Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-15
S0UTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The fruit crop Of Newberry county was
not materially injured by the late frost.
- The first cherries ofthe season have ap.
peared in Newberry.
Governor Moses has appointed James L.
Strain Trial Justice for Union county.
-Four of the nine clerks employed in the
Charleston post office are colored.
The publication of the Charleston Co,'
rier, as an evening paper, has been suspended.
Blackberries have appeared in Charles
ton.
DIR. John H. Honour, highly respected
citizen of Charleston, died on the 9th instant,
after lingering illness.
1t is stated that since 1867 not witness
or jury warrant has been paid at the county
treasury of Lancaster county, and that it is
impossible to get county bills paid.
james M. Allen, county treasurer of
Greenvlle. has been indicted by the grand
jury of that county, for malfeasance in office.
There are four different indictments.
The Lancaster Ledger mentions that all
the bar-rooms in that town have been closed.
The Ledger consoles the thirsty with the re-
mark that the closing is only temporary.
Captain Walter N. Gibson, formerly of
Anderson county, is the editor of the Nuhou,
a semi-weekly journal, published at Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands.
Lieut.. Gallagher, who killed soldier at
Spartanburg last week, has been taken before
Judge Carpenter in Columbia on writ Of
habeas corpus, and admitted to bail in the
sum of $4,000.
The Chester Reporter has information
that Lancaster county has already subscribed
100000 to the Cheraw and Chester Railroad,
and that hardly good start has been made
in the way of subscriptions.
"A stone-cutter, named Dennis Coleman,
while intoxicated, sat down on the railroad
track, near Summit, S. c., and was so seriously
injured by passing train, that his life is des-
paired of.
The well-known paper mills at Bath, S.
c., have been purchased by Messrs. Barrett,
Land & Co., of Augusta, Ga. They expect
to enlarge their field of operations, and also
reduce the price of paper.
Philip A. Eichelberger, ex-County Treas
urer of Edgefeld, against whom legal pro-
ceedings had been instituted by Treasurer Car
dozo, for embezzlement of public funds, died
on Sunday last from an attack of erysipelas.
BY private letter we learn that on Sat-
urday night last James Mackerall, of Black
Stocks, was run over by train of cars and
instantly killed. He was on his way home
from the post-ofice, and it is supposed he sat
down on the track and went to sleep.
The Union Times says: "Solicitor Flcm-
ing caused quite sensation in town last Mon
day, by visiting the bar-rooms, and where he
found one that had not the accommodations
for travellers demanded by the Tupper law
ordered it to be closed"
Moses Cannon, for whose arrest the Gov
ernor had offered reward of two hundred
dollars, was apprehended while cutting cross
ties about six miles from Kingstree last week.
The crime charged against Cannon is the
murder of his father-in-law, in Darlington
county.
At the Orangeburg court, Judge Graham
presiding, last week, there was done consider
able business. Peter Fair, for the crime of
rape, was sentenced to ten years in the State
Penitentiary, and George w. Sturgeon was
sentenced to two years to the same institution
for forgery.
james Bruce, of Abbeville County, has
in his possession 81 coin, the first money his
grandfather ever made. His grandfather
was born in 1777, died when he was seventy
seven years old. had sevcnty-scven direct des-
cendants, and his estate, at his death, was
valued at $1,000.
Major Franz Melchers, the senior editor
and proprietor of the Charleston Ze'tung, has
succeeded in perfecting arrangements with
the Inman line of European steamships
whereby immigrants can be brought hither
at the rate of forty-four dollars each, direct
from either Hamburg or Bremen.
Eleven of the emigrants who went to
Newberry last week to locate, have again
left for the West They say they were gross
ly deceived by their own countrymen living
in Newberry, who declared to them all sorts
of impossible stories in relation to the climate,
fertility of the soil, &c.
"A large and enthusiastic meeting of the