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f craps and Jacts.
? There were 205 mercantile failures in the
United States and Canada last week against
226 the week before.
? James D. Fish, late President of the
Marine National Bank, New York, was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in Auburn
prison last Saturday, by Judge Benedict,
in the United States Court.
? Vice-President Hendricks was tendered
a reception and dinner at Boston on Friday
by the Bay State Club. Plates were laid
for 300, and about that number gathered to
do honor to the "war horse" from Indiana.
Mr. Hendricks made a long speech.
? One of the saddest sights in Washington
has been that of Gen. Singleton, of Illinois,
who is yery old and very rich, worrying the
President for a picayune postoffice. And
now, it is said, that he was Insolent to Mr.
Cleveland, and was dismissed from the white
house very summarily.
?At Alexandria, La., last Thursday, A.
A. Goodwin was tried by a jury of five,
charged under the Act of the Legislature of
1884 with sending a threatening letter. He
was convicted and sentenced to six months'
imprisonment in the city prison. A fine of
$50 with costs was also imposed. An appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court and the
grisoner released on bail. A petition to the
ovemor for his pardon is being extensively
signed.
? Information comes from Lawrence, Kansas,
that Capt. Couch, the leader of the Oklahoma
boomers, says he believes that the
commission appointed by President Cleveland
will make a favorable report early in
July, and that the land will immediately
be taken by squatter sovereignty before it
is officially opened. The boomers'camp is
about three miles from Caldwell and at
present contains about .350 people. Couch
says additions are continually coming in,
and when he issues his call he expects to have
it answered by thousands. If the commission
should report unfavorably to the opening
of Oklahoma for settlement the colonists
as a last resort will again invade the territory.
? One of the Tammany Hall leaders now
in Washington says that in the course of two
months Tammany will be thoroughly reorganized
and that it will result in a general
breaking up of the County Democracy. Under
the proposed plan, instead of one man
holding absolute sway, as now, the power
will be distributed among twenty-four men,
representing the twenty-four Assembly
Districts. It is said that upon the reorganisation
cuch lpnrlpro of t.hfi Countv Democra
cy as Hubert O. Thompson will attach
themselves to Tammany. It is also claimed
that a member of Cleveland's Cabinet will
connect himself with the organization,
while the County Democracy will be left in
the hands of Mayor Grace.
? The Iowa cyclone last week proves to
have been much more destructive than at
first reported, traversing about 280 miles,
causing a loss of $G00,000 in four counties,
killing at least 20 people, and seriously
wounding 50 more. There were two distinct
storms, one coming from the southwest
and entering the State about 30 miles
below Sioux City, taking in Sioux City in
its course and passing on to Lemars, a town
to the north-east. Here it was met by another
storm that had come from Yankton,
Dakota, and the two united and left a track
of devastation to Fort Dodge, 75 miles eastward.
Old residents declare that this beats
even the Iowa record in cyclones, and the
storm in less violent form extended east
into Illinois and south into Missouri.
? A Tucson, Arizona, dispatch of Saturday
says: General Cook has been busily engaged
for the past few days in refitting and
preparing for the Indian campaign in the
Sierra Madres and is about ready to start
for that locality. It is unofficially stated
that the campaign will be conducted as follows:
General Crook, with scouts and infantry,
will enter the Sierra Madres mountains
and endeavor to kill or capture Gerinomo
and his followers. Should they escape
him and attempt to return to the reservation
in Arizona or New Mexico they
will be intercepted by cavalry which will
be stationed along the line. The troops
will camp at different water holes along the
line between Fort Huachuc and Silver
Creek, so that the entire line will be guarded.
? The New York Commercial Advertiser
says that the profits of the Louisiana Lottery
Company lor May were $477,500. When
Assistant Postmaster Richards, of New
York, was asked concerning the use of mails
by the lottery company, he said: "This
lottery company advertises that letters,
money orders, &c., shall be sent to 4M.
A. Dauphin &Co.' Now we have no power
to inquire into the contents of a sealed letter
addressed to such a name. A sealed letter
is sacred, and the department itself cannot
open it without breaking the law. We
could stop giving money orders addressed
to this person and to others whom we
knew were engaged in fraud, but we could
not stop letters. Circulars unsealed are different,
and these we may open and prevent
the distribution of them.
? When the North Carolina legislature
passed the bill appropriating $30,000 for the
payment of pensions to disabled Confederate
soldiers and widows of soldiers, it was estimated
that there were 1,000 of all in the
State. This was regarded as an outside estimate,
800 being deemed nearer the exact
figures. "But," says the Raleigh Observer,
"it was a poor estimate. Auditor Roberts
has thus far sent out 8,000 blank forms of
application. The number of applicants is
apt to be 4,000. There are advices of over
3,000 applicants now. Letters are daily received
asking for more blank applications.
Most of the claims will doubtless be allowed,
though, of course, a number will be rejected.
The examining boards have already
passed on many claims. The matter is attracting
much attention. It looks as if the
Eensioners will get something like $10 each;
ardly more."
? Information has been received of another
hanging of horse thieves in Indian Territory,
they being a part, of the same gang
with those that were hanged about two
weeks ago. Some officers from Burlington
with a posse of citizens and officers from
Indian Territory determined to rid themselves
of these horse thieves, whose depredations
have been greater and more daring
this last spring and summer than ever before.
Their thefts were wholesale and the
gang was murderous and defiant like the
Lee gang. When three of them were overtaken
and hanged a few days ago the citizens
determined not to stop until the work
was completed, and from the latest advices
it would seem that this policy has been
carried out. The officers and posse of citizens
continued on the trail and overtook
Clgllli IUU1C Ul LJ1C giiu^ Ull >? IUIIUI IllVCI
and hanged ihem all. Continuing their
search the officers found four more of the
gang on Mud Creek and they also suffered
the same fate. The names of the men hanged
are not given.
? John McKeever, colored, who shot and
killed Wm. J. Trainor four miles south of
Memphis, Tenn., on the 17th of last December,
was hanged in the county jail at Memphis
last Friday. The condemned man 1
tried to commit suicide at midnight Thurs- i
day night by cutting the arteries of his!
arms and legs with a rough piece of tin i
shaped like a knife, which he made out of a '
snuffbox. When found by the night war-1
den at 4 o'clock A. M. he was unconscious !
from the loss ot blood. Medical aid was j
summoned and he soon rallied. Father j
William Walsh, of St. Bride's Catholic j
Church, and Father J. It. Wood, a Catholic 1
Priest from Water Valley, Miss., attended j
him on the scaffold. When asked by Sher-1
iff Conner, if he had anything to say, he
replied, "Yes,Jl am no murderer." Eyeing :
his attorney among those who were pres-!
ent to witness the execution, he called to
him, saying, "Good-bye, Mr. Moss. You
bet your life I am going to die right."
