Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


County Auditor of Richland.
DR.. Robert Lebby, of Charleston, has
been appointed Surgeon-General Of the State
on the staff of Governor Moses.
- The Senate has confirmed the appointment
of w. F. Swearingen, as Auditor for Lancas.
ter county.
- The "Wheeler House new hotel in
Columbia opened to the public on yes
terday.
Under foreclosure of mortgage, the Spar
tanburg and Union Railroad is advertised to
be sold at Union Court House on the first
Monday of next month.
The cost to Lexington county for the SER
vices of three County Commissioners and
clerk, for the year 1872, was only s6129O ;
an average of less than $3.50 each.
Several deaths have recently occurred at
Honea Path, in Anderson county, from small
pox. There are quite number of cases of
the disease in that section of the State.
Governor Moses has pardoned George
Atlas, convicted of larceny at the Chester
Court in January, 1872, and sentenced to two
years in the State Penitentiary.
- The mercantile firms of Wylie, Roddy q
Agurs, and London & Jones, at Rock Hill,
were dissolved, by mutual consent, on the
first instant. Capt w. L. Roddy continues
the business of the first concern, and Mr.. Jno.
r. London that of the latter.
- Mr.. John L. Albright, made twenty.six
hundred pounds of seed cotton on an acre
lot in the town of Chester, last season. The
cost of cultivation, including seed, fertilizers
and gathering, is put down by the Reporter at
not exceeding thirty dollars, leaving nett
profit on the acre of one hundred and twenty
three dollars!
1t is reported that the meningitis is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent in Newberry
and Anderson counties. The disease is of a
very maglgnant type, and generally causes
death in a very few hours after the attack.
1t is said to be causing much excitement.
- An engine on the South Carolina Rail
road exploded at Lewisville station on Sat
urday last scattering the fragments of the
engine in every direction. The engineer and
fremen had gone back to the conductors car
while the train was waiting, and thus almost
by miracle, escaped terrible death. No
cause can be assigned for the explosion.
The Columbia Union says: "Judge
Mackey recently sentenced VIM. Moore to the
penitentiary for thirty years for manslaughter.
The condemned is a son Of Alfred Moore, a
former member of the Legislature from --
county. Moore had killed his uncle under
very aggravating circumstances. The jury
returned verdict of manslaughter, and the
Judge gave him the EXTREMIST penalty the
law allows. If he should live to serve out
his sentence he will be an old man when he
comes out again into the world"
- The Columbia Union of Monday publish
es the subjoined paragraph. One man, at
least, is satisfied with South Carolina: awe
gave, it will be remembered, an account few
days ago of the pardon, by Governor Moses,
of Ransom Simmons, on condition that he
would leave the State. Friday the Governor
received a letter from the prisoner, respect
fully declining the pardon on those terms. He
stated that he had rather live in South Caro-
lima, under the administration of Governor
Moses, even if two years of that time had to
be passed in the penitentiary, than to 60 to
strange State. Saturday, Governor and Mrs.
Moses visited'the penitentiary, and saw, among
Others Ransom Simmons. He restated the
reasons which moved him to decline the con-
ditional pardon rendered him, and hoped the
Governor would consent to grant him an un-
conditional release. The Governor, being
pleased with the appearance and conversation
of Simmons, and on the recommendation OF
the superintendent, General Stolbrand, he
consented. The pardon was made out Sat
urday morning, and presented to him yester'
day"