Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-28
SOTTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The trestle of the Greenwood, Laurens
and Spartanburg Railroad over the EhorcT ;.i
River has been completed, and trains VIII
soon be running reg guarly to Woodruff s.
Spartanburg county.
Col. Leroy +. Youmans has qualliled as
United States District Attorney for South
Carolina, and also sent to Speaker SlhoiiS
his resignation as member OF the Legls-
lature from Richland county.
The Columbia Register reports heavy
hailstorm in the lower section of Rlchland
county last Thursday afternoon, which dld
much damage to corn, cotton ana 1rult.
Trees were blown down in every direction,
and altogether the storm had been severe
one.
The Rock Hill Herald of the 2lst says:
Col. J. NJ Ivy left on Tuesday afternoon
last on an extended Western tour, with
headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His condition has greatly improved of late,
the pain in his shoulder having subsidized
and his health being much better.
Winnsboro Nears, Saturday: Little Chal-
mers McMaster died on Thursday. night
from the injuries which he received few
days ago in falling from the second story OF
his fathers residence. He was DrlghI
and interesting little fellow, and all VINO
knew him will feel much regret at his un-
timely end. We tender our sympathy to
the griefstricken family.
Miss Lula West, the Laurensville cata-
leptic, was still living last Thursday morn
inc. The Herald of Friday says: Her case
seems to battle medical skill, and her te-
nacity to life is wonderful. She has lain in
a perfectly helpless condition for nearly two
months-this being the fifty-sixth day-be-
ing unable all this time to move hand or
foot, or even speak SO as to be understood,
\and has not partaken of particle of nour-
ishment.
DR. Joe Foster, popular and successful
physician of Lancaster, has been brought
to deaths door by terrible carbun-
Gle on his neck. The carbuncle had been
lanced seven times, each stroke of the lance
being made downward through six inches
of flesh, and still no relief was obtain
ed. TO add to DR.. Fosters sufferings, cry
sipelas set in, and he died on Saturday.
DR.. Foster was surgeon of the 7th South
Carolina regiment during the late war;
In Orangeburg on the night of the 18th
instant, Policeman Albrecht was killed in
an alteration with Il. NJ. Wolfe, eX-chief
of police. The fatal fight was made. with
pistols, each firing two shots. Albrecht fell
Shot in the right breast and expired almost
instantly. His hand clenched his pistol as
he lay dead. Wolfe at once surrendered to
the law. The tragedy occurred in front OF
the store occupied by M. Walls and Il: M.
Wolfe. The latter has a bar attached.
Wolfe was not hurt in the fight.
-Spartanburg Herald: Work is being
vigorously pushed forward on the Ashe-
vile and Spartanburg Road. Five miles
of the line from Asheville this way are
reported ready for the ties and iron, and
1G5 hands are now at work on the road.
The "big flip is the only serious impedl-
ment, and as many hands are at work as
can operate We understand that owing
to some hitch in the arrangements, lnman
refused to furnish the money as was anticl-
pated, and the work is now being done by
the Terminal Company, composed OF the
various lines interested in it's completion.
Several days ago, says the Greenville
Ne,rs, a young man named Benjamin Ver-
din, whose parents live in Greenville coun-
ty, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
He was hoeing cotton in a field on his faith
er's place with some hands, and after leav-
ing his work once or twice and lying down
on the ground, walked away toward the
woods. Since then forty or fifty men have
been unsuccessfully searching for him. He
left without money, coat or shoes and with
out any known reason. He was hard
working, intelligent and affectionate boy
about seventeen years old and had had no
trouble with his family or anybody else.