Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

VIVIAN 'A'A
A wealthy distant relative in Scotland
has bequeathed $500 0 to Miss Maggie Me-
Ninch, the poetess, of Laurens. Her rela-
tive was touched by the pathetic beauty of
her poems and by the bravery with which
she met life's vicissitudes.
The G~reenville Meas obtains discourag-
ing reports of the crops in that county, the
general opinion. beiLg that the sudden cool
snap which set in or Sunday of last week
would chill the cotton brought out by the
preceding days of sunshine and nights of
heat, and cause damage and delay which,
it will be hard to overcome.
State Senator Bobo, of Spartanburg,
who was so seriously injured by a fall from
his buggy IN the 18th instant, died in the
town of ~Spartanburg on Monday night fol-
lowing. He remained unconscious from
the time he was hurt until his death, and
moval to his home.
The Rev. H. B. Pratt, who has been the
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Lam
the 18th instant with his family for Virgin
ia. He has been called away by the Amer
lean Bible Society to finish up the work of
translating the New Testament into the
Spanish language to be used in missionary
work. He has been detained tor some days
on account of the illness of his wife, who is
thought to be convalescing, but who had to
be conveyed away on a bed to Richmond,
where she expects to receive hospital treat
ment under the care and attention of skill
full physicians. Mr.. Pratt is a fine classical
scholar, and leaves Lancaster for his new
field of labor with the well-wishes of the
whole community.
Information has been received in Wins
A@~ys of n 1,sSlfi1l orI In1Shnr0t 70 Y0f1r10r
which was committed at DaWkin's, a small
station on the Spartanburg Railroad, in
Fairfield county, on last Thursday. Eli
Free, a white man, was stabbed through
the heart by Jim johnson, colored. Thu
victim died in a few minutes and in the
excitement of the moment the murderer
was permitted to escape. The deed was
without any provocation at the time. Free
was talking with a few friends, and had no
intimation thatthe negro was about to make
an attack on him. The murder is the out
ton last November Johnson was shot by
Free and severely wounded. For this the
latter was indicted, tried and acquitted at
the last term of Fairfield Court. The muir
derer is still at large.
The crops in some sections of the State
seem to be unusually infested with insects
this year. The State Department of Agri-
culture has recently received a number of
specimens of insects sent in by farmers for
Identification. One of these from Chester
county wa forwarded to the United States
Entomologist who p%ronounces it the we'll
known Hessian Fly so destructive to wheat.
It's presence in large numbers in South
Carolina has only been noted twice, in 1871
and in 1882. 1t is said to be doing great
harm this year in the wheat fields in Ches-
ter county. Another specimen sent from
Williamsburg county wa found to be the
"Bill Bug" and it is said to have appeared
in large numbers in that section of the
State, doing much damage to young corn.
This bug appeared several years ago in the
lowlands of the Pee Dee and caused heavy