Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Mr.. J. Witherspoon Erwin has moved
from Morganton, n. c., to Darlington.
n Fishing Creek cotton factory, in Ches-
fer county, is now illuminated with cleo
trio lights.
There are ia tax defaulters in Able
Vile county. Or these "A are on real estate
and 700 on personal property.
MI. John Outlaw, of Chester county, is
probably the oldest man in the State: He
was born in 1918. He was 4 soldier in the
war of 1912.
DIR. w. +. Kirkland, Jr., and Mr..
Frampton Lawton, who several years ago
left Barnwell county togO to Florida, have
returned to their old homes richer only by
experience.
Jesse B. Mobley, aged 66 years, a prom
inent citizen of Lancaster county, and his
son, a youth of fifteen, died within forty
eight hours of each other last week, both
of pneumonia.
NJ Capt. Tillpan has published a lengthy
letter in which he says in effect that he
will no longer agitate the questions on
which he has been speaking and writing
for the last three years.
- Rev. J.. II. Sage, of Chester county,
probably the oldest Presbyterian minister
in the State, celebrated his golden we'd
ding on Monday last. He has been the
pastor of Fishing Creek Church in Chester
county, for over forty years.
On Thursday, Mrs. Kirby, a widow
lady living in Spartanburg county, left
her eighteen-months-old infant in charge
of her other children and went to visit a
neighbor. During her absence her baby
fell in the fire and was burned to death.
Mrs. Minnie Franklin, who is wanted
at Walhalla, on the charge of effecting the
escape of prisoners from Walhalla Jail, one
of whom was her husband, was arrested
in Atlanta and locked up last Monday
night. She asserts her innocence, but will
be detained until South Carolina officials
ARR We.
IA serious accident occurred in Charles
ten on Wednesday at the old Jail, which
was wrecked by the earthquake, August,
1886, and is now being taken down. Two
white men, J. w. Brock and Robert
Lynes, were thrown down and buried in
the ruins, both receiving injuries that will
probably prove fatal.
"A movement is on foot to organize a
company to build a factory at CataWba
Falls on the Catawba river. The project
ors contemplate building a railroad from
the falls to Bascomville, and there connect
with the Cheraw and Chester Road, or 10
some convenient point on the Georgia,
Carolina and Northern Road.
Two companies have responded to
General Bonham's% suggestion of an en-
campment during the Summer. The hon
or of the first responses came from the
Irish Volunteers and Carolina Rifles, OF
Charleston, who have communicated with
the Adiutant Generals Office their desire
and readiness to 60 into the proposed en-
campment.
William O'Brien, white, was shot in
Charleston, by r. A. Mosely, a white
youth of 10 years, on Tuesday night OF
last week. The shot was aimed at
O'Brien's brother, between whom and
Mosely there had been some trouble.
The dying mar has made an ante m0Ttem
statement. Mosely surrendered himself
and is 10Y in Jail.
Chester correspondence ofthe Columbia
Reoister SAYS: The dwelling house of Hen
nv Nunnery, in the eastern part of the
county, was burned a few nights since.
together with all household effects, a large
quantity of flour and 500 in money. The
origin of the fire is unknown. MIR. Nun
merry is about Is years of age, and not able
to sustain this great misfortune.
The minutes of the last Baptist Con
vention contain some interesting statis-
tics as follows: Ordained ministers, 4O6
churches, 40; total membership, 1854
baptisms last year, $3.50; Sunday-schools.
$50; membership, 40,545. Aggregate con
tributions of the denomination, S163, SOS.
The secretary remarks, however, that "ful!
returns of the moneys raised and expended
would give an aggregate of over s2OO,OOO.'
AN effort is being made in Halsellville
township, Chester county, to secure a sub
scription to the capital stock of the Geor'
gia, Carolina and Northern Railroad Com
pany. The friends of the subscription
mostly live on the lower side Of the town
ship, which will be more directly benefit
ted by the railroad. Two petitions are in
circulation, one favoring and the other op'
posing the subscription. The amount o.
the proposed subscription is $4,000.
-Easley Messenger: The grand jury pre-
parties for being accessories to the lynch
ing of Waldrop at Central. This much Of
their presentment was ordered by Judge
Norton to be served upon Trial Justice
Gossett, with instructions to have them
committed for trial. AS soon as Mr.. Cos
sett received official notice he correspond
ed with the solicitor, and after getting nee,
essary instructions, proceeded to Contra
where he is now investigating the charges
against the accused.
The Pesident has recently acted upon
appeals for executive clemency from South
Carolina as follows: Garland ID. Carrier
convicted in South Carolina of violating
the internal revenue laws and sentenced tc
twelve months imprisonment and to pay
q fine of $500. Sentence committed to one
months imprisonment, on condition thai
the fine is paid within that time. +. X,
Hipp, convicted in South Carolina of pass.
ing an altered bank note, and sentenced tc
three years. imprisonment and to pay a
fine of $500. Sentence committed to fifteen
months actual Imprisonment.
On Thursday night, Benjamin Sport
and Charles Shorter, two white citizens
of Clarendon county, while on their way
home from Manning, had a difficulty, in
which the latter was dangerously cut IN
the abdomen with a knife by Sport. Inc
wound extends from side to side and eX-
poses the bowels. Grave fears are enter
tanned for his life, Whisky was the cause
of the difficulty. Sport is still at large.
No effort has been made to arrest him:
Mr.. Mike. Hammel, an old-citizen of
Manning, committed suicide on Friday
by taking laudanum. He had been drink
ing hard for a week and longer, and is
supposed to have been deranged at the
time. He swallowed about eight drains
of the drug. 1t is not stated that Man
ming is a prohibition town, from which
omission we infer that it is not, while If it
is a license town, the lesson is conveyed
that murders and suicides may occur in