Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

county.
r. H. Emore, Esq, aged about thirty
seven years, died in Columbia on Saturday
last, from diptheria
Governor Perry had his arm dislocateo
recently while endeavering to control fiery
horse.
1t is stated that every township in Ches
ter county has levied all extra tax for schoo
purposes.
"A man seventy-two years old married 8
young girl Of sixteen, at Branchville, few
days ago.
Arrangements are nearly completed fol
the establishment, in Winnsboro, Of first
class seminary for young ladies.
- Governor Moses has presented pulpit and
altar furniture to Spann's Church, in Edge
field county.
- Thos. Cauthen, of Lancaster, was robbed
of s11O in Charlotte, on Tuesday night Of
last week.
- The Governor has removed Trial Justice
Owens of Laurens, for "conduct unbecoming
an officer"
Ex-United States Marshal Louis E. John
son, was carried to Charleston on the 18th, by
officer Hicks, acting as agent of his sureties
A regularly organized band of outlaws
and highway robbers are operating in the
lower part of Richland county.
On last Thursday, at Columbia, S25,0OC
of Blue Ridge scrip was sold for four hundred
and fifty dollars.
On Monday the last rail was laid on the
Airline Railroad, near Seneca river, Pick
ems county, and the road is now complete
from Atlanta to Charlotte.
"A lady in Orangeburg has raised cotton
stalk measuring six feet and seven inches in
height, and having two hundred and thirty
five bolls.
A public sale Of town lots at Seneca City
on the Airline Railroad, took place last
week. The prices ragged from thirty dollars
to two hundred dollars.
A bale of new cotton, cassed as middling
which was raised in Edge6eld county, was
sold in Augusta, on Thursday last at II!
cents.
- Nearly all the county auditors have made
their returns to the comptroller-general, and
most of them report considerable increase
in the returns of taxable property.
- Jonathan N. McElwee, of York county
was in Lancaster last week, and proposes tc
furnish the Ledger with communication on
the subject of railroads.
-Laurens county has voted 100000 to the
Laurens and Ashevile Railroad, and now 8
public meeting is called "to authorize proceed
ings in court to set aside aud perpetually en-
join the subscription"
The Lancaster Ledger of last week says
that the whole line of the Cheraw and Chcs
ter Railroad has been permanently located
and that the engineer will, in short time
complete his estimates of the cost of the grad
ing and the building of bridges.
- The Phenir says: "a gentleman just from
New York, states that he saw contract
made with NOVEL; & Sorell, of that city, tc
furnish fancy glass paper weights for the mem
bers of the General Assembly, containing
their monograms, and to cost the nice little
sum of eight dollars each"
- Greenville county refused to aid the Lau
rens and Asheville Railroad, by issuing coun
ty bonds, by vote ofabout 27O Greenville
city voted in favor by about 300 majority
Over $4,000 however, were raised in one day
in the city by private subscription for the pur'
pose of furthering the enterprise.
- From dispatch received in Augusta on
Saturday, the Chronicle and Sentinel learns
that the Graniteville operatives held meet
ing, Friday, and passed resolution deciding
to resume work on the four weeks plan Of
payment. Mr.. H. H. Hickman, the president
of the company, agreed to this, and the strike
is, therefore, ended. The operatives, in fu'
ture, will be paid every four weeks, in place
of every two weeks, as has heretofore been the
custom.
Mr.. Thomas Wells, the bridge keeper at
Cheraw, was brutally murdered on Tuesday
of last week. A correspondent Of the Char
lesion Ne,os, says: "Some person passed the
house in which Wells lived at II o'clock, on
the day of the murder, and spoke to him
At 2 o'clock, he was found dead. The body
was lying on the floor in pool Of blood, the
skull literally crushed to atoms. The pock'
cts of the dead man were rifed, which would
seem to indicate that he had been murdered
and then robbed. No arrests have been
made"
The Chester Reporter of last week, men
tions the following deaths in that county
On Monday, 18th instant, Miss Betsy Nor.
row, daughter of David Morrow, deceased
on the same day, Hugh Omelveney, aged
eighty-one years; on the 18th instant, Min
ME, daughter of S. j. Murphy, aged three
years; near Landsford, on the 18th instant
daughter of W. L. Edwards, aged about
three years; at Lowrysville, on the 18th in
slant, Lowry Nicely, aged nearly two years
at Roddytown, on the 10Th, Gregg Cherry
ST., aged about eighty years.
The Columbia correspondent of the Char
lesion Ne,vs, writing under date of the
18th instant, says: "In the Supreme Court
to-day, decision was filed in the cases Of the
State Us. the South Carolina Railroad, the
Northeastern Railroad, Chapeau & Heffror
and others, all of which arose under the State
license law, and were argued on appeal from
the Charleston Circuit at the last term of the
Supreme Court. The court grants the mo
ton in arrest of judgment, but, as I am in
fnrmed the decision does not touch upon The