Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

JAS. l.. Orr, OF Anderson, son or ex-Judge
Orr, was married, at Greenvile, on the 18th
Instant to Miss E. B. Hammett.
A new Grange of fifty-two members was
organized at High Point, in Newberry county,
Oh Saturday of last week.
- Mr. Eli Killian, who resided about nine
miles above Columbia, died on Tuesday of
last week.
- The forts in Charleston harbor-Sumter
and Moultre-are dismantled and in no con-
dition to withstand an attack.
49, The Senate has refused to confirm the ap-
pointment of S. A. Hawkins as trial justice
for Union county.
Mr.. S. S. Solomons, formerly Superintendent
Of the North. Eastern Railroad, has accepted
similar position on the S. G. Railroad.
The surveying party of the Little River
and Cheraw Railroad have reached Bennetts-
vile, the county seat of Marlboro county, in
this State.
- Mr.. Zephaniah Smith, of Pickens county,
has picked this year, 1926 pounds of seed
cotton from a fraction less than one and three
quarter acres of land. Barn-yard manure
was the fertilizer used.
- The Senate has confirmed the following
appointments of trial justices for Chester
county: Jesse B. Howell, James McAllilly,
G. A. Mcneil, Asa Darby, John Dickey, R.
NJ. Culp.
- Columbus Carter, colored, who was con-
victed at the recent term of the Court of Cen
eral Sessions at Chester, of the murder of
Green Estes and sentenced to be hung on the
21st instant, has had his sentence commuted
to Imprisonment for life, and has been taken
tc the penitentiary.
The House of Representatives has agreed
to make the State and county taxes payable
in two installments. One half to be payable
wsthin the time now prescribed by law, and
the payment of the other half to commence
on the first day of June, and to be made by
the first day Of August, next.
- Mr.. Grandson Williams of Chester coun-
ty, barely escaped losing his dwelling house
by fire, on Wednesday of the week before last.
The Reporter says: "He and his wife were
absent from home at the time, and with the
exception of their children, who were quite
small, there was no one on the place but COL
ored people. The roof contiguous to the Chin
ney took fire, causing a considerable blaze,
when the flames were seen by the colored peo-
pie, who were quickly on the spot, and by the
| ol in,
stopping the fire."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- William overly, one of the oldest men of
Surry county, recently died at the age of III
years.
- Boston K. Echo, soldier of the 9TH u.
S Artillery, while intoxicated, froze to death
il Raleigh, on Tuesday of last week.
- The Charlotte Observer learns that
number of prisoners confined in the States.
vile Jail, for petty offences, effected their es-
cape on Wednesday of last week.
"A lady named Mary Ann Stinson, Of
Union county, died on the 3rd of this month.
Some six years ago this lady wandered from
the house and got lost in the woods and re-
mained Al days, during which time she had
the typhoid fever and nothing to subsist on
but bark, twigs, sticks, &c.
- The case of Swazey ct al, as. the North
Carolina Railroad, involving the important
question as to whether or not the State shall
sell sufficiency of its interest in the road to
meet the accrued interests on the bonds, will
be heard before Judge Bond, at the present
term of the United States Circuit Court.
- Hon. Nat. Boyden died at his residence
in Salisbury, on Thursday last. He was
prominent citizen of the State, having filled
various public positions. He was the Demo
cratic member of Congress from the Sails
bury District in 186S and at the time of his
death was an Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court.
Stephen Lowry has been seen at Moss
Neck two or three times during the present
week, armed to the teeth. He is now swear
ing vengeance against two persons whom he
accuses of too much intimacy with Rhody
Lowrey, the Queen of Scufletown. He says
that Henry Berry Lowry is not dead, as some
parties will find out to their sorrow one of
these days.
- In his recent message to the Legislature,
Governor Caldwell proposes an amendment to
the charter of the North Carolina Railroad,
by comforting on it necessary power and au-
thority to purchase the Western North Caro-
lima Railroad, and all of its branches or d.
visions, the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and
Charleston Railroad, and the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad, and to build and
complete the same and when so purchased
the whole to be merged into one corporation,
under one management, and under the name
of the North Carolina Railroad Company.
This is indeed a gigantic scheme
Says the Greensboro Patriot: "There was
meeting on Saturday, Of prominent persons
connected with the Richmond and Danville,
and North Carolina, and Western N. G. Rail-
roads, at Company Shops, and rumors are
afloat as to the result of the meeting, but
nothing is yet definitely known. Report has
it that arrangements were entered into to sur
render the lease, and consolidate the N. c.
Road, east of Salisbury, with the Western N.
C. Road, changing the gauge of the N. G.
Road to conform to other gauges, and grant
ing the right of way from Greensboro to
Charlotte to the Richmond & Danville COM
pany for a consideration. This will require
some legislative action, which it is thought
will be favorable.