Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Mrs. Munro, wife of ex-Judge Munro,
died in Union on the morning of the 10Th
instant.
DIR. John L. Giradeau has written let
ter rendering his resignation from the facul-
ty of the Columbia Theological Seminary.
Twenty-Five white families will leave
Laurens county next month for homes in
the West.
The Edgefield and Augusta railroad pro-
iect has collapsed. The Greenville and
Laurens railroad is rapidly approaching
completion.
In the Anderson Court of Sessions last
week, two young men who keep drug
store in the town, were convicted OF selling
whisky illegally and fined $50 each, which
was promptly paid.
On Sunday last, Rev. H. A. Whitman
preached an excellent sermon in the Edge
field county Jail, from the text: 'Whatso-
ever man soWeth, that shall he also reap"
"A few days ago several men committed
an outrage upon negro near Goldville in
Laurens county, by cutting of his ear, and
since then, as the rumOr goes, attempted to
kill him. Two of the perpetrators of the
deed-A. c.. Workman and w. H. Work
man-publish a card in the Laurensville
Herald, stating that their victim had been
circulating slanderous reports about them.
On Thursday night, October s, Mr.. Jas.
B. Clary, who lives seven miles from New
berry, while in a fit of delirium tremens
imagined that he was being attacked by a
crowd of negroes. In firing at his imagina-
rv enemies one of the balls from his pistol
struck his little son, aged six years, making
a very serious wound. At this time it is
thought the little fellow will recover.
j. C. Chadwick, of a New York COM
pany, will establish a special line of fruit
steamers between Charleston and West In
dian and Central American ports on the
first of November They have leased a
wharf and will make Charleston distrib-
uting fruit depot for Northern and Western
markets.
The Greenville Ne,Us desires that South
Carolina shall 60 slow on tobacco culture,
and adds that if big crop be made "there
will be no market for it except at distant
points where the freight will eat up the
shipments. Nobody is going to build facto-
ries and warehouses in our towns before
there is a demand for them, and on the
strength of a doubtful experiment"
The Greenville Ne,cs says that petit
ton is being actively circulated in that
county asking the Legislature to order an
election to be held in the county to deter
mine whether or not licenses to sell liquor
shall be granted. AS Greenville is the on
ly town in the county granting licenses, the
proposed election is to be merely the trans
fer of the wet and dry fight from the city
to the county generally. The petition is re-
ceiving signatures everywhere.
"A Chester dispatch of last Monday to the
Columbia Register says: At point six
miles from Ridgeway, on the Catawba river,
yesterday, fight between a negro named
Wilson and a white man named Moran, a
well-known cattle-dealer, resulted in the
shooting of the latter by the former. 1t is
said that Moran was the aggressor, and that
the negro acted in self-defense. The wound
is in the neck, and is ugly and dangerous.
This afternoon Wilson went to RidgeWay
and surrendered.
Columbia Record: Mr. j. S. Guignard,
Mr.. J. NJ. Campbell and colored man NAM
ed Joe Green, all of Lexington, went out on
turkey hunt one day last week. MIR.
Guignard was calling the turkey, and Joe
Green stood between him and Mr.. Camp
bell. The latter fired his gun, but instead
of killing turkey, he came near killing
two men. Mr.. Guignard was shot in the
hand and leg and Joe Green in the arm and
shoulder. DR.. Taylor picked out the shot.
The wounds are not serious
John n. Parnell, who lives in Lisbon
township, Darlington county, informs the
Darlington Vndicator that about six months
ago puppy was born on his place having
two heads, two tongues, four under jaws,
three eyes, six legs and two tails. This
wonderful prodigy, Mr.. Parnell says, is still
living and in good health, and is much
sought after by fox hunters, and is the lead
er Of the dogs in all the fox chases in that
section having caught no @ less tdan nan six sixteen th
advantage over others-having two heads.
one on each end, can watch both ends of the
road at once. If the fox gets in the rear, all
the dog has to do is to reverse lever and
take the back track without making any
halt.
-Messrs. J. r. London and A. f. Hutchi-
son, of Rock Hill, have become associated