Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-29
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- w. II. Parish, a Mexican war veteran,
died at his home in Rossville township,
Chester county, last week.
Mr.. o. L. Schumpert is spoken of as a
candidate for Solicitor of the Seventh Cir
cult, which now makes five in the field.
- There are thus far twelve applications
from Chester county for State pensions
six from soldiers and six from widows Of
soldiers. r..
Mr.. w. H. Hinnant, the contractor for
carrying the mail between Winnsboro and
Long Run, died suddenly in WinnsbOro,
last Monday, of hemorrhage of the lungs.
The name of the postofice on the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
in Chester county, heretofore known as
Chestnut Grove, has been changed to Lew
is Turnout.
- Rev. T. M. Bailey, D. D., the popular
and efficient Corresponding Secretary of
the Baptist State Mission Board, and Miss
Sue H. Mcmillan, of Barnwell county,
were married on the 18th instant.
- ~Spartanburg Spartan: According to
the Dutch sign this will be a good wheat
year. Last Wednesday was Ash We'd
nesday and it was a fair day, which indi-
Gates that wheat heads will be we'll filled.
Watch and see if there is anything in the
sign.
- Blythewood, in Fairfield county, a sta
ton on the c., G. G. A. Railroad, is stirred
up over a war between the families of
Hogan and Hoffman, the most prominent
people in town. The origin of the trouble
was the betrayal of Miss Hattie Hogan, an
~18-year-old girl, by Thomas Hoffman.
The Columbia correspondent Of the
NeUs. and Courier advises all those who
propose to apply for State pensions to do
so at once. The pension board will meet
to consider the applications about the lat
ter part of March, and the board would
like to have all the applications consider
ed together.
In the sessions court Of Sumter, last
Monday, all the cases growing out of the
BoWman-Keels affair, in which trial JUS
tice Haynsworth was killed, were contin-
ued. John R. Keels, Kincheon Penning-
ton, Peyton G.. Bowman and Walter /.
Hardy, all charged with murder, are on
bail until the next term of Court.
- Winnsboro News: Two peddlers who
have been around selling jewelry and
other trinkets, were attacked at the upper
part of town by two negroes who knocked
them senseless with large sticks. The
negroes then robbed them. of the money
which they had and some of their goods.
They claim to have had twenty dollars in
cash.
The fish warden at Georgetown reports
that the run of shad 80 far this year has
been greater than for any season in the
past twenty years. Already $4,000 shad
have been shipped from Georgetown.
This increase is attributed to the large
plants of young -shad made by the depart
ment in the rivers of the State during the
past few years, and in part to the enforce
ment of the fish laws.
- Fifteen families of negroes left New
berry last Thursday for Little Rock, Ark.
There is great indignation in that county
against emigrant and railroad agents, and
tWo-one a colored emigrant agent and the
other a representative of the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad-have been threaten
ed with violence. The negro took to the
woods and the railroad agent left on the
first train.
The United States District Court, in
session at Greenville, adjourned last Thurs
day to the August term. The NeUs says:
The Court at its present term has disposed
of siXty-six cases. Thirty-four of the &C.
cused in these cases have been found guilty
and twenty-seven have been acquitted.
One prisoner pleaded guilty, and in four
cases mistrials were ordered. This is the
record so far as it could be made up from
the journal of the Court.
Charles Veal, a mulatto, charged with
assault with intent to rape a little 13.year-
old white girl, Fannie Joyner, at Winns-
boro, last fall, was tried on Tuesday of last
week before Judge Witherspoon at Wins
boro, found guilty and sentenced to ten
wears in the penitentiary. The convicted
mulatto was placed in Winnsboro Jail, but
danger of l~ynching being a~pprehended, on
that evening the sheriff caused him to be
secretly conveyed to Chester and next day
he was taken to the p~enitentiary.
"A Columbia dispatch of Thursday says:
An attempt was made in this county We'd
nesday night by a gang of unknown men
to cremate a family alive. A white man,
William Myers, had been living with a
colored woman and had several children.
A party, to punish this conduct, surround
ed the house, barred up all doors and win
dows on the outside and set the building
on fire in several places. An Ike was IN
the house, and with this Myers cut q hole
in the door in time to save himself and the
other inmates from a terrible death, but
they were severely burned.
B. F. Welsh, of Lancaster, has COM
mitted such brutal treatment upon his
wife that he was arrested and tried on
Tuesday of last week before Trial Justice
Witherspoon. Welsh's wife's father and
mother came into court, begged for protec-
ton and testified to the most horrible and
brutal treatment. All three have suffered
at his hands. The court was crowded and
was overrun by the best citizens who
were wild with excitement, and demand
ed the maximum bond on his life. The
court made the bond five thousand dollars.
He was committed to Jail.
Says the Newberry Observer: Twelve
miles from Newberry, just this side of
Heller's Creek, is a high round top hill.
On this hill lives Mrs. Sarah Beam, who is
Just now very much alarmed. About a
month ago a portion Of this, about eight
inches in diameter, caved in, leaving a
hole in the ground, nobody knows how
deep. About a week after another spot,
about four inches in diameter, near by,
caved in, leaving another apparently bot
tomless hole. Mrs. Beam insists that she
has seen blue smoke issuing from these
holes, and that she is constantly feeling
shocks. Our informant visited the dread
spot recently. He says he did not see any
smoke or feel any shocks, but that he felt
electric influences very sensibly while on
the hill.
CLEvELAND's WIsDoM.-Mr. Cleve-
lands proverbial good luck sticks to him.
He went away from Washington when the
Democratic committee was to meet, and
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