Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Edgar A. Powell, well-known citizen
of Fairfield county, committed suicide las1
Monday morning.
- Many of the free schools in kershaW
county have been closed for lack OF the
necessary funds.
Susan Pitts, colored, has been arrested
in Newberry charged with poisoning TWO
adopted children of her step mother, who
died with suspicious symptoms last week.
Mr. w. B. Allen has sued the county OF
Marion for damages to the amount. OF $40
caused to horse of his which fell through
the public bridge.
IS. Warren Smith, of Abbeville county,
was caught by circular saw the other day
and badly used up. He came as near being
killed as any man could and not be killed.
Mr.. James NJ Shaver, of Lancaster, fell
from his wagon, loaded with corn, and re-
ceived painful injuries in his shoulders and
back. He is likely to be confined for sew
eral weeks. This accident was due to the
bad condition of the road.
On Monday night OF last week, diff
Guilty occurred at Lancaster, between Henry
Clyburn and w. w: Evans, in which Cly-
burn received a painful cut in the arm.
Both parties used their knives. Evans re-
ceived no wound, but his clothes were cut
in several places.
The Newberry Observer says lady of
that county boasts of one of the best hus-
bands imaginable. During a thunder
storm, she says, he will do anything she
wants him to do as long as the storm lasts,
but he changes very quickly after it passes
over.
Edmund Holmes, late Radical super
visor of election at one of the precincts in
Sumter county, and the pronounced leader
of the HeWson faction is crazy. He is Vi
olent, and is said to have shot over the
heads of a number of people who recently
assembled at his house.
&C. P. Pelham, Esq, native of Colum-
bia, and for two or three years practicing
lawyer in Lancaster, from which place he
moved to Asheville, n. g., was recently ad-
IN. c. Asylum, at Morganton, in which in
stitution he died on last Thursday.
Mr.. John Elerbe, who lived near Cash's
Depot, in Chesterfield county, was run over
and killed by a passenger train three miles
from Cheraw on the evening of the 25th ul-
timo. He was lying on the track and is
supposed to have been drunk, as flask of
whisky was found in his pocket.
- The Lexington Dispatch furnishes this
financial item: We overheard the follow
ing conversation between two of our farm
ers last week: "Its mighty hard to collect
money Just now" Indeed" said the Sec
ond, "you have tried to collect and failed ?''
"No," replied the first, "but several have
tried to collect from me and failed"
N. B. Myers, colored, an ex-member of
the South Carolina legislature from Beau
fort county, died on Sunday of last week.
He was at one time prominent figure in
the politics of the State, and was one of the
two colored legislators who earned the graf
itude of the white people by taking part in
the organization of the ''Wallace" house
in 1876 when there was dual government,
thus securing that body a constitutional
quorum. When Gov. Hampton was elect
ed to the Senate he secured an appointment
as mail agent, which ne held to the day of
his death.
R. S. Tarleton and Joseph Tarleton,
Postmaster and Assistant Postmaster at
White Hall, S. c.. (both coloredD were COM
mitted to Jail in Charleston, last Saturday,
charged with stealing registered letters
from the mail. Israel Brown, colored, Post
master at Hardeeville, who was arrested
Thursday last, charged with falsifying his
returns in order to increase his commission,
was discharged. Postofice Inspector Booth
says there is more incapacity and dishon-
esty among postmasters in South Caroliua
than he has met any where else, and he
will so report to the Post Office Department.
During the recent term of Laurens Cir
cult Court, Judge Cothran made two rulings
in reference to hOmesteads and lien war
rants, which elected some comment among
the members of the local bar. He held that
after lodgment of process Judgment debtor
could not take the homestead until levy
was made, thus having the effect that there
was a time when the debtor could not take
advantage of the homestead laws. The
other was that no appeal lies from the Clerk
of the Court on the issuing of attachments
and lien warrants.