Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-26

| ciple Of reform. If Mr. Cleveland were 10
abandon the vantage then won and try to
range his party on the old lines, he would
simply render it's defeat in 1888 inevitable:
Its sole remaining vitality would be that Of
the vermn which fed upon it.-N. Y. Times.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
From September 1st to March 18th, there
were 1881 bales of cotton sold from wagons
in the town of Lancaster.
The members of the colored Baptist
Church in Camden have raised purse tor
their pastor, Rev. Monroe Boykin, to de-
fray his expenses to New Orleans and re-
turn.
Since the recent escape Of prisoners
from the Williamsburg Jail by cutting their
way through the walls with metal spoons,
the jailer has had wooden spoons made and
furnished to his boarders.
The dry distemper prevails among the
cattle in the neighborhood of Piedmont,
Greenvile county. Several farmers have
recently lost fine cows from the disease,
which threatens to become serious cpl
demic.
| An old Anderson farmer tells the Jour-
nal that he never bought corn but once in
his life, when he took his wagon to Pickens-
Vile and paid twenty dollars for twenty
bushels. He says that outlay hurt him so
bad that he has never risked repetition.
On Friday afternoon the boiler of the
engine which supplied the motive power of
the shoe and hosiery factories of the State
penitentiary exploded, instantly killing the
man in charge of the engine and his assis-
tant, both Of whom were colored convicts.
On the 9TH instant, Mrs. Roark, who
resides at Reedy River Factory, Green
vile county, and is 102 years old, walked to
Fork Shoals, eleven miles, to visit her
daughter. She came out at the end of the
walk as lively as young woman. Except
impaired hearing she is in perfect health.
Ex-Governor John P. St. John, the can
didate of the Prohibtionists for President
at the recent election, is now on tour
through the South. He is lecturing on tenn
perance in the principal cities. He will be
deliver lecture while there.
A disastrous fire occurred in Anderson
on Monday night Of last week, which burn
ed up six stores of the brick block on De-
pot street in the northeast corner of the
public square. The Htelligencer estimates
the total damage at from $4,000 to $25, 900,
most of which was covered by insurance.
Rev. J. @. Adams, of the Baptist church,
was injured by the unexpected explosion of
blast near Darlington, on Friday OF last
week, and it is feared he will lose the sight
of both eyes. Mr.. Adams is graduate
of Furman University, and well known
throughout the State.
The Tooth anniversary of the South Car
olina Presbytery will be celebrated at the
WaxhaW Church, Lancaster county, on the
18th day of April next. It was at this
church that the first Presbytery in South
Carolina was organized. The Rev. j. II.
Thornwel will preach the centennial SER
mon, and the Rev. James Fl. Saye will de-
liver an historical address. . ... ....
Andrew J. Caldwell, worthy and good
citizen of Spartanburg county, was acci-
dentally shot last Saturday by John l. Can
pulled down on some birds and his gun got
entangled in his watch chain which prema-
turely discharged it. The load entered
Caldwel's side and it is believed that he
will die. 80
ON the 18th instant, a whisky peddler,
named Moseley, while driving over rough
road in Union county, n. c., near the Lam
caster line, fell from the wagon and one of
the wheels passed over his neck, killing
him instantly. He was on his way to the
eastern part of Lancaster county, where he
had been carrying on an illicit whisky trade
for some time. The wagon contained three
barrels of whisky.
The sheriff of Marion county sent one of
his deputies into Horny to levy on and take
a mule in the possession of citizen of that
county. The man pointed to his stable, say
ing: "The mule you come arter is in that
off stable. I see you got the rights to 60 in
arter him, but don't see that you are per-
vided with authority to come out agin.
Betsy, bring me my shotgun" The dep
uty returned but he did not bring the mule.
On the 18th of January last, Robert F.
Wall, an engineer on the Airline Rail
| nd ki11a6 n old named
Cole, who was walking over bridge of the
road, near Spartanburg, and not discovered
by the engineer in time for him to stop his
train. Wall was arrested for causing the
death of Cole by negligence, apd in the
Spartanburg Sessions Court last week was
tried and acquitted of all blame in the
affair.
The following answers have been fur
nished by Collector Brayton to queries sub
mitted to him by parties interested in the Of
| fees which belong to the Internal Revenue
Department: A deputy collector is not de-
barred from practicing law. The duties ofa
storekeeper and guager are those of a Gus
todian and watchman. Pay, two dollars a
day. There are general store keepers and
guagers who get three dollars and fifty cents
day, who must reside in Greenville.
General B. E. Nicholson, Clerk of the
Court of Edgefeld county, died at his home
in that town on last Friday morning, of
pneumonia The deceased was elected
Clerk of the Court at the last general elec-
tion, and at the recent term Of court for
Edgefeld had served in that capacity for
the first time, but for one week only, when
he was taken ill. He was gallant soldier,
and was the last Colonel Of the Hampton
Legion. He was an estimable citizen and
in his death Edgefeld county has sustained
great loss. The deceased leaves very
large family.
Says the Lancaster Reuiev of the 18th
instant: The excitement caused by the
death of several members Of Mr.. X. w.
Draftins family and the sickness of num-
ber of others in the same neighborhoOd, has
about subsidized. No deaths have occurred
outside Mr.. Drafin's family, and the others
afflicted with the same disease, typhoid dys-
entery, are gradually recovering. The re-
port published throughout the country that
Asiatic cholera was raging in this county
was altogether sensational and without
foundation.
A young man in Lexington named w.
f. Muller, accidentally shot and fatally
wounded negro named Jake Gadsden last
Saturday night. 1t seems that an old pistol
in Mr.. Muller's store, supposed to be un-
loaded, had been frequently used for snap
ping caps at different parties in sport. Last
Saturday night young Muller placed cap
on it, and playfully pointing it at Gadsden,
pulled the trigger, when, to the horror of
the bystanders, the pistol was discharged.
The ball entered a little to the left of Gads-
den's navel and passed out at the spine.