Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-12-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Mrs. AalcOt frlQe QlcQ at ner nome, III
Chester county, on the 21st ultimo.
There are now ffty-three students at the
Theological Seminary at Columbia.
Judge Mackey opened Court at Winns'
boro on Monday last.
Rev. Whiteford Smith, D. D., is to re.
sumo his professional chair in Wofford Col
lege.
ALFRED Tolleson has been appointed Au'
ditor for Spartanburg county, and George
w. Curtis, of Chester, a Notary Public.
Mr.. Allen Robertson, formerly of this
county, died at Lancaster Court House, on
Saturday afternoon of last week.
B. G. Yocum, the recently elected Sheriff
of Chester county, has filed his official bond,
with j. j. Patterson and j. L. Neagle, Of
Columbia, as his sureties
The Supreme Court has dismissed the ap'
peals from York county, in the cases Of j. M
Swami vs. Anna H. Poag, and H. G. Harris
u.s. Alfred Stilwell.
"A son of Professor Reynolds, Of the South
Carolina University, died in New York on
Saturday last. He was surgeon in one OF
the hospitals in New York.
- The Columbia Union gives currency to a
report that petition, numerously signed, is
about to be sent to the President asking him
to order the ku-klux trials to be suspended.
One of the colleagues in the Legislature,
of Gen. Wallace, of Union, is his former body
servant. Master and man sit side by side in
the House of Representatives, and seem on
the best of terms.
The proprietor of the Chester Reporter
announces his purpose to enlarge that paper,
and offers for sale the "Guernsey Press" upon
which it is now printed.
-Messrs. John T. Shaw and R. A. McCor-
kle have been bailed by Judge Mackey in
$1,000 each, for their appearance at the March
term of Court for York, to answer to charge
of killing man in this county in 1871.
The Chester Reporter of last week an.
nounces the deaths, in that town, Of Mr.. Ed
ward Letson, and of Mr.. William Wilson,
near Cornwelps Turn Out. Also, Mrs. Geo.
Kennedy, at the residence of Mrs. Erwin, near
Fort Mills.
The election for United States Senator
comes off on the 9th December. Gov. Scott,
John J. Patterson, R. B. Elliott, colored, j.
H. Rainey, colored, DR.. B. A. Boseman, COL
ored, Judge Moses, D. H. Chamberlain, S.
T. Pointer, and H. j. Maxwell, colored, are
reported as candidates for the position.
The Union says "a movement is on foot
to so alter the fencing laws as to have stock
fenced into pasture, and allow poorer classes
of farmers protection in their crops without
the expense that many of them are entirely
unable to bear, of fencing in their small
plantations or farms"
The Chester Reporter states that Black
stocks, situated on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, at the dividing line
between Fairfield and Chester counties, is
developing rapidly into the proportions Of
town. New houses are going up, and every
thing presents the appearance of business stir
and activity.
According to the return Of the State Au'
ditor for the year 1871, there are taxed in
this State $50 miles of railroad, not including
the Charleston and Savannah, and the South
Carolina roads. The Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta, the Cheraw and Darlington
and the Greenville and Columbia roads each
are assessed at $4,000 per mile; the Kings
Mountain Road is assessed at $4,000 pei
mile; the Laurens Road at S2,25O per mile
the Blue Ridge Road at $500 per mile, and
the spartanburg and Union at $4,000 pei
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