Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Aiken is soon to be designated as money
order Office.
1t is stated that reduction in the freight
tariff on the South Carolina Carolina Rail-
road is to be made at an early day.
Colonel Lewis Merrill, formerly in COM
mand of the post of Yorkville, left Columbia
on Monday last for the North.
"A special term of the Uuited States
Court, Judge Bond presiding, is in session at
Charleston.
"A colored boy, aged about eleven years,
was recently tried in Newberry on the charge
of murder, and convicted of manslaughter.
- There has been no court held in Laurens
county this year, in consequence of blunder
by the jury commissioner.
Governor Moses has appointed Col. B. G..
Yocum, of Chester, an honorary commissioner
to the Vienna exposition.
- On Thursday last, Rev. c. E. Chichester
was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Winnsboro.
- Congressman Rainey has purchased lot
in Marion and proposes to erect residence
there and make that place his home.
- Reports from Newberry and Abbeville
state that large stands of cotton have been
planted, and the crops are generally looking
good.
Dennis T. Crosby, of Chester, died at his
home near Crosbyville, on the 25th ultimo.
He was soldier in the late war, and lost a
leg at the attack on Fort Harrison in 1854.
The Auditors of the various counties of
the State are to meet in Columbia on the 18th
instant for the purpose of equalizing the as
sessments and suggesting more uniform tax
act.
The liquor sellers of Newberry are said
to be considerably exercised over the action
of the grand jury in finding true bills against
quite a number of retailers who have failed
to conform to the requirements of the law in
conducting their business.
- The Columbia Union learns that vio-
lent hail storm passed over Lexington on
Thursday last, doing much damage. Trees
were stripped Of their leaves, wheat fields
beaten flat to the earth, windows broken and
the roads badly damaged. Much of the cot
ton will have to be replanted.
Judge Mackey has issued mandamus to
the treasurer of Fairfield county to pay over
the amount (S2160) of taxes which was collec-
ted for the support Of the widows and orphans
of the ku-klux victims to the school commits
sioner, to be applied to school purposes as pro-
vided by statute, no claimants having appear
ed.
The spartanburg Spartan says: "Gaf.
ney's, near Limestone Springs, is destined at
no distant day, to be village of considerable
trade and Importance. The trains now stop
here for dinner both going and coming from
Charlotte, and although there is yet no hotel,
Dr. Gaffney manages to serve up very good
dinner for passengers and railroad officials"
"A statement is made in some of the State
papers, upon the authority of a correspon-
dent, that ex-Treasurer Allen, of Greenville,
has in his possession, in addition to the sum
due the State. nearly ten thousand dollars
in cash, belonging to Greenvlle county, and
that he publicly stated, both before and du-
ring his trial, tnat if he were convicted the
county would "never get one cent Of it."
The Columbia Union-Herald mentions a
painful operation which was performed by
Doctors Darby, Talley and Taylor, upon a
gentleman at one of the hotels in that city,
who had been taken suddenly i'll the night
before, caused by the intestines becoming
knotted in such manner, that the stomach had
to be cut open to put matters to rights. The
entire recovery of the patient is regarded
probable.
The Sumter News, of last week, says: "a
very important decision was made in the Com
mon Pleas for Sumter county at the late term,
in the case of Kirby rs. Woods. The matter
came up under rule against the sheriff, on
motion of plaintiff, and the argument was
heard on the motion to make the rule absolute,
(i. e.) requiring the sheriff to sell in October
next, defendants homestead. The Judge,
! (EIon. T. j. Green,) granted the motion, and
signed the order to that effect thus ruling in
accordance with the decision of the United
States Supreme Court, that the Homestead
law is no defence or protection against debts
contracted prior to the passage of such Act.
There remains, therefore, no protection for
such debtors, except in the provisions of the
Bankrupt laws of the United States"
A correspondent ofthe Abbeville Medium,
writing of lecture at Cokesbury, to promote
the cause of temperance, says: "We have an
efficient co-laborer in the judge of the eighth
circuit, Hon. r. H. Cooke, whose very first
utterances from the bench were in rebuke of
the evasions of the law, and of the unrestrain-
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