Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-24
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


q stalk of cotton containing 397 bolls and
blooms.
The nominees for Governor and Lieu
Governor of Mississippi are natives
Of South Carolina.
James Hunter, convicted of manslaugh-
ter, was married in Chesterfield jail to Miss
Dora Evans, niece of the murdered man.
The Governor has appointed Eugene T.
Jervey, of Charleston, railroad commission
er, rice L. J. Walker, resigned.
A little son of Mr.. Davis, of Sumter was
smothered to death while playing in the
cotton in his fathers cotton house.
Homer, a young son of Mr.. Calvin Brice,
of Fairfield, was badly crushed by a cotton
bale being accidentally rolled upon him.
The Synod of the Associate Reformed
Church of the South will meet at Due West
to-day. A large attendance is expected.
The phosphate royalty due the State on
rock mined for the last year amounts to
SLIT ,O19, against $165, ,422 in 1884, an increase
of about $4,000.
A remarkable revival has been going on
and over ninety converts have been
made in seventeen days.
Rev. Robert D. Hunton, who claimed
to have resided near Charleston, was killed
in difficulty in the ChickasaW Nation by
a man named White. Who is he?
The Greenwood, Laurens and Spartan
and regular through passenger trains COM
menced running last Tuesday.
- R. H. McMurray, the photographer
fire to the Thespian Hall at Winnsboro, has
fal no of
tried in Chester.
Congressman Hemphill has been inform
ed by Prof. S. F. Baird, United States COM
missioner of fisheries, that applications for
carp should be filed in the department at
by the 18th of October.
-Laurens Advertiser: If we are able to
Judge the signs of the times correctly, a
change in the road law in this State must
be made. 1t is impossible to make any
permanent improvement under the pres
ent system of working.
A little child of Mr.. David McNab, Of
Aiken, was recently found playing under
the house with huge rattlesnake, which
had encircled the little toddler's body, but
did no injury. The reptile was afterwards
button.
Mr.. William Hammond, of Edgefeld,
was shot down on the premises of his en-
ployer, Mrs. S. B. Culbreath, (Who had
separated from her husband,) and died the
next day of his wounds. There is much
excitement among the neighbors.
-Laurens Advertiser: Mr.. Epps Hellams,
of this county, who recently entered suit
against the Nears and Courier for libel, died
on the 9Th instant of fever He was taken
sick while attending the United States Court
at Greenville.
- Speaking of the crops in Fairfield coun-
ty, the Winnsboro NeaUs says: Notwith-
promising prospect the crops
will not be as good as expected, but com
pared with the yield Of last year, the result
is indeed very tiattering.
-Twenty-one licensed distilleries will
soon be in operation in the Greenyille di-
vison and others will likely follow. One
concern proposes to manufacture pure grape
brandy and eleven other brandy distillers
will be working at an early day.
In difficulty which occurred at livery
stable in Greenville on Monday night, Rob-
ert Walker, who was drunk at the time,
stabbed Ben Brockman, colored, in the left
breast with apocket knife, inflictinga wound
from which Brockman will probably die.
w dlheI was allCotcu elIu pun Ill Joil oOoii
after the stabbing.
Ex-senator John B. Moore and Major E. B.
Murray, of the Intelligeacer, had shooting
scrape in the streets Of Anderson on Tues
day of last week, in which the former was
latter was unhurt. The difficulty grew out
of Senator Moore charging Major Murray
with uttering falsehood.
al
recently from Augusta, Ga, was arrested
Sunday for horse-stealing. He took horse
from r. L. Taylor, in the upper part of
Spartanburg county, on Saturday night.
Taylor followed him Sunday morning and
caught him. Telfair seems to be an intelli-
gent, business man.
The Columbia Register says that gen.
introduced in the Legislature providing
that all legal hangings in South Carolina
shall be done within the walls of the Pen
tentiary by a regular eXecutioner, to be
elected or appointed. Such law is in force
in Ohio and has been found to work we'll
thus far.
Lynch law under any circumstances is
to be deplored, and all law-abididing citi-
lens will approve the recent course of the
sheriff of Spartanburg in foiling the attempt
Of mob to hang two prisoners confined in
The iail at that place. The laws of the land
ire still supreme and effective, and until
hey become dead letter there is no palli-
alton or excuse for any body of men to take
upon themselves to vindicate it.
- Winnsboro Nems: Mr.. A. Williford
to this office on Friday boil of
cotton which in make up was an exception
20 any that we have seen. 1t was a large,
'ully developed boil, but different from the
ordinary ones, in that it had eight distinct
pods, which is just double the number
IF the ordinary boil. 1t was grown on MIR.
Nilifords's place one mile from town. He
regrets very much that his whole crop is
not of the same kind.
Thomas A. Jones, a drummer for Phil
,delphia molasses house, wrote an insulting
1ote to young lady Of Sumter last Sunday
He was waited upon by COM
nittee of gentlemen, headed by the irate
ather, at the Jervey House on Sunday af-
;ernoon, was treated to sound thrashing,
md given two hours to leave town. He
eft. Jones claimed to be from North Caro-
ina. This is the second instance Of this
Kind that has happened at Sumter within
he last year, and in both cases the offender
las been subjected to severe chastisement.
- Carolina iSttprtan: Miss Maggie Brown,
If Union county, was visiting her sister,
Mrs. Lewis Johnson, near Walnut Grove,
md while there took fever. After she had
oeen sick about week, she was missed
~ the family early Tuesday morning, the
'th instant. She was found at the spring
ying on the ground with her head in the
water sufficiently deep to cause death by
browning. DIR. l.. G. Nesbitt was attend
ng the case and did not consider her dan
,erousy sick. It is supposed that she took
lelirious and went to the spring for water,
md while leaning over to drink she tainted
nd fell with her head in the wafer 1t is a