Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-25
LOCAL LACONICS.

De SenC 10 any auuTeSS, lIOIIl tulS udte uH
til the 1st of January, 1893, for 72 cents.
Stricken With Paralysis.
Dan Witherspoon, a well-known col.
ored man of Yorkville, has sustained
two strokes of paralysis within the pas
few days, and is now in critical con
dition.
Increasing the Capital.
The Lockhart Cotton mills has flee
with the secretary of state, as required by
law, notice of an increase of their capital
stock from $500, to S65O,OO0.
Married While Out Driving.
Rock Hill Herald: While out driving
Monday afternoon, Mr.. John Power, 1
travelling salesman who claims Charlotte
as headquarters, and Miss Eula Harris
sister of Rev. J. Barr Harris, called at the
home of Rev. o. G. Jones and were mar.
ried. Mr.. Power is son of Rev. w. G.
Power, a presiding elder of the South
Carolina conference. :
Put Your Name on Club Roll.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the fifth day
before the senatorial primary, which
takes place on next Tuesday, August 81
and those who fail to have their names
on the rolls of their respective precincts
by tomorrow evening, will not be entitled
to vote. Those who were enrolled to
vote in the last primary need not take the
trouble to register again, as it is unneces'
sary.
VIII Have That School,
BY reference to the advertisement in an
other column, it will be noted that the
Hickory Grove people have succeeded in
getting up that school mentioned in THE
ENQUIRER some weeks ago. They have
employed high grade teachers, made ar
rangements for the accommodation OF
boarders, and propose to run school
which will be credit to the town and
surrounding country. The school will
open on the first Monday in September.
Election Tickets.
County Chairman Brice has received
from the state executive committee. the
tickets to be used by the voters of this
county in the election of next Tuesday.
The tickets are of the kind known as
"omnibus," containing the names of all
the candidates to be voted for. These
candidates are McLaurin, Evans and Irby'
The names Of Mayfield, Duncan and
Whitman do not appear. The voter is
instructed to scratch the names of the
candidates for whom he does not wish tc
vote.
Paid His Fine.
Mack G. Byers, who was sometime age
convicted of violation of the dispensary
law and sentenced to pay fine of S3O(
and go to the chaingang for one year, has
squared himself with the law. By peti.
ton to the governor, he succeeded in
having the imprisonment clause Of his
sentence cancelled, and last Saturday be
paid over to the clerk of the court $500
in cash. He remarked that if the sem
tence had been $500, or twelve months on
the chaingang, he would have served out
his term.
Killed by a Tramp.
Charlotte Observer, Saturday: Mr.. w.
F. Marshall, editor of the Gastonia Ga
zette, was over yesterday on business. He
was telling The Observer of a murder
near Gastonia, on Thursday, of Negro
aged about nine. He was found dead in
a pool of water at the Narrow Gauge
trestle, a mile and half from town. The
boy was carrying his uncle dinner to
him. He met Negro tramp, who, ac-
cording to the story, attacked him, taking
his bucket and dinner, and then stripped
him of his clothes and killed him, flinging
his body into the water.
New Church Building.
The Herald, of last Saturday, says that
the congregation Of st. Johns Methodist
church, of Rock Hill, has succeeded in
getting an adjustment of the insurance on
the building, which was rendered unfit
for further use on account Of recent fire.
The building, bell and furniture were
insured for $500, and a compromise has
been effected on basis of $1,000. The
understanding is that the congregation
will at once proceed to make arrange
ments for the erection of new building,
to cost something like $1,000.
The Pension Money.
Clerk of the Court Wylie, on Monday,
received from the comptroller general,
the York county pension list, together
with check for $4,l24; but OH account OF
a vexatious mistake, the money cannot
be paid out yet. In apportioning the
amount among the various classes of PEN
sioners, the comptroller cut off one of the
classes with only 80 for each beneficiary.
The mistake is of such a nature that it
can only be corrected in Columbia. Mr..
Wylie wrote at once TO have the matter
corrected, and cannot pay out cent un-
til he gets it straight. The blame for the
delay rests altogether in the office OF the
comptroller general.
For Burglary.
jim Garrison, colored, was before Mag
istrate Sandifer for preliminary exami-
nation on the charge of burglary. He is
suspected of having been the accomplice
of George West, the white man now in
Jail awaiting trial on the charge Of burg
larizng the residence of Mr.. John K.
Ashe some weeks ago. The principal
witness in the case was Elijah Powell,
colored, the same man who testified so
positively AZ to the identity of West upon
the preliminary examination of that de-
fendant. Powell stated that Garrison is
the Negro whom he saw with West in
Mr.. Ashes yard on the night in question,
and upon this testimony Magistrate San
differ committed Garrison for trial.
A Prolific Cotton Stalk.
BY way of illustrating the remarkable
fruitfulness of cotton this year, Mr.. l.. l..
Smith tells of an interesting fact that