Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-21
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

fact of having seen open bolls Of cotton.
Governor Moses has appointed JOSEPH
Clark a Trial Justice for Lancaster county.
One of Judge Mackey's children died al
Chester on Sunday last.
-Laurens has voted in favor Of a county
subscription of 100000 to the Laurens and
Asheville Railroad, by a majority Of 691.
An amateur gardner at Blackville has
raised cabbage which weighs ten pounds
and six ounces.
Col. B. G. Yocum, Sheriff of Chester, has
returned from visit to Canada and the
Northern States.
William Mishaw, colored, Of Columbia
has been appointed route agent on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad.
Three bales of cotton were sold in Spar.
tanburg last week, the aggregate weight Of
which was 2,lO0 pounds.
The session of the Circuit Court for Lam
caster county, which was to have convened
on Monday of last week, has been postponed
by Judge Mackey until the 20th of October
The Chester Reporter of last week men
tions that the militia company at that place
has been furnished with arms by the Cover.
nor.
- Captain Martin M. Wolfe, formerly con.
ductor on the Charlotte, Columbia and Au.
gusta Railroad, has resigned his position on
that road and accepted similar position on
the Airline road
Judge Thad. G. Andrews, the regular
Republican nominee and proprietor of the
Union- Herald, has been elected Senator from
Oraugeburg, over Benjamin Byas, colored, a
bolter, by large majority.
- The death of Senator Ford has already
created stir among the politicians of Fair
field county, and an active campaign for his
place was going on before the body of the
dead Senator was put beneath the earth.
-Greenvile has produced three cotton
stalks which carry off the palm. They had
28O, 257 and 1926 bolls respectively. The
cotton was raised by Mr.. G. W. King, of
Chick Springs Township
"A daughter of Mr.. Joseph Rataree died
in Fairfield county, recently, from disease
somewhat similar to the yellow fever; black
vomit being one of the symptoms. A second
daughter was ill with the same disease
The Graniteville operatives, with the ex-
ception of forty or fifty, have struck in con-
sequence of the superintendent having decided
on monthly instead of semi-monthly pay
ments. The Superintendent has decided not
to accede to the demands Of the strikers.
- The Lancaster Ledger Of last week, says /:
"Within the last two weeks, three attempts
have been made to burn the Court House at
this place. In each instance the fire died out
of itself before doing any considerable dam
age. The building is now guarded at night
by watchmen. The supposition is, that the
person who made the attempts wishes to des-
troy the records in the clerks Office"
The Working Man, weekly paper here
tofore published by Rev. Timan R. Gaines
in Columbia, has been consolidated with The
South, a large eight-page weekly, devoted ex-
clusively to the interests of the Southern
States, and issued from New York city. Mr.
Gaines, the proprietor of the Working Man,
becomes one Of the managers of The South,
and will establish at once branch Office in
Columbia, from which The South will be sent
out weekly to the patrons Of the Working
Man,
john Heart, Esq, who was we'll known
in former years, as connected with the Char
lesion Mercury, died lately on board the
steamship Charleston, on her passage from
Charleston to New York. During the war,
Mr.. Heart served as special agent Of the Con-
federate Post Office Department. Since 1865,
he has been engaged in journalism in Mem
phis was Private Secretary to Gov. Scott, in
Columbia, and more recently, has been an
employG of the Government Printing Office,
at Washington.
Rock Hill, says the Lantern, now has in
full operation, and all doing thriving busi-
ness, eleven dry goods stores, one drug store,
and another in contemplation; one jewelry
store, four bar-rooms and restaurants, one con.
fectionery, one furniture store, one boot and
shoe shop, a barber shop, one hotel, and two
private boarding houses one livery and sale
stable, one carriage and buggy mandatory
and numerous other little industries which
will in time become of great Importance. Her
merchants are all business men-energetic,
honest and accommodating-and to them
principally is the place indebted for its pros
perity. tits blessed with three churches, the
pulpits of which are filled by intelligent and
christian gentlemen, and who are listened to
by attentive and interesting audiences. And
Rock Hill does not hide her light under
bushel, for the Lantern sheds its rays over
valley, hill and mountain and keeps the road
to prosperity continuallaly illuminated.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The fencelaw was rejected in every county
where voted on.
"A large black eagle was killed near
Raleigh on Monday.
- Castor county reports good seasons and
good crops Of cotton and corn.
A negro named Hardy Jones was hung
in Newbern on the 9th instant for the crime
of murder committed in February, 1872.
The Charlotte Observer learns that rust
has taken hold of cotton in some parts of that
county.
Work has been commenced on the western
division of the Carolina Central railway, be-
tween Buffalo and Shelby.
John J. Snider recently died in the Ire