Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The Columbia theological seminary
was %reopened last week with a full faculty
and sixteen students.
- Edgefield county is suffering from a
meat famine, the railroads having been
unable to run freight trains.
The Lancaster Ledger says that three
negro "Alliances" have been organized IN
Cedar Creek township, in that county, and
have fixed the price of cotton picking at
fifty cents per hundred.
The Edgefeld Chronicle says it will
take at least a month to rebuild the Ham,
burg trestle of the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, washed away by
the late freshet.
For the Office of county clerk of Able
vile, recently made vacant by the death
of the clerk-elect, there are'ten candidates
already announced, with probably twice
that number spoken of.
Prof. j. w. Pickel, a native of this
State, has been elected to the chair of
chemistry and physics in the citadel acad-
envy, made vacant by the resignation of
Major Emerson.
The damage to bridges in Edgefeld
county by the recent freshets is so great
that a mass meeting of citizens has been
~ Ny VAO SOualJ SOh4lhlSS1Ol1Sko I'LL
slider the best method Of repairing.
- In the Fairfield court of sessions last
week, Judge Hudson presiding, Charles
of j. D. Hogan, neal Blythewood, on the
night of the 3lst of August. The trial &C.
cupied two days and ended in the acquit-
tai of the defendant.
Mr.. John London Holmes, a we'll
kpOUp aft0rpau of Tonkconxi1lo Flo ht1t
formerly of Wilmington, N. c., was in
stantly killed by being thrown from a
wagon on the road from Tryon to Saluda.
Mr.. Holmes was an old gentleman of 63
years, and had been spending the summer
with his family at Tryon.
In the G%reenville sessions court last
week, Judge Witherspoon presiding, Hen
rietta Suber, colored, tried for shooting
and killing a colored laborer named Cheek,
IN Dover q Gaston's camp, on the railroad
work in G~reenville county on the night of
the 9th of last month, was found guilty Of
manslaughter and sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for the term of two years.
Charlie Dupre, colored, aged 9 years,
who murdered Joe Brown, aged 4 years,
and severely wounded John Brown, a
brother of the deceased, aged 7 years, with
an axe, about four miles above Benefits
vile, on the 10th of last June, was On
victed in the Marlboro session court last
Thursday of murder, but recommended to
the mercy of the Court. .Dupre is an or
phan boy, and has no brothers, sisters or
friends to take care of him.
- Columbia Register: CLANCY Burt, Lou
Burt and Ephriam Mayes were sentenced
by Judge Hudson at Edgefeld court to be
hanged on the 18th of this month. The
crime of which they were convicted was
the murder of Jacob Burt, the father of
CLANCY Burt and husband of Lou Burt.
The Governor has granted a pardon in the
case of the former, the evidence of her
completely in the crime being wholly cir
~cumstantial, and has COMMITTED to life i'm
prisonment the sentence of Lou Burt,
who was only an accessory, Ephriam May;
er being the principal. The latter will
pay the penalty of his crime on the day
set. In the two cases where Executive
clemency wa extended, strong petitions
were presented therefor, the Judge and
Solicitor joining in recommending a par
don for CLANCY, and the Judge recon-
mending a communication of Lou Burt's SEN
tence.