Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-25
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.

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The Camperdown mills at Greenville
will be sold at auction on the 30 OF August.
A telegraph line will shortly be built
along the line Of the Spartanburg and Ashe-
vile Railroad.
- The collections of United States internal
revenue in South Carolina last year amount
ed to $93, 600.
An effort is on foot in Lancaster for the
organization of Bible Society at that
place.
- The total cost Of the recent Court at Ian
caster was $495.15 Of this amount $295.3O
was required to pay the petit jurors.
- The upper half of Spartanburg county
was visited on the Sth inst. by heavy and
damaging hail storms.
Five colored school teachers were indict-
ed at the recent term of Aiken Circuit
Court for forgery.
Five murder cases are on the docket for
trial at the next term of Edgefield Court.
Only one of the parties is white.
| Steamboats, are now running regularly
between Camden and Charleston, carrying
| freights from all points along the route.
| - The Clarendon Enterprise is assured, on
good authority, that snow fell near Jordan,
in that county, on Wednesday, the 10th in
slant.
A narrow guage railroad will be built
soon from Spartanburg to Glenn Springs.
The cost will be S35, ,O0O There is some
talk of extending it to NeWberry.
In Lancaster county, on Thursday OF
| last week, Eliza Cunningham shot and Sc
riously wounded John Boss, colored, whom
she charged with the seduction OF her
daughter. All colored.
"A petition to the Governor is being nu-
merously signed in Lancaster asking for the
Communication of Samuel CraWtord's death
sentence to imprisonment for life. Craw-
ford killed Everett Hood, with whom he
was working on the public roads,.
There is q mortgage and lien on record
in the Clerks office at Pickens given to Sc
cure the payment of five dollars, in which
the mortgagor conveys to the mortgage all
his stock, farming implements, crops and
all his household and Kitchen furniture.
On Thursday, a little negro girl living on
the plantation of Mr.. A. Williford, near
Winnsboro, while her parents were at work
in the field, attempted to kindle fire with
kerosene. The can exploded and the girl
climbed the golden stairs.
Isaac Herbert, colored boy, who could
not swim, was drowned in the Saluda Riv-
er, NeWberry county, last Sunday, while
bathing in company with four other colored
youths, two of whom, Henry Williams and
William Robertson, have been charged by
the Coroner's jury with the murder OF Her.
bert, and are now in Jail.
"A contract has been signed by President
Raoul, of the Georgia Central Railroad, and
the Directors of the Greenville and Laurens
Railroad Company, by which the former
agrees to complete the Greenvile and Lau-
rens road within three years. President
Raoul expects to finish up the work by the
close Of this year, though he takes ample
time in which to complete it.
On Tuesday of last week, in Union
Court House, during the trial of a case in
which he had been summoned as a witness,
Mr.. A. d. Spears was seized with severe
attack of paralysis, and from the report Of
his case there is not much hope entertain
ed Of his recovery. Mr.. Spears was gal
liant soldier, and lost leg during the war
in his country's service.
- The Democrats of Walhalla held mass
meeting last Saturday and determined to
hold an election on the 4th Of July for the
selection of a candidate for postmaster OF
that town, and the Postmaster General has
been requested to defer action in the mat
ter until after said election. In the last is.
sue of the Courier three citizens advertise
themselves as candidates for the position
and solicit the votes of their fellOW-citizens.
Chief Engineer Kirk, of the Carolina,
Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad,
is sanguine of the speedy resumption OF
work upon the road and Of its early COM
pletiOn. He says he was assured by prom
inent capitalist of Charleston that if the,
towns and townships along the line of road
should vote the proposed 5 per cent, Charles
ton capitalists would at once take $500, 900
of the company's bonds, and probably
million.
- On the 18th instant Hays Robbins killed
I)rNp ,1phfo on
following circumstances: Vaughn and Rob-
bins, both negroes, got into bateau to cross
over from the Union side to the Chester
side of the river, having jug of whisky,
and it was about the remnant of this left in
a fragment of the jug, which was.accidental-
ly broken, that the fatal quarrel arose. In
the scutfie which ensued, Vaughn drove his
knife into the abdomen of Robbins, and
both fell overheard. They managed, how
the bank. Robbins stepped ashore and sent
a pistol ball through the heart of the man
who had wounded him. Robbins has not
yet been arrested
A Lancaster dispatch of Saturday to the
Charleston Sunday Ne,cs says: James Moth
ershead shot Henry Blackman about ten
miles southeast Of this place, in this coun-
ty, on Thursday last, firing three times,
each ball taking effect. 1t is reported here
| this evening tnal BldcklndH uleu CO-udy
from the effects of the wounds. They were
both farmers, Mothershead being ten
ant of the father of Blackman. They had
difficulty in which there was a fight and
in the evening met again near the house of
Mothershead and near the field where
Blackman was plowing. Mothershead was
arrested on Friday and lodged in Jail where
he is confined.
In confirmation Of the rumors as to ILL
treatment of convicts the Register reporter
ascertaned that Superintendent Lipscomb
and DIR. Pope left Wednesday to make
thorough examination into the matter at
the TWiggs camp, on the Savannah Valley
railroad, in Abbevile county. Seven of
the unfortunates arrived at the penitentia-
ry that evening from these camps in such
deplorably disabled condition as apparently
to justisy the statements made in the Alb
beville Messenger. They were placed in the
hospital and the assistant surgeon of the
penitentiary, DR.. Watson, will make an ex-
animation of these convicts, when more
definite information of their condition will
be reached.