on Mrs. Dunlap's
place in Laurens county, Ira Hughes shot
and instantly killed George Fowler: Both
parties are colored. No cause is given by
those present except that Hughes with pis-
tol in hand attacked a man named Ran
dolph, when George Fowler told Randolph
to knock Hughes down as Hughes was
drunk. Hughes turned on Fowler and shot
him in the stomach. Hughes made his
escape.
Columbia Record: Judge Hudson, in
the case of Railroad Commissioners rs. the
Columbia and Greenville Railroad, has de-
cided as follows: 81 find no such powers
conferred on the Board of Commissioners in
Section 1457 of the General Statutes, nor
in any other section Of that chapter"
Therefore it will be seen that he has decld-
ed in favor of the raiload. This was the
case in which the Commissioners attempted
to compel the road to build a depot a Shell
ton.
A man named Clemens, from North Car
olina, arrived in Charleston few weeks
ago with his family, and several nights at
forwards, wishing to 60 to church, told their
5 year-od child (who usually slept with his
parents) to 90 to bed with an older brother.
The little fellow objected and cried piteous-
ly, when he was put in dark room as pun
ishment. The child gave three sharp
screams and tainted, and on coming to, it
was found that he had become an lmbeclle.
The family have since removed to Fair
field and the mother is frantic with grief.
A dispatch Of Friday from Trenton,
Edgefeld county, to the Ne,cs and Courier
says :T"Judge Hudson having allowed bail
to ten of the party under arrest in the Gull
breath lynching affair, viz: Morgan Dorm;
Elbert Dorm, Arthur Mcdaniel, Richard
Hammond, w. n. Thurmond, f. L. Dew
ore, w. J. Talbert, Wyatt Zeigler, w. L..
Mcdaniel and P. H. Busy, they to-day
promptly gave bail in the sum of $4,000
each and left for their respective homes
The refusal of bail to the other twenty
three prisoners was a great disappointment
and much dissatisfaction thereat is express
ed by the friends Of those still in custody"
The sessions court of Edgefeld convened
last Monday at which Judge Hudson pre-
sides.