Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-22
SOJITH CAROLINA NEWS.

Mr.. c.. Gage, one of the oldest citizens Of
Union C. H., died on the 14th instant.
- The depot at Lowndesville, Anderson
county, with one hundred bales of cotton,
was burned last Thursday night.
joel Adams, a prosperous farmer living
near Bennetsviile, committed suicide last
Friday by shooting himself through the
head.
Says the Williamsburg Herald: Not
long since two young men obtained license
to do pedder's business in this county. At
the sales last week they bought two of
the small tracts of land sold, paid cash, and
have had the titles recorded. They are
foreigners.
Bob Jeter, a colored boy about II years
old, was hanged at Spartanburg last Friday
Littlefeld, quiet peaceable white man.
The murder was provoked by Littlefeld
reprimanding Jeter for roughly treating
little boy. Jeter broke down on the scat
fold, and the scene was most pitiable one.
AT Laurens on Friday night, during
colored peoples frolic, a fight occurred and
Wat Ellison drew revolver and fired at
man named Little. The bullet went wide
of its mark and struck an old colored woman
named Sarah Ann Farrow, who was stand
ing by. She was shot through the body and
died of her wound on Saturday. Ellison
escaped.
Mr.. F. B. Thomas, postmaster at Cold
Spring, Edgefeld county, and negro man,
met with a horrible accident Saturday.
Mr.. Thomas, after lighting his pipe, care
lessly threw the match upon keg of pow
der that was near by, exploding it. Both
of Thomas legs were broken below the
thigh and his body seriously burned. The
negro was blown through the roof and Sc"
riously wounded.
l. An Augusta, Ga, dispatch says: Steve
at the continued earthquake shocks at
Beaufort, S. c., on Tuesday of last week.
Bryant was in Augusta when Washington
passed through the city in 1871 and waited
on the table at which the father of his
country was feasted. The negro had count
ed the shocks since August 81 and predicted
that the hundredth jar would be the sum-
mons for judgment day. Beaufort expe-
rienced her Goth jar Saturday, and the old
man could not stand the suspense of the ex-
pected one hundredth and expired in par
oxysms of fright.
Columbia correspondence of the Charles
ton Sunday NeDs: Yesterday the sheriff
and chief of police were noticed by
representative of the Bureau in the State
House building around the Supreme Court
room. Their action seemed rather suspi-
cious, but the sheriff would make no
answer to inquiries, and although the re-
porter suspected that these guardians of
the peace were on the lookout for some one,
he could obtain no definite information.
To-day it leaked out that these officers were
guarding Chief Justice Simpson, as they
had received information that B. F. Welsh,
of Lancaster, had threatened to shoot the
Chief Justice, because on the evening be-
fore Welsh had failed to pass a law exam
ination. The Chief Justice was kept in
sight by the officers until the danger of his
assassination was passed. The matter was
kept quiet and was known to but few peo-
pie in the city.
THE NEXT CONGREss.-General John B.
Clark, Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives, has completed and caused to be print
ed an unofficial list of members of the House
for the Fiftieth Congress. He classifes
them as 1853 Democrats, 152 Republicans and
4 Independents, with one vacancy (Rhode
Island) to be filled, probably by Repub!i-
can.
One hundred and ninety-five of the men,
bers are old members, being 10 more than
the number of old members of the present
Congress. OF the old members 100 are DEM
ocrats and IS Republicans.
If the Independents divide, as they are
expected to do, equally between the two
sides, it will give the Democrats a majority
| of IL in a. full house,