Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-22
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News and Comment That Is Of More
or Less Local Interest.
YORK.
Rock Hill Herald, May 18: Mr.. ].
Newton Steele is very sick at his home
four miles west of this city,. MRS.
w. B. Huckabee is very sick with
pneumonia at her home on Green
street. Constable Wingate cap
tured 81 bottles Of beer from Hall
Crawford Thursday night.... Mrs
w. w. Lewis and three children, Of
Yorkville are visiting at the home Of
Mr. J. w. Rawlinson. Hope, the
5-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nicely,
at the State farm, Is very sick with
pleurisy, following pneumonia. 1.-The
finest wheat we have seen this year Is
four acre field on Mr.. Will Biggers'
farm. He ought to harvest rs or 30
bushels per acre.. Captain 7. L..
Lineberger and family, who removed
to Kings Mountain, have returned to
our city, much to the delight Of their
many friends. Mr.. Peter Garrison
was very sick for several days after the
reunion; but his condition is now much
better. 80. The many friends Of Mr..
Dave McAllister will learn with regret
that on account Of the failure Of his
health he will have to leave Rock Hill.
During his stay here he has been con-
nected with the Smith-Fewell compa-
ny, and will be missed from his accus-
toned place. Mr.. E. w. Parker,
who lived at the Joe Tap Steele place
in Bethesda when it was burned, had a
similar experience at his home near
Ridgeway Wednesday night. He was
was burned, together with all his
household effects. The loss is COM
plete, as he had no insurance. ......
During the recent thunder storm a
house on the Ratterree farm, near
town, occupied by Ed White and his
family, was struck by lightning and
the chimney and end Of the building
were torn up pretty badly. The clock
on the mantle was smashed and other
articles were thrown about over the
house. White and his wife were in
bed at the time. The woman was very
much shocked, and for several days
was quite sick. The man was not hurt
at all.
CHESTER.
Lantern, May II: Miss Mamie Nc
Connell, Of Yorkville, is visiting rela-
tives in the city,. Tuesday was a
fine day for the exercises at the ceme-
terry, and an unusually large number
attended. The programme was carried
out as published few days ago. The
songs were very pleasing part. The
singers were, Miss Peattross (at the
organ) Mrs. Blake, Misses Marie
Horne and Alexa Thompson, and
Messrs. Edward Smering and T. w.
Patrick. 1t would be useless to at
tempt a synopsis Of the Hon. w. D.
Trantham's speech, as it was chiefly
historical, dealing chiefly with the
campaigns Of the army or Northern
Virginia, spiced with many incidents
that held the attention Of the old SOL
diers. A high tribute was paid to
those who sleep in the graves then
about to be decorated with flowers,
and a pathetic appeal in behalf Of the
memory of the unknown soldiers. The
Lee Light infantry turned out in good
shape; but the Hazelwood rifles dio
not get here, as a company. In
1876 men offered to lie down and let
Wade Hampton walk over them. A
few years later, they turned their
backs upon him., supplanted him with
another who had not a single quality
that fitted him for a representative
of the State, and denounced him as a
sot, a libertine, and a disgrace to the
State. They howled him down and
insulted him when he attempted to
address his own people. A little later
the man used to displace and humili-
ate Hampton was ignominiously repu-
dated without any cause except such
as existed and was known to exist,
when he was promoted over the "hero
of TO" Now some Of those same men
who degraded Hampton are slobber-
ing over him in the exuberance OF
their praise, holding him up as an
ideal Of Carolina manhood and honor,
unpurchasable. incorruptible and above
reproach, while they cannot find words
in the vocabulary of vituperation to
suitably characterize Jno. L. McLaur-
in, who aided them in defeating Hamp-
ton. The crime for which McLaurin
| is now denounced is that he differs
with them on political questions, and
has consented to use his influence with
the president in Hampton's behalf, If
| it Is desired. The deed by which
Hampton has won their adulation Is
his declining, in an ill-tempered man
ner, the proffered service. Such is pol
itics and such are a large portion of
the men who represent us in our pub
lie affairs and before the world.
CHEROKEE.
Gaffney Ledger May II: The new
Baptist church at Gilead, near JONES'
vile, will be dedicated on the first
Sunday in June next, at II o'clock a..
m. The sermon will be preached by
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