Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Says the Abbeville Medium: ga number
of the opponents of the lien law have been
in town the last few days trying to get sup
plies on liens"
- The South Carolina college has reopened
after the Christmas holidays with an enrol.
ment of 1G9 students, an increase of seven
since the recess.
There have been rumOrS of an attempt
to rescue j. G.. Ferguson, the man who shot
Benedict in Abbeville, and the Jail is guard.
ed by militia.
Anderson Mtelligencer: The cyclone sea-
son is approaching, and it is said that some
of our citizens are repairing their pits SO as
to make them secure.
FLORENCE Times: On Tuesday last, over
100 negroes left Florence for Arkansas, and
they 60 in companies every day. So far we
have heard of no lack of labor for the next
year, and this exodus is having no effect
whatever on the farmers.
-Belmonte cotton factory, at Sumter, was
sold last week by the sheriff under an eX-
ecution, and was bid off for $4,000. The
purchaser is responsible for bonded debt of
$500 additional, which makes the pur-
chasing price $3O, ,OOO-less than half its real
value. 1t was bought by syndicate of
Sumter men.
Five VI UIlC olA ~ III SduuCll
iail made their escape on Saturday night by
cutting a hole through the ceiling in their
cell and letting themselves to the ground
by rope made of blankets torn into strips
and twisted together. The last one fell to
the ground by the breaking of the rope, and
sustained such injuries as necessitated his
being dragged several hundred yards.
Says the Columbia Register: The Sink
ing Fund Commission, at it's last meeting,
reduced the fees for land titles and deeds is
sued by the Commission through the Secre-
tary of States Office from three dollars to
| fifty cents. This will be help to those who
have their lands forfeited and who want to
redeem them, as well as to parties wishing
to purchase.
A pistol ball was fired into the editorial
rooms of the Lancaster ReUieW on Thursday
night last. The editor says: 1--WE are inclin-
ed to the opinion that it was an accidental
shot, for we are too charitable to think that
there exists creature in human form so
low, so base, so cowardly and so Internally
mean and sneakipS- as to attempt in suGn- q
manner to bulldoze an inOtfensive neWspa-
per man."
On the 5th instant, the Stewards (or part
of them) of the Chesterfield Circuit met in
the Methodist Church at Chestesfeld, to de-
termine whether they would accept the
preacher whom the annual Conference had
sent to preach to the people of Chesterfield
Circuit. The result of it was that the Rev.
J. w. McRoy, the preacher sent them, was
rejected, and consequently the Chesteheld
Circuit has no preacher.
The meeting of the Directors OF the Ash
vile & Spartanburg railroad ajourned on
Saturday until the 3rd of February without
doing any business. Superintendent Ander-
son says that they will wait until the United
States Supreme Court decides the case in re-
gard to the bonds. This will be done, he
thinks, in March. There was falling OFT
in freights and fares on the road last year.
The running expenses were also cut down,
but still there is deficit of $4,000.
Henry Sims, colored, while drunk at
Peaks Station, Lexington county, on the
day after Christmas, attacked town marshal
w. f. Howell while in the performance of
his duty, jerking his club from his hand
and striking him on the head with it. The
marshal thereupon shot him in the. shoul-
ders with revolver. Sims was taken to
Jail at Lexington the day after the occur.
renee, and is now serving out sentence OF
thirty days for resisting an officer, DIR. G.
+. Lephart has removed one of the balls
from Sims shoulder; and the other still re-
mains in him.