Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-10-03
sOI1TH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Work has been commenced on the CT

SOUTH CAkULlNA NEWo'
- Work has been commenced IN the cot
ton factory at Chester.
Reports of injury to the, cotton cropln
Spartanburg were greatly exaggerated.
With the fine weather of the past few days
the crop has opened finely.
Mr.. Louis r. 1Chazal has resigned the
position of private secretary to Governor
Richardson, his resignation to take effect
November l. MI. Nv. +. Gonzales, Of Co.
lumbia, will fill the vacancy.
The Governor has granteda respite un-
till October 18th to Ephraim Mays, the
colored man who was to have been hanged
at Edgefeld last Friday for the murder OF
Jake Burt, also colored. ..5
There are Just one dozen candidates for
the Office of clerk of the court of common
pleas for Abbeville, made vacant by the
death of Major Zeigler. Among the aspl-
rants is Gen. r. r. Hemphill, editor OF the
| Medium.
DR.. James Woodrow has been elected
president of the Central National Bank OF
| Columbia; whereat the Charlotte Chronl-
Gle asks: "Is the transition from the pro.
fessorship of theology to the presidency Oh
a bank, evolution" ?"
1t is estimated that in Abbeville the
cotton crop of 1eSS-S9 will about average
in bales with that of 1878, as the acreage
this year is greater than that of last. AID,
beville usually makes about fifty Thousand
bales. =
p. G. Petty, a drummer for a Baltimore
hardware house, was found dead IN tne
| river at Baltimore on Tuesday o fast week;
Mr.. Petty's home was at Gatfhey City ana
he was we'll known as a popular salesman.
Tl1 --oosksor1 &c fh0f hn foil 1nf0 me
river and was drowned. -,
The primary election routine was va
ried in ~Spartanburg last Wednesday, by a
, fist fight between two prominent gentle
men, arising out of a discussion over the
solicitors race. Bystanders interfered be-
fore any serious injury occurred to either
party and the affair was soon ended.
A correspondent of the Charleston
World saws "There is an Indian doctor
located near Hodges, in Abbeville county,
and thousands of people, actually thou
sands, are taking his potations and under
going his treatment. Many think he is
a fraud some think otherwise"
The boiler of a steam cotton gin eX-
ploded in the town of Beaufort last Friday.
The engineer was blown to pieces, the fire
man was also killed. Two boys who were
on the street sixty feet away were killed.
The boiler was blown into a furniture store
near by, almost totally demolishing the
building.
The September freshet of 1888 will be
long remembered in South Carolina. Two
weeks of cloud and rain, the highest waters
we have had in years, corn and cotton
badly damaged all over the State, rice Sc
riously cut off in the low country, many
bridges washed away in the State; all
make a reality that will be felt for years.
The Rev. David B. Pressly, a native of
| South Carolina, and pastor of Mount Zion,
Missouri, Associate Reformed Presbyterian
| Church, died at Mount Zion, that State,
on the oath ultimO. He was a son Of the
Rev. James P. Pressly, D. D., of Due West,
and about 80 years of age. In his death
the church has lost N of it's ablest and
most Jealous ministers.
Says the Columbia correspondent of the
| News and Courier: The fOrfeitures OF de-
linquent lands this year-under the opera
lions of the Patterson Act of the last ses-
sion of the General A~ssembly-are smaller
than usual in each and every county.
There is a little friction in the working OF
the Act which will doubtless be remedied
at the next session, but on the whole the
change in the law has been beneficial.
Says the Columbia Register: Through
| the instrumentality of the Loan and EN-
change Bank Of this city, a loan of $4,000
has beer negotiated for the State in New
York city, at the favorable rate OF interest
of six per cent. This loan was rendered
necessary by the lateness OF the taxes IN
coming in and the extraordinary expenses
of pensions. etc., for which appropriation
was made by the last Legislature. This
seems a direct contradiction of the claim
from some quarters that a panic in relation
to Southern loans exists in New York.
News and Courier: At Anderson, last
Wednesday, Miles H. McGee's eight
months old infant was scalded to death.
Mrs. MCGEE put it down on the MOOR IN
front of the fire, where a kettle of hot wa
ter sat. and stepped out. She heard it
scream out and ran to it to find its lower
parts so burned by the hot water from the
kettle, which it had pulled over, that 1t
| died in the afternoon. On the same day,
in Anderson, a three-year-old son of John
Patterson was found in the cotton house,
hanging in the rope where they weighed
cotton, cold and stiff in death. The hang
ing is supposed to have been accidental.
The Newberry News and Herald re-
ports the following sensational suicide:
Mr.. Richard Coleman, a citizen OF Edge
fled county, living Near Dyson, shot him.
| self through the heart with a shotgun on
| Monday, the 18th ultimo. He had just
finished dinner, and, leaving his family at
the table, got his gun, seated himselfin the
window, placed the muzzle against his
heart and pushed off the trigger with a
ward stick, killing himself instantly. He
was O fgood family and aged about % years.
| He leaves a wife and several children. lie
has been Respondent at times during the
year, and it is thought he was impelled to
this rash act while in a state of mOmenta-
ry mental arrangement.
= the Manning Times: cit is a sad
commentary on the gratitude of a people
to know that the grave of Francis Marion,
in Georgetown county, is in a dilapidated
and tumble down condition. A broken
marble slab is all that is left to tell where
reposes the ashes of this hero of other days,
the "Swamp Fox" of the Revolution.
Others no more renowned have monu-
ments to tell of their deeds, but none for
him. Yet, when all was gloomy, and the
people in despair, it was very largely
through his skill, courage and energy that
the death-blow was struck to the Tories
and British in the ~lOw-cOuntry, and thus
made possible the series of victories ending
at Yorktown"
STATE POLITICAL ITEMS.
Tom Miller, colored, of Beaufort, who
claims to have given fifteen years OF active
service to the Republican party, will OPP
pose Col. Elliott for Congress in the black