Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-17

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salute thee this day, humble friend
and faithful servant! W. NJ. GRIER.
IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
Summary of the News That Is Being Pub
lished by Exchanges.
CHESTER-The Lantern, May 12:
Mr.. Jacob G. Warren, of Sweet Water,
Tenn, one of General Wheeler's ia
NOUS scouts during the war between
the states, passed through the city
Tuesday night in company with Mr..
Jas. Caldwell, of the Wellridge neigh
borhood, en- route to Charleston to par
ticipate in the pleasures of the reun-
ion. 1t will be remembered by many
of our readers that Mr.. Warren spent
five or six years after the close of the
war at Mr.. Caldwell's home, and was
one of the wits of the famous Oak
Grove school. .........Colonel ]. r. Culp
has told us something about the origin
of the Catawba Falls annual picnic,
and put us on the track OF further
Information. He thinks the first picnic
there was in 1S4S, but does not think
there was any special object or organ
ization. '......"A revenue officer was in
town Wednesday looking over cigar
boxes and other packages requiring
revenue stamps. He found only two
or three boxes bearing the counterfeit
stamps, and among these the oldest
yet found, having been Cancelled lit
tie more than two years ago. He says
it was not known before that these
stamps had been out so long. .'''''''Mr.
w. E. Sledge has moved his family
here from Fort Mill. They will occu-
py the new cottage near the power
house, recently erected by Mr.. Sledge.
CHEROKEE-The Gaffney Ledger,
May 12: The preliminary invesllga-
ton in the case of the State against
Calvin and Jim Tate, charged with
burning the stables and ouLhouses of
Mr.. Taylor Petty few days ago, was
continued in Magistrate Phillips court
on yesterday. Both parties were re-
com mitted to Jail to await the next
term of court. As to Cal Tate, the
evidence was circumstantial, but the
magistrate thought it sufficiently strong
to warrant him in binding him over.
The offence is very serious one and
no doubt the case will attract much
attention when it comes up for trial.
..".Captain. J. B. Bell has been invi-
ted by the Ladies' Memorial Associa-
ton of Salem church, and has consent.
ed to deliver the Grafton on Memorial
day, the Goth of May. '''''''''The vol
unteers from Cherokee county in the
war with Spain are requested to ap-
pear in a body at the Battle Ground
on the 9th of May, the ranking officer
to have command. Sergeants A. M.
Deal and Barnet Lipscomb will please
take charge and induce their comrades
to turn out. Just as we 60 to press
we learn that at 8 o'clock this morning
Mr.. w. O. Lipscomb's barn, about one
mile north of the city, was burned.
The fire was discovered in time to save
the horses but all the corn, fodder and
farm implements were lost ; also sur
rev. No clue but it was no doubt set
on fire. Information reached The
Ledger yesterday that the large barn
of Captain John D. Jeferies, of AS
bury, containing five horses and mules,
large quantity of fodder and hay and
many farm implements, was burned
Tuesday night about 10 o'clock.
LANCASTER Ledger, May 13: R.
E. Allison, Esq, attended the stock
holders meeting of the Cherokee Cot
ton MILL. in Cherokee county, this
week. He reports this mill prosper
ing. A dividend of 6 per cent, paya-
BILE July l, was declared, and also a
dividend of per cent, payable Nov.
Il. The mill was indebted in the sum
of $4,000 at the commencement of
the year; but the report of its officers
showed that by January next, the
debt would be paid in full. This is a
fine showing for the Cherokee mill,
one of the best in the state. ''''''''On
Thursday last, while working on
house on the Brown river place, MIR.
John Coins fell from the building,
breaking one of his legs. ''"''Married,
Blacksburg, S. c., on Tuesday night
last, by the Methodist pastor at that
place, Mr.. Robert l.. Long, depot agent
of the S. c. & G.. Extension Railway
Co., at Heath Spring, and Mrs. Ida
Baber, of Blacksburg. They passed
throug gh Lancaster Wednesday on their
way to the groom's home at Heath
Spring. .'..'''".Dr. Edgar Mellow, Of
Heath Spring, who recently purchased
one of the prettiest plots in our new
town cemetery, had the remains of his
father, the late DR.. R. s. Mellow, and
of his mother moved from the Presby-
terian cemetery to the new cemetery
last Thursday. Mr.. A. ]. McNinch
superintended and aided in the re-
moval of the bodies, and also of the
handsome Mellow monument. The
monument, which is of Aberdeen mar
BILE, capped with large urn which
alone weighs about 400 pounds, was
placed in the center of the plot and
makes an imposing appearance. We
learn that several other citizens will
remove their dead from the old ceme-
terry to the new one very soon. '''''''
Coroner Young held an inquest last
Wednesday on the dead body of EN-
ma Wade, wife of Joe Wade, living out
near the river. She went to bed Tues