Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-10-08

kind of cotton-less than half an acre
yet he has already gathered from i,
over 1000 pounds of seed cotton. '''''
Reuben Green, colored, stole sever
pairs of pants from the Funderburk
Company Saturday afternoon. He
made good run but Policeman Hun
ter overlook him and brought him
back. He plead guilty before Magis
trate Burns on Monday and paid g
fine of s12. When captured he had
concealed pistol. For this he forfeited
his pistol and paid IS into the town
treasury. Review, October 5: The
court of general sessions convened here
Monday morning, Judge Gage presid
ing. The following cases have been
disposed of up to the time of going te
press: james Doster, charged with
housebreaking and larceny, pleaded
guilty to receiving stolen goods and
was sentenced to three years on county
public works or in the penitentiary
William Sumter, charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to six months
on county public works. The sealed
sentence of Joseph Hilton, convicted
of assault and battery at last term,
was opened. 1t gave him Is months
on chaingang. Burwell F. Blackmon
and Sarah Philips were tried and ac'
Quilted of the charge of adultery.
John Witherspoon, alias John Perry,
was found not guilty of housebreaking
and larceny. True bills were found by
the grand jury in the following cases
Edmond Blackmon, assault and bat
terry with intent to ravish R. c. Crock
EFT, assault and battery with intent to
kill; Emanuel Witherspoon, house
breaking and larceny; Jno. W. Brooks,
assault and battery of a high and
aggravated nature John Parker, muir
der. No bill was found in the case of
Thomas Mellow, charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill. The
case of R. C. McManus ct. al, charged
with murder, was continued. The
case of John Rich Witherspoon and
John Witherspoon, charged with bur-
glary and larceny, is being tried today,
Tuesday. The grand jury has been
discharged. '''.'Apropos The News and
Couripr's 1O.cent corn agitation, we
would state that a Methodist minister
of this county raised last year IS bush
els of corn and over 300 bundles of
fodder at an expense of only 1925.
This sum covered the entire expense
for planting, cultivation and gathering.
The same piece of ground worked the
year previous by another party only
made 16 bushels Of corn. .'''''''''Daily
evidences are furnished Of the need OF
vagrant ordinance here. If council
don't hurry up and do something,
Squire Moore and Cunningham Bros.
will-they'll charge idlers outdoor
house rent-that is to say, for hanging
up on their walls. 1t was only Mon
day morning that Chief of Police
Hunter went up TO a crowd of stalwart
street loafers and tried to employ
them. But work was the last thing
they wanted. One said he had just
been kicked on the elbow by a COW ;
another claimed that he was GONZALES
cling from similar accident; while
still another put in the plea that u
week ago he was bitten by maddog
on that portion of his anatomy which,
as Captain Chafee would say, had
necessitated the eating of his meals off
the mantelpiece ever since. The at
tention of the council is called to the
fact that the delay in the passage of a
vagrant law not only encourages con-
tinued laziness, but continental lying
as we'll.
GASTON-Gastonia Gazette, Octo-
ber 6: The Gastonia Roller mill prop
erty, which was sold at administrators
sale on Monday, was bid in by Mrs.
Fannie S. Morrow, widow of the late
Leroy Morrow, for the sum of $4,000.
The business will now be operated
under her ownership by Mr.. Pelham
Morrow AS manager. 1.-The Gastonia
Baptist Sunday school will 60 to Char
lotle on picnic excursion next Mon.
day, leaving Gastonia at 8 a. m., and
leaving Charlotte on return about 4 p.
m. Accommodation have been char
tered for 400 or 500 passengers. There
will be no sale of tickets. The train
will be side.tracked at the graded
school and picnic headquarters will be
set up at Dilworth park. ''''''The hand
some new residence of Mr.. Pelham
Morrow, on West Main street, is near
ing completion. Mr.. ]. T. Spencer is
the contractor and builder, after de-
signs by Mr.. Morrow himself, and now
has the house ready for the plasterer.
Mr.. Morrow's family will still make
their home in Yorkvile until the new
residence is Completed .''''''''The third
Sabbath in this month has been named
as dedication day for the beautiful new
A. R. P. church at Kings Mountain.
DR.. Jno. T. Chalmers, of Charlotte,
will preach the dedicatory sermon.
Rev. r. NJ. Stevenson, DR.. ]. G. Gal
loway, and, perhaps others, have been
invited and will participate in the ex-
ercises. lin his report at the Wax
haw meeting of the presbytery, Rev.
r. P. Smith, the home mission evan
gelist, made showing that must have