These were his last words, and five seconds
afterwards the trap was sprung. Mrs.
Trainor, the widow of the murdered man,
occupied a seat on the scaffold and witnessed
her husband's assassin take bis leap into
eternity. Other hangings occurred on the
same day as follows: At Marianna, Lee
countv, Arkansas, Kufus Dortich, colored,
for the murder of another negro last winter.
Robert McCoy, colored, at Sylvania, Ua.,
for murdering James Miller, a white eonstabl?|'on
November 20, 1884. Two thous-i
and people witnessed the execution. At;
Fort Smith, Ark., James Arcine and Wm.
i'archmeal, full-blooded Cherokee Indians,
were hanged for the murder of Henry
Feigel, an old Swede, thirteen years ago.
? Secretary Manning has requested the
resignation of Horatio C. Burchard, of Illinois,
as director of the mint. It is understood
that Burchard will decline to resign j
on the ground that there are no charges :
against him and further because his term J
of office will not expire until February, 1889. ;
It is said that the friends of Burchard question
the right of the secretary of the treasury
to remove him inasmuch as he was appointed
by the President under a special
statute, which provides that the incumbent
shall not be removed except on charges sustained
by the Senate. Burchard's friends
assert that his administration of affairs has
been honest and efficient, and that the Senate
will not consent to his summary removal.
While it is understood that Secretary
Manning is dissatisfied with Burchard's
management of the office of director, it is
not believed he will act arbitrarily in the
matter and remove Burchard except for
reasons which would be accepted by the
Senate.
?hc forfcvtUc taqittm.
YORKVILLE, S. C. :
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1885.
RAILROAD SURVEY.
On Wednesday of last week, Capt. O. A.
Ramsour, engineer in charge of surveys for
a proposed railroad between Marion, N.
C., and Georgetown or Charleston in this
State, to be built by the "Massachusetts and
Smithprn Construction Comnanv." comDlet
ed a survey from Hickory Grove, in the
western part of the county, to this place.
This survey crosses Bullock's Creek at
Black's Ford, near the residence of Mr. John
A. Byers, and thence by Walnut Grove
Church, about half a mile north of Sharon
Church, passing on the south side of "Locust
Hill" and crossing to the north side of
the Howell's Ferry road, in the vicinity of
Mr. A. F. Love's residence; running thence
along the ridge about two miles, to the residenceofMr.
W.J. Stephenson, crossing there
to the south side of the road and running
nearly parallel with the Howell's Ferry road
and crossing Turkey Creek about one-fourth i
of a mile south of Herndon's mill; continuing
on the south side of Howell's Ferry
road to a point about half a mile west of
the Court House, near the house of Aaron
Moore ; thence across to Madison street, entering
that street near the residence of Mr.
Barber, and continuing along Madison to
the crossing of the street by the Chester and
Lenoir Railroad, near the A. R. P. Church.
The distance from Hickory Grove to Yorkville
by this survey is 13 7-10 miles.
After reaching this place, the surveying
party left for Shelby, X. C., for the purpose
of of running a line between that town
and Rutherford ton.
As our readers are aware, it is under dirpntinn
nf this cnmnanv thatseveral survevs
?- r 1 '
have recently been made through this section,
one from Gaffney City to Chester. As
we understand the purposes ofthe company,
and the provisions of their charters in North
and South Carolina, they are restricted to
no specific route, but in the location of their
road will be governed by the line along
which the people offer the greatest inducement,
topographical conditions and estimated
amount of traffic on the route also being
considered. The line via Yorkville contemplates
liock Hill and Lancaster on the
route.
As to the intentions and the good faith of
the Massachusetts and Southern Construction
Company, we make the following extract
from the proceedings of a conference
of delegates representing different sections
interested in the road, held at Black's on
the 10th ultimo:
After several delegates had spoken a committee
was appointed to invite Mr. A. A.
Urquhardt, the agent of the Massachusetts
and Southern Construction Company, and
Capt. liamsour, its engineer, to address, the
conference. In a tew moments these gentlemen
appeared. Mr. Crquhardt said that
he did not care to make an address but
would answer, as far as he could, any questions
that might be propounded.
In response to a number of inquiries from
various gentlemen, Mr. Urquhardt said
that two of the leading capitalists of the
company were Mr. Chas. Whittier, owner
of the Whittier Steel Works, of Boston, a
large holder of Bell Telephone stock, and
acting president of the Construction Company,
and Mr. E. Howard, the treasurer,
who was a bank president.
The company was absolutely sound financially,
and had millionsof dollars back of it.
The original route was from Cincinnati and
Chicago to Charleston and Georgetown. Its
construction was to be under four charters,
the Georgetown arid North Carolina Narrow
Gauge Company's, with its amendments
to permit a broad gauge, the Rutherford
Construction Company's, the Rutherford,
Marion and Tennessee Company's,
and the Union, Gaffney City and ituther-1
ford Company's. Two points had been ;
definitely settled upon, Rutherford ton and '
Marion. The contracts with Rutherlordton
and Marion would be kept in good faith. ,
The route to Gaffney City had been considered
probable, but could be changed. From
Gaffney City to Chester, the route had i
proved heavier than had been anticipated,
hence another had been suggested. The
company would adopt that route that pre- I
sented the most commercial advantages and j
offered the greatest assistance in the build- ;
ing of the road.
The company was after a through line to
carry the trade between West and the West
Indies, which was enormous, employing
two steamer and seven packet lines from ;
New York, besides lines from Baltimore |
and Boston. Much of this traffic was in j
perishable commodities which now could 1
scarcely be taken to the West at all. Asid
from the settled points, the line that offered
most inducements would secure the benefits
of the road, about whose construction there
was not a possibility of doubt.
He would advise early action upon the
part of the communities interested, although
he could not guarantee that any particular
points would get the road. The
company does not care for promises. It
wants something definite. Grading would
first begin at Itutherfordton toeither Gaffney
City or Shelby. Any propositions should
be made to Col. It. A. Johnson, superintendent
of the 1road. As to the financial
condition of the company Mr. Whittier or
Mr. Howard could be communicated with.
Capt. ltamsour, the chief engineer, was
then called. lie said there would be little
difference between the cost of the road via
Gaffney City or via Shelby. Hickory Grove
had been the common point of the surveys
already made. Three or four miles from
there the survey being made had diverged i
in the direction of Shelby. The company
had begun the work on October 6 and had
shown no disposition to hurry the work, but
seemed to want all the information possible.
All expenses had been promptly met. ()ver j
?20,000 had already been spent. A line had
been run from Black's to Chester and another
would be run from Black's to Yorkville.
