Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-09-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
L. W. Spratt, Esq. of Charleston, propo'
ses to make Richmond, Va, his future home.
The United States Court, at Greenville,
adjourned on Saturday last.
The Circuit Court commenced its sitting
at Chester on Monday last.
- There is fever prevailing in Anderson
which is carrying off both whites and blacks.
Richardson, colored, has been appointed
postmaster at Chester, vice J. Edward Wylie,
removed.
"A. G. Floyd, formerly of Yorkville, has
been elected member of the Spartanburg
town council.
The Chester Reporter announces the death
in that county, last week, of Mr.. Thomas E..
Wright, after brief illness.
The Enterprise says that Gen. M. G. But
ler thinks of making Greenville his future
home.
The first bale of new cotton was brought
to Edgefeld Courthouse by colored man
named Isaac Olifant, and was sold for nine
teen cents.
Ministers Passes," have been discontin-
ued OIL the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta
Railroad by special order from the General
Superintendent's Office. So says the Charlotte
Observer.
The county commissioners of Laurens
county have been served with copy of bill of
complaint to set aside and enjoin the county
subscription to the Laurens and Asheville
Railroad Company.
The New York Herald, of Monday, notes
sales at the Stock Board of new South Caro-
lima skies, April and October, at 2S} and 20.
This is the highest point these bonds have
reached for long time.
At the municipal election in Anderson,
the citizens voted to subscribe 1000 to the
capital stock of any company that may be or
ganized to construct railroad from Anderson
to Augusta or Aiken.
Harriet, oldest daughter of the late F.
H. Gilmore, died at Columbia, last Tuesday,
from diptheria, and another child of the fam
lily lies seriously ill from the same terrible dis
ease.
The Union Times says: From all the in
formation we can obtain from old and observ.
ing planters in every part of the county, we
are now confident that the cotton crop Of Un-
ion cannot be as large as last year."
A colored man in Newberry has been ar
rested, charged with poisoning spring with
arsenic. He had made threats against col
ored family. Had the attempt not been dis
covered, numbers of farmers might have been
injured, as the spring was on a public road.
The auction of lots at Gafney's Station,
on the Airline Railroad, took place on the
9th instant, and was decided success. The
lots were Sc feet front by 200, and comman-
ded fine prices, the highest price paid being
$3.50. Thirty-Gve lots were sold, for the ag-
gregate sum of s4,695.
The Supreme Court of the State has filed
decision in the case of the South Carolina
Society against Gurney, county treasurer of
Charleston, as to whether that part Of the act
of the Legislature taking away the power of
the Circuit Courts to issue writs of prohibi-
ton to restrain the collection Of taxes, is con-
stitutional. The decision is that it is consti-
tutional, and therefore the courts named
cannot issue such writs. The opinion was by
Willard, A. J., Chief Justice Moses dissent
ing.
- The Charleston Neaos and Courier says !:
"Those who profess to be informed, say that
the special session of the Legislature, which
convenes on the 2lst October, has been called
to consider the recent decision of the Supreme
Court in the Morton-Bliss bond case. A bill
is to be presented, and it is expected thatit will
pass, taking away from the comptroller the
power to levy tax to pay the interest on
the bonds. Should the Governor veto the
bill, it is asserted that there is no doubt but
that it will be passed over his head. The
bill will be an exact copy Of the one ratified
last year, which was mysteriously lost on its
way from the enrolling committee to the