Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-19

The last Saturday in this month is the day
appointed by law for the voters of each school
district to meet, for the purpose of raising by
tax an additional amount for school purposes
In some sections of Marion county, some
of the planters have abandoned portions Of
their cotton crop, in consequence of the abun-
dance of grass and the scarcity of laborers'
One of the county.oficers of Georgetown
is to be indicted for making his office in the
Court House gambling saloon, in which he
plays the part of chief tiger
john G. Bailey, ESQ.,, the proprietor of
the Greenvile Enterprise has purchased the
Greenville Mountaineer, and the two papers
will be merged into one under the title of the
Enterprise and Mountaineer.
"A movement is on foot in Columbia to
secure the pardon of James NJ Allen, Treas
urer of Greenville county, recently convicted
of malfeasance in Office. Ex-Governor Perry
has written letter to Governor Moses in
favor of the pardon.
Monroe Taylor, colored, formerly en-
ployed on the Kings Mountain Railroad,
was arrested in Columbia last week and lodged
in Jail on the charge of stealing tobacco and
other property from the Charlotte and Co.
lumbia Railroad Company.
There is disease prevailing very extern
sively among the cattle in Greenville and
Laurens counties, which proves fatal in many
cases. The animal is usually attacked with
soreness and swelling about the throat, with
difficulty in swallowing, indisposed to eat or
exercise, with constipation of the bowels.
Columbia has creole fortune.teller who
processes to predict the fluctuations Of the cot
ton market by observing the transit of feecy
clouds across the sky. Also, by sacrificing a
white pigeon and examining its crop, she can
foretell to certainty ty'what kind Of crop the
cotton planters may expect to get
At an early day the County Commission
ers of Lancaster propose to submit to the vo-
ters of the county for ratification or rejection,
the $4,000 subscription made by them to the
Cheraw & Chester Rail Road. The Ledger
thinks that the people will endorse, almost
unanimously, the action of the Commission
ers.
The Orangeburg Times says that Rev. /.
D. Durham and Rev. A. P. Norris are about
establishing in that place new weekly pa
per, in the interest of the Baptist denomina-
ton. A large amount of money has been
subscribed for the purpose, and the power
press and type of the late Columbia Union
has been purchased for their use.
The Laurensville Herald says: "While
we do not wish to be understood, by those in
authority, as defying their power, we will
simply remark, that we fear, if the policy Of
arming colored militia, to the total exclusion
of the whites, be again resorted to in this
State, the little blood.shed of 1870 will not
be "a drop in the bucket compared to what
may be the result of a second effort in that
direction"
Gen. r. E. Stone, of Gen. Shermans army,
who commanded the brigade that guarded
the city of Columbia, upon its occupation by
the Union army, has written letter to the
Chicago Tribune, in which he asserts that Co.
lumbia was not fired by the Confederates, but
by society of Union officers, who had been
released by the army from the city prisons,
and to which was added number of soldiers
and negroes.
The Ne,ps announces the death in Charles
ton, last week, of William McKinlay, re-
spected colored man of that city, and says of
him: "He had been member of the Legis-
lature and of the City Council, and was a
member of the Board of Education. He paid
more taxes than any other colored man in
Charleston, and was an upright and honora-
ble representative of the best class of colored
citizens"