Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

years Old, has been committed 10 jail IN
Edgefeld on the charge of robbing the
United States mail between Johnston and
Silverstreet.
Mr.. Charles w. Webb has received the
appointment of postmaster at Anderson.
He is represented to be "young, working,
practical Democrat, with the capacity, en-
ergy and character to make model officer"
In shooting scrape at Appleton, Barn
we'll county, recently, between two colored
men, one was seriously wounded. The dis
cussion of the merits of their wives as cot
ton choppers was the cause of the difficulty.
Lizzie GLADDEN., colored, of Abbeville,
whose brother accidentally shot bullet in
to her brain several weeks ago, has so far
recovered as to be able to be on her feet
again, and she will most likely, in short
time, be in as good condition as ever.
Miss Lula West, the young lady of Lau-
rens, of whose sufferings from paralysis
mention has heretofore been made in these
columns, died on Tuesday of last week.
She had not moved muscle or partaken of
any food in nine weeks.
-Twenty-one new lawyers were admit
ted to the bar by the Supreme Court on the
25th ultimo. Among the number was eX-
Cadet Whitaker, who was an applicant in
December last, but for some reason was not
examined.
Mary Chandler, a weak minded white
woman about twenty-five years old, left
Laurens two years ago, for the purpose of
visiting her relatives in Greenville county.
Her relatives now say that she never reach
ed there, and they know nothing of her
whereabouts
- Mrs. William Choice, of Greenville, has
an old Revolutionary gun that was picked
up on the battlefield of Kings Mountain by
a relative of Mrs. Choice during the battle
at that place. AS this battle was fought
in 1880, the gun is now over one hundred
years old. 1t is in good repair. The old style
flint and steel lock is attached together with
large powder pan. The bore in the muz-
zle is about one inch in diameter and the
barrel seems very thin.
- Anderson Journal: 1t is reported that
on last Friday a body of citizens number
ing about fifty, including both white and
black, waited on the negro Agnew, who
was suspected of having poisoned the food
some time previous, and invited him to
leave the county forthwith, and he left.
He is generally believed to have done the
poisoning, and it is q matter of regret that
evidence could not be obtained that would
convict him. ' 4 ~
AT the Halle gold mine, in Lancaster
county, on the 22nd ultimo, William Cum
ningham, white, and John Valentine, COL
ored, both employed at the mine, got
into fight, when Cunningham drew his
pistol and fired at Valentine, missing him,
ert Bowers, white, who was instantly kill
ed. Cunningham afterwards fred several
times at Valentine, two of the shots taking
effect and inficting serious, If not fatal
wounds. Cunningham escaped and has not
yet been arrested. On Monday Of last
week on George w. Jones' plantation, in
the same county, Richard McManus, color
ored, was shot with Winchester rifle and
dangerously wounded by, young white
man named Newton Clanton.
KENTUCKY DEsPERA ADoEs.-Knottc coun-
ty, Kentucky, has developed one Of the bit
terest and most bloodthirsty feuds in the his
tory of Kentucky. There is band of some
| fifty armed men who make their home in
the bush and guard their camp by pickets.
Their object is plunder and, incidentally,
murder. They have killed altogether about
twenty men. On March 9Th they slew
Frank Salyers, a merchant of Beaver Creek,
and robbed his body. j. c. Jones, neigh
death and administer justice. Now the
county is divided into two sections, one led
by Bowling Hall, on the part of the desper-
ADDE'S, and the other by Jones'
On May 19 five of Jones' friends met six
of the desperadoes, led by Hall. When the
fight was over three of Halls and one of
Jones' men were dead. Jones and some of
his friends left the county, but the sheriff
found and arrested him and two Of them.
They are on their way to Knott county for
trial, where their arrival is expected to be
the signal for more trouble. 1t is impossi-
| BILE for laW-abiding community to realize
the condition of things in Knott county.
| At some points the mails have been stopped
and robbed, and postmasters have been
forced to abandon their posts Of duty. The
captain of the desperadoes, Bowling Hall,
is living with the widow of Salyers, whom
he murdered in March. The sheriff says
that he is afraid of the band, but will do his
duty to the county, although he dies for it.
and it is believed that on the return Of the
persons arrested the two parties will come
together and much blood be she'd. Should
there be another engagement there will be
a hundred or more to the side. All peaceful
residents who can get away are abandoning
their homes to the mercy of these cut
throats. Anybody whom they suspect has
money is in danger of losing his life.
THREATENED GRAssHoPPER PLAGUE
Millions of young grasshoppers are reported
side of the Arkansas River, above Pueblo,
Colorado, devouring early vegetables and
tender shrubs Their appearance is said to
be similar to that of 1879, when they were
swept East by the winds and consumed an
immense amount of growing crops in
Kansas.
Professor C. V. Riley, Chief of the Ento-
mologcal Bureau of the Agricultural De-
partment, in Washington, receives many
letters from the West and Southwest which
indicate that the farmers Of those sections
are alarmed in consequence of the predic-
tionS Of visitation of seventeen-year To-
Gusts. The appearance of ordinary locusts
in California and Texas in very destructive
numbers adds to the alarm. Professor
Riley says the seventeen-year locusts,
whose visit he has predicted, are harmless
to growing crops and do no injury except
to the tWigs offorest and fruit trees. Where
ever young orchards have been planted on
land which has been cleared during the
last seventeen years the trees are liable to
suffer somewhat, but it is probable that the
use of kerosene emulsion sprayed upon the
trees will protect them. The ordinary To-
Gust, which is so destructive to growing
crops, has jaws which cut, while the seven
teen-year species, more popularity called the
Cicada, has only a beak, through which
he sucks his nourishment.
A Little Rock Dispatch says that the in
vasion of locusts in Northeast Arkansas, is
creating widespread alarm. Two counties
report them in large numbers in the forests
and Matching in the tree-tops by thousands.
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