Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-30
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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in Marion county by having a tree fall on
him, had a policy of $4,000 on his life.
1t is thought the Spartanburg and Ashe-
Asheville between the 1st and 10th of July.
an old soldier of the Mexican war, has been
restored to the pension rolls. His pension
is SIT per month.
Capt. S. L. Leapheart, who was elected
State Treasurer on the Hampton ticket in
1876, and reelected in 1878, died in Column
bia last Sunday morning.
On the recent arrival Of General John
d. Kennedy in China, he was the recipi-
ent of a very kind and ,fattering notice in
the North China Daily News.
There is very great complaint in Ian
caster that the physicians are selling Whis-
key without prescriptions to all. who want
it. The town council has taken the matter
into consideration.
A %northbound train on the Air Line
was derailed two miles from Spartanburg
Sunday afternoon. The baggage and eX-
press coaches were thrown over, but no
person was hurt.
1t is said that the State House will not
be in condition fol. the Legislature to meet
in that building next winter, and quarters
for the Legislators will have to be provid-
ed in the building of the Department of
Agriculture.
At the present term of Anderson Ses-
sions Court, Ann Dubose, colored was con-
victed of murder, but she will probably,
not be hanged, as a petition is being circu-
lated asking the Governor to commute her
sentence to Imprisonment for life.
The Abbeville Messenger explains that
the DIR. Richmond who killed an editor and
committed suicide at st. Joseph, is not
DIR. J. M. Richmond formerly o. Abbeville.
The latter is yet living, an honored citizen
and the leading physician of st. Joseph.
Lancaster had a short term of Court last
week. In the Criminal Court there was
one conviction for burglary and two for
carrying concealed weapons. A true bill
was found against w. J. Blakeney for the
killing of Robert Perry, but the case was
continued till the fall term.
Major J. L. Coker, Of Darlington, has
accepted the invitation to deliver the an
nual address before the Survivors Asso-
citation of the Sixth Regiment, S. c. v,
at their reunion, on the first Thursday in
August. His subject will be ''The Seven
Days Battles Around Richmond"
A correspondent of the Columbia Beg
lister, writing from Union under date of last
lnuTSQdy, says: SouiI l. INV 1 "."oioh'
Judge Hudson presiding. Goings, who was
tried at the last term of the Court for the
murder of Fowler and acquitted, was at
this term arraigned for carrying a conceal
ed deadly weapon at the time of the hOmi-
eide. He plead guilty and was lightly
fined. 1t is singular that a man should
be acquitted of murder, be justified in the
killing and yet be made to suffer for car
rying the weapon by which the deed was
done.
We published last week a statement
that five deaths occurred in the family of
Mr.. Hardin, of Pickens county, and that
besides all his children, he and his wife
were hopelessly i'll, all the suffering caused
by drinking water from his we'll, which
was found to contain the putrid bodies of
two dogs. Since last Wednesday the sixth
child Of the family has died; but the
cause of the deaths is not now attributed
to. the water. Under direction of DIR.
White, of Anderson, q member of the
State Board of Health, the well was exam
ined by a professional well digger, who
descended into the well, and found it to
contain about three feet of pure water.
The father attended Charleston as a witness
in the L. S. District Court and contracted
dysentery while returning home. Living
in a small, close room, the family, all of
whom were just recovering from an attack
of measels, were also stricken with dysen-
terry, which was aggravated by neglect
and the accumulations of filth In the close
room in which they were confined. The
surviving members of the family have been
properly cared for.