Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-10
SOI'TH CAROLINA NEWS.

Captain w. w. C0vington, a prominent
citizen of Marlboro county, died on the "a
instant.
- Major Redmond, the once noted moon
sinner" is experimenting Bieman's gov
eminent distillery at Walhalla.
Mrs. Richard Lemaster, living near
Wilkinsville, Union county, was killed by
lightning on Sunday of last week.
Rev. Neander M. Woods, of Charlotte,
n. c., has accepted a call to the passionate
of the Second Presbyterian Church at Co.
lumbia.
-Lum Guffin has been dismissed from the
custom house at Charleston and has gone to
Beaufort where he has engaged in farming
and keeping store. Col. r.. NJ. Sims, for
merly Secretary Of State, has secured his
place.
SSpartanburg Herald: "Sam McGoWen
is a crack shot. % The other day a hornet
was floating by on the wing. Sam took
him in with his gun and shot his head off
as clean as if it had been cut off with a
knife. This is no tale it is the unvarnish-
ed TRUTH"
The South Carolina Bent Wood Factory,
at Columbia, has been closed by the Sher-
if by the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage
for $4,000. The factory had profitable or
ders for eight months ahead. Capital was
pIclGy "cll cAlduSucQ III cIcClllS DulluluSo
and getting machinery and it's affairs in OPP
Grafton.
AT Greenville, on Wednesday, J. A.
Sherman, while working at the gas house
received injuries from a fall which caused
his death on Thursday afternoon. He was
standing on a barrel when its head broke
in, p%recipitating him violently to the
ground. His collar bone was broken, the
end of it penetrating the right lung, caus-
ing internal hemorrhage.
The Edgefeld Chronicle tells the follow
ing snake story: "One night last week,
while Mrs. G. G. West was feeling in her
husbands vest pocket for a match, a rattle
snake over two feet long dropped out. Col
onel West thinks it got into his pocket
while he was fishing several weeks before.
The lining was torn, and it is thought the
snake was coiled under it,"
On the 4th instant, the State Supreme
Court adjourned until the fourth Monday
cults at the November term, appeals from
the Sixth will be heard or the md and Bird
of December. Cases in the original jurisdic-
ton will have preference on each Monday
of the term. Applications for admission to
practice must be filed on or before the Sec
Ond Tuesday of the term to wit, Novem-
Der 80.
-Abbeville Press and Banner, June 2:
"Last Saturday night while in the discharge
of his official duty, Mr.. w. G. Riley, the
Town Marshal, received a wound which
came very near being a fatal one. In seiz-
ing the arm of Mr.. Lucien Douglass to pre-
vent what seemed likely to be a violation
of the peace, the pistol which Mr.. Douglass
had was discharged, the 3S calibre ball pass
ing almost through the lower part of the
neck, without much injury to any vital
organ. 1t is said that the shooting was not
Intentional"
Captain John S. Wilson, of Chester, has
received an invitation from job B. Batch
elder, government historian of the battle
field of Gettysburg, to attend the reunion
of the officers of the Federal and the Con-
federate cavalries at Gettysburg, Penn
sylvania, on the 18th instant. The battle
ground is to be mapped on that occasion.
Senator Hampton, Governor Fitzhugh Lee,
Major H. M. Mcclellan, Of Stuart's staff,
Maori Generals Gregg, of Pennsylvania,
Mcintosh, Of New Jersey, and Briggs, of
Michigan, have signified their intention to
be present.