Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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- Col. j. Blake Washington died at
He was the oldest living descendant of Col.
William Washington, of revolutionary
fame.
A circular, emanating from Charles
ton, has been sent to every colored minis
ter in South Carolina, asking for contribu-
lions for the defence of the colored lynch
ers in Pickens.
The fertilizer men of ~Spartanburg are
demanding from the farmers $50 to 26O
pounds of middling cotton in the fall for a
ton of acid phosphate, and $50 to 800
pounds of the ammoniated fertilizers.
The United States grand jury, at
Greenville, in their presentment, last
Thursday, made a strong protest against
the insufficient appropriation made by the
Government for the pay Of witnesses,
whereby certificates have to be discounted
very often for as much as 80 per cent. OFT.
The preliminary hearing in the cases
against D. e. Keels, j. R. Keels and A. S.
Barrett, charged with assault and battery
with intent to kill p. G. Bowman, Jr., at
Bishopville, in December last, was held
last Thursday at Sumter. j. r. Keels was
bound over in the sum of $500. The case
against d. E. Keels was dismissed.
A petition from Sumter, praying that
the Governor direct the Acknowledgement
to assist Solicitor T. NJ. Gilliland in prose
cutting P. G.. Bowman and others implica-
ted in the killing of Trial Justice Hayns-
worth, of the above named place, has been
received at the executive Office. The pray
ers of the petitioners will be granted, and
Attorney General Earle will assist in the
prosecution.
Saws the Marion Hader: Several bales
of cotton, for which a bid of forty cents a
pound, in gold, was refused, We're shipped
q few days ago from Latta, one OF the sta
tions on the Florence Railroad. This cot.
ton was grown and made ready for market
some time during the latter part of the
war, and has been slowed away with hall
q hundred other bales, all of which is near.
ly, if not quite, as old. .
james Crowley, "a handsome and well
dressed young man," was tried IN the
Chesterfield Sessions Court last week on
the charge of maliciously setting fire tC
and burning the barn of his aunt, Mrs.
Jeremiah Grant, on the night of the 9Th Of
last month. The trial occupied two days
and ended in a verdict of not guilty. The
evidence against him, though strong, was
entirely circumstantial.
- Lancaster Ledger: Frank Ingraham,
of this county, recently deserted his wife
and three little children, leaving them in
a destitute condition. On last Saturday
Mrs. Ingraham made application to the
County Commissioners for assistance, and
was granted a small sum to relieve her
present needs. Ingraham, its said, is lly-
ing somewhere in North Carolina. He is
certainly a heartless man to leave his wife,
who is in delicate health, and his helpless
little children to the charities of the world.
DR.. E. L. Brown, the druggist convict
ed in Marion week before last, OF selling
whisky contrary to law, has addressed a
letter to the town council, acknowledging
his guilt and asking for clemency. The
council have consented to withhold all aG-
ton on the second series of prescriptions
so long as DR.. Brown conducts his estao-
lishment according to law. The doctor
will purchase the interest OF Whlteheart,
his partner, and will conduct theb business
alone, on his own responsibility.
Lancaster RevieW: Tuesday morning. OF
last week r. A. Jones, colored, and his wife,
living on Col. David Crockett's plantation,
a few miles north Of this place, locked
I'D in the house one Of their children
the youngest-and went off some where IN
the ~neighborhood. When they returned
in the afternoon they found their dwell
ing and the body of the child in ashes. 1t
seems that the fire was caused by the 9TH
er children in the yard setting fire to some
shucks under the house during the abb
sence of the parents.
The executive committee of the pro-
hibitionists in Greenville county have an
nounced their determination to make the
coming campaign a temperate and moder-
ate one. Every effort will OF course pc
made to bring out the full prohibition vote,
but there will be no general canvass, no
public fuss and parade. The election
comes off on March IA, and since the Anti
party. is not likely to enforce a demonstra-
tive campaign, it is probable that the cleo
ton will be wanting in the demoralizing
features that have characterized similar
elections in other counties.