Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Several children have recently died in
Fairfield county from diptheria.
- The company of Federal soldiers stationed
at Sumter, is to be removed to Columbia.
- The Circuit Court for Lancaster county,
commenced its sitting on Monday last.
- The whooping cough prevails extensively
among the children in Chester county.
-Wm. H. Anderson, Esq, has been ap-
pointed Clerk of the Probate Court for Ches-
ter county.
Grace, a daughter of Mr.. j. Harvey
Smith, of Chester, died from diptheria in that
town on the 9th instant.
Sanders Ford, State Senator for Fair
field county, died in Winnsboro on Sunday
afternoon last.
james Hemphill, a youth of seven years,
son Of James Hemphill, Esq, of Chester, died
in that town on last Thursday.
- The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church in Winnsboro, was dedicated on Sun.
day of last week, Rev. r. A. Ross, Of York,
officiating
r.. H. Kirk, the late trial justice, who
arrested Senator Patterson in Columbia, last
winter, is writing book entitled Eminent
Southern Republicans"
"A train on the South Carolina railroad
recently made the distance from Graniteville
to Orangeburg, seventy miles, in one hour
and forty minutes, including the stoppage at
Branchville.
The Phenir says: ut is rumored that
the decision in the Supreme Court in the
Morton, Bliss & Co. mandamus case, is to
be rendered this week, and that it will be in
favor of the bond-holders."
George Moseley, negro who claimed to
be from Yorkville, was arrested in Columbia
on Friday last and lodged in Jail, in default
of bail for $500, on the charge of stealing a
gold watch from Mr.. Ehrlick, valued at S125.
An election on the question Of county
subscription of four hundred thousand dollars
to the capital stock of the Laurens and Ashe-
vile Railroad, for Laurens county, will take
place tomorrow.
The board of county commissioners, of
Greenville, have ordered an election to be
held on the 10th of August, to vote upon
the subscription of sl50,000 to the capital
stock of the Laurens and Asheville railroad.
- The Pheair gives currency to rumor
that Governor Moses will soon issue a call
for an extra session of the Legislature, to
convene about the 1st of November, for the
purpose of considering the financial condition
Of the State.
Professor Rivers, for the past eighteen
years professor of ancient languages and lite
rature in the College and University Of South
Carolina, has resigned the place and accepted
the position of principal of Washington COL
lege, Maryland.
The Sumter Ne,rs mentions that gen.
tleman who passed over the railroad from
Columbia to Sumter, after recent storm, re-
ports that he counted over thirty telegraph
poles, within short distance, that had just
been struck by lightning.
- The Lancaster Ledger says: "We under
stand that an effort will made to open the new
mail route from this place via Craigville,
Curcton's Ferry and Coats Tavern to Rock
Hill, in few days. The opening of this route,
which will be tri.weekly, will be Of great ad-
vantage and convenience to the people along
the line and at this place. Hon. A. S. Wal
lace has taken the matter in hand and prom
ises to lend his influence in that direction"
The Union-Herald of Tuesday says: Gre
liable information has been received that the
directors of the Laurens and Asheville Rail
road Company have completed arrangements
for the purchase of the Laurens Railroad be-
tween Laurens and Newberry, and will at
once put the said road in complete running
order. This road is to form a part of the
Laurens and Asheville line. New iron is to
be placed on the track and the road made
first class in every respect. This attcsts the