Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

per hundred pounds to have it picked.
- In sections of Laurens county, the oats
have been destroyed by the cold weather,
and many of the farmers have no seed to
sow again.
Anderson HteYigencer: Various opin
ions are expressed in regard to the oat crop;
some think it is injured, while others think
it Will come out all right.
\ little NJ. c. Taggart, eleven years old,
s0f Greenwood, Il few days ago killed wild
oE3tifty-three yards.
ILEN>During the freeze some hunters IN Col
IdetOn county came upon herd Of deer on a
frozen savanna and killed ten of them, they
being unable to make their escape on the
ice.
- NeWberry Observer: "1nquiry among
the farmers of Newberry county develops
a very discOuraging outlook for small grain.
Oats have suffered most, but the wheat has
been badly injured.
-Newberry has seven bar rooms which
pay S400 a year license each, and Camden
has six that pay 5000 each, while Warm
vile, in Hampton county has one that pays
$1,000. Anderson has six which pay $500
each for city license.
- Columbia Register: There are about
twenty applicants for the professOrship OF
agriculture lately established in the South
Carolina College, many Of them being men
Of established reputation in this department
of science.
The special term of the United States
Circuit Court opened at Greenville last
Monday, Judge Bryan presiding. New
cases are fewer than usual, but old cases are
numerous and there is plenty Of business for
ASK weeks term.
lXThere are over two hundred cases of
lRasles in the village of Piedmont, Green
willie county. In two weeks there were
fourteen deaths. In some families one
member is not able to help the other. Half
the machinery in the factory is idle owing
to the epidemic. Whooping cough is also
prevailing.
-Abbeville Medium: Old Harry Haw-
thOrne, colored, of Due West, is back again
from Arkansas. He went out about a year
ago and was powerful glad to get home
again. He worked twelve acres in cotton
and made three bales. His son Calvin was
killed during the year by a body of men who
made an attack on his cabin. Harry will
stay near Due West the balance of his life.
Gen. WilmOt G.. DeSaussure, of Charles
ton, died at Orlando, Florida, last Monday,
in the 64th year of his age. He was an
able and distinguished lawyer, president of
the Cincinnati Society, a prominent mason,
having been invested with the 33rd degree
in 1874 and a member of all local societies
was member of the Legislature almost
continuously from 1913 to 1864, and served
during the war as commander of the reserve
| troops in defense Of Charleston.
Deputy Sheriff B. p. Covar, Of Edgefeld
county, arrived in Columbia on Friday and
took four convicts, William Blocker, A.
Glover, Green Simpkins and Thomas Smith,
all colored from the Penitentiary and re-
turned with them to Edgefeld where they
will have a new trial, the Supreme Court
having reversed the decision in their case.
These men were sent to the Penitentiary in
1884, having been convicted Of burglary and
larceny and sentenced to five years impris-
onment. The Supreme court decides that
they were guilty only of larceny.
- The Governor has pardoned William j..
Coins, white, convicted at the September
term, 1884, for Lancaster, before Judge
Cothran of breach of trust with fraudulent
intent, and sentenced to be imprisoned
in the Penitentiary for three years. The
otfense consisted in the defendant having
appropriated to his own use about S28, the
proceeds of collections of tax executions
placed in his hands for collection. He fail
ed to turn in the amount thus collected and
went to Florida, promising to send back the
amount but failed to do so. He was brought
back upon requisition, and his trial and
conviction followed.
- A Camden dispatch to the Ne,cs and
Courier says: "James Parker Thompson,
the postmaster at Catarrh, Chesterfield
county, who was arrested on the 18th instant,
upon warrant issued by Commissioner
Adams charging him with robbing regis
tered package was released from the Cam
den Jail last Friday, he having succeeded
in giving the required bond. On Friday
United States Deputy Marshal Love, armed
with another warrant issued by Commits
sioner Adams on a similar charge, went
out to Catarrh to arrest Thompson, but be-
fore he could get to him Thompson lodged
the deputy and succeeded in making good
his escape 1t is likely that he has skipped
his bond. 1t is also reported that warrant
has.been issued against him in Chesterfield
county for forgery. His conduct is quite
surprise to all who knew him, for he has
heretofore been regarded as an honest and
straig ightforward man, and withal is quite
intelligent"
DEATH OF Mrs. BAYARD.-Mrs. Bay
ard, wife of the Secretary of State, died in