Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


be printed and on the members's desks to-
morrow.
The November term of the Supreme
Court of the State began on Tuesday last.
The Sixth Circuit will be called on the loth
of December, and four days will be given
to hearing appeals from this circuit.
-Newberry county can boast of the mann,
moth girl. She is only II years old and
weighs 800 pounds. Her corpulency does
not keep her from work. She can plough,
hoe, &C., besides doing other work around
the house.
On Friday night last, James H. Web
ster. assistant cashier of S. S. Ross, banker,
of Gaffney City, killed himself in rear OF
the bank office, by shooting himself with
pistol. The rumored cause of the act was
disappointed love.
There were only four hundred and thir-
ty-seyen votes cast in Clarendon county at
the recent special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the late Arthur Har-
vim. 1t was the smallest vote polled since
the war.
"A negro man living in Laurens, aged
about 62 years, has fourteen children and
ninety-seven grand children. His father is
living and has younger children than his
prolific son, and is only seventeen years his
senior.
At the Sumter Court last week Sam
Boatwright, colored, got verdict of $4,000
against the Wilmington, Columbia and Au-
gusta Railroad for the loss of an arm. Paul
Coleman, colored, got a verdict against the
same road for 81, 800 for the breaking of leg.
The citizens of Winnsboro have organ
lied free trade club. A permanent or
ganization was effected by the election of
the following officers: President, Hon. II. A.
Gaillard; vice presidents Messrs. James Q.
Davis and F. Greig; secretary and treasu-
rer, Mr.. J. E. Mcdonald.
George Alston, one of the first colored
men of the State who came out for Hamp-
ton in 1876 has been convicted of petit lar
ceny at Greenville. He was sentenced to
pay fine of $75 or 20 to the Penitentiary
for six months. His Democratic friends
paid the fine.
Business in Union the Union Times says,
is almost at standstill. It has not been so
dull in November for many years. This is
caused by the low price of cotton, and
unless forced to do so, the farmers will not
sell, for they cannot pay out at present pri-
ceS.
just after dressing himself to attend a
dancing party on Thursday night last, Mr..
J. K. Glass, of Marlboro, was accidentally
shot by pistol in his own hands. He was
handling the pistol, showing how it should
be loaded, when it accidentally fired and
killed him. He was native of Cokesbury,
and was son of Mr.. Glass, who was years
ago postmaster at Columbia.
Two Pickens county youths went to
Greenville and bought a few jugs and bot
ties of whisky, with which they set up a
temporary gin-mill at Easley. Their little
stroke of enterprise resulted in nights
lodging in the guard house, a fine OF flye
and fifty dollars respectively by the council,
and indictments by United States authori-
ties for retailing of one of the parties, his
arrest and lodgment in Jail.
The Atlantic and Great Western Mar
row Gauge Railroad company was organiz-
ed at Ninety-Six last week, and Col. H. P.
Hammet, of Greenville, was elected presi-
dent, and Capt. w. j. Kirk Vice-President
and General Superintendent The propos-
ed route is through Greenville, Laurens,
Abbeville and Edgefeld counties, and as
much farther South as practicable.
About 10 o'clock on Wednesday night
of last week, man named Henry, former
ly connected with the Southern Express
Company, as agent at points in North Car
olina, but for the past year or two resi-
dent of Florence, blew his brains out with
pistol. He has been very dissipated for
some time and his self destruction is at
tributed to this cause. He leaves q wife,
who is a most estimable and highly re-
spected lady.
-Greenville Neus: The Mormon Mis-
sionaries do not find much comfort in Green
Vile county. After being induced to leave
the Gowensville neighborhood some time
ago they tried the Highland section ,and have
recently been preaching there. AS soon as
the scope and purpose of their preaching
was fully understood party of men called
on them with polite request that they de-
prive the community of their presence forth.
with. They left-Wisely, judiciously and
unostentatiously.
Laurensville Herald: Squire Mcknight
is now in his S9th year and says he has
ploughed and pulled fodder every year for
the last seventy-siX years. His father
brought with him from Pennsylvania in
1892 red churn which the Squire still has,
it has been out Of use but short time.
Again, his father heWed out the timbers for
a loom with poll axe in 1892, and that
loom is in use now, still again, his grand
father, Neddie Nash, lived to be ia years
old, and at his hundredth year cut a set of
new teeth which served him we'll the last
fourteen years of his life.