Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-07
SOTTH CAROLINA NEWS,

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the Union Circuit, died at Caesars Head on
the 2Sth ultimo.
The treasury of Marion county has a
balance of $1,000 on hand, after paying all
its current expenses.
- The report from the cotton crop in tho
Pedee section is good. The corn crop is said
to be very Indifferent.
DR.. L. H. Edwards, If Rock Hill, is 10
take charge of the clearinghouse connected
with the Female College at Due West.
-Joseph P. Police, a machinst in the State
Road shops in Atlanta, has fallen heir to
$4,000, left him by rich old uncle, who
died recently in Charleston.
On Saturday, the Langley cotton mills
shipped consignment of domestics from Au'
gusta, Ga, to San Francisco direct, via the
Great Atlantic Coast Line route.
Chap McKinna, the ringleader of the Fort
Mill rioters, is Lancaster darkey, whom the
Ledger thinks is fugitive from justice
Chap has been prominent politician since
he took up his abode in York.
Two young ladies of Orangeburg county
have twenty acres of finely growing cotton,
which they have cleared of grass with their
own labor, assisted by a flock of geese The
crop promises to turn out about twelve bales.
In Orangeburg last week, Henry Honick,
German, and hard working, worthy man,
died on Friday of last week from sun.stroke.
Last Sunday, colored man in the employ of
Major Briggman, died from the effects of over
heating and the drinking Of too much water.
john R. McQuage, who was committed
to jail in Marlboro county for the killing Of
r. J. Breeden in July, 1871, and who escaped
in September following, was captured in Ma
rion county on Thursday last, and recommt'
ted to Jail.
- The Marlboro Times says: "Cotton is
growing very rapidly, and the prospect is
much better than it was some weeks ago.
With favorable seasons from this time forward,
very fair cotton crop will be made in Marl-
boro."
On Monday afternoon of last week, Mr..
j. S. Bell, living near Lynch's Creek, in the
southwestern part of Darlington county, was
instantly killed by lightning in his yard. He
leaves wife and seven children to mourn
their loss.
Two negroes, Columbus Carter and Green
Estes, on the plantation of Tom Saunders, in
Chester county, quarrelled on Friday last
about some watermelons, which Carter accused
Estis of stealing. From words they came to
blows, and Estes was stabbed to death. Car
ter was arrested and is now in Chester Jail.
Judge Moher has just refused writ of
n,andamus to compel the commissioners of
Colleton county to pay claims contracted pri-
or to November 1, 1872, out of the last tax
levy. The position taken was that the fiscal
year for county begins at the same time as
that of the State.
-Dorn's Gold Mine, in Abbeville county,
has been leased from its owner, Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick, of Chicago, by Messrs. Perrin &
Cothran, who intend to commence mining op-
erations at an early day. They will work
the mine on a scientific plan, and it is thought
that little labor will develop a richer de-
post than has yet been discovered.
AT the conference at Cokesbury, last week,
the matter of preachers using tobacco was dis
cusscd as unbecoming, and calculated to do
harm to the rising generation by the influence
of bad example One of the members soon
quashed proceedings by requesting the breth-
rem to hand over their tobacco to him. Strange
to say, not another word was said about tobac-
co.
The Union Times of the 1st instant says ::
ave are pleased to state that the Female
School at Limestone Springs, will shortly be
opened under the auspices Of Mr.. Chas. Petty,
of this county. Mr.. Petty was once Profes,
sor of the Spartanburg Female College, and
is highly spoken of as competent and ef6=
cient teacher From our own knowledge we
can say he is high-toned pure gentleman,
and we think is the very man to make the Fe-
male School great success"
Two officers from Georgia, on requisi'
ton from the Governor of that State, arrested
young man in Laurens county, on Friday
of last week, charged with the crime of MUIR
der, alleged to have been committed in De-
Kalb county in the year 1866. The accused
is named Wiley Smith, man of good char
acter and respectfully connected. His father
was murdered in Georgia several years ago,
some time after which the supposed murderer
was killed, and suspicion attaching to young
Smith, he has been arrested to answer to the
charge.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.