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A Shocking Homicide
A
shocking homocide was committed in this County on Thursday night
last, about 11 o'clock, on the road between Jonesville, and N. B.
_____& Co's. store. The victim was one John Wicks and the
perpetrator of the deed, it is believed, is William Griffin. They
were brothers-in-law, having married sisters.
The dead body of Wicks was found the next morning lying n the road
with the throat out from ear to ear and the skull fractured from a
blow on the right side of the head: either of which wounds, the
Doctor stated before the jury of inquest, was sufficient to cause
death.
No witness has been found to testify to having seen the deed
committed, but the two were seen together on the road not long
before it occurred, and many head the blows and cries of distress
from the deceased.
Deputy Coroner, W.A. Bolt, summoned a jury of inquest on the next
day and after hearing the testimony the jury returned the following
as the verdict. "That John Wicks came to his death by a blow on the
right side of the head, and also by a cut across the throat, and
that upon hearing the testimony we verily believe that William
Griffin committed the deed."
Griffin was arrested and is now in jail at this place. As usual,
liquor had much to do with this terrible affair....Unionville Times
Spartanburg Herald Mar. 2, 1875 pg. 3
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Married
February 25th, 1875 by Rev. H. M Haynes, Mr. James Harmon to Miss
Harret C. Thomas all of Spartanburg.
February 11th, 1875, at the residence of the bride's father, by
Rev. John R. Riley, Mr. Cm M . Miller to Miss Hattie Coleman
Spartanburg Herald Mar 9, 1875 pg. 3
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ATTEMPTED ROBBERY- Mr. Isham Robertson, who lives at Cashville,
Spartanburg County, was in Greenville Tuesday, and sold a lot of
cotton. He was
returning home in the afternoon and when near Mr. W.T. Smith's about
five miles from town, he was assaulted by two negroes---one armed
with a pistol and the other with a club. Mr. Robertson was walking
behind his wagon when one of the highwaymen commenced firing on
him--serving (severing?) a small artery in his left arm; and at the
same time the other ruffian was endeavoring to strike him with a
stick. The colored man driving the wagon by this time came to his
assistance and the villains took to the woods. Mr. Robertson's wound
is a painful one, and but for the prompt assistance of Mr. Smith,
who found him in a fainting condition, he would doubtless have bled
to death....Greenville Daily News.
Spartanburg Herald Mar 16, 1875
pg. 2
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Two girls attending a seminary in Illinois set two cocks fighting in
their room last Sunday. Bets on the result ran high and at the
conclusion of the contest the winning maiden was "better" off by a
gold watch, a pair of silk stockings, a French corset, two rolls of
false of hair, a patent bustle, and a beautiful bookmark with
"Christ our Guide" worked on it in colored silk.
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MARRIED
On Thursday evening the 25th inst. at the Presbyterian Church, bu
the Rev. T. H. Law, Mr. R. Spa___, and Miss S. E. Gregory, both of
Spartanburg, S.C.
On the 14th inst., by the Rev. H. M. Haynes, Mr. C.M.Lockman, to
Miss M. I. Zimmerman, all of Bivingsville.
On
the 21st inst. bu the Rev. J. M. Haynes, Mr. John Thompson, to Miss
Mary Bogan, all of Spartanburg.
Spartanburg
Herald Mar. 31, 1875 pg.3
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MARRIED
Married on the 8th of February,
1874, by Trial Justice J.B. Tolleson, Wm. W. Smith to Sarah F.
Kirby, all of Spartanburg.
MARRIED
On the 6th instant, by Rev. L.C.
Ezell, MR. JESSE LEATHERWOOD and MISS SHADY WATERS, all of
Spartanburg County.
Spartanburg Herald April 21, 1875 pg.
2
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HOW TO PLAY THE PIANO—It was a young woman with
as many white flounces around her as the planet Saturn has rings.
She gave the music stool a whirl or two and fluffed down on
it like a twirl of soapsuds in a handbasin.
Then she pushed up her cuffs, as if she was going to fight
for the champion’s belt.
Then she worked her wrists and hands to limber ‘em, I
suppose, and spread out her fingers till they looked as though they
would pretty much cover the key board, from the growling end to the
little squeaky one.
Then these two hands of hers made a jump at the keys as if they were
a couple or tigers coming down upon a flock of black and white
sheep, and the piano gave a great howl.
Dead stop. Then
another howl, as if the piano had two tails and you had trod on both
of ‘em at once, and then a grand clatter and scramble and string of
jumps, up and down, back and forward, one hand over the other, like
a stampede of rats and mice, more than anything I call music.
Spartanburg Herald April 28, 1875 pg.1
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