Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-11-21

Wednesday evening the Rev. F. w.
Gregg and Miss Cole Guy, daughter of
Mr.. J. S. Guy, will be married. We
hear that there are others. ...... REV. J.
S. Moffatt returned Thursday night
from the meeting Of synod. Mr.. N. E.
White stopped over on the way home
to spend two days with DR.. Torbet a
relative. There is not much to report
from the meeting that would be of In
terest to most of our readers. The next
meeting will be at Richland, Tenn, the
congregation Of the Rev. w. H. Millen.
who is from this county. Rev. DR.. +.
Y. Pressly was given some work In
Erskine Theological seminary, Greek
exegis, we believe, and the Rev. G. G.
Parkinson, Of Tennessee, was elected to
chair in the same institution. A
board was elected to take control of
the orphanage now located at Hickory
Grove, with power to select another To-
cation If deemed best. Rev. ]. S. Moi
fatt was elected treasurer Of the theo-
logical seminary, and 1t Is probable
that he will be made treasurer OF the
church extension fund also. The Rev.
J. S. Mills, by whose congregation the
synod was so handsomely entertained
on this occasion, is another Chester
county man. Z.
CHEROKEE -Gaffney Ledger, Nov
ember 16: Quite a shocking accident
occurred at Thickety, Tuesday after
noon, by which little colored girl
lost her life. Ben Smith, her step
father, was taking some shells out of
pistol while the girl was sitting near
him in a chair. He had finished un-
loading it Of the empty shells, leaving
one cartridge in the pistol, and got up
to put it away; when, just as ne was
rising, the weapon was discharged and
the ball entered the girls head Just
over the right eye. He had unW1tting-
ly left the hammer standing and In get
ting up his hand came in contact with
the trigger, which caused the weapon
to go off, and as result of the care
lessness, the death Of human being.
......R. S. Lipscomb brought some
grapes to this office few days ago
which were from the second crop that
his vines have borne this year. They
were not ripe, but were large and well
formed and the punches were as thick
ly clustered as the first growth. j. l..
Spake, who lives just below the city,
also sent us an apple that came from
the second crop raised on his trees this
year. We do not know how large this
species of apple grows; but the one
sent us was Of good size and seemed
to be fully matured. There seems to
be quite an abundance Of second
growth fruit this year, owing, we pre-
sumo, to the late fall. Mrs. Ell b.
Putnam, Of Double Shoals. N. c., died
last Friday night and was buried Sun
day at New Bethel church. She had
been sick about four weeks with ty-
phoid fever. J. Pew and little
son, Napoleon, of Mercer, came In to
see us few days ago while they were
in the city. Mr.. Pew had in his possess
sion two Indian relics that he had
found on McKeown's mountain, In the
lower part of the county. One was an
Indian hatchet or tomahawk, without
the handle, and had the top broken OH.
The other was shaped something like
a hatchet, but was too blunt for any
kind of cutting, and must have been
used as an instrument Of warfare.....
Young Gibson, who killed Bradley at
Clifton, Sunday night, and who was
severely cut himself, Is doing nicely
and is not thought to be in much dan
ger of losing his life. Wednesday
morning Thomas Bradley, the father
Of the boy who was killed, went to
Spartanburg and swore out warrant
before Magistrate Kirby for Tom Glib
son, charging him with the murder OF
his son. Gibson, though, Is unable to
leave his bed as yet, and 1t will be
sometime before he will fully recover.
The body of Willie r. Marks, a
young man whose home was in Spar
tanburg, and who had been missing
since Tuesday afternoon, was found
Wednesday morning in Whites mill
pond on Lawson's Fork. The deceased
had been suffering with a complica-
ton of diseases for 20 years or more
and had, as a natural consequence,
grown gloomy and despondent. He
had spoken several times Of taking his
own life, and when it was learned that
he was missing, there was strong belier
that he had carried out his intention
and put an end to his life in some man.
ner. His clothes were found on the
bank Of the river and crowds Of men
searched for the body until far IN the
night, but without any satisfactory re-
suit. Next morning. after the waters
of the mill pond were let off, the BODY
was found and taken to his home.
There were no scratches or bruises on
the body, and the evidence was conclu-
sive that the young man had commit
ted suicide. AN ugly story OF the
brutal operations Of white cap regula-
tors comes from Blacksburg, In which
a frail and delicate woman Is the victim
of three brutes in human form. On
Tuesday night, Nov. 9Th, while our
Republican friends in other sections OF
the country were making merry over
the triumphant termination Of their
cause, three masked outlaws who DEEM
ed themselves so holy as to correct
others in what they believed their mis-
deeds, went to the home of l.. M. Hol-
land, in Blacksburg, and called de-
fenseless and helpless woman to the
door, dragged her to the street and ad-
ministered f1ogging with buggy whips.
The whipping was so severe that 1t
NAV vet prove fatal, as the latest IN