Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-02
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The Union Times mentions having re-
ceived a yam potato weighing 81 pounds.
DR.. E. H. Edwards, of Rock Hill, will,
in future be connected with the Due West
Female College as musical instructor.
Near the railroad depot in Chester, on
Saturday night last, a dwelling occupied by
Mrs. Mccormick, together with the kitchen
and an clubhouse, were destroyed by fire.
- Rowland Williamson, the engineer on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
who was so severely injured on the 18th ulti-
no, died on Sunday last.
Lula Alice, aged four years nine months
and twenty days, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Grandson Williams, died in Chester
county on the 2Oth ultimo.
john Knott, Superintendent of the Gran
iteville factory, was found dead in part of
the building on Wednesday Of last week.
The cause of his death was appoplexy.
The Equalization Board of Union, has
increased the assessed value Of property in
that county, $627,01 as compared with the
assessment upon which taxes were collected
last year.
The proprietor of the Chester Reporter Of
fers the same for sale. No better investment
for limited amount of capital can be found
in the State An early purchaser can secure
a bargain.
In the Circuit Court at Chester, last
week, Columbus Carter, colored, was convict
ed of the murder of George Estes, colored,
in that county, on the 31st of July last.
Judge Mackey sentenced him to be hung on
Friday, the 21st day of November next.
- Information has been received at Colum-
bia, that all the claims growing out Of the
destruction ofthat city during its occupation
by the Federals in 1865, have been disallowed
by the Claims Commission, now sitting at
Newport, R. I.
Moses Martin, a colored man, has been
nominated by the Republicans of Fairfield,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Senator Ford. Mr.. Calvin Brice, white,
has also been nominated by persons dissatis-
fed with the nomination of Martin.
The Republican says that Edward F.
Stokes recently added much to his notoriety
by allowing himself to be committed to the
Grccnville jail, by Judge Cooke, for contempt
of Court A writ of habeas corpus was sued
out in Stokes behalf, and he was taken be-
fore Judge Willard at Columbia, but his case
had not been disposed of at last accounts
Twenty thousand dollars of State bonds
were sold at auction in Columbia last week, at
III cents on the dollar for the lot. Eighteen
thousand dollars of the bonds were issued un-
der the conversion act, and the other two
thousand under the act for the redemption Of
the bills of the Bank of the State. They
were bought by D. Gambrill, broker, for some
third party.
= In the case of Knox & Gill Us. The South
Carolina Railroad Company, just decided by
the Supreme Court it is determined that the
statute limiting the charges for the convey
ance of merchandise intended that the rate
should be applied to the actual number of
miles of carriage-a portion of one hundred
miles emitting the railroad company only to
corresponding portion of the statute allow
ance.
Two frst.class locomotives have recently
been completed in the shops of the South Caro-
lima Railroad Company, at Charleston, at a
cost of about two thousand dollars less than
similar machines could be purchased at the
North. They weigh about twenty-four tons
each, and have capacity for drawing eighteen
loaded cars. They are supplied with all the
latest Improvements and on recent trial trips
gave entire satisfaction.
BY recent Especial order" the following
persons are announced as "aids.de-camp" Of
Governor Moses, with the rank of Colonel:
"Harry Noah, L. c. Northrop, c. j. Houston,
colored, S.B. Thompson, A. w. Curtis, col
ored, S. L. Hoge, L. j. Nash, H. L. Shrews-
bury, colored, N. G. Parker, B. F. White
more, J. L. Little, J. Crews, A. j. Ransier,
colored, R. M. Wallace, H. H. D. Byron, j.
O. Ladd, F. H. .Carmand, colored, W. H.
Berney, colored, c. c. Puffer, William Cur
ney, G.. G.. Bowen, J. G. Winnsmith, j. P. F.
Camp, j. B. Cochran, j. H. Runkle, j. A.
Dunbar.
- The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston Neus and Courier says that "the
suit which was commenced several months
ago, to test the constitutionality of the con-
version bonds, by Messrs. Memminger Porter,
Burt, Butler and DeSaussure, on behalf Of
the taxpayers of the State, has not been drop
ped, though nothing has been published about
it since the original filing Of the complaint,
and the granting of the temporary injunction
to restrain the fiscal officers of the State from
collecting any tax or paying out any money
in the way of interest upon the bonds. The
summonses have been served upon the various
defendants, and the answers must soon be
made and issue joined for trial, or else judg-
ment will be granted as prayed for in the COM
plaint. This is that the 100000 CONVEX
sion bonds be declared null and void and can
celled, and that the tax assessors and treasur-
er of the State be forever enjoined from pay
ing either interest or principal Of the said
bonds"
"A correspondent of the U'sion-Herald,
writing from Camden, under date of the 25th
ultimo, says: Judge Cooke is raising wind
over in this section. Yesterday he had all Of
the liquor dealers up and the plea of them all
was ignorance and that they got their license