Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
-Twenty-three hundred liens have been
filed in the Barnwell county Clerks office.
The South Carolina Railway Company
is placing steamboat whistles on all it's pas
senger engines.
= In January and February the Green
wood merchants sold more goods than they
sold during the whole of last year.
1t is expected that the Ashevlle and
Spartanburg Railroad will be completed by
the first of July.
- Capt. R. c. Clowney a prominent citi-
zen of Fairfield and an eX-member of the
Legislature, died last Friday, aged As years.
B. l.. Scott, of Abbeville county, made
an experiment with sea-island cotton last
year and succeeded beyond his expectation.
Rev. E. G. Steele, a talented young Epis-
copal clergyman, died at his home near
Florence on the 9Th instant, of consump-
ton.
There are over seventy applicants for the
position of mail agent on the Port Royal
and Augusta railway. There are only three
places to be filled.
The shipments of cotton from Winns-
boro during the season of 1SS4-5 will not
exceed $500 bales. The shipments during
the season OF 1884 reached 10000 bales.
Rev. A. B. Estes, distinguished Bap-
tist divine, died at his residence in Old AL
lendale on the 4th instant, after protract-
| ed illness.
At the next meeting of the board of
school examiners for Fairfield county, Col.
CoWard's suggestion to reduce the area of
the school districts will be considered.
The Winnsboro NeUs and Herald COM
plains that on four-fifths of the farms in
| Fairfield county there is insufficient pro-
lection for the stock.
| In the Court of Sessions for Oconee
county, Ernest Abbott, II years old, plead
guilty to the charge of horse stealing and
was sent to the penitentiary for two years
This was his second offence.
- Portions of Charleston and Berkeley
counties have voted to exempt themselves
from the operation of the fence law, two
thirds of the voters Of the township having
voted that way.
R. w. Boone, Postmaster at NeWberry,
has rendered his resignation to President
Cleveland, although his term of Office does
not expire under two years. He has been
an efficient officer.
- The stewards of the Spartanburg Meth
odist Church have determined to build Il
new church. They think they can erect
one for 100000 that will be an ornament to
the town.
w. w. Butler, son of Senator NJ. C.
Butler, has recently moved from London to
Bordeaux, the great Atlantic seaport of
France, where he is now diligently master
ing the French language. ..
Mr.. D. F. Bradley, who, it is under
stood, will succeed Mr.. E. M. Brayton as
Collector of Internal Revenue, is receiving
scores ofapplications for the position of dep
uties, store-keepers, gaugers, &c. ...i
Persons wishing to make experiments
in the cultivation of tea may obtain plants
by addressing the UNITED States Tea Farm,
Summerville, South Carolina" The appli-
cants must state the number of plants de-
sired and pay the cost of transportation.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett arrived at
the port of Charleston last Thursday, hav-
having made the voyage from New York
in his steam yacht He remained in the
city until Saturday afternoon, when he sail
ed for Martinique. rst
- William Pendergrass, a colored boy 13
years old, went hunting in Clarendon coun-
ty one day last week. He climbed stump
to shoot a rabbit, when the hammer of'his
gun struck against the stump and the load
of shot was discharged, entering below the
ribs on the right side, killing him instantly.
-Keowee Courier: Our first Court since
the passage of Our prohibitory Act is now
in session. 1t is worthy of remark that
this is the first term of the Court of Sessions
in the history of the county in which there
is not single case of assault and battery,
-Kingstree has sharp crowd Of negro
boys who do brisk business at the depot
on the arrival of night trains at that place
by selling pods of cotton to Northerners.
These coons get the old empty bolls and fill
them with lint cotton, and thereby deceive
the passengers with the belief that the cot
ton grew thus. ... f.t.. s..r
The property in the upper Camperdown
mill of Greenville has been appraised and
the value returned at s90,O27, putting esti-
mates at low cash prices exclusive of freight.
mated at $2O, 900 and the machinery at $40
600. The property has been levied on for
debt. .. ... lag
Rock Hill Herald: The cotton shipments
from this place during the month of Febru-
ary were 212 bales, against 450 bales for the
same month last year. The shipments from
September 1st to February 2Sth were 1O,525
bales, against 1881 for the same months last
year and 10, ,l01 the year before. 80
Georgetown Enquirer: A lady gardner
in town, who believes in early vegetables,
sowed, as she supposed some mustard seed,
and after patiently waiting for the plants to
put in an appearance, found on investiga-
tion that she had soWed lot of gunpowder
belonging to her son-in-laW.
- On Wednesday, of last week S. B. Lay
ton, young merchant near Cross Anchor,
Spartanburg county, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head with
gun. He attached a string to the trigger
and tied it to his foot. He was sober and
respectable young man, and the cause of the
act is involved in mystery.
Winnsboro Ne,cs: Mr.. Andrew NJ.
Youngue, highly esteemed citizen of this
county, died very suddenly at his residence
on the 9th instant. He was, it Is said, af-
hicted with heart disease, and this was per-
haps the cause of his death. Mr.. Youngue
was about fifty years of age. He served
throughout the late war in Company G.,
Sixth Regiment S. G.. ", received one or
two wounds and is said to have been very
gallant soldier He leaves wife, three
children and many friends to mourn his
loss.
-Abbeville Press and Banner, 18th inst:
Mr. Charles Aurbach's goods have been
boxed up, his store has been closed and
he has been taken to the lunatic asylum.
1t is alleged that the nervous shock which
he received on the shooting of his nephew,
Arthur NJ. Benedict, by Ferguson disarrang-
ed his mind so as to make him incompetent
| for business. Since the shooting he has
suffered from Insomnia, and his malady has
| increased until he is almost without reason,
and totally unfit for business. He went to
| the asylum last Saturday as a pay patient
without the legal steps which are necessary
in the case of paupers, and it is hoped that
the authorities at that institution may be