Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-28
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
R8pist Dead,

James Clink, the principal in the
Florence affair, died in the penitenti.
ary Thursday. He had received the
best of attention; but the loss of blood
from an ugly wound in his hip was
too much for him.
Alliance Exchange Continues.
At meeting of the trustee stock
holders of the state alliance exchange,
held in Columbia last Wednesday, it
was agreed that the exchange be con-
tinued. The stock holders voted on a
proposition to withdraw the $4,000
capital and return it to the subscribers.
To prevail required two-thirds vote.
Ten thousand voted for the PROPOSE.
tion and $4,000 against it. The ex-
change, therefore, still continues in
operation.
A Story Of Hard Luck.
John and Andrew Crawford, of Fair
field county, are certainly "playing in
hard luck" A contributor to the
Winnsbory News and Herald writes
that, on July 2, they had three fine
mules killed by lightning and their
barn burned to the ground, losing their
whole crop of oats and all the rough
food they had, besides lots of useful
farming implements. They had hard
work to save another barn that was
not ten feet from the one burnt. Four
years ago their ginhouse was blown
down, breaking up their wagons, rake,
mower and new buggy; the next
year their crop was nearly ruined by
hail; last year, like everybody else,
they had their crop cut off by the
drought; this year they lost three fine
mules, besides other valuable things
heavy losses four years in succession.
Whitman and the Tigers.
At Lancaster, last Wednesday, &C.
cording to August Kohn, G. Walt
Whitman insisted that from what
others said, the various departments
are in bad shape and he wanted to
remedy things. The disregard of law
in South Carolina was amazing and
disgraceful, not only as to the dispen-
sary, but everything else. If these
speakers are to be believed the best men
at times, he feared, took just little
too much liquor. A little drunkenness
does not affect man as much as tell
ing lie. God never made a misfit
and there is use for liquor. The Bible
does not condemn anyone for getting
drunk. He went to Charleston to
make investigation, and found blind
tigers on King street and Meeting
street and the Battery and Cooper
river and Ashley river and then to the
Isle of Palms he went in bathing on
Sunday and found them selling beer
on Sunday and bought beer there on
Sunday. He believed every dispenser
was violating the law today. The ii.
gers sell more liquor than the dispen-
sary. They were once blind, but the
tigers only have cataracts on their
eyes; the constables are stone blind.
He would enforce any law on the
books.
There Was No Lynching.
Says Columbia dispatch of Tues
day to the New York Sun: The state
of North Carolina was invaded yester-
day by company of South Carolina
soldiers, bearing arms, but although
his permission was not asked, Cover
nor Russell of North Carolina will not
protest. They were the Timmonsville
Guards, who were under the orders of
the sheriffs of Marion and Florence
counties and were in a chartered train
trying to protect two Negroes from a
mob. John Livingston and Jim Clink,
Negroes charged with criminal assault,
were on the train, the former being
mortally wounded. After being nearly
captured at several places, at one time
chased by mob in special train, the
tired officers and soldiers reached Co.
lumbia by using the tracks of several
railroads early in the morning. They
put their prisoners in the penitentiary,
the wounded man going to the hospi-
tai. The party was prevented from
coming directly to this city because
intervening stations were occupied by
mobs and the train would not have