Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-18
SOIITH CAROLINA NEWS.

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There are thirteen prisoners in the Wal
halla Jail, two of them United States prison
ers. The other eleven are held for trial IN
the Sessions court.
The grand Jury of Pickens county have
presented a number of persons for immoral
living, and number of others for selling
"tonics" and brandy peaches.
The State Agricultural department has
been advised that the first prize, amounting
to 81 200, for the best Sea Island cotton has
been awarded to Mr.. Clark, of Edisto Is
land.
United States Marshal Boykin will not
enter upon the discharge of his official du-
ties until July /, the beginning of the Fed
eral fiscal year. Marshal Boykin will re-
side in Charleston, where he will have his
Office.
The sales of fertilizers in this state, as
shown by the books of the Department. OF
Agriculture, have been larger this year than
at any time within five years, and are prob
ably larger than any previous sales IN the
State.
- Mary Spann, young colored girl, has
been arrested in Greenvile, charged with
the murder of a colored man named John
Brown, aged 90, by stabbing him on one OF
the principal streets Of that town last Satur-
day night.
The Saluda section of Edgefeld county -.
was visited with heavy rain last Thursday, Y
washing away the oat and corn crops. 1t
was the heaviest rain known in that section
for fifteen years, and what was bright crop
prospect on Wednesday is now completely
ruined. The loss to the farmers on Big
Creek cannot be estimated.
Judge Kershaw went to Lexington Court
House on Monday of last week to open
I,or orpoIiata1Ir .lOjOp the
grand jury made their presentment. The
! iail was reported empty and the farmers too
busy to attend Court, which adjourned an
hour after being opened. This speaks well
for the good conduct and industry of that
county.
Legal proceedings were instituted last
week against several barkeepers in Green
vile for selling liquor to an inebriate after
written notice from his wife demanding
that they should sell him no more liquor.
The cases were compromised by each bar
keeper paying the injured woman $50 and
while the woman was no doubt entitled to
the amount, aggregating $3.50, the bar-keep-
ers regard their experience cheap enough,
and hereafter will profit taccordingly.
In the Lancaster Court of Sessions, last
week, Charles l.. Emanuel was acquitted OF
the charge of numbering William D. Cur.
tbs. Sam Crawford, colored, convicted of
numbering Everitt Hood, also colored,
while working on the public road on the
14th of March, was sentenced to be hanged
on the 31st of July. Sam B. Roberts, white,
was tried for the murder of Thomas Il.
Ghent on the End of February, and ac-
quilted. With this trial the criminal bus
mess ended.
The Mason Cotton Harvester Company,
of Charleston, has received letter from
| T ,sn1y nfar nf
can Exhibition, requesting the company to
place one of it's haryesters on exhibition at
Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, in De-
cember next, when the South African Ex-
position will be opened. Mr.. Lenick says
that in view of the extension of the cotton
growing in the colony, the Mason machine
would be esteemed a very valuable exhibit.
There is now in the State treasury about
$3.50 ,OOO with $25, 900 more to come in short
iy as royalties. The interest paid last year
on State stocks and bonds amounted to $370,-
900; therefore the half of that amount will
be the semi-annual interest due on the
first of next month. The State treasurer
has the authority to borrow 100000 to pay
interest, but the above statement shows that
the State is not ION the borrow" About
100000 OF the above sum was received
from the May installment of taxes.
1t appears that the transfer of the Green
Vile and Laurens Railroad to the Georgia
Central hangs fire. The Laurens Herald
SAYS that several of the directors went to
Atlanta on Monday for the purpose Of sub
mitting proposition to President Raouf re-
garding the transfer In consequence of the
proposition not being in proper form, or in
a form satisfactory to President Raoul, moth
inc was done regarding the matter. Anoth-
er meeting was appointed to be held at
Greenwood on the 10Th instant, which Mr..
Raoul will attend and submit such terms as
he is willing to take the road upon and be
governed by.
A civil service examination was con-
Quoted in Columbia on Tuesday of last
week. under direction of Charles Lyman,
of Washington, Chief Examiner of the
United States Civil Service Commission.
There were Al applicants. Of these 36 were
white males, 3 white females, > mulattoes
and four blacks. Every applicant is desig-
mated by a number in lieu of a name in
the course of the examination, but name
and number are known only to those who
have that right All who receive 65 out of
a possible 100, are entitled to be registered
or certified as eligible applicants. All who
fall below 65 are rejected. Decisions will
not be made until Mr.. Lyman's return to
Washington.
The trial of j. C. Ferguson, the mur-
derer of Arthur M. Benedict, called up in
the Sessions Court of Abbeville, last week,
was continued until next term Of the Court.
The prisoner first moved for a continuance,
making affidavit that he did not believe
he could obtain "justice" before the pre-
siding Judge, (Cothran.) The Court did
not recognize this as valid reason, and
then motion was made Tor continuance on
the ground that the prisoners wife was
sick. This was overruled and the trial set
for Wednesday morning; but when the time
arrived, the prisoner made third motion
for continuance on the ground that two jim
portant witnesses were absent and the Court
granted the motion.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
John A. Young has been appointed post
master at Charlotte, vice w. w. jenkins,
suspended for offensive partisanship.
Thomas Gee, Thomas Men ell and Joseph
Howard, all colored, have been sentenced to
be hanged at Fayetville on July %, all
having been convicted Of murder. They
were sentenced few months ago, but ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court, which con-