The speaker would advise all the gentle-!
men present to take steps to secure the !
road, as it would be one of greatest trunk
lines in the country.
Such are the representations of members
of the company or those in their service,
which we place before our readers for their
information and guidance.
EDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
After his return to Boston from his Southern
tour, Dr. Mayo published in the Boston
Journal of Education, of which he is one of
the editors, the following as the result of,
his observations while in this State:
Our Associate Editor has just finished a
six weeks' visit to South Carolina, where,
under the direction of State Superintendent
Coward, he made addresses in nearly twenty
places, in almost every portion of the State.
He reports a gratifying progress in school
work in several of the larger towns, and a
very decided advance in public sentiment
on the public school question since his last
visit three years ago. Everything well begun
then is stronger now. The public
schools of Charleston, underSuperintendent
Archer, are putting forth new vigor, and
all the educational institutions of that city
are being strengthened. This year the
State institute will be held in Charleston,
with Superintendent Archer as principal,
and the ablest teachers in the Shite as assistants.
Several important county institutes
will be held, and great preparations are
being made for the summer instruction of
colored teachers at Aiken, under Professor
Itodenbaeh and a corps of the ablest workers
from other States. The,State University
was never so largely attended or more amy
manned with professors, and the department
for colored students, Claflin University,
is becoming a model of its kind. The
excellent new graded schools of Columbia,
the capital, under Prof. D. B. Johnson, are
becoming a power in the State, and many
of the smaller towns are dealing with the
question of an efficient system of graded
instruction.
The greatest drawback here, or elsewhere
is in the open country. But already the
public school is everywhere established, for
both races, with average session of from
three to four months. The new State Superintendent,
Col. Asbury Coward, is a fit
successor of Hon. Hugh S. Thompson, now
Governor, a professional teacher, effective
public speaker, and devoted friend of the
free school. The leading press of the State
and a majority of its public men are vigorously
on the right side in matters of public
education, and a fair vote of the people
would show a three-fourths vote heartily in
favor of national aid.
There is still, in this as in every Southern
State, a strong opposing influence, showing
itself more in the way of local obstruction
than by public demonstration; and the opposition,
which works along with the ecclesiastical
and social phases of hostility to the
free school, is not to be moderated. But
here, as all through the South, the masses
of the people are getting thoroughly aroused,
and asking certain leading questions,
such as r Why the education of all the children
in a community should be postponed
indefinitely to gratify the theory of some
ancient and honorable politician, to build
up the parochial schools of two or three excellent
clergymen, or to afford a subsistence
to the worthy members a few decayed families?
Why a State like South Carolina
should remain half developed to illustrate a
theory that the laboring class should be kept
in ignorance? and why Southern boys and
girls should not be permitted to enjoy those
advantages for a start in life that are freely
offered to every child in every other portion
of the Union? The people are patient, but
are getting deeply in earnest, and if those
to whom these questions are put do not
"hurry up" satisfactory answers within a
remarkably short time, the Southern peonle
will deal with this Question of universal
education in the decisive American way;
whoever or whatever may go down stream
in consequence.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM WHITAKER'S.
Whitaker's, S. C., June 27.?On Wednesday
night, the 24th, at about half past
8 o'clock, this section was visited by one of
the most destructive rain storms ever witnessed
by the oldest people of the country.
The cloud came from the north-east and
traveled south-west, following King's Creek,
which it crossed to the south side at or near
the "Old Furnace" place. From that point
to the head of the creek, a distance of ten
or twelve miles, from the best information
to be obtained from the farmers living along
the creek, about one-half of the wheat on
the bottom lands was washed away or
blown down and destroyed. The growing
corn on the bottom lands was also leveled
to the ground.
The following are the greatest sufferers
on King's Creek: Rev. L. H. McSwain
and Mr. O. P. Morgan lost all of their wheat
except 15 shocks, Messrs. M. M. Tate, E. J.
Downey, E. Hardin, William Borders,
Drewry Neal, J. M. Hambright, A. C.
Hambright, A. F. Hambright, G. Hambright,
I). R. Hambright, J. S. Wells and
many others, further up the creek, were
more or less damaged; and twelve or fifteen
farmers living only two or three miles
south of King's Creek, on smaller streams,
who lost more or less wheat, sustain considerable
loss by damage to their other
growing crops. The corn and cotton on
uplands were badly damaged by being
washed away. In many places the land
was fearfully washed.
It is impossible at present to give an estimate
of the damage to the crops of the
section named. Some of the most intelligent
farmers think there was more than
one thousand bushels of wheat destroyed.
The injury to the growing crops cannot be
estimated at present, but it will be considerable.
The rainfall was a fraction over
four inches in one hour and a half.
The scarcity of grain in the country at
this time, with not more than a two-thirds
wheat crop at the best, and a loss of about
one-half of that on the bottom lands, and
the damage to growing corn, are indications
of a scarcity of grain in the track of the rain
storm which the formers of this section
have never before had to meet.
The growing crops are not by any means
clear of grass and weeds, but up to this time,
where properly worked, they have been
growing nicely.
This would be as good a time as any to
take a little advice. Allow me to offer the
agricultural readers of the Enquirer a
word : Farmers, in the future plant four or
five acres less to each horse or mule than
you can work with a favorable season and
other favoring circumstances. Then in such
a season as the present has proved to be
you will be able to keep clear of the grass
and escape the worry and strain incide'nt
thereto. And then with a more favorable
season you will be able to work your crops
better, with more satisfaction to yourselves
and less wear and tear to farming implements
and stock, while the profits will be
about equally as large in the end. Try it!
A Farmer.
Correspondence ol' the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM BLACK'S.
Black's, S. C., June 29.?The corn and.
cotton crops of this section are fine and the
prospect for these two crops was never better.
The oat crop is a failure. Wheat is
good with the exception of a thin stand on
the ground in places. The grain is full and
plump.
On last Wednesday we had the heaviest
rain that ever fell in this locality. It was
no ordinary rainfall, for it poured down
in torrents for nearly an hour. Doolittle
Creek, which has its source at this place
and empties into Broad lliver, was filled to
15 feet in depth, and the channel was 125
yards wide, sweeping every thing before it.
The dam of Ira Hardin's grist mill was carried
away. H. M. Moore had 200 shocks of
wneat wasnea away, ana oiners sunereu
proportionately on this small stream. The
growing corn was either washed away or
covered* up with mud. The next greatest
sufferers were on King's Creek, in the Antioch
section. There the principal damage
was done on the farrrfs of Gill llambright,
Drewry Neal, Elijah Hardin, James Dillingham,
E. J. Downey, M. M. Tate, Lewis
II. McSwain, Mark Wells and perhaps others.
The wheat crop had been harvested
and shocked in the fields. In some instances
all the wheat on some of these farms was
washed away. The creek at Elijah Hardin's
farm was 500 yards wide. It was the
greatest freshet ever known on the creek.
