Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-02
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

-Messrs. F. w. Eison, George w. Hill and
James H. Goss, have been appointed members
of the Equalization Board for Union county.
The Southern Life Insurance Company
have broken ground for handsome building
in Columbia.
-Abbeville county is credited with having
one hundred and ninety-two candidates for
the legislature.
The North bound train of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, now leaves
Columbia at 1890 p. m.
Several colored persons who emigrated to
Liberia have returned to their homes in New
berry. They don't like Liberia.
- The number of agricultural liens record
ed in the clerks office in Lancaster county
this year surpasses any previous year.
j. S. Wilson, of Abbeville, offers to hire
the base ball clubs to hoe out his cotton crop.
He will give good wages and make fair and
easy bargain.
The Langley Cotton Mills, located near
Hamburg, have received an order for ten bales
of standard shrting from Brigham Young,
Salt Lake City.
The Columbia correspondent of the Neps
and Courier says "the candidates for Govern
or are active, and Moses stock is improving.
Elliott is working in concert with Chamber
lain, and the friends of Scott are not idle"
Capt. Little Berry Jeter, an old and
respected citizen of Union county, died at his
residence in Santuc township on Friday Of
last week, at the advanced age Of eighty
years.
- The Columbia Union gives currency to
rumor that Gen. Worthington, collector of
the port of Charleston, is to be appointed to a
foreign mission, and that Gen. VIM. Gurney
will succeed him as collector.
- A package of poisonous roots, including
hemlock, has been discovered in public we'll
in Rock Hill. The extraordinary amount of
water, it is supposed, prevented any evil ef-
fects from being experienced
Charleston has population of about 5O,-
900. Of this, $4,000 are whites, $4,000
colored. During the year ending May 1,
1874, the deaths were, whites 4S5, colored
1,O7O-a fraction over two colored for one
white.
- The African Methodists of Abbeville
stand no nonsense on the part of their con-
gregatiou. Last Sunday one Of the sisters,
who was whispering during the sermon, was
seized by deacon and summarily kicked out
of the building.
The Treasurer of the Charlotte, Colum-
bia and Augusta Railroad Company, has
given notice that the coupons on bonds of the
Company, which became due on the 1st in
stant will be paid at the First National Bank
of Charlotte. and the Central National Bank
of Columbia.
- The Times says that recently in Union
county, party of men-or women in mems
clothing-visited man in the neighborhood
of Goshen Hill, who had whipped" his wife
numerically few days before, took him out
and administered very efficient dose of
"hickory oil" to him, to let him "know how it
was himself"
Governor Moses has pardoned G. B. Cloy
and A. L. Robertson, two of the County Com
missioners of Barnwel, recently sentenced to
the penitentiary, the former for nine and the
latter for ten years, for mafeasance in office
and misrepresentation of public funds. Clay
and Robertson were inmates Of the penten-
tiary but twenty-seven days. Cesar Cave, an
other one of the Commissioners, convicted at
the same time, was pardoned after being con-
fined one week.
"A company of English capitalists have
purchased the property in Spartanburg coun-
ty known as the Rolling Mills, about nine
miles east of spartanburg Court House, on