Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-14

OF the QlSpenSaTy, oeCause MI. Hlo
Graw, who was avowedly in favor of
the dispensary, was elected, and DR..
Hamrick, who was avowedly in favor
of prohibition, was defeated. On .ac-
count of press of labor with my
churches was unable to take any
part in the campaign which was made
for prohibition in this county last cleo
tion. But it is my opinion that Mr..
McGraw lost as many (or more) votes
by his advocacy of liquor as he gained.
However, that may be, l hear, and
now challenge Mr.. McGraw, or any
other man, to make the run for the
legislature as the champion of liquor.
AS it will greatly interfere with my
work in my churches to canvass the
county, in a campaign on the stand, l
would greatly prefer that he or any
one who advocates that side join issue
with me in the columns of The Ledger.
But if they will not do that l will
meet them at every point appointed
for speaking in the county campaign
and discuss the question with them.
If the matter is fairly and clearly pre-
sented to our people, I don't believe
the majority of them will vote for
liquor. If the liquor men have q
champion in this county let him now
come forth. If they have one and he
will not make an open fight, but seeks
to defeat us by less honorable mode
of warfare, let me exhort the good
people of this county to keep dilligent
watch-let US take to the woods and
catch the fox. Whether any one joins
issue or not, I want to ask the use Of
your columns to show to our people
that it is their patriotic and religious
duty to vote for the Prohibition can
didate in this election.
LANCASTER Ledger, July IL:
Mr.. Lewis Clyburn, whose skull was
fractured by blow with hoe at the
hands of Wash Perry, colored, last
Friday, we are glad to learn, is able to
be up. The negro is in Jail aud will be
tried at the next term of court. ''''''.''
Several mules dropped dead in the
farms from the excessive heat the past
week. Mr.. J. A. P. Sistare, we learn,
lost very fine mule; Col. Springs also
lost one on one of his farms, and Mr..
J. T. Stevens had one to drop dead to
his wagon while hauling lumber. '''''''''
We learn that the husband, Sam Hor-
ton, of the negro woman who recently
had smallpox on Mr.. Clanton's place,
near the Halle Gold Mine, now has
the disease, and that his mother, An
ME Horton, also has it. They are pro-
nounced very light cases and no un-
easiness is expressed about the, spread
ofthe disease. A guard is kept about
the premises to prevent any one going
to the house. The people of the vicia-
ity are not at all alarmed. Some OF
them say they don't mind having it if
they can get off with as light cases as
these parties have. .......'"Capers Cau-
then, colored, was committed to Jail
Monday charged with stealing a beef
from a pasture mile or so out from
town. The theft was committed Fri.
day evening, and Mr.. Varnadore, to
whom the beef belonged, saw Capers
with cow resembling his Saturday
morning, only it's horns had been
sawed off and its tail trimmed up. Mr..
V. suspicioned it was his and made
search of the pasture at once. The
hide has been identified and Capers,
is in bad scrape this
time. ..........About 10 o'clock Monday
morning John lizard, a colored man
working on the Kibler farm, about six
miles south of town, dropped dead
while plowing in the field. He had
made no complaint during the morn
ing. He and his son were blowing
together. When the son reached the
end of the row and was turning his
mule he noticed his fathers mule COM
ing dragging the plow down the cotton
row. He ran and caught it and walk
ed up the row to see where his father
was. He found him lying in the row
dead. Coroner Young was notified
and held an inquest that afternoon. In
the opinion of the jury, lizard died
of heart disease.