Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-23
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The sixty-fir5t annual meeting ol
the South Carolina Medical association
was held in Summerville this week
convening on Tuesday and adjournine
last night. The convention was helo
in Pine Forest Inn, the famous winter
resort for northern tourist and the doc
tors were entertained most handsome
ly. There were a large number OF in
teresting papers covering a wide range
of subjects, tuberculosis receiving es-
pecial attention.
- For the past decade or more the
rapidly thinning gray lines" has been
a much worn phrase In orations ano
essays in Confederate veteran organ
izations and kindred associations, but
the Confederate pension roll continues
to climb a little each year, and the
annual appropriation has mounted UP
from an item Of some $4,000 a few
years ago to the present figure OF
s25O, 900. The pension departments
annual enumeration made public today
shows a total pension roll for the state
of 9,5O4 as against 9,316 last year
Seventy-two were dropped from the
rolls this year on account Of death OF
for other reasons. but there were 259
additions, making net increase or lSf'
Greenville, April %: The case
against Joshua w. Ashley, the we'll
known Anderson county citizen,
charged with peonage, was taken up
in the Federal court here today. The
case dragged slowly at first, but when
the court adjourned tonight a great
deal of interest had been injected into
the proceedings. The evidence thus
far shows that Mr.. Ashley kept two
negroes, John and Will Davis, In a state
Of peonage, making them work out
debt claimed to be due to John NC
Gaha, a relative Of Ashley, who was
killed some time ago. The negroes ran
off from Ashley's place, and according
to the evidence, Ashley and three Oh
his relatives, armed with shotguns,
followed them and captured them and
brought them back Evidence was
also introduced to show that Ashley
had kept another negro in peonage
several years ago, having gone on his
bond while he was in Jail awaiting
trial for a minor offense, and kept him
at work for four years. The negro
testified that the longer he worked for
Ashley the deeper he got into his debt.
He finally got another white man In
Anderson county to take up the Ash
ley debt, amounting to $35, and the
negro worked this out in less than six
months and has been free man ever
since.
Abbeville, April 21: The annual
state convention Of the Jr. o. u. A. M,
convened here last night in the court
house, at $50 o'clock. The state coun-
elf was called to order by ]. E. Beam
guard Of Clover. An eloquent address
of welcome was delivered by Hon. j.
Moore Marrs Of the Abbeville bar, rep
resenting the local council. The res
ponse on behalf of the state council
was a most felicitious little gem OF
eloquence by State Councillor, Hon. ].
E. Beamguard Of Glover. Hon. T. Both
Butler Of the Gaffney council, In his
forceful and logical manner addressed
the council upon the principles Of the
order. as did also Rev. B. L. Hoke OF
the Blacksburg council: At the busi-
ness session this morning, after dis
posing Of routine business, and the
usual committee reports the council
elected state officers for the ensuing
year, as follows: State councillor, j.
e. Beamguard, Glover; vice state coun-
cilor, Rev. B. L. Hoke, Blacksburg;
state council secretary, ]. s. Wilson,
Lancaster: state council treasurer s.
w. Plyler, Rock Hill; conductor, ]. H.
Kershaw; warden. c. O..