Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-07-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Pheair mentions that mad dog was
killed in Columbia on Sunday morning last.
Senator Sawyer is on visit to Washing
ton.
Watermelons weighing thirty-two pounds
sell for forty cents apiece in Aiken.
There were "a deaths in Charleston last
week, Is of which were whites.
DR.. John May, of Yorkville, has been
licensed as druggist under the act passed at
the last session of the Legislature.
Capt B. A. Jeter, formerly of Unionville,
died from typhoid dysentcry, at Chapel Hill,
Washington county, Texas, on the 29th ult.
During last week, three thousand water
melons were shipped to New York from
Charleston.
There are thirty-two liquor dealers, and
ffy-three tobacco dealers in Orangeburg
county.
Governor Scott has appointed w. F.
Swavinger County Auditor of Lancaster
county, vice Kennedy G. Billings, removed.
Efforts are being made to secure the SER
vices of prominent Liberal Republican poll
ticians from other States to address the citi-
zens of South Carolina.
-Newberry county has produced a huge
onion, which measures twenty-six inches in
circumference and weighed twenty-four and
q fourth ounces, ayordupois
An old lady recently died in Darlington
county, who reared thirteen children, and
lived to see 100 grand children and 61 great
grandchildren.
- Mrs. Jonathan Stanton, of Fairfield, COM
mitted suicide on Wednesday of last week by
hanging herself She has been laboring un-
der severe mental alteration for some time
past.
1t is rumored that Corbin's speech at
Greenvile on the Fourth of July, in which he
exposed some of the rascalities of the "Colum-
liza Ring" will be published.
Gen. w. K. Easley, of Greenville, died
suddenly in Atlanta, Ga, on Thursday last
where he had gone to attend railroad meet
ing. His remains were taken to Greenville
on Saturday last.
"A colored Division of the Sons Of Tenn
perance, numbering between forty and fifty,
turned out in full regalia at Lancaster on the
Fourth Of July.
-Causa Blair, colored, of York county,
whose term of imprisonment had nearly ex-
pired, has been pardoned out of the Peniten-
tiary by Governor Scott, on account of good
behavior, upon the recommendation of the
Superintendent.
Mai. j. G. Winder, Superintendent of the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road, has resigned his position. He will
probably be succeeded by Mr.. James Ander-
son, lately Superintendent of the Jacksonville,
Pensacola and Mobile Railroad.
The Charleston Ne,us says letter has
been received in that city from Judge Bond,
of the United States Court, announcing that
it is probable that he will not return to South
Carolina, but will exchange circuits with
Judge Rives of Virginia.
On Thursday night last, in Columbia,
about the time of the arrival of the Augusta
train, female infant about six or eight weeks
old, was deposited on the step of the house Of
Caleb Boyd, colored man employed at the
Charlotte depot. A note accompanied the
deposit, stating the age of the child, and re-
questing that it be named Amelia Sinclair.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston Neus says: "I hear that the pros
ecutions under the enforcement act are to be
pressed with unprecedented vigor and severi-
ty in the upper counties. There is pile Of
warrants for arrests in Union county alone
foot and half thick. Not dozen citizens
of the county of Saxon blood will escape"
The Charleston Neos says: "We are in
formed that our Greenville correspondent was
mistaken in saying that Senator Corbin d.
rected his oratorical Columbiads against At
torney-General Chamberlain. That gentle
man is said to be in full sympathy with the
Radical Reformers, and they know il"
WIN. sartor, of Union, was last week ar
rested in Lexington county, and lodged in
the Jail at Columbia. He is charged with
being connected with the murder of John
Dunovant, in Union county, in 1871. On
Saturday the accused had preliminary ex-
animation, and was remanded to Jail to await
his trial at the special term of the United
States Circuit Court, in August.