Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
CONGRESSMAN Aiken is still confined to
his bed, at his home in Cokesbury; but
there are some symptoms in his case that
cause his friends to feel more hopeful about
him.
Lancaster RerieW: 1t is rumored that
Mr.. Jones Crockett, one OF the heaVlest
losers by the recent fire in Lancaster will
even lose the only insurance he had on
his property, $780, owing to the reputed
shaky condition of the company IN Whlch
he was insured.
"A German, named William Walter,
hanged himselfat Prosperity, in NeWberry
county, on Monday. He had broken con-
tract as farm laborer with William Suber
and feared prosecution. Three medals Civ
en- him for bravery in the German army
were found on his body, one being the iron
cross. He had served in the Franco-Ger-
man and Austro-German wars.
EARLY last Friday night a vacant dwell
ing house, belonging to the estate Of DIR.
Bell, was accidentally burned by drunken
man named Brown, occupying the house
for the night without permission. The
value of the building was about $500, which
amount may be charged to Walhalla whis-
ky. Brown has been arrested and lodged
in Jail for entering the house without per-
mission and setting fire thereto.
In the Sessions Court of Charleston, last
week, the trial of DIR. A. N. Bellinger for
the murder of Stephney Riley was contin-
ued by the State because two Misses Egan,
Miss Mood and other witnesses for the State
whose evidence has been learned since the
last trial, had disappeared and could not be
found. The defence offered to accept a
statement or what the State expected to
prove with these witnesses and proceed but
the State declined. =.
Seven miles above Woodruff, in Spar
tanburg county, a few days ago, POmeroy
Newman, about Is years old, son of Roland
Newman, while crossing the Enoree river in
batteau managed in some way, to odischarge
a gun which was lying in the bottom Of
the boat, the load entering his throat just
under the chin and lodging in his neck.
He spoke only few words and died about
S o'clock that night. A man on the bank
saw him fall and pulled the boat ashore,
but cannot tell the particular manner in
which the gun was fired.
The Palmetto Post, of last week, says:
Charlotte Williams, step-daughter of Con-
gresham Smalls, was found dead in her
bed on Monday morning, in Beaufort, un-
der circumstances of the greatest poverty
and neglect. When her two little children
woke up they found their mother stiff
and cold beside them. The damp, squalid
apartment in which she was found was in
the basement Of an old neglected house,
with no window panes in the sashes, and
without spark Of fire or cinder, and her
only covering was thin quilt upon rick
ETY. bedstead, and some meagre furniture
and tinware about the dirt floor. A bottle
of gin with lightwood chips stepped in it.
was at the bedside. The spectacle of pow
erty and squalor as presented to the jury of
inquest was sickening. She was a lewd
woman, to be sure, but no more than some
of the Well-to-dO of her race. The colored
men composing the jury were loud in their
condemnation of Smalls for his neglect of
her. A verdict was rendered that she came
to her death from want of attention.
CORN VERSUS CoTToN.-The Edgefield
Monitor wisely remarks that the "Moses
who will do most to lead the farmers out of
the wilderness is he who will do most to
lead them from the cotton to the corn field"
The ruinous system of going in debt to plant
cotton and keeping ones corn crib and
smoke house in the West, has affected in
juriously the fortunes of the Southern far
mer more than any other known cause. No
farmer can lead happy and contented life
who fails to make the necessaries of life on
his own farm. Show US the farmer who
makes plenty of corn, bacon and other
necessary food products, and we will show
you prosperous and contented man who is
at peace with the world and always has
money stored away for rainy day. A
thousand agricultural Moses may arise,
but they will never reach the promised
land until they commence the worlyof re-
form on their own farms. All the agricul-
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complish anything until the Southern far
mer realizes the necessity of raising his
own food, and after that raising only so
much cotton as his resources will reasona-
bly, warrant. We have never known a
prosperous man who bought food for his
family and animals in order to plant cotton.
Such man is sure to come to grief, what
ever be his resources at the start, even if he
makes good crops.-Aiken Recorder.