Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-31
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Vene at Lancaster Oh MOuudy ueAt.
- The Indebtedness of Lancaster county is
reported to be $S,7136O.
Hogs are dying rapidly in Orangeburg
from cholera.
A peculiar form of sore mouth and throat
affection is prevailing to a considerable extent
in Columbia.
The proprietor of the Columbia Hotel
has reduced the price of boarding from four
to three dollars per day.
The Oranges of Union county have a gen.
eral meeting at Union Courthouse on the I'd
of August.
District Attorney D. T. Corbin and ex-
Governor Scott have gone North, to remain
for several months.
A. B. Hawn, Tennesseean, engaged in
mercantile pursuits in Chester, died in that
town recently of consumption.
Since October 1872, $500 persons have
been vaccinated by the city vaccinator of
Charleston.
Professor James H. Carlisle is lecturing
to the Winnsboro people upon the early his
tory of that town.
Daily trains are now running on the
Airline Railroad between Charlotte and
Greenville. They pass at Kings Mountain.
Watermelons are so abundant in Colum-
bia, that those weighing from twenty to for
ty pounds are dull Of sale at from ten to
twenty cents each.
Letters received in Columbia, on Satur-
day last, announce the completion of the sur
vey of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad to
Orc, in Chesterfield county.
Mr.. j. NJ Davis, of Abbeville, has invent
ed fire extinguisher which uses water only,
and which is said to be much more effective
than any instrument of the kind yet invented.
1t is rumored that G. H. Baldwin, of Co.
lumbia, is to be appointed Assistant United
States Treasurer at Charleston, to supercede
j. D. Geddrgs, the incumbent
-Wm. McCaslan, of Long Cane section,
Abbeville county, has we'll on his place 500
feet deep. 1t is the only artesian we'll in the
State outside of Charleston.
- In the neighborhood of Landsford, Ches-
ter county, in the last three months, four per-
sons have died who have each passed the al
lotted three score and ten years.
The Chester Reporter states that the town
bell is rung every night at ten o'clock to give
notice that the police are about to retire for
the night, and to notify the citizens to look
out for themselves.
Mr.. Wills Rogers, formerly resident Of
Yorkvlle, and whose death, in New York,
was recently announced, has made his appear
ance at the Office of the American Newspa-
per Reporter, in New York, and denied the
story.
Mr.. w. N. Ransom, of Magnolia, Able
vile county, has seventy-three acres planted
in cotton that will make bale to the acre,
and ffty-eight acres in corn that will make
from sixty to one hundred bushels per acre.
"A meeting was held at Marion last week
in the interest of the Cheraw and Little River
Railroad, and was addressed by Capt. T. G..
Dunn, J. T. Walsh, Esq, Col. j. Fl. Hudson,
Gen. w. H. Harllee and Col. w. S. Mullins.
The Union Times, says: ut is said that
the proprietor of the Glenn Springs hotel does
not take newspaper, nor keep COW, and
plows his land with little red BULL That
must be delightful summer retreat. No
news, no milk, and only little red bull'
for horse"
Second-lieutenant NJ. Frank Gallagher,
who was recently tried before general court
martial at Columbia for killing John Nc
Aneely, discharged soldier, in Spartanburg,
on the End of May last, has been dismissed
the service and the sentence has been approx
ed by the President. The civil authorities
will take cognizance of the murder, the army
trial being only on the charge of conduct un'
becoming an officer and gentleman.
- The Beaufort Republican of the 25tll
says: "The fact is no longer to be disguised
that the caterpillar is upon us. Already We
hear of their being on Johns, Wadmalaw
St. Helena and Paris Islands, and we have
no doubt that they are to be found on all the
Islands and in every cotton field on the coast
Coming thus early, with the crop backward
they will be likely to destroy the whole O
the cotton crop on the sea islands if the
weather should be wet and COOL"
The Aiken Journal of the 25th states tina
a case of some interest was tried in that towr
on the 10Th instant. 1t was all action il