Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-15

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officers all be salaried, let each have juris-
diction in q limited territory only, and
many of the troubles that induce the sug-
gestion that we have county courts will
rapidly disappear Columbia Record.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Col. r. G.. Watts, of Laurens, is men,
toned as a candidate for solicitor of the
18th circuit.
The 14th of March is the date appoint
ed b ythe County Commissioners of Green
Vile for holding a prohibition election in
that county.
The county auditor of KershaW county
reports 1859 dogs as being returned on his
books for taxation. 1t is said, however,
that there are at least 5000 in the county.
The average salary of the ministers of
the Southern Presbyterian church last year
was only 1852, and the average contribu-
ton per member for ministerial support
only s4.0S.
- Col. e. B. C. Cash is dangerously i'll at
his home in Chesterfield county, and no
hopes of his recovery are entertained.
Paralysis is said to be the nature of his
sickness.
The telegraph line of the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad, heretofore owned
and operated by the railroad company,
has been leased by the Western Union
Company.
Just before 10 o'clock Friday morning,
a severe thunder storm passed about fifteen
miles north of Columbia. The storm was
very severe, and there was a heavy fall of
hail, the hail stones being unusually large.
- Judge Hudson, who is holding Court
at Chesterfield, remarked Friday that the
audience in the Courtroom at that place
was the most disorderly he had seen in
this State.
AT Blackville, on Wednesday, j.. D..
White shot at a dog going out of his gate.
He missed the dog, but hit a book agent
from Richmond, Va, named Sampson,
who wa walking on the railroad track a
hundred yards distant. SIMPSONS wound
is painful but not fatal.
Mrs. Newton, who resided near Cooks
Station, in Anderson county, committed
suicide Tuesday night by hanging herself
from a joist of her house, where she was
found Wednesday morning, by her son,
dead. Mrs. Newton was a widow lady.
It is said that her mind was not right.
"A disagreement is reported among the
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bill for refunding the direct taxes to the
citizens of this State. The disagreement
is said to be about the payment of a 500, 900
fee to Messrs. Earle and Trescott, which
Senator Butler objects to.
Two Mormon elders, Humphrey and
Sookey, have been severely whipped by
a party of men in Edgefeld county. They
we're passing through the county making
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lowed them. The elders were tied up and
fogged, after which they were warned to
leave those parts.
DR.. Pryor, or Union, denies and intro.
duces testimony to prove, that he has not
recently or at any time made an effort to
buy counterfeit national bank bills. The
transaction in which his name was con-
nected by several papers in the State, last
week, heisays, was honorable and legiti-
mate, though he doesn't say what it was.
Governor Richardson has recently
made the following appointments Of pub
i cinterest: c: Fl: Miles, masterfor Charles
ton county, vice T. NJ. Hanckel, deceased.
H. A. H. Gibson, sheriff of Oconee county,
vice Mr.. Brezeale, deceased. A. j. Clark,
county commissioner for Lancaster county,
vice A. H. Perkins, resigned.
COl. ClldElCS T.. Io. OIdy lOu3 Cu1LO1 VI
the Aiken Recorder, died on the morning
of the 18th instant. He died of pneumo-
mia and was sick only a few days. Col.
Drayton was especially prominent in this
State as a leader Of the temperance move
ment, and his many friends throughout
South Carolina will be panied to learn of
his sudden death.
R. H. Jacobs, of G%reenville county,
convicted last November of m~anslaughter
on the charge of shooting his white tenant,
Doc. Hughes, and sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for five years, has obtained from
the Supreme Court a stay of proceed
ings until his motion for a new trial, on
the ground of newly discovered testimony,
can be argued before the next term of the
GreenyiIle Sessions Court.
AT Greenville, last Wednesday, j. G.
Dodgens was sent to jail to serve a sentence
for distilling, of which charge he was con-
victed four years ago. Dodgens had con-
Guided that he had been forgotten in the
old case, and had been summoned to the
U. S. District Court to answer to another
charge at this term, when, much to his
surprise, he discovered that he couldn't
dodge the wary United States officials.
Charles Barker, a colored man of Barn
we'll county, was trying to shoot a mad
dog, but the cap failed to explode, and to
keep from being bitten, Barker dubbed
his gun and struck the rabid animal with
the breech. The force of the blow dis
charged his gun, and the entire charge
lodged in his side, causing death in a few
Hours.
". X. Henry, a prominent lawyer OF
Chester, was married to Miss Ella S. Ham
ilton, of Morrison, ILL.,, in Winnsboro, on
Tuesday of last week, Rev. J.T. Chalmers
performing the ceremony, assisted by Kew.
c. T.. Mcdonald. The bride, though a
native of Illinois, traces her ancestry to
Chester county, where for the past six
months she has been visiting friends and
relatives.
Says the Edgeield Chronicle: Some
three weeks ago, when the case of Jones,
the triple murderer, was called in the Su-
preme Court, it was quietly continued.
Why, or upon what grounds, we have new
err been able ofind out. In the meantime
the 5th Circuit will not be called in the Su-
preme Court again until May. We under-
stand that Jones, with his wife and chill
dren, are somewhere in Georgia.
- The Chester correspondent of the Co.
lumbia Register writes under date of last
Friday: The County Commissioners were
engaged on Wednesday in hearing the
petitioners for and against an election in
Halsellville township to vote on the ques-
ton of subscribing to the capital stock of
the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Rail-
road Company. After a thorough eXami-
nation of the two petitions, the Commits
%sioners. decided to call an election. 1t will
be heldin about twenty days. The friends
of the subscription are confident of carry
ing the election.
Says the Lancaster Ledger: The jay
hawkers at Fishing Creek Factory, for
purifying morals and regulating conduct,
administered to the wants of one Lewis
Baton from Rockingham, N. c., last week.
Baton came to the factory several months
100 and nnt a~mnIoument He soon be-