Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-08
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
= The health of Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken

The health of Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken is
reported to be better than for some time
past.
There was a serious fire at Aiken on
Tuesday morning of last week, destroying
property to the value of $4,000.
The Charleston Ne'cs and Courier makes
the following statement: On October 81,
1886, the land in South Carolina forfeited to
the State for taxes and remaining unre-
deemed amounted to 954 ,237 acres, or 1,4S1
square miles, or nearly twentieth part of
of taxes due on the forfeited lands is 1884,
05O. The value of the lands is 81, ,SO9,18S.
- The stockholders of the Charlotte, Co.
lumbia and Augusta and the Greenvlle
and Columbia Railroads held their annual
meetings last Wednesday and Thursday
respectively in Columbia. The leases made .
by the Boards of Directors of each road to
the Richmond and Danville Road were
ratified, and the old officers and directors
of each company were reelected.
The Columbia Register learns that the
negroes of Union county are pulling up
stakes by the hundreds and are emigrating
to Arkansas, causing the supply of farm
labor to become quite limited. One exten-
sive planter states that, although offered an
increase of wages, half the hands on his
their fortunes. Several hundred have al
ready left the county. The cause assigned
for the exodus is said to be hard times and
short crops.
- The town council of Spartanburg has
decided to grant licenses to sell liquors only
to bonded bar keepers at 81 900 each, no
sales to be made to minors, drunkards, per-
sons already intoxicated or to any persons
on Sundays under forfeiture of their license.
If these laws are strictly enforced and the
police and council do their duty, in arresting
and furnishing every violator of the law, it
is to be hoped that some of the evils ordina-
rily complained of, will at least be de-
creased.
"A colored man named Robinson attempt
ed a felonious assault on Miss Bowie, the
grant, near Florence, on Monday of last
week. She resisted him successfully and
he was afterward captured and locked in
the Florence calaboose. There was some
movement by negroes to rescue Robinson,
but they were beaten off by white citizens
and on Tuesday night force of masked
men overpoWered the town marshal, broke
in the door of the calaboose and hanged the
prisoner on tree.
On the memorable night of the 3lst of
August, the Langley dam, in Aiken county,
was shaken to pieces and turned loose the
deluge of water contained in the mill pond,
resulting in the ruin of considerable prop
erty and the wrecking of railroad train.
Thursday with the exception of the dire
destruction of cars and crops, this same
scene was enacted. During the afternoon
the dam that was being constructed by Con-
tractor Twiggs was burst asunder by the.
waters of Langley pond, and in few mo-
ments the work of two months was swept
away. The work of rebuilding the dam
has been commenced.
"A dreadful accident occurred at Thickety
trestle, on the Airline Railroad, last Fri
day night, resulting with death to Mr.. Far
man, a citizen of Rockingham, Richmond
county, N. G. He boarded the train at Gaff-
ney, for Thickety Station. and when the
train Stacked up to cross the trestle, he sup.
posed it was stopping at the station, and
being inebriated, he walked out of the car
and stepped from the platform just as the
train was crossing the trestle. The unfor-
tunate man received fearful fall, and must
have been killed instantly. The distance
from the top of the trestle to the ground is.
ohOut 60 foot