Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-11
SOuTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Professional burglars have been blow
ing open safes in Spartanburg.
- In the southern half of Laurens county
the oats are entirely killed, and some wheat
fields have been soWed over.
- The fruit trees of Edgefeld county have
been much injured by the severe winter. 1t
is said that some orchards will not bear at all.
The Conference Of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Tennessee Synod will meet in st.
Andrews Church, in Richland county, on
Friday, the Goth of March.
THE Anderson hatelligeaacer says that
mechanic of Bolton, in that county, claims
that he has succeeded in inventing perpet-
ual motion.
A car load of oats arrived at Prosperi-
ty, NeWberry county, on Saturday and
was sold by Monday evening, and the de-
mand was unsupplied, the farmers want
ing them to sow.
In the Court of Common Pleas at Sum-
ter last week Mrs. Mary Muldrow was
awarded verdict of Sc, 900 against the Will
mington, Columbia and Augusta railroad
for the killing of her husband at Marion last
year.
Thirteen persons charged with commit
ting number of burglaries in Camden re-
Gently, were arrested and placed in the
Kershaw county Jail last week. One of the
parties implicated is a policeman of the
town of Camden.
John Benson, cOlored man in the
county Jail of Laurens, now under sentence
of death for the murder of Robert Byrd,
colored, on the 26th of April, 1884, will be
hanged on the 10Th instant, unless the exec
utive clemency intervenes.
Commissioner Coleman of the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington, has
made an unfavorable report on the Govern
ment tea farm at Summerville, in this
State, and is of opinion that experimenting
there with the tea plant had better be aban-
doned.
- At Piedmont factory, in Greenville
county, on Tuesday of last week, James w.
King, aged about 40 years, killed his wife,
and then cut his own throat, causing almost
instant death. No cause can be assigned
for the tragedy. Their family consisted of
seven children, six of whom were employed
in the factory.
Senator w. T. Field, of Pickens county,
has paid to the county treasurer of that
county 1920 to be added to the public school
fund. This is the money Senator Field has
received over expenses for his services in
the State Senate. This is an example that
but few politicians will initiate.
Lancaster Reriew, 3rd: Both Mr.. Wy
lie Estridge and his wife, of Flat Creek, died
of pneumonia on last Thursday, the former
about O'Clock in the afternoon and the lat
ter at q late hour during the night. Mr..
Estridge was about 35 years of age and his
wife few years younger. He was good
citizen and will be missed by the commune
ty in which he lived.
In the Union Court of Sessions, last
week, Judge Kershaw presiding, B. Brooks
Going, tried for the killing of Henry r.
Fowler last Christmas, was acquitted. The
case attracted much interest on account Of
the respectability of the accused as also the
deceased The defence was conducted by
Messrs. David Johnson, Jr., Rion and Nc
Kissick.
Rina Hogg, colored, the oldest woman
in the county and probably in the State,
died in Aiken county, on the 10th ult. Au-
thentc records of the Hogg family, to which
she belonged before freedom, show that she
was born in 1866, ten years before the De-
claration of Independence. The old wo-
man, according to this statement of the
Barnwell People of the 4th instant, would
be about 12O years old. For several years
she was entirely helpless.
Bishop Keever has directed Rev. r. p.
Franks, who went from Marion Street
church to Cheraw at the beginning of the
present conference year, to take charge of
the Sumter church, in place of Rev. Man
ming Brown, whose disability compelled
him to give up his work about month ago.
The congregation at Cheraw, however, is so
we'll pleased with Mr.. Franks, that they
have forwarded a strong protest to the
Bishop against his removal.