Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-09-11
SOTTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The library of the South Carolina Uni
versity contains thirty thousand volumes.
Trial Justice Mackey, at Winnsboro, is
sending delinquent road workers to Jail.
John G. Reister died in Chester, from
consumption, on Saturday last.
Good crop reports come from all parts Of
Edge6eld county.
The cotton worm has made its appear.
ance in some sections of Sumter county
threatening serious damage.
Company D, of the second artillery, here
tofore stationed at Charlotte, has been trans
ferred to Charleston.
The corn crops in the vicinity of Cheraw
are considered better than they have been fol-
several years.
The Southern and Atlantic Telegraph
line has been completed from Charlotte to
Greenville.
The Union.Herald says that the increase
of the eolored population in this State since
1860, has been only one per cent.
Daniel Ravenel, Esq, one Of the most
respected and aged citizens of Charleston,
died on the 9TH.
- Fourteen foxes-eleven of which were
red foxes-were captured in eight successive
mornings, in Fairfield, county, by Mr.. D. R.
Feaster and two companions.
Governor Moses has contributed one hun
dred dollars toward the building of a Metho-
dist church in course of erection at Union
Court House.
"A movement is on foot at High Shoals,
Anderson county, for the purpose of building
frst.class cotton factory at that place, with
capital stock of 100000, one-third Of which
amount is already received
Lancaster Court House is said to be more
sickly than it has been for twenty years past
The Ledger attributes the sickness to the fact
that cotton is planted too extensively. In
many instances the gardens in the town are
planted in cotton.
The williamsburg Republican is the title
of new paper, the publication Of which has
been recently commenced at Kingstree 1t is
edited by S. A. Swails, the colored Senator
from Williamsburg, and is Republican in
politics.
- The Union Times says that Bud Williams,
formerly of that county, who it is alleged was
at one time ku-klux, and was afterward ap'
pointed Deputy Marshal, was killed at Mar
shall, Texas, few weeks ago. while attempt
ing to arrest another man.
Rev. R. G. Oliver, the Superintendent of
the "Carolina Orphan Home" at Spartan
burg, proposes to commence the publication
at that place, about the first of October, Of a
weekly newspaper to be called the "Orphan's
Friend" The size of the paper is to be %
by 80 inches, and will be published at 50 per
annum.
The Chester Reporter of last week men,
tions that Mr. John McLerkin was found dead
in his bed on last Saturday morning, at his
late residence one mile east Of Blackstocks.
The deceased was very old man-supposed
to be eighty years of age-and was pension
er of the Government on account of his SER
vices in the war of 1872.
- The Chester Reporter learns that Phillip
A. Eichelberger, formerly county treasurer of
Edgefeld county, whose death and burial was
published some time ago, is not in fact dead,
but has fled to healthier climate to escape the
consequences of certain malfeasances in office
for which he had been arrested by the State
treasurer.
- The Shelby Banner says: awe were re-
liably informed few days ago that Mr.. David
Reed, of Union county, S. c., cut his name
on a terrapin's back 40 years ago and turned
it loose, and found the same terrapin alive one
day last week, not more than hundred and
fifty yards from where he turned it loose
after cutting his name, the letters being as
legible as when first cut.
- The Wilmington, N. c., Journal, of the
4th instant, says: "a friend, who has just re-
turned from South Carolina, informs us that
the cotton prospects in Marion, Williamsburg,
Darlington and Sumter counties are really dis
couraging. The rust and the worm have both
been at work, and the farmers are now en-
gagged in picking out the open cotton as fast
as possible. The yield will prove very differ
ent from that promised few weeks ago."
- The Winnsboro Neaus says: "Rev. Mr..
Richardson, who carried colored opera
troupe through the North, last spring, has for
some time recently been training another at
Ridgeway. They have given one or two con-
certs, and persons who heard them have been
much pleased. Mr.. Richardson leaves for
his Northern tour this morning. One Of the
peculiar features of this opera will be the rem
dition of the real old "camp meeting melo-
dies" found only in the South among the COL
ored people"
The Chester Reporter Of last week says !:
"Dr. A. H. Davega, President of the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, returned
-, 1oc fropo trim of