Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-28
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CHEROKEE-The Gafney Ledger,
June %: Mrs. M. ]. Bell, of Yorkville,
is in the city visiting her son, Captain
J. B. Bell, on Race street. .'''''Quite a
quantity of wood is now being shipped
to the city over the South Carolina
and Georgia Extension railway. '''''''''
Sergeant Pressly, of the penitentiary
guard, came to the city Wednesday
and yesterday carried Jim Tate to the
penitentiary to serve 10 years SEN
tence for barn burning. ..''''''''The case
of the town council of Gaffney against
Zeb Robinson for obstructing the
streets, which was carried up on ap-
peal from the mayors court, was de.
cided by Judge Watts in favor OF
Robinson. Routine business was then
transacted and the court adjourned.
......"The committee on sports has
received letter from Yorkville stating
that the Yorkville Baseball club would
come over and cross bats with Gatfney
on July 4. Yorkville has good. team
and the Gaffney team is practiclng
daily and expect to put up such
game as will be credit to the occasion
and make the boys from York hustle
to win it. .'....'".Court got down to
business in earnest Tuesday and dis
posed of considerable business. There
was a mistrial in the case of Allen
Davis for assault and battery with in
tent to kill, and Jonathan Stewart, in
dicted for housebreaking and larceny,
was acquitted. A young man plead
guilty to assault and battery and on
account of his good character, was
given light sentence. In the case Of
Calvin Tate, indicted for arson, the
court ordered a verdict of not guilty
for want of evidence. Jim Tate, a
Negro boy about 1S years old, indicted
for arson, plead guilty, and the jury,
by the courts direction, recommended
him to the mercy of the court. He
was sentenced to 10 years in the peni-
tentiary for this high crime, the penal
ty for which would have been death,
but for the jury's action in recon-
mending mercy in his case. The
grand jury finished its business and
was discharged Tuesday evening. The
presentment of the grand jury is in
another column of The Ledger.
CHESTER-The Lantern, June %
DR.. w. S. Gregg, having read Senator
McLaurin's address at Woford college,
pronounces the junior senator away
ahead and above any of the other
public men in the state, as deep and
broad thinker. .'."".Mr. w. o. Guy has
heard his owl again and is now looking
for a long dry spell. Of course it
meant to predict rain; but he won't
believe t.:......''Mr. E. L. Guy reports
the recent rain as lighter about
Lowrysville than here. They had
some showers before, however, that
we did not have, and crops are doing
fairly we'll. .......'..A mail pouch was
found yesterday morning near the
rock crusher which had been cut open
and robbed of its contents, except one
package. 1t proved to be a pouch
of through mail from Lancaster going
toward Florida. 1t had been stolen
from the Southern depot Tuesday or
Wednesday night. '''''"Mr. John Ford,
who lived five miles east of town, died
Wednesday morning of heart disease
and was buried at Old Purity yester-
day, Rev. J. P. Marion conducting the
funeral service, which was attended by
very large number of people. Mr..
Ford was II years old, and was known
as quiet, good ciiizon. He was the
father of Mrs. T. N. Triplett, Mrs. R..
A. Latimer and Mr.. w. G. Ford. ''''''''
Mr.. N. w. Grant brought few stalks
of corn to this Office Wednesday to
show the work of the worms, of which
much complaint has been made this
year. The corn was riddled near the
top and bored into near the root. The
worms in the root are light in color
with small black spots. The one that
bores into the stalk near the ground
and turns downward toward the root
is white with the same spots, evidently
the same worm at a later stage. The
dry weather has given the worms ad-
vantage of the corn. When it is sea-
sonable the corn grows over the work
of the worms.
LANCASTER-Ledger, June "a {:
Among the recent honor graduates in
the law department of the South Caro-
lima college was our young townsman,
Mr.. M. ]. Hough. He returned home
Thursday, having received his diploma
the previous day. Mr.. Hough is un-
decided yet as to where he will locate.
He is brilliant young man and we be-
speak for him a brilliant success in his
chosen profession. ....''''..'While taking
the omnibus of the F. B. & M. Co., to
Columbia last Tuesday for overhaul
ing, just after crossing the river at
Poovey's ferry, the horses backed into
the river with it. Mr.. Nebraska
Moore quickly cut the harness and got
the horses out, but the bus had to be
fastened with ropes to tree until the
next morning, when it was taken out.
Mr.. Moore, while cutting the harness,
accidentally cut severe cash across
the back of his left hand. He went
on his way to Columbia and reached
there safely the following night. ''''.''''
Mrs. M. G. Nisbet, widow Of the late
John c. Nisbet, who was killed at the
Second Battle of Manassas, and a
daughter of the late Robert Nelson,
died at her home home near Jackin-