Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-20
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
James Thompson, of the Pickens Seatlnet,
died at Pickens on Sunday, aged 10 years.
He was one of the oldest newspaper men IN
the State.
In his speech at Summerville, last oat-
urday, Senator Hampton said that Presl-
dent Cleveland desires to visit Charleston,
and to show by his personal presence there
the deep sympathy which he feels TOR the
people in their distress.
- The residence of William H. Ruff OF
Fairfield county was destroyed by tre last
Friday night. The origin of the fire IS sup
posed to have been accidental. The loss IS
about fifteen hundred dollars. No lnsur-
ance.
- Lancaster county recovered verdict
against the CheraW & Chester Railroad
Company in court last Monday week for
S66, 900, the aggregate amount of interest
paid by the county on its railroad bonds Tor
the past eleven years, which the company
had agreed to pay.
- A curious consequence of the earthquake
Shocks in various parts of the State Is the
Increase of water in wells that were uncom-
fortably shallow during the summer: Not,
-wtthstanding the long drought and great
heat they have more water now than IN
- Lancaster Ledger, 18th: Petitions have
-been presented to the County Commissioners
10y the resident freehold voters of WaxhaW
township, asking elections in that township
to ascertain whether the township will SUBJ
scribe 81 200 in bonds to one of the two con-
Ltemplated Railroads through the township
--the Chester, Greenwood and Abbeville, or
the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago.
FThe elections will be ordered soon.
r The incendiaries, who, one night last
week, burned the gin house of D. P. Crosby
at Herbert, flag station on the Spartanburg
and Union Railroad, near Shelton, have
been caught. They proved to be two
negroes-1ke Inoman and James Fair. The
former was in the employ Of Mr.. Crosby
last Spring, but was discharged. Ike admits
that he lit match and saw it ignite, but be-
came alarmed and did not give the alarm.
Fair denies knowing anything about the
matter until he saw the house burning.
Mr.. Crosby's loss is about $1,000.
In October, 1884, G. w. Hamilton,
James A. Hamilton and Perry j. Hamilton,
of Edgefeld, were convicted of manslaught-
er and sentenced by Judge Wallace to two
years. imprisonment in the county, jail ana
to pay fine Of s255.5O each, and in the
event of non payment of fine to be kept IN
Jail one year longer. Early in the Spring
Perry J. Hamilton was pardoned on account
of bad health. Last Friday Governor Shep-
pard remitted the fine and the years. impris-
onment, and on Sunday they were set at
liberty.
- The cotton picking machine of the
Mason Cotton Harvest Company, invented
by G.. T. Mason, of Sumter, was tested on
the 18th instant in field in the presence OF
committees from the New York cotton ex-
change and Charleston exchange, and rep
resentatives of the State agricultural depart
ment. The machine picked cotton at the
rate of 1870 8Opounds per hour without injurlng
the bolls or plants. The general opinion OF
those present is that the machine is correct
in its principles, does fairly good work now,
and can be made completely successful.
In BarnwelI county last Saturday E. j.
Rowell killed his brother E. K. RoWell.
They had intended to e, fishing together,
when they became involved in quarrel:
E. J. Rowell cursed his brother and dared
him to advance upon him, when the wife
of the murdered man interpOsed and sue
ceeded in taking her husband away: The
quarrel was resumed by E. j. Rowell, who
had secured a gun. He again cursed his
brother, who tore away from his Wife anu
started to advance upon E. j. RoWell, who
fired. The brother fell almost in the arms
of his wife and died in few hours. The
murderer was arrested.
A Charleston dispatch of Monday says:
There Have been no shocks since last Friday
morning, and the city is very quiet, though
active in business circles. The relief COM
mittee so far has authorized the repairs on
S44 houses of persons unable to do the work
without assistance, but the amount granted
in every case excluded plastering. -Four
contractors engaged by the committee are
atwork examining the damages to property,
concerning which applications nave Deen
made, and the committee act promptly upon
every report made to them. The commit
tee on immediate relief, which grants small
sums of money, and deals exclusively with
the injury to personal property, have acted
upon 800 cases, and all this is outside of the
work of subssting the poor by furnishing
ratiOnS.
- NeWberry Herald: The ginhouse of Mr..
Madison Pitts, near Saluda Old Town, was
burned down, by an incendiary fire, the
night of the 5th instant, with nine or ten
bales of cotton, besides cultivators, gears,
etc. There was no insurance. A warrant
was taken out before Trial Justice Peterson
on Monday charging Daniel Adams, a young
white man, and Lewis Hendrix, an old
negro, with the crime. They were arrested
and committed to jail Monday evening.
On Tuesday Mrs. Longshore, the wife Of
Mr.. Madison Longshore and mother Of
young Adams, was arrested on the same
charge and committed to Jail. Lewis Boo.
zer Stated at the preliminary examination
that Mrs. Longshore had tried to hire him
to burn the ginhouse, and that he saw Mrs:
Longshore and her son Daniel Adams set
fire to it.
MERE-MENTION.