Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

contempt of all just and honorable men,
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
"A colored woman and her child were
killed by lightning Saturday near LeWle-
dale.
In Newberry county, on the 9th ultimo,
by hanging. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
4 Several alligators have been killed re-
in Darlington county. 1t is stated
that one old gator has been seen which
measured fully twenty feet in length.
The Methodist church at Parksville,
Edgefeld county, was blown down by the
recent heavy winds. This is the second
church blown down at Parksville.
Mr.. M. J. Jenkins, who recently resign
ed his commission as Lieutenant in the
United States army, will soon open a pri-
vate schoolin the higher grades in Beaufort.
The remains of Henry Sparnick, who
died at Denver, Colorado, on the Goth Of
November last, were brought to Charleston
by his sister and buried in Magnolia Gene
terry last week.
The Supreme Court has admitted the
colored men who fired from Bethel church,
Columbia, and killed a colored man named
Lee, during a fight over the church proper
ty, to bail in 81 200 each.
- In Claredon county, on the 26th ultimo,
VIM. w. Barrow was shot and killed by
Thomas E. Shannon. Shannon surrendered
to the Sheriff. The cause of the shooting
was a difference of opinion about the open
ing of a public road.
The comptroller general has issued a
circular to the county auditors to the effect
that, in accordance with an Act passed at
the last session of the Legislature, the State
board of equalization will meet in Column
bia July s.
- A difficulty occurred last Friday on Mr..
J. Il. Kennington's plantation in Lancaster
county between John Coles and Joe Hilton,
both colored, in which the latter was shot
by the former in the legs with a shot gun.
The wounds are not regarded as dangerous.
- During the high river last week, the
water washed away a portion Of an Indian
mound on the Chestnut place below Cam
den, and many Indian relics were unearth-
ed, such as skulls, bones, teeth, pottery, etc.
Many Of the articles were in a pretty fair
state of preservation.
AAiken RevieW: Jane Walker, a little
tolored girl, about ten years of age, was
committed to the county Jail last week by
Trial Justice E. A. Eubanks, of Millbrook
township, on a charge of murder. From
what we can gather it seems that Jane was
required by her parents to mind the child of
a near relative, and becoming tired of her
charge administered concentrated I've to it,
which caused its death.
- Columbia Register: Private Smalls, COL
ored, who enlisted in the Twenty-fourth
United States Infantry in 1881, and has been
honorably discharged after his full term of
service, has returned home from the scene
of the border Indian war. He says he is
the bearer of three scars received in battle
with the redskins, and his advent on the
streets yesterday was hailed by manyo of his
former acquaintance with proud admira-
ton for the %conquering hero.
The State Supreme Court has rendered a
decision in a case against the Abbeville
county commissioners. for payment for a
bridge claimed by the commissioner to be
defective. The court holds that the Circuit
Court has no original jurisdiction in cases
against counties. The decision will prove
of great benefit to the counties, as by it all
claims are to be adjusted by the county
commissioners themselves, leaving to the
claimant, however, the right of appeal to
the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Edward F. Stokes, of Greenville,
who will be remembered as an Independent
candidate for Congress in this district in
1870, has been committed to the lunatic
asylum. The Greenville NeWs says he went
quietly and knowing his destination, but
found fault in a quiet way with his friends
who sent him there, %sayingthe action would
have come better from others. He objected
to going to the Airline depot and seemed
to have an idea that an attempt was being
made to take him elseWere than to Column
bia until the railroad situation was explain
ed to him. He made no violent resistance,
only holding back somewhat when led to
the car.
- During the recent freshet several bales
of cotton we're lying on the ground at Nc
Alleys Mill, on Sandy River, Chester
county, where no one ever dreamed the
river would reach it. The water reached it,
however, and it foated off down the stream.
Mr.. j. Smith Hardin and Mr.. John Sanders
got into a bateau with a quantity of rope
and followed the cotton as it floated on the
water. They finally managed to get it
among some trees and tied it securely.
The river has fallen, and the cotton hangs
suspended in the air twenty-five feet from
the ground and some distance from the
river.
~tE I~RESlDENIS MA tllAuE" Aii
day last the ban of secrecy was removed
from the Presidents contemplated marriage,
about which so many contradictory reports
have been published, and all doubts in re-
gard to the approaching wedding were re-
moved by the following authorized publ
dated Washington, May %:
President Cleveland will be married at
the White House on Wednesday evening,
June End, to Miss Frances Folsom. The
recent death of a relative of Miss Folsom
has changed the original plans for the we'd
ding, and invitations will now be limited
to a few of the near relatives and members
of the Cabinet and their wives.
Rev. DR.. Sunderland, of the First PresDy-
terrain Church of Washington, will otticlate.
The ceremony will be followed by a COLA
ton, and the wedding in all of its details
will be plain and transformations.
Miss Folsom arrived at New York from
Europe last Thursday night on the Ant
werp steamer NoruNand. She was met at
the steamer quarantine station by Colonel
landed at one Of the uptown piers on the
North river. Her coming by an Antwerp
steamer was so little regarded as within
the possibilities that only two of the New
York papers and not any Of the telegraphlc
reporters had the news. The reporters gen.
orally were watching the British steam
lines.
On the 10Th of April the ENQUIRER con-
tanned an accurate portrait of Miss Folsom
the bride elect, accompanied with the
statement that the marriage would take
place in the White House, in June.
REV. A. J. WITHERsPOON, ID. D.-Thls
distinguished philanthropist, who has de-
voted his life to the work of improving the
condition Of seamen, and has established a
"Home" in New Orleans, the usefulness OF