Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07

have decided to hold a meeting at Pine
Grove School House, March 18th, 1888, att
P. NJ, to select candidates to be put before
the next primary election in York county.
All who are interested in the selection of
good men will come out on that day and
take part. INDEX.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The reported death of Col. E. B. G..
Cash last week was premature.
The prohibition election in Abbeville
county last Thursday resulted in favor of
prohibition. a small vote was polled, and
there was generally little interest taken in
the election. No excitement was devel-
oHed.
XII. j. Jolley, who lives in the lower
part of Darlington county, buried his wife
on the 10Th of last month, and or the fol-
lowing Sunday, just a week later, was
married to his second wife, thus showing
his high appreciation of his first me-.
The Winnsboro Neys says that at the
granite quarries in Fairfield county, so
common laborers are employed. There
are 20 block-makers employed, 10 of whom
are Scotchmen. The block-makers earn
$1,000 is paid out each month to employ
ees.
MI. John B. Heron, of Anderson, had
a rat killing at his place in Varnes town.
ship last week, when 26 rats were discov-
of them were captured and killed. The
remarkable part of the episode is that four
of the rats were snow white but had black
eyes.
X fire in W%innsboro last Thursday
night destroyed the livery stable of w. R.
Doty & Co., loss $4,000, uninsured II. w.
Timms, general merchandise, $4,000, In
insured; Landecker & Co., loss 81, 200, in
surance $500; the Episcopal church, loss
$4,000, uninsured, and Paul Jenkins res
t%aurant, $500, uninsured. The total loss
is $500
- An election was held in Halsellville
township, Chester county, last Saturday,
to decide upon the question Of subscribing
to the capital stock of the Georgia, Carroll
ma and Northern Railroad Company. The
opponents of subscription carried the cleo
ton by a vote of 1853 to g.. The defeat of
the measure, however, will have no mate
rial effect upon the action of the company.
The supreme court has filed its decis-
ion in the case of the county of Lancaster
VS.. the CheraW and Chester Railroad Com
pany. Judgment below reversed and case
remanded for a new trial, unless the plain
tiff, within thirty days after written notice
of the remittitur from this court in the cir
cult court, enter upon the record there a
a remittitur of the sun of $36, 900 and that
upon this being done the judgment thus
reduced be affirmed.
On the 9th of last month, Isaac Nettles,
colored, who was convicted of arson in
1878 in Darlington county, and sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the penitentiary,
was drowned in Broad River. Nettles
was one of the convicts employed in build
ing the piers of the Columbia, NeWberry
and Laurens Railroad bridge. Search was
made for the body of the drowned man
the next day, but without success. On
Thursday his body was discovered in the
Congaree, lodged in the limbs of a fallen
tree, about fifty yards above the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad bridge.
In the sessions court of Anderson last
Thursday, Judge Norton re-sentenced Jap.
Davis, the wife murderer, to be hanged on
the 23rd of this month. Davis, who is a
white man, brutally murdered his wife by
shooting her with a shotgun loaded with
nails, in September 1886. He was tried at
the February term of court, 1887, and was
convicted and sentenced to be hanged in
March of the same year, but the case was
carried to the supreme court, which final
ly sustained the verdict of the lower Court.
Davis is q medium size man about forty
five years of age. He is in good spirits
and does not seem to care much about his
fate.
Swing, Walter Gray and Walter Miller,
each about twelve years of age, ran away
from their homes in Greenville the other
day, and started to 60 to Texas, but only
got as far as Mauldin Station, in Green
Vile county, where they spent the night
with Newton Blakely, who advised them
to return home, which they did the next
morning. The boys had been reading nov-
els and had armed themselves with pistols.
and dirks and had made a cave in the
river bank below the city, where they
met to read stories and arrange to enter
upon a life of adventure. They are the
sons of highly respectable parents.
An attempt in Charleston to swindle
two accident insurance companies was full
ly exposed by the coroner's inquest last
Thursday. A negro named Joseph B.
Dudley was insured in the two companies
for 10000, the medical examiner being
also a negro doctor. It was given out,
some time after the insurance was effected
that Dudley had died from a wound in the
head received by a fall, and the doctor
who acted as medical examiner, gave a
certificate of death to that purport. The
insurance companies sent agents out to in
vestigate the matter, and on exhuming
the body buried as Dudley, it was found
to be the body of a negro boy, who had
been buried in Potter's field, and who, the
physicians testified, died of consumption.
The insurance doctor, and Dudley's wife
disappeared before the conclusion of the
coroner's inquest.
A COTTON PANIC IN New YORK.
George r. Dixon, n. V. King and J.. H.
Garrison, cotton brokers of New York,
failed last Monday, and among other
heavy losers by the panicky condition of
the New York market, a special dispatch
to the Augusta Chronicle says that James
Harle, a bold operator of Atlanta, who
was carrying about 10000 bales when the
decline began, lost $780, 900 by the decline
in prices. AS to the cause of the decline,
finding many with large stocks on hand,
brokers were reticent, when approached
on the subject.
Various theories as to the cause of the
excitement were advanced and generally
discussed. Some held that the Mills tariff
bill, which places substitutes for cotton on
the free list, was responsible. Others
thought that the recent publication, which
placed the present and prospective stock
at a low figure and thereby considerably
affected the market, had suddenly. been
proven erroneous. AS a matter of fact. it
recently appeared that the stock was