Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-11-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| 1t has been at least seventy days since
Walterboro has had good rain.
Thomas G. Parker, who killed Jesse
Horn in Oconee county six years ago, has
surrendered himself for trial.
- The curious fact is now being developed
in Summerville that some shakes which are
felt in the southern part of the town are moi
felt in the northern part.
- The next session of the South Caroline
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, will be held at Orangeburg
about the middle of next month.
- The Supreme Court Of South Carolina
will begin its regular November Term on
the 23d instant. Applications for admission
to practice must be filed before the Both in
slant.
tory exploded on Tuesday morning of last
week, Wrecking the boiler house and killing
William Cakes, colored fireman, and seri
ously injuring Richardson, a colored Goa
roller. Oakes was literally boiled to death
by steam.
y - The venerable Rev. P. j. Shand, Rector
I Of Trinity Church, Columbia, died on the
End instant, aged &c. He was born in
Charleston, studied and practiced law, and
finally entered the ministry. He was the
oldest Presbyter in South Carolina.
- From the forthcoming reports of the
Superintendent and other officials of the
penitentiary, itappears that there will be a
cash deficit in the expenses of the instltu-
tion for the year of about $4,000, but the
value of farm products and brick on hand
amounts to about 81 900 to $4,000, so that the
Penitentiary has been self-sustaining and
has surplus to its credit, besides having
conducted the work on the Columbia canal.
z/The "Culbreath case," as it is common
ly Known, will be called for trial at the
Court of General Sessions for Edgefeld
county, which convened last Monday. In
this case J. H. Parkman and about twenty
other defendants will be tried for the lynch.
ing of Culbreath, which was committed
near the town of Edgefield in the month OF
October, 1885. The prosecution will be con-
Quoted by Attorney-G General Miles. The
trial of the case has already been twice
postponed.
Seven farmers in the lower part of
Greenville county, after selling their cotton
and other produce, made a sudden exit from
their homes without saying where they
were going; and leaving all their debts for
the past years supplies unpaid, as we'll as
r~ortgages on their land. They took with
them seven mules and five new buggies and
tI new wagons, but recently bought in An
derson, and made clean sweep of every
thing they owned that creditors could lay
their hands on. Having sold their crops, it
is thought they took a large amount of
money with them.
- Barnwell Sentinel: Fifty-one colored
persons, large and small, emigrated from
one of Mr.. r. II. Walkers places to Arkan-
sas. The earthquake scared them off,
When the emigration agents started to lock
the cars in which they were being carried
off, some few became alarmed, deserted and
came back, preferring to risk present ills
rather than 60 West under lock and key.
1t is estimated that over one hundred col
ored people from the Appleton and Beldock
sections, have gone to Arkansas, and that
others are making preparation to leave at
an early date. The people around Beldock
have the Arkansas fever badly. They are
selling their corn at forty cents bushel, so
anxious are they to go to "the Rock"
-Ignatius Few, Joseph Ballew, John and
Jasper Suddith, all of the upper part of
Greenville county, were jailed last Thursday
for killing one supposed-to-be Robbie J.
Jones, of Dallas, N. G. The circumstances
are these: Wednesday morning mule of
Ignatius Few was missed and the above
mentioned party started in pursuit of the
thief. A young white man was overtaken
riding the lost mule. When ordered to sur
render he replied that he would die before
surrendering or giving up the mule, and at
the same time made motion to draw a re-
volver. Mr.. John Sudduth, seeing the in
tent, quickly fired and killed him. They
surrendered to trial justice, who commit
them to jail. Mr.. J. A. Mooney will move
I,,1o forf fhnir