Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-10
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CHEROKEE-The Gaffney Ledger
June 6: First Lieutenant +. o. Sar
ratt, of the Third U. s. artillery, who
has been on duty at Fort Candy, ir
Washington, has been ordered TO Ma
nila, and will sail from San Francisco
in short time. Lieutenant Sarratt is
a Cherokeean, and one who the whole
county is justly proud of, and wishes
bim all the good fortune of an ambi
tlous young soldier. '.'''''''G. S. Black,
one of the most successful farmers in
this county, says that he has never
had his Irish potatoes injured or at
tackled by the potato beetle when he
mulched the ground with old ground
cane from a former crop of sorghum
..".Our people were shocked Satur'
day, when about o'clock p. No., it was
announced that James H. Cook had
killed himself by taking laudanum
While suicide was the first accepted
theory, there are many who were &C.
quainted with Mr.. Cooks habits, who
are confident that he unintentlonally
took an overdose. He was found Sat-
urday morning about II o'clock in an
upstairs room in one of Woods blocks
on Limestone street, within few hun
dred feet of his home, where he had
not been since Friday morning. ''':'''''
Mrs. J. G. Galloway started few days
ago and sailed from New York Satur-
day on the Cunard steamer Lucanis
for Queenstown, Ireland, from where
she goes to Ballano, county Mayo, to
visit her brother, Mr.. T. j. Murphy.
Mrs. Galloway has many friends in
Gaffney who wish for her pleasant
visit and a safe return to her family
and friends in Gaffney. ''''''Mr. ]. M
Swoford, of this county, was married
Sunday, the 4th instant, to Mrs. Mary
McMury, of Lattimer, N. c., at the
residence of Mr.. W. B. Lovelace, by
the Rev. J. NJ. Bridges, of this city.
CHESTER-The Lantern, June 6
Mrs. Margaret M. Miller, widow of the
late Josiah Miller, died this morning
at her home near Pleasant Grove
Presbyterian church, in her Slst year,
having been born in 1918. REV. G,
H. Waddell occupied the pulpit OF the
Methodist church Sunday morning
and evening and addressed the Sab
bath school in the afternoon on the
work of the institution he represents,
Epworth orphanage. The congrega'
tion contributed something over $50 to
the institution. MIR. ]. J. Roach,
kof Rock Hill, was in the city yester-
day. ......'."R. B. Caldwell, Esq, show
ed us stalk of cotton yesterday from
bis fathers farm, which is the most ad-
vanced we have seen. 1t is II to 10
inches high and bears a number oi
shapes. Mr.. Caldwell says it was one
of two stalks that grew together, and
the whole field is very much like it.
......Miss Ethel Cross returned yester-
day from a visit to Rock Hill. MIR.
Joseph A. Walker is suffering more
from his wounded arm than for some
davs past. ......."Mrs. ]. K. Henry and
children returned Saturday morning
from their visit to Illinois. ''''''" We
have heard of a new remedy for pota-
10 bugs. 1t was discovered by Ches'
ter county man but we have not seen
him yet to get the particulars. The
remedy is to turn the sheep into the
patch. We do not know whether the
sheep eat the bugs and leave the pota'
toes, or the bugs leave the potatoes
and eat the sheep.
LANCASTER-Ledger, June Z:
Mr.. Simeon Dunlap, near Waxhaw, N.
c., mas been down with the smallpox
since Thursday last. He is being at
tended by DR.. T. L. Doster, of Wax
haw. Mr.. Dunlap had not been ex'
posed to the disease that he knows OF
and it is unaccountable how he con-
tracted it. He was doing very we'll ON
Monday, the last we heard from him.
Mr.. Dunlap lives about 16 miles north
of this place and this is the nearest
smallpox has been to us yet. t.'''''''''The
committee of the Dixie and Newcut
sections, Messrs. w. G. A. Porter, W.
@. Caskey, T. B. Craig, R. L. L. Black
mon, Daniel Sapps, Moses Yarbor-
ough and T. R. Langley, who were
recently paid the reward Of $3.50 by
the governor for the arrest with evil
dence to convict Jas. Blackmon, COL
ored, who burned the stables of Mr.. r.
J. Flynn, of Newcut, with several OF
his mules, made the following equi,a-
BILE division of the reward: They
donated to Mr.. Flynn $50, of the re-
ward out of sympathy for him in the
heavy loss he sustained each member
of the committee was then paid s.,
and the remaining 81 was given to
Messrs. Harper Craig and Romulus
Sapps whose assistance to the commit
tee had been very valuable. '''..''Rev.
Chalmers Fraser will be installed pas
tor of the Presbyterian church here,
oe nravionclv onnounced on Sunday