The corn crop, which was about being laid
by, was badly damaged. The uplands were
badly washed by the rain. It is estimated
that the wheat crop in the Antioch section
was damaged to the extent of one thousand
bushels.
Our neighbors just across Broad River, in
Spartanburg county, especially on Cherokee
Creek, suffered severely. Three mill dams,
situated not far apart, the property of Mad
ison Surratt, Lewis Clary and P. O. Lemons, I
were washed away. The heavy rain fol- j
lowed the Air-Line Railroad, and was heavier
in 9ome places than others. The damage
was greatest where there was no wind. ,
The rain had the appearance of falling in j
sheets. |:
Col. John L. Black, U. S. Deputy Collect- |;
or, was in our town a few days ago on his i j
way to Yorkville and Rock Hill, but was i
compelled to return to his home in Green- i:
ville, he being seriously ill.
Col. R. A. Johnson, ot Boston, superintendent,
and Capt. G. Ramsonr, chief engineer
of the Massachusetts and Southern Con- |
struction Company, Mr. H. B. Harris, of j
Spring-field, Mass., president of the Vermont
Valley, Sullivan county, and Ashuelot ,
Railroad Companies, and Mr. J. F. Jones,
of Hartford, Connecticut, superintendent, J
of the Hartford and Connecticut West- (
ern Railroad, were in our town on the 21st
instant. They were engaged in looking
over the several proposed routes for the road
which is proposed to be built by the Massa- ]
chusetts and Southern Construction Com- (
pany. . ,
This line of road will be built leading
from themountainstotheseaboard, making
a thoroughfare through our State, and constituting
one of its most important lines. <
The people of our county should do everything
within their power to avail them- ]
selves of this road, and the advantages it :
will afford. By it Charleston will be open- :
ed to us in a way that it never has been, i
and freights will be cheapened, which to the
agricultural interests, with the natural developments,
are essentially necessary. Let
us be active and wide awake to secure the
benefits this road would confer upon us. i
Mrs. Julius T. Howe, an estimable lady, i
who had long been a great sufferer, died of i
consumption in thisplaqe on the 2oth instant.
. Ego.
Correspondence ol* the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, June 29.?The Chester division
of the Survivors of the Sixth Regiment will
hold a meeting at this place on the Gth of
next month to make the preliminary arrangements
for the annual meeting of the
Survivors of this Regiment in August. The
annual meeting will be held this year on
the battlefield of Seven Pines. It is hoped
and believed that such liberal rates will be
made with the railroad companies as will
enable a large number of the old veterans to
go to Virginia, and once again see tfte
ground on which they fought so gallantly
twenty-three years ago.
The dwelling house of E. B. Kell, of this
county, was destroyed last Monday night
by tire. The fire is supposed to have originated
from the stove in the kitchen. The
house and furniture were insured for $2,000.
The insurance does not cover the loss. A
portion of the furniture was saved.
Coroner Murphy held an inquest last Monday
over the dead body of an infant child of
Arnzi Stokes, colored, of this county. Its
death was caused by suffocation, produced
by an older child, when asleep, lying upon
the infant. The verdict of the jury of inquest
was in accordance with these facts.
Mr. Edward Strobel, who lived here- during
his boyhood, and whose mother still
lives here, has been appointed Secretary of
T A! ..A Arn/l?:,l TTr.
LiC^UUUli at iuaunu. lie giauuaicu nun
first honor at Harvard University, and has
been engaged for several years in the practice
of law in Ne\V York City. He is a
young man of brilliant talents.
Torbit's Mill Pond in this county was the
scene of a lively party on last Tuesday. A
number of our citizens, desiring some relief
from the cares of business, decided upon
the amusement of seining, and Torbit's as
the place to have the fun. They were successful
in catching a large number of fish,
which constituted the principal dish tor
dinner. Our friends, however, had several
good things in addition to fish for strengthening
and pleasing the inner man.
The picnic on last Tuesday at Pleasant
Grove Church, celebrating the successful
close of the scholastic year of Mr. Torbit
Henry's school was a pleasant affair. Scholars,
patrons, with their invited friends,
combined to make a large attendance, and
I the programme was so attractive as to make
| the occasion one of great pleasure. Interesting
addresses were delivered by Messrs.
F. T. Morgan, and J. & Brice. The first,
in his address on education, divided his
subject into three heads': .first, that popular
education was necessary to the safety of the
State; second, that its power in politics and
war lias been recognized by the history of
our country, and third that popular education
is indispensable to the perpetuity of
our republican form of government.
By Rev. George Summey, Mr. J. II.
Overcash, of IJock Hill, and Miss Susie
Graham, of our town, were married on last
I Wednesday afternoon. The happy couple
left the same afternoon for Rock Ilill.
Mr. C. E. Cobb, of our town, died at Rock
Hill on last Thursday afternoon. His many
friends truly lament his death.
On last Thursday afternoon there was a
closely contested game of base ball at this
place between the Chester Base Ball Club,
and the Chester Little Boys' Club. The
latter were victorious and their joy over
their victory was exceedingly great. The
prize for the winning club was a ball and
bat, which have not yet been received by
tut; viuiuio.
The Lee Light Infantry spent a portion
of last Friday evening in the enjoyment of
target shooting. The scene of the shooting
was in Brice's woods, and the distance
of firing was one hundred yards. Each
member of the company fired three shots.
Messrs. J. G. Baird, H. J. McNinch, S.
Childs, and M. Heath made a tie, each
making eleven points. On the test shot
Mr. Baird was successful, and won the silver
medal. Mr. Julius Sams missed the target,
and won the tin cup.
A heavy and destructive rain fell in our
town and county on last Friday afternoon.
The water courses have not been so high in <
many years. It is regarded as the heaviest
rain in the county since the 14th of June,
1873. An immense amount of damage was
done to bottom corn. Messrs. W. Holmes 1
Hardin, J, P. Ferguson, and many others 1
that could be mentioned were great sufferers
by the overflow. Mr. Ferguson's gin house
was set on fire by lightning and entirely '
consumed together with two hundred bush- '
els of wheat. The rain washed the lands i
so badly that cotton in many places was <
greatly injured. 1
Mrs. T. N. Berry, of our town, is lying at <
the point of death. The attending physi- <
cians have no hope of her recovery. <
Mrs. William Walker is alsocritieallly ill. <
Her friends are very apprehensive as to the i
result. l
Mrs. J. S. Colvin has been very low, but ,
I am glad to report an improvement in her i
condition. >i. t
The Cask of Cj.uveuius.?The effort of ,
counsel for T. J. Cluverius, convicted of the f
murder of Lillian Madison, to prove an ali- '
bi was abandoned by them in the Hustings
Court at Richmond last Friday. They have !
failed to secure the necessary affidavits.
