"The Carolina Spartan" Issue: November 2, 1881 Confederate bonds are still in demand. The Spartanburg Bank is $5 per thousand. New York brokers are paying more. Get them up and put them on the market. COURT WEEK The most of the week was taken up with criminal business. Friday afternoon was given to the civil docket, and the court adjourned about sunset. The following is the disposition of the cases that were tried: Leitner VERNON, carrying concealed weapon pleaded guilty--$25.00 fine, or two months in jail. Enoch FOSTER, carrying concealed weapon pleaded guilty--$25.00 fine, or two months in jail Nero LITTLEJOHN, carrying pistol concealed; pleaded guilty--$20.00, or two months in jail Lee MILLS, carrying concealed weapon; guilty--$25.00 fine, or two months in jail William JONES, petit larceny; pleaded guilty-five days in jail Ben PREWITT, assault and battery; guilty-ten days in jail Theron M. SMART, obtaining goods under false representation and pretenses; not guilty. Madison JAMES, carrying a concealed weapon; guilty-sealed sentence Anthony MITCHELL, grand larceny; guilty-one year in the penitentiary. Hamp NETHERS, larceny; guilty-eighteen months in the penitentiary Benson WILLIAMS, carrying a concealed weapon; guilty-one year in the penitentiary. Allen ROGERS, assault and battery with attempt to ravish; guilty-five years in the penitentiary. Alexander RUSSELL, burglary and larceny; guilty-five years in the penitentiary. John Wesley BROWN, assault and battery with attempt to ravish; guilty-five years in the penitentiary. Jack GRIFFIN, Ned KEENE, Ned RAY, Simon MITCHELL, Simpson DANIEL, Pink ANDERSON, Ed GREENE, and Jeff COLE, assault and battery with attempt to kill; guilty-each five years in the penitentiary. A sealed sentence by Judge HUDSON at the June term of the court was read out in the case of William EDWARDS for assault and battery, one year in the penitentiary or $500.00 fine. He is an old white man, and is said to have been at one time a member of the North Carolina Legislature from Polk County. A week's time is given to him to see if he can raise the fine and keep out of the penitentiary. Fifteen persons were sentenced to penitentiary representing an aggregate of 56 ½ years of imprisonment at hard labor. Placing this labor at $100 a year to net the State these criminals will make $5,650. That is better than stealing and killing. The Union County Fair was quite a success last week. The tournament of the Knights was an interesting episode in the regular exercises. Miss MALONE of Spartanburg county and Miss Agnes HILL of Union, were crowned by gallant Knights. Mr. David MOORE took a premium for buggy harness, and Cantrell, Scaife & Co., for a buggy. Mr. D.P. DUNCAN, President of the Association, deserves much credit for the success of this enterprise. Captain F.G. LATHAM has just returned from Scotland where he and his brother have been visiting relatives and friends. They spent much of the summer on the continent. The Captain is going to leave Cherokee Ford and will spend his winters in the Phosphate works near Charleston. He is now associated with his brother Major Alexander Latham in this enterprise. His friends in the up-country will regret to give him up. He is one of our most genial and companionable citizens, a progressive and enterprising farmer and a man of extensive information. Spartanburg extends to him a cordial invitation to make this place his summer home. Mr. J.W. QUINN, Deputy Sheriff of Pope county, Arkansas, arrested John EDWARDS in Faulkner county the 15th instant. He reached Spartanburg the 28th instant, and lodged EDWARDS in jail. It will be remembered that EDWARDS shot John SANDERS, a young man living near Wilkinsville in Union county, about the month of May 1879. He escaped and was not heard of by any of SANDER's friends until last spring. Then it was supposed he was in Arkansas and letters were written to the Sheriff's of one or two counties, but with little satisfaction. Deputy QUINN has the credit of locating EDWARDS and arresting him. He made no resistance, but came on very quietly. He acknowledged to shooting SANDERS, but claims that he did it in self-defense. Jim Riley BLANTON, living in Union County, about six miles from Gaffney's lately captured a double headed cooter. It is only about two inches in diameter, but it has two distinct heads, but neither one in the center where the head ought to be. They were about midway between the center and the fore legs, one on one side; the other on the other. Food is taken in at each mouth. Sometimes both eat at the same time, and then only one. When both heads are in the notion the body moves on all right, but when one head wants to go one way, and the other another, then the body wiggles around and does not get along at all, until the heads agree. Now the question in this case is whether or not two heads are better than one. Mr. BLANTON exhibited this curiosity at the Union Fair and sold it to a Newberry man, who will carry it to the State Fair. Issue: November 9, 1881 MARRIED --At Cowpens, the 6th instant, by John W VINSON, N.P., David McGWINN and Miss Nancy BRIDGES, both of Clifton, S.C. --Sunday the 29th of October, by the Rev. Adolphus DAVIDSON, David HAWKINS and Miss Callie McCRAW, both of Spartanburg county. --October 6th, 1881, by Rev. J.E. ROGERS, Mr. J.M.R. POOL and Miss Jennie MONTGOMERY, of Cross Anchor. REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY EXECUTERS' SALE: Estate of Eliza DODD will be sold November 24, 1881 at public auction the following property: Lot No. 1 containing 94 acres Lot No. 2 - 68 acres Lot No. 3 - 74 acres Lot no. 4 - 14 acres Said lots situated in the county of Spartanburg, being part of the Homestead tract of said Eliza DODD, deceased. Also: One horse, two wagons, one buggy, farming tools, blacksmith tools, corn, fodder, and other items. John A. DODD Wm. C. CALDWELL Executors. free post Lisa