Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-17

|
have appointed Wednesday, 20th of August,
as the time for the people to vote on the sub
scription of stock to the Laurens and Ashe.
vile railroad.
At recent meeting of the Board of Trus
tees of the South Carolina University, Henry
j. Fox, D. D., was elected professor in place
of DR.. LaBorde, retired, who was afterward
elected in the place of Dr. Reynolds, retired
M. OConnell, Esq, one of the Trial JUS
tices of York county, died suddenly at his
home near Fort Mills, on Wednesday of last
week. He was buried in Columbia on Fri.
day last.
- Messrs. T. B. Milford ard T. A. Sullivan,
propose to commence the publication Of a
weekly Republican newspaper at Abbeville
Court House, about the first Of September, to
be called the True american.
- In Pickens county chickens are worth 10
cents each, butter 10 cents per pound, Irish
potatoes 80 cents per bushel, beef 8 to 10
cents per pound, mutton 8 to 10 cents, ducks
20 to 25 cents each, and vegetables can be
had for the asking.
II. NJ. Wilkes, United States Commission
er, formerly on duty at Yorkville, sailed for
Europe in the steamer Baltic, from New
York, on the 9Th instant He was accom-
panied by L. Cass Carpenter, formerly editor
of the Columbia Union, and Niles G. Parker,
ex-Treasurer of South Carolina.
The Citadel Academy building in Char
lesion, which since the war has been in posses
sion of the United States authorities, is shortly
to be relnquished to the control Of the State.
1t is stated that it is proposed to use the build
ings in connection with the establishment of
colored military school for the training Of
officers for the National Guard, otherwise
known as the colored troops of the State.
Near Cross Anchor, in Union county, on
Thursday night last, the dwelling house and
kitchen of Mr.. Hilliard Hill, together with
the contents of each, including nearly his en-
tire wheat crop, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is put down at about $1,000, and the fire
is supposed to have originated from the care
lessness of child, who was sent up stairs with
candle, to get some extra bed clothing.
- The Phenir mentions as singular coin
cidence, that, since reconstruction, Orange
burg has lost three Senators-Randolph,
Green and Jamison The colored minister,
in his funeral sermon over Senator Jamson,
referred to it as a "mysterious doom that
hung like cloud charged with darkness and
death over the seat which Orangeburg held
in the Senate of the State"
- The Lancaster Ledger of Thursday last
says: "The Surveyors of the Cheraw and
Chester Rail Road reached this place on
Thursday evening last We learn that the
depot will be situated in the corporate limits
of the town, near the old muster field. The
greater part of Friday and Saturday was
spent by the Surveyor in riding over the
grounds between this and the steam.mill. 1t
is stated that between this place and Chester
not a cut will have to be made over seventeen
feet Deep"
- For several days past there have been
many irregularities in the management of the
mail service on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railroad, which we hope have been
remedied by the prompt removal ofthe derelict
official-a negro named Fuller. To the Char
lotte IN. Co. OJseruer is due the praise. That
paper called the attention of the authorities
to the matter, whereupon Thomas B. Long,
special Agent Post-office Department, after
investigating the case, promptly discharged
Fuller, and says that every effort will be made
to secure promptness and efficiency on the
part of all his subordinates
- The members of one of the Oranges in
Newberry county have made a practical il
lustration of the principles of their order.
The wife of Mr.. A. NJ. Riser, belonging to
the Liberty Hall Grange, had been sick for
over five months, and things had become
sadly out of joint in her household. The
lady members of the Grange heard of the
situation of affairs, and like true Sisters Of
Charity, they visited the house, and putting
their fair shoulders to the wheel, soon had
everything in apple-pie ORDER thus making
the hearts of the whole household to rejoice.
They literally played "move house," (that is
with all the movables,) swept, busted, secured,
scrubbed and scalded, until there was no
more for their hands to do.
- Messrs G. G. Memminger, W. D. Porter,
A. Burt, and Butler & DeSaussure, as coun-
sci, representing a number of the tax payers
of this State, have succeeded in procuring a
temporary injunction from Judge Carpenter,
restraining the Comptroller-General from
taking any measures for collecting any tax
or giving notice for the collection Of any tax
for the purpose of paying the principal or in
terest on the bonded debt, until the further
orders of the Court. The injunction also
restrains the State Treasurer from paying any
part of the principal or interest on the bonds
due or to become due. The grounds of the
complaint are that a large portion Of the
bonded debt is fraudulent.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Que hundred hands are now employed al
the Ore Knob copper mine in Ashe county
Large quantities of ore Of superior quality