They, however, submitted another motion
to set aside the death sentence and grant a 1
new trial on the ground of newly discover- 1
ed evidence. This motion was based on .
the affidavit of Dr. James It. Garlick, prin- J
ci pal of the Birmington Academy and teach- j
er of the murdered woman, in which he ,
states that he has positive conviction that s
the superscription on the envelope contain- t
ing the torn note found at the American }
Hotel on the morning after the discovery
of the body, and which connects the de- .
ceased with the prisoner, is not in the hand- '
writing of Lillian Madison. After brief i
argument by counsel on both sides, Judge t
Atkins overruled the motion for a new trial (
and counsel for the defence excepted to the *
ruling. They will now turn their attention t
to securing a hearing before the Supreme j
Court of Appeals, to have the verdict set V
aside and a new trial ordered.
? A Quebec dispatch says that Messrs.
Lemieux and Fitzpatriek, counsel for ltiel, '
have returned from Ottawa, having been ;
there to interview the Government about *
having Kiel tried in the Supreme Court of t
Lower Canada. The Government would t
give no assurance. The minister of Justice (
stated that he did not think there was any I 1
provision in the law to justify the Govern-j '
ment in giving assistance to enable counsel ,
for the defence to produce, witnesses in Ke- j
gina who are required to establish Kiel's j
defence. t
? ? - 1
Col T. C. Moody, of Marion, enjoys the I!
distinction of having received an autograph
letter from President Cleveland. t
LOCAL AFFAIRS. !
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Dowry it Starr?Diamond Dye?Dyspepsia Can
^>e Cured.
John C. Kuykendal?Mortar Music, Ac.
May A May?Drugs, Medicines, Ac.
M. Strauss?Bargains, Bargains.
F. A. Gilbert, Clerk?Sanitary Notice,
fr, H. McMaster?Fairfield Farms for Sale.
John R. Ashe, Intendant?An Ordinance.
Sarah E. Jackson?Administratrix* Notice.
T. M. Dobson A Co.?Remember August 2V>, '85. |
Hunter AOates?An Opportunity.
Swift Spaeific Co., Atlanta, Ga.?A Frightful i
Case of a Colored Man. (4th page.)
PICNIC.
There will be a picnic at Chestnut Academy,
:i AM Cnt.iHrlntf
iniuu imiun iiunu-wcnt ui lu?ji, un nammuj. i
Among other attractions to render the occasion I
enjoyable, music will be furnished during the
:lay by a string band.
UNTIL JANUARY 1ST, 1880.
We will furnish the Yorkvillk Enquirer
from this date until January 1st, 1880, for $1.20,
the cash, in all cases, to accompany thesubscription.
COTTON BLOOMS.
Wo have received, during the past week cotton
blooms from the following persons :
From Mr. B. F. Rawlinson, near Rock Hill,
plucked June 20th; from Mr. W. L. Plexico,
Bullock's Creek, plucked June23rd ; from Mr.
H. E. Wilkerson, near How'ell's Ferry, Bullock's
Creek township, plucked June 24th; from Mr.
W. R. Lipscomb, Black's, plucked June26th.
RESIGNATION OF A RECTOR.
Rev. E. N. Joyncr has resigned the charge of
the Church of the Good Shepherd at this place,
the resignation taking effect to-day. He assumes
the charge of St. Mark's Church, Chester,
in connection with the Church of our Saviour at
Rock Hill. We understand that the resignation
was based solely on the desire of the congregation
ofthe Church of the Good Shepherd for the
services of a resident rector. Rev. Mr. Joyner
has for more than two years been the rector of
Yorkville parish, and his congregation part with
him with great reluctance and regret.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian. Services
at 10.30 A. M. next Sunday, by Rev. R. Lathan.
King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. Johnson,
Pastor. Services at Shannon's School House
next Sunday at 11 A. M.,
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate,
Pastor. Rev. H. L. Abernethy will preach in this
b" -'d. nov 4 Cifvtrlnvf ?vtAt>n?n/w of 11 a'o! Apt* Oil rl
U11UIUU Ilt'Al OUUUdj 111U1 lllUfi uv li. V V>iwvi?, tuiu
at 4 o'clock P. M., will deliver a lecture on the
subject, "Soul and Mind." A general invitation
is extended to the public.
Episcopal?Sunday-school at ">.30 P. M., the
bell ringing at 5.
Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Services
at Union next Sunday at 11 A. M., and at
Yorkvillein the evening at 8.30.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at 10.30 A. M., and at 8.30 P. M. Sunday-school
at 5.130 P. M. Praver-meeting at 8.30
P. M. Thursday.
THE NEW POSTAL LAW.
The following is a comprehensive epitome of
the new postal law which went into effect yesterday.
1. Sealed letters to go anywhere in the United
States for two cents on each full ounce or fraction
thereof. The full ounce weight applies to
drop letters delivered for any one where the carrier
system is not in operation.
2. Registered newspapers, sent by publishers
or newsdealers, one cent per pouncl,to include
regular and specimen copies. Other papers sent
by any one, one cent for each four ounces or fraction
thereof.
3. Articles in newspapers may be marked with
pen or pencil to call attention to them, but no
words or figures can be used. This is not allowed
to publishers sending papers by pound rates.
4. A special stamp costing ten cents and put
upon letter going to any place having 4,000 population
according to the United States census,
and to other places that may nereauer oe specially
designated by the department, will be immediately
delivered by a special messenger;
provided", the recipient lives within one mile of
the post office, or its stations in large cities.
Letters arriving after midnight not thus delivered.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.
We are pleased to note a continued interest
by teachers, as also by the general public,
in the teachers' institutes now being conducted
in this place. Mr. Witherow, principal of
the institute for white teachers, has given universal
satisfaction. While his methods are instructive
to the teachers, his manner is engaging
and has attracted a general attendance of la
it'L? hoon iniinVi infnr
U1CS illlU ^CIllIUUIVJll W11VS 1IUTV UVVM lliuvt*
esteil in the exercises. Besides the teachers
heretofore enrolled, the following have been in
attendance: W. F. Smith, Miss Fannie Miller,
Miss Lila Peck, Miss Ella Davidson, Miss Sue
McFarland, Miss M. J. Adams, Miss Lillie
Ratcliford, Miss Alico Stephenson, Miss M. A.
Gist, F. A. Bigger.
At the institute for colored teachers the following
additional teachers have been enrolled:
Daniel Davies, D. M. Hughes, Blanche King.
Prof. Roberts, who has charge of this institute,
has succeeded admirably in his duties, and by
the instructions he has imparted to the teachers,
will have accomplished a good work by the
close of the term.
