Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-17

company, and has been living in Green
Vile for sometime, while Mrs. Fergu-
son resided here. Mr.. and Mrs. Fergu-
son have many friends In Gaffney who
will note their departure with regret;
but at the same time will wish for
them much happiness and prosperity
in their new home. The infant son
Of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Miller died
Saturday and was buried Sunday. The
baby had been sick quite awhile, and
it's death was not altogether unexpec-
ted >. . Governor McSweeney has again
departed from the regular set way Of
exercising the power Of executive
clemency. A boy, George Stone, was
convicted in March last in this county
for breaking into dwelling house IN
the daytime, and stealing therefrom
an air gun. He was sentenced to serve
II months on the county chaingang by
Judge Townsend. At the suggestion Of
Solicitor Henry, the governor ordered
the boy prisoner transferred from the
chaingang to the State Reformatory for
youthful criminals on the Lexington
farm. The boy is only II years old, Is
absolutely useless on the gang, and is
said to be a pretty bad youth. In send
ing him to the reformatory he is taken
from contact with the older and more
hardened convicts.
GASTON1A.
Gastonia Gazette, August IS: The
sorrowful news Of the death Of Mrs. E.
L. Pegram, Jr., at Stanley, came to
Gastonia by phone this morning. The
sad event occurred at 3 o'clock last
night, after an illness Of II days with
typhoid fever. She leaves a husband,
three sons, the oldest being years OF
age, and a little daughter 1S months
old, to mourn their irreparable loss...
The Southern railway refused yester-
day morning to receive for transpor-
tation the corpse Of John Lindsay, an
1S-year-old Negro, who died Tuesday
morning Of typhoid fever. His mother
lived at Waxhaw and thither his
brother Bob wanted to ship the dead
boy for burial. The body was in cof-
fin and case all right, was brought to
the station on time, and money was
ready to buy a ticket; but as no one
was going along with the corpse the
railroad people refused to receive 1t for
transportation. After the train pulled
out, 1t was decided to bury the body
here. I'VE were glad to see in our
Office last week Mr.. Alfred Ferguson.
He says he is So, but he doesn't look
it by 10 years. Mr.. Ferguson Is next to
the youngest Of eight brothers who
served in the Confederate army, four OF
whom never returned. One was taken
prisoner and died in New York. The
twin brother Of Mr.. Ferguson was
wounded at Hanover court house and
never heard from afterwards. One died
in the hospital at Lynchburg and one
at Petersburg. OF the four who return
ed, two have died since the war. At the
close of the conflict Mr.. Ferguson came
home, settled down ''in the woods, as
he called it, went to farming and has
raised a family Of eight children.
Such man is an honor to his commu-
nifty, his county and his country.......
Two white men, David Pope and his
grown son, Hugh Pope, were commit
ted to Jail here Saturday afternoon on
a charge Of having stolen chickens from
Negro living beyond Dallas. The
chickens were stolen on the Goth of
May, about o'clock in the morning,
and were found In the possession OF
these men near Dallas about sun up.
The accused men say they were pass
ing the house about the hour named
and bought the chickens from a Negro
who offered them for sale. They left
the county and were not arrested un-
til last week when they were located
at Yorkville. Policeman C. E. Russell
went down and brought the men to
Gastonia. The older man was brought
back on a warrant for disposing of
mortgaged property and was then car
ried before the magistrate on the chick
en- case.