Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-02-02
Miseellaneuns 8eading.
FROM HEleHBoRIHe CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is Of More or Less
Local Interest.

Rock Hill Herald, January 30: Miss
Mary Marshall visited in Yorkville
this week.. Mrs. Walter Moore, Of
Yorkville. spent Tuesday in the city,
Miss Bessie Mcconnell Of York
Vile, is visiting Miss Alta Fewell..
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. White are visiting
relatives near Fort Mill, this week..
Miss Hattie Banks will go up to Fort
Mill this morning for short visit.
Misses Mary and Francis Massey, Of
Fort Mill, are visiting Mrs. ]. S. Starr.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Boyce are WIS.,
iting at the home Of Capt. J. w. Mar
shall. =. Mr.. Raleigh Myers, Of Char
lotte. is visiting Messrs. Joe and Cald-
we'll RaWlinson. Mrs. ]. r. Harris
and Mrs. J. C. Huches, Of Fort Mill,
are visiting Mrs. T. o. Flowers.
Miss Eunice Simpson, Of Hickory
Grove, spent few days this week with
Miss Julia Simpson. . Miss Hattie
McFadden is at home from Newport
Tenn, where for the past season she
has been engaged as milliner.. ..Rock
Hill has lost some splendid citizens by
the removal of Capt. T. ]. Lineberger
and Mr.. Henry Foust and family to
Bessemer City, N. C.......Mrs. T. N.
Balfour has been unwell for week or
longer. Monday, while looking at some
samples at the Carolina Hotel, she
tainted, and was carried home quite
sick. Measles are prevailing to a
considerable extent in the city and DR..
Fennell has a case of diphtheria at the
Highland Park mill. The patient Is a
child of Superintendent c. H. Bran
son. :. About 20 young girls met at
the home Of Mrs. A. E. Smith by invi-
tation, Monday afternoon, and formed
club, which after much discussion
was named the Castalian Literary club.
.. AN alarm of fire Sunday afternoon
called out the fire department, which
made a good run 20 Mr.. T. P. Roddey's,
but on reaching the place, found the
flames, which were in the barn, extin-
guished.. Mrs. E. R. Shannon with
her sister-in-law, Miss Margaret Shan
non, of Sharon, spent several days at
the home Of the formers uncle, Mr.. B.
F. Merit, returning to Sharon on Mon
day afternoon. ..Doctor w. 5. cur
rell, professor Of English in Washing
ton and Lee university, will lecture on
Sidney Lanier at Winthrop college next
Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock. On
this occasion there will be unveiled
handsome bust Of Lanier, a replica OF
the bronze bust in Johns Hopkins uni
versity. DR.. Currell is distinguish
ed son of York, and the public is most
cordially invited to hear him.. The
statement will be of interest to our
colored readers that Rt. Rev. George
Wylie Clinton, bishop of the A. M. E.
Zion church, with residence at Char
lotte, will be married on the 9th Of
February, to Marie Louise Clay, daugh-
ter Of DR.. B. E. Scruggs: The wedding
will take place at Lakeside M. e.
church, Huntsville, Alabama. Bishop
Clinton was a citizen of Rock Hill 20
years ago and was at that time porter
in the store of w. L. Roddey & Co. He
is now one of the leading colored men
of the South. -. The postoff1ce at Edg-
moor has been opened as many as four
times recently. The first time the thief
secured 81, the next time $S, and In his
third and fourth raids he stole s64. On
Friday last, a Negro boy, Will Lewis
by name, was apprehended as the thief.I
He confessed all and implicated Jim
Young, colored; hut Young. denies all
connection with or knowledge of the
robberies. Lewis is in the Chester
Jail awaiting trial in the u. S. COURT.
Last Saturday night the building
known as McFadden's market, was en-
tered by a thief, who took ladder and
climbing up to one of the back windows
pushed out two panes of glass and en-
tered the market through the hole that
he made. Once inside he helped HIM
self to whatever would suit his fancy,
and carried all away. Mr.. Bob Gordon
happened in the market the next morn
ing and discovering that robbery had
~
Mr.. McFadden, who upon going into
the market, at once suspected Dave
Taylor, a colored boy from Lancaster,
who had been in his employ about two
weeks. He swore out search warrant
and placing it in the hands Of Chief
Partlow, went to the house on Holy
Hill, in the western part Of town, where
Taylor was stopping and there the
goods taken from Mr. Gordon McFad-
den, who runs a grocery in the market.
were found. Taylor had carried off
crocus sack filled with goods, includ-
ing a ham, ginger ale, cigars, cigar
cites, chewing gum, raisins, candy, su-
gar. nuts, snowflake crackers, soap,
blueing and about a dozen boxes Of
sen-sen, a preparation to make the
breath smell sweet. Taylor was ar
rested and placed in the jug, when he
told all, sayinghe went to the market to
get about 500 that he thought had been
left in Mr.. Gordon McFadden's money
drawer. He opened both money draw
ers, but got only dollar or two. Mon
day he was before the mayor, and
theft being violation Of city ordi-
nance, that official sent Taylor to the
chaingang for 80 days in default of
paying a fine of $50. When he serves
this sentence Magistrate Beckham will
call for him and no doubt send him
back-te the gang for a longer time.
~Clover Review, January 81: Mrs.
Maggie Traywick was called to York
vile last week on account of sickness
in DR.. Cartwright's family. Mr.. J.
A. Gattis, of Gastonia, N. CT, has been
in Glover a few days doing fancy sign
painting Mr. frank Earls of Rock