On Monday night Col. A, Coward, the State
Superintendent of Education, addressed a large
and intelligent audience in the Court House, on
the subject of Graded Schools. In this address,
besides explaining the advantages of a graded
school system in towns, he also made a strong
and effective argument in favor of popular education,
and closed with somo wholesome advice
and counsel to those engaged in teaching.
On Tuesday night, by invitation, Capt. J. ('.
Lynes, Associate Principal of King's Mountain
Military School, delivered an address to the teachers,
taking for his subject, "How to secure attendance
in country schools ; and Side-studies in
the school-room." A large audience was well
entertained for an hour, by the lecture, while we
feel assured the teachers present were profited
by the many practical hints and suggestions it
con tabled.
CIRCUIT COURT,
Our report of the Court of Sessions last week,
closed with the result of the trial of the case of
the State vs. Andrew Glover, colored, charged
with arson, the offence being the burning of Mr.
lames Sutton's gin-house and crib adjoining, in
the month of November last. This case went
tiefore a jury at the last term, resulting in a
mistrial, and the crime charged being a capital
jffence, it was invested with considerable in:erst,
counsel for the prisoner making an able
jffort in his behalf. The following jury was
impaneled: J. C. Patrick, foreman, J. M. McUullough,
W. B. Izlar, L. L. Packard, John F.
Jates, J. M. Sherer, J. S. Dillingham, R. L.
Lindsay, R. E. Porter, J. B. Lynn, J. A. Shurley,
Perrev Anderson. The defence relied mainly
ipon an alibi which it was attempted to estabishby
proving that the prisoner was attending a
:hurch, some distance from the scene of the lire
m the night of the burning, and was in the church
vhen the alarm was raised, having arrived there
lome considerable time before the fire was discovered.
The verdict was guilty with a recomnendation
for mercy. Messrs. Hart A Hart and
Chambers for defence.
Late on Tuesday evening the grand jury subletted
their final presentment as follows, and
,vere discharged for the term :
To His Honor I. D. Witheuspoox, J'rcsidny
Jiulye: The grand jury are pleased that as
nihiopt* for ireneral nresentment there are but
ew matters before us demanding attention.
Ylthough, as the records show, there have been
some violations of the law?a condition incident
o all communities?yet we are pleased to report
he general peace and quietude of the county.
The crying evil of this time is the impunity
vith which a number of persons violate the law
)robibiting the carrying of concealed weapons,
md the statutes regulating the sale of intoxicatng
liquors. While wo appreciate the remarks
>f your Honor in charging this body on the
ipeningofthe term, characterizing your views
is eminently correct and fully sympathizing
herein, we sire constrained to say that without
he aid of all law-abiding citizens the grand
uries are powerless to abate these evils, which
seem to be daily increasing, and to which causes
he larger proportion of crime in our midst may
jo directly traced.
An examination of the public offices has not
>een made by us at the present term, we having
jcrformed that duty at the first term of the
fear.
Complaint is made that some of the trial-jusices
of the county are in the habit of permiting
compromises in cases involving violations
>f the State laws, after the causes have come up
lefore them, one condition of such compromises
naking the county liable for the pay of State's
vitnesses. While'the propriety of'permitting
ompromises, except in the most trivial cases,
s doubtful?and certainly the same rule will ap)ly
to a trivial as a serious case?we do unliesiatingly
recommend that 110 such compromises
jc permitted unless the defendants in the actions
issutne the payment of all costs incurred in
inch proceedings.
The books of all the trial justices of the couny
have passed under our inspection, (leneral
lj', they manifest a fair record of the cases entered
thereon. A common fault with nearly all of
them is the failure to record in the column spec- j
ified for the purpose the amount of sheriff's and j
constables' costs in the respective cases docket- I
ed. We regard this as an important omission in
making up the full record of a case, and we recommend
that the various trial justices coming '
within this exception be required to make the |
proper entries on their dockets of all items of;
Sheriff's and constables' costs in each and every |
case recorded.
The condition of the public roads is a question
of public concern, and one, which under the I
present system of working the public highways, j
will never be satisfactorily solved. Our infor- i
illation is that the public highways of York I
county are generally in bad condition, and we j
can only recommend that the proper authorities
rigidly enforce the law for the proper working
and repairing of the public roads during the
leisure season of farming operations.
We specially present that John Miskelly, colored,
has been guilty 011 at least one occasion, of I
carrying concealed deadly weapons, displaying
the same in a threatening manner in the streets |
of the town of Clover, in this county, on the
22nd day of May, 1885 ; witnesses to prove which
are Dr. J. R. Latimer and Mid Hambright, colored.
Also, that Andy Hersh alias Stonewall Jackson,
colored, is guilty of carrying concealed
weapons, witness to prove which is William
B. Falls.
With these statements we close our report,
making due acknowledgements for the courtesies
and assistance in the discharge of our duties
so cheerfully rendered by your Honor and the
Solicitor. All of which is respectfully submitted.
R. T. Riooins, Foreman.
After the trial of the Clover case the following
were disposed of during the remainder of the
term:
State vs. Wm. Thornburg ; retailing spirituous
liquors. Continued by the State.
State vs. Rufus Rattaree, colored; burglary
and larceny. Continued.
State vs. Sam Good and Quay Tigler, colored;
accessories before the fact of the murder of Ellison
Sanders, in October last. Nolle prosequi
entered. This is the murder for -which Columbus
Cranford was hanged in the jail in York on
the 10th of April last.
State vs. W. D. Parks; assault with intent to
kill. Prosecutor, A. W. Osborne. Continued,
in consequence of sickness of prosecutor.
State vs. W. D. Parks; selling intoxicating
liquor without a license. Mistrial. Hart ifc
Hart for defence.
Another similar case against the same defendant
was continued.
State vs. David Long, bigamy. Continued by
defendant.
State vs. J. R. button; carrying concealed
weapon. Prosecutor, E. P. Lugand. Nol. pros.
as to the first count. Verdict, guilty as to the
second count. The court imposed a tine of $44
or four months in the penitentiary. From the
verdict detence appealed. Wilson tfc Wilson for
defence.
State vs. Quitman Byers; assault with intent
to kill, and carrying concealed weapons. Prosecutor,
Taylor Carothers. Continued by defendant.
State vs. John Chambers and Edward Chambers,
colored; carrying concealed weapons.
Prosecutor, Edward Byars. Verdict, not guilty.
Mr. Chambers for defence.
State vs. Daniel Darwin, colored; carrying
concealed weapons. Verdict, guilty.
State vs. Andrew Neely, colored; carrying
concealed weapons. Verdict, guilty.
State vs. Samuel Walker, colored; carrying
conceaieci weapons. \ eruici, guiuy.
