Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-08
SlIITH CAROLINA NEWS,

county Will prODaDly eACeeu d
thousand names.
Isaac Boozer was found dead in the
woods near Newberry, Wednesday. Who
caused his death is unknown.
The historical residence of the late
Judge A. P. Butler, near Edgefeld Court
house, has been destroyed by fire.
- Bowman and Hardy, the remaining
Sumter rioters, have been admitted to bail
by Chief-Justice Simpson in bonds OF $4,000
each.
- The past Indebtedness of Oconee coun-
ty, running back for several years to the
present time, amounts in the aggregate to
S9S6.39.
The State Agricultural and Mechani-
cal Society will hold its summer meeting
at Spartanburg on the first Wednesday in
August.
The Union Cotton Press and 1000 bales
of cotton were destroyed by fire in Charles
ton on Wednesday afternoon mourning a
loss of $4,000.
Representative Hemphill has intro
duced a bill to place DR.. John F. G. Mittag,
of Lancaster, on the pension list of the
Seminole war.
The campaign of 1888, among the State
Solicitors, has opened. M. F. Ansel, of
Greenville, is announced as a candidate
for the Solicitorship of the Eighth Circuit.
Congressman Dargan is industriously
working to secure a presidential pardon
for Jeff D. Thompson, Of Marion county,
who is serving a four years sentence for
robbing the mails.
The board of agriculture held a meet
ing in Columbia last Wednesday and
elected as executive committee for the
year johnson Hagood, John LaWton, D.
P. Duncan.
IN. A.. Ridgill, the coroner of Clarendon
county, died suddenly last Saturday after
noon, of heart disease, while conversing
with his brothers. family whom he was
visiting.
One hundred convicts are now grading
the Blackville and NeWberry Railroad
above Sally. Work has also been begun
on the building of a telegraph line along
the road.
Josh Henderson,, colored, was found
dead in his house with hisskull crushed,
in Newberry county, Wednesday. Murder
was clear and another negro named Tom
Sims is suspected.
Richard Kemp, colored, convicted in
the Sessions Court of Abbeville, last week,
of house breaking and larceny, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for n year,
jumped from a third story window of the
Jail and made good his escape.
- The Supreme Court has denied a new
trial to Richard H.. Jacobs, of Greenville
county, convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary
and to pay a fine of 81, 900. Jacobs killed
his white tenant, Doc Hughes, about a
year ago.
- Arrangements are being made for an
early inspection of all the troops in the
State. The encampment matter is being
worked up, and it is expected that a num-
Der of companies will participate: 1t is
probable that the encampment will be held
either at Greenville or ~Spartanburg.
Tuesday of last week was appointed
for the hearing before Judge Presley at
Abbeville, of an application for bail for
DIR. It. w. Folger and d. =. Garvin, OF
Pickens, who were among the parties pre-
sented by the grand jury at Pickens as &C
cessories to the recent Waldrop lynching.
Bail was granted in the sum OF $1,000
each.
Says the Winnsboro NewS: An inter-
esting question before the pension board
is whether widows of soldiers who lost
their lives in tt e Confederate service, and
who have since married, but have again
become widows, can be legally considered
as entitled to a pension on account OF their
relation to the 4irst husband.
- The State Grange Patrons of Husband
nv was in session in Columbia last week.
No important business was transacted.
Resolutions were adopted endorsing the
Interstate commerce law, protesting
against the removal of the tax on whisky
and tobacco, and opposing dealing in cot
ton futures.
The six children of Lester Singletary, a
colored man living in Clarendon county,
were burned to death on the night Of the
Goth ultimo. Singletary and his wife
locked the children in their house and
went to church. During their absence the
house was burned to the ground and the
children persisted in the flames. Their
ages ranged from thirteen years to sixteen
months.
- Intelligence has been received from
Pi~ricacicaba, Brazil, announcing the death
at her post of duty in that city, of Mrs.
Wolling, wife Of Rev. J. w. Wolling, Of
the South Carolina Conference, who left
this State less than a year ago to reinforce
the Methodist missions in Brazil. Mrs.
Wolling was sick for twelve days with
malarial fever, and, a heavy hemorhage
coming on, she sank quickly and passed
away in half an hour, IN December 9th.
The Union correspondent of the Co.
lumbia Register writes: Certain represent
alive citizens of the town met the Town
Council last Thursday night in Nicholson's
Hall by appointment, to devise some
means to suppress the indiscriminate sale