Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-25
SOIJTH CAROLINA NEWS,

WAN W - SA IN $4,000
ing into and robbing the post office at
Greenville on Sunday night of last week.
- In a row over a horse trade in Ian
caster On Wednesday, Stephen L. Gard
ner, of Monroe, n. c., shot and seriously
wounded VIM. T. Mackey, white, and
Jerry Blackmon, colored.
- Rev. w. B. Shaw, of Edgefeld county,
whose mind became deranged upon the
doctrine of "sanctification," and who at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting his
throat a few days ago, has been committed
to the insane asylum.
IS. NJ. Breazeale, Sheriff of Oconee
ty, died last Saturday afternoon, aged 80
years. His wife died just a month ago
Friday, and he was inferred by her side
at the Stone Church, near Pendleton, last
Monday.
k-Philip E. Ezekiel, colored, formerly
postmaster at Beaufort, died suddenly in
vas free before the war, but during and
after the war was respected as an honora-
BILE colored citizen.
Jack Prater, colored, who murdered
Andrew Jackson three years ago, and
Sumpreme Court, was sentenced by Judge
\ I ISSSlCH Ill GllC CSSSlOuo OOulV Va oAatlSC-
burg, last week, to be hanged On the 9th
of April next.
The train which left Columbia last
Wednesday night for S~partanburg was
wrecked five miles above Ashton at 1l.3O
by a COW on the track. The mail and ex-
press car and engine were thrown off and
demolished. Engineer Ed. Bird is severe
ly injured.
Capt. Robt. w. Andrews, the famous
pedestrian, has returned to Sumter from
Boston, with his dog "Fido." Capt. An
dreWs is 81 years of age, and is as hearty
as if in the prime of life. He has proba-
bly, walked 5000 miles in the last three or
four years.
George Davis, a negro railroad hand,
was thrown from a crank car near Ander-
son and killed last Wednesday morning.
A section boss and three other hands on
the car were thrown off. The car was
running down a long grade and struck an
obstacle on the track. Davis was thrown
off and his head was crushed.
An election was held in Columbia on
Thursday last, to determine the question
whether the city shall guarantee and pay
the coupons on bonds to the amount OF
5000, 900 issued by the board of trustees for
the development and completion OF the
Columbia Canal. The following was the
result of the vote: For guarantee, 1873;
against guarantee, ID.
- A shocking and fatal accident occurred
at Amick Brothers saw mill in Lexington
county last Thursday. Charles Quails, a
young white man, was moving q SLAB,
which came in contact with the circular
saw and was thrown against his body with
terrible force, knocking him down, break
ing his neck and killing him almost in
stantly. Quails was from Pennsylvania,
and was about ninteen years of age.
Mrs. Lalla McGrady, living ten miles
from Columbia, on the Winnsboro road,
met with a shocking death last Wednes-
day. On that day while her husband was
at work on the farm, she remained in the
house with her infant. Becoming cold
fire, when her clothes ignited. She ran
out of the house, screaming, a distance OF
two hundred yards, anu fell. She was
found almost charred by her husband, who
carried her to the house and she died We'd
nesday night in fearful agony.
- negro prisoner named Moses Gordon
escaped from the Sumter jail last Thurs
day night. All four of the parties under
indictment for the killing of Mr.. Hayns.
worth, are now incarcerated. No effort
has as yet been made by their counsel to
secure their release on a writ of ha6eas
corpus, but it is supposed that the applica-
tions will be argued very shortly. Pen
nington was placed in the cell with John
r. Keels. All parties in the Jail now are
in as comfortable a condition a. the at
tentions of their friends can make them.
Their cells are carpeted, and small stoves,
put up for the occasion, keep the tempera-
ture Of their quarters at a very comforta-
BILE point.
- Sales were reported in Charleston last
Friday of over over one thousand tons Of
p%hosphates at S4.25, which is a rise Of
about 40 cents, and many dealers are hold.
ing back for a further advance. KANT
has advanced So per ton, acid %phosphates
and dissolved bone 81, and ammoniated
goods 81. Thus far there has been nc
further progress in the effort to form q
syndicate, and the advance lis attributed
to the prosperous crops in the State which
enable planters to make a more liberal
purchase, as the dispatch reads; but is
more probably caused by the avaricious'
ness Of the dealers. Farmers are now nc
more able to pay the advances above
quoted than they were last year.
- In the Pickens Court of Sessions last
week, Judge Norton presiding, the case Of
the negroes charged with lynching a white
man was continued until the July term
The white man implicated in the affair is
out on bail, and the five negroes arrested
are in Jail. Pink Rogers, convicted OF
criminal assault, was sentenced to impris'
onment for life. J. T. Anthony, a wealthy
citizen, for leveling his gun at his wife
when he was on a drunken spree, was given
the alternative of paying a fine Of $500 or
serving six months in the penitentiary.
B. D. Green, white, for striking a negro
with an axe, was fined S75 or six months
in the ~penitentiary.
"A meeting of the "South Carolina Land
and Improvement Company" was held in
Columbia last Wednesday night. The
membership ofthe company includes about
twenty stockholders. Its purpose is to
build q town around their wharf property
on Colleton river, four miles from Blutfton,
near Port Royal, and to induce assistance
from the government to make 1t a snip
ping point. The harbor at this place is
deeper at high tide than at Norfolk, and
is said to be one of the finest in the world.
At the meeting the following officers were
elected: President, Colonel William John
son secretary and treasurer, Colonel John
P. Thomas; directors, j. J. Mcclure, S. A.
Pearce, James Anderson, William John
son, IT,. Robertson and j. P. Thomas.
The Chester correspondent Of the Co
lumbia Register writes: Edward Graham
and Thomas Graham, sons OF Il. M. Ora
ham, left last Thursday for their home IN
Indian Territory, after making a brief
visit to their relatives at this place and
Rock Hill. Ed. Graham left here eight
cen wears ago and has never been back
until recently. He was so changed in
appearance that even his parents did not
know him. He has prospered since his
absence, being now the owner Of two large
nlontatinns in Indian Territory. Tom