The three last-named cases grew out of the
Mt. Zion camp meeting riot on the 13th ultimo.
The first case called on Thursday was that of
the State vs. Robert K. Gordon, charged with
the murder of Andrew G'ureton, colored, at Rock
Hill on the night of the 2fith of December, 1880.
The murdered man was discovered on the night
of the occurrence at the livery stable where he
was employed, Gordon lying by the side of
the dead body, asleep. He was arrested and
placed in the guard-house at Rock Hill, but made
his escape the same night, and never was arrested,
his whereabouts being unknown to the officers
of the law. On the morning of the 22nd instant
he came to Yorkvilloand surrendered himself
to the sheriff, stating that he desired to stand
his trial. He was locked up, and on Thursday
the case was reached. The following jury was
empaneled: J. A. Krwin, foreman; J. B. Lynn,
R. E. Porter, F. M. Collins, R. A. Smith, J. M.
Sherrer, J. A. Shurley, J. K. Oarothers, S. S.
Karris, J. M. Barnett, J. P. Epps, J. C. Patrick.
Wilson <fc Wilson and J. C. Witherspoon for
[ the defence. The commission or tne crime oy
the defendant was not denied, and all the testimony
taken before the coroner's inquest as to
the facts of the killing was admitted, as though
the witnesses, all hut one of whom is now dead,
were present to testify in person. The surviving
witness, IVm. Adkins, who testified at the
inquest, was introduced, and swore that in December,
1880, he was employed in Baxter's livery
stable, Rock Hill. On the night of the 20th,
when he returned to the stable from supper, defendant
had R. S. Harrell down and was astride
of him. The defendant and Harrell both had
hold of defendant's pistol. The deceased pulled
defendant off of Harrell. Defendant told Harrell
to turn his pistol loose, and then said to deceased:
"G?d?n you, I am going to kill you,"
having his knife in his hand. The deceased
grabbed him, and stepping back, said: "Mr.
Gordon, you have cut me." Detendant then
said: "Do you see my knife in my hand ?" Deceased
asked me to go for a doctor and I wont.
I don't recollect that I saw defendant before on
that day. When I returned from going for the
doctor, the defendant was lying at the head of
the deceased, and when I got up to them the de|
fendant said : "I am shot." Defendant was put
I in the guard-house. lie was drinking on that
night. I knew of no disagreement between the
parties.
On ci'oss examination, witness testified that
deceased told Gordon he was his friend, and that
he was trying to prevent the fuss between him
and Harrell. When witness returned with the
doctor Cureton was dead.
The State here rested without introducing further
oral testimony. The record of the coroner's
inquest was substantially the same as the
above testimony.
The defence relied upon the mental attliction
of the defendant at the time of the commission
of the deed, entering the plea of epileptic mania,
and introduced Drs. J. R. Bratton and J. W.
Fewell, as medical experts, who testified as to
the peculiar efifects of the disease upon a subject,
the fits inducing great derangement of the
nervous system, and during the paroxysm or
immediately thereafter the afllicted person being
unconscious of his acts. When aroused
from the lethargic state after the paroxysm the
nerson iust previously affected cannot remem
ber what has just previously occurred. Such
persons are dangerous to themselves and to persons
around.
Dr. Fewell coincided with the statements of
Dr. Hratton, and in addition he testilied to the
atliiction of the defendant whom he had known
for twenty-six years, and had seen him when
having epileptic tits. Had tried to quiet him
when he was almost maniacal, and had endeavored
to put him under the influence of chloroform.
On one or two occasions, when called
to treat him ho was afraid to enter the room, as
he regarded him dangerous.
D. A. Gordon, father of the defendant, testified
as to his atliiction.
\V. L. Krwin and Capt. Allen Jones testilied
as to the strange behavior of defendant as a member
of the Catawba Hilles, while attending the
King's Mountain Centennial, in October, 1880.
Wm. Adkins was called by the State in reply,
lie said he was the only person present at the
stable with the defendant and the deceased.
When Harrell refused to give defendant his pistol,
defendant then drew his knife.
Solicitor McDonald presented the side of the
State, and Col. W. II. Wilson spoke for the defence.
His argument has been generally commented
upon as an able and eloquent elfort in
behalf of the unfortunate young man. In the
course of his appeal to the jury he said :
This is a peculiar and extraordinary case. The
defendant took the life of one who was his
friend?who had done him 110 wrong?against
whom he had no malice. The deceased had just
assured him in kind words that he was his friend.
The reply was a death-gash across the throat; a
bloody deed without a motive. Hut the very enormity
and unnaturalness of the deed, prompts the
question, What has caused this strange tragedy ?
Medical seienceand the facts proven in this case
give the answer, and clearly show that the prisoner
now arraigned 011 triai for his life, instead
of being a criminal deserving the penalty of the
law, was anatllicted fellow mortal, and atllicted
by one of the most formidable diseases known to
mankind?one, which, perhaps, more than any
other, has battled the skill and research of the
medical world, and is to-day involved in obscurity
and most dillicult of treatment?epilepsy,
accompanied with furor epilepticus (epileptic mania.)
It attacks the brain as well as the body.
The man is suddenly .seized. The term epileptic
is derived from two Greek words meaning "to
seize upon." He is seized by violent, irresistible
and dangerous impulses?dangerous to friend or
relative, or any one near him, as if a sudden cyclonic
mania swept through' the brain, dethroii
ing reason, obliterating all sense of right and
wrong, and after hurrying its helpless victim to
the commission of, it may be, some bloody act,
leaves him prostrate, unconscious, pale, still and
corpse-like, just as the defendant, Robert Gordon,
lay, seemingly dead, beside the dead body
of Andrew Cureton. And then when animation
returns, and the mind resumes its normal state,
the man has no recollection of anything that has
occurred. It is a terrible disease. The ancients
regarded it as a special infliction of the gods.
The prisoner is a subject for pity?not for punishment.
The law punishes murder and manslaughter,
but not mania.
The court instructed the jury as to the law
bearing upon this peculiar ease, and a verdict
was returned of not guilty.
The next and last case tried, taken upon Thursday
afternoon, was that of the State ys. George
Beckham, colored, for murder. This was another
case growing out of the Mt. Zion camp meeting
riot. In that affray, William Crawford, colored,
received a pistol shot wound from which he
died on the following Tuesday, and it was charged
that the said wound was inflicted by George
Beckham. Messrs. Hart it Hart appeared for
the defence; Mr. Solicitor McDonald for the
State. The following jury was empaneled:
Win. Whyte, foreman; T. A. Gwyn, J. B. Lynn,
J. M. Burnett, l. L. Packard, John f. Dates, j.
K. G'arothers, S. S. Faris, J. M. Sherer, Allen
Patten, Perry Anderson, J. P. Epps.
Tho State introduced Dr. Crawford, who testified
as to the nature of the wound inllictcd upon
the deceased, and that the said wound was the
cause of his death.
Hunter Williamson, colored, testified that the
deceased was shot by George Beckham ; that
Beckham first provoked a quarrel with witness
and Crawford. During the quarrel the prisoner
snapped his pistol three times at Charner Deas,
and then pointing his pistol at Crawford, fired,
saying, "I've got you."
Xelus Hinton, colored, testified: Beckham
fired first at Charner Deas, which witness saw,
but did not see the shot fired at deceased.
Charner Deas, colored, testified : I saw Wm.
Crawford when he received his death wound.
He was shot by George Beckham, whom he
identified in the prisoner's dock. The quarrel
began between Crawford and George Beckham.
Beckham struck at witness. Ho snapped his
pistol at witness three times, and the fourth
time he pulled the trigger the weapon discharged,
but missed witness. At the time he fired,
Wm. Crawford was twenty steps from the prisoner.
to his riirht. Heard three shots.
Alcc. Garvin, colored, testified : George Beckham
shot William Crawford. Beckham and
William Crawford were in a dispute when I got
up to them. I saw the pistol in Beckham's
hand.
Mr. Adams testified that the deceased received
his death wound on the 7th of June and
died on the evening of thefith.
The State rested.
For the defence, Joe Walker, colored, was introduced
as the first witness. He described a
scene of rocks falling, sticks flying, and a state
of general confusion, but could not tell who all
were engaged in throwing the rocks and brandishing
the sticks. He saw George Beckham
dodging the rocks, and though he did not see
who fired pistols, he heard the reports of twelve
or thirteen shots. George Beckham received a
pistol shot wound. Andy Neely was struck before
the shooting. George Beckham was struck
several times before he fired. He was surrounded
and could not make his escape with safety in
either direction.
Bob Stewart, colored, testified: I saw George
Beckham surrounded by a crowd who wore
throwing rocks at him. I saw him draw his
pistol and snap it. There were fifteen or twenty
men around him, all throwing rocks. It seemed
to him that there might have been some
whisky in the crowd. Tho rocks were thrown
blfore any pistols were fired. At ono time the
pistol firing was quite brisk. I saw Crawford
throwing rocks, and saw rocks strike George
Hr>r?lrV?am liAfnrA 1IA fi rpH
Feemster Bratton, colored, testified: I saw
George Beckham struck on the head with a stick.
George was brandishing his pistol while he was
surrounded by the crowd who were throwing at
him. I saw rocks strike George.
Win. Anderson, Colored, testified: I saw persons
beating George, throwing rocks and chunks.
There was a large crowd around George, shouting,
"kill him !" I saw Crawford stoop to pick
up a rock about the time he was shot. Several
were shooting at the time.
George Worthy, colored, testified: I heard
George Beckham speaking to the crowd to keep
off of him. They were throwing rocks at hini
and beating him with sticks. I heard him fire
before he left the crowd. I saw Beckham struck
with a stick before the pistol was fired. ,
Dr. White testified as to the wounds of George
Beckham?a pistol shot in thigh, bruises all over
his body, on head and breast, lip cut, and that he
was also expectorating blood from wounds on
the breast. ^
Emma Garrison, colored, testified that she saw
the difficulty and heard pistols fired, but did not
know who fired them.
Hamp. Witherspoon," colored, testified : I saw
the fighting. Several persons were engaged, all
attacking George Beckham, and beating him
with sticks and rocks. I saw him knocked
down with a rock, after which he fired his pistol.
I did not know Crawford. Three pistols were
fired at the beginning of the fighting?all fired
about the same time, and two of them almost simultaneously.
George was struck before he
fired. Before the shooting, I heard cries, "Kill
him! kill him !"
Margaret Caldwell, colored, testified: Rocks
were thrown at George from every side before
the shooting commenced. I heard persons holloeing,
"Kill thed?d Yorkville negro !"
Dave Buchanan, colored, testified to the same
purport, and went on to say that fearing for his ,
mrn snfetv when the crowd threatened him be
cause he was a Yorkville darkey, he assured
them that he was from Rock Hill.
George Beckham, the prisoner, was put upon
the witness-stand. He testified to the blows he
received, and said he ran and endeavored to escape
from the crowd. Owing to the wounds he
had received and his excited condition at the time,
he had no recollection of firing his pistol, but if
he did fire, it was while he was running from his
pursuers. He did not know William Crawford,
the deceased. Ho received the wound on his k
head before any firing commenced, and after receiving
that wound he could not see well. He
said he had no quarrel with William Crawford.
In reply the State put William Davis, colored,
on the stand. He said that when George Beckham
drew his pistol he ran between George and
Win. Crawford. When he first went up, Crawford
was not speaking to George. There were
no rocks thrown until after George shot Crawford.
George's first shot was aimed at Crawford,
and after firing the first shot he ran and
fired back on the crowd three times. After
George had shot Crawford, then Crawford's
friends commenced throwing rocks.
With this testimony the State closed, and
Court adjourned until Friday morning.
On Friday morning the case was argued by
Major J. F. Hart for defence and Mr. Solicitor
McDonald for the State.
After being fully and clearly instructed by
the Court as to the law bearing upon the case,
the jury, at 1 o'clock, rotumed a verdict of guilty
of manslaughter.
Motion for a new trial was argued at 3 P. M., ,
by Major Hart for the defence, W. B. McCaw,
Esq., representing the Solicitor.
The motion was denied, and the prisoner
was sentenced to ten years in the penitentia
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The following other sentences were passed:
Andrew Glover, arson; 12 years in the penitentiary.
Daniel Darby, carrying concealed weapons ;
to pay a fine of ?40 or six months in the penitententiary.
Fine paid. ,
Satn Walker, same offence; to pay a fine of
?<;<) or nine months in the penitentiary. Fine
paid.
Andy Ncelv, same offence; to pay a fine of ?100
or nine months in the penitentiary. Fine paid.
After passing upon some motions and granting
orders, at 5 P. M. on Friday the Court of Sessions
was adjourned.
THE STATE GRANGE.
Arrangements have been perfected with the
authorities of the various railroads in the State,
for free passage for three delegates from each
county agricultural society or clubs, to the joint
summer meeting of the State Agricultural and
Mechanical Society and the State Grange, to be
held at Bennettsyille, Marlboro county, on Wednesday,
the 5th of August next. Each county
agricultural society is invited and requested to
be represented at the meeting. A circular received
from Thomas W. Hollowav, Secretary,
says :
Where there is no such county association,
farmer's club or society, it is desired that steps
for such organization bo taken at once; that a
meeting of citizens be called, say salesday in July
to select three delegates to the summer meeting