Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-25
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The wheat crop throughout the State is
reported to be good.
- In Chester county, there are thirteen
Oranges of the Patrons of Husbandry.
- Colonel Phifer, of Newberry, has raised
one hundred and ninety bushelsof oats from
five acres of land.
- The first peaches of the season were sold
in Charleston last week at prices ranging from
10 cents to 81 per dozen.
- Judge Cooke has Instructed the grand
iuryof Grecnville to take measures to suppress
blasphcmy in the streets of the city.
Twenty Of the thirtytwo county treasu-
rers in the State have settled their accounts
with the comptroler-gencral.
- Mr.. J. c. Hardin, of Chester, has pur-
chased the office of the Chester Reporter, and,
in connection with MIR. j. H. Buchanan, will
take charge of the paper at an early day.
- The Charleston News says that the name
Of Col. Robert NJ. Wallace, the United States
Marshal, is frequently mentioned in connec-
ton with the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor.
r.. G. Shiver, Esq, the head of the largest
dry goods establishment in Columbia, died in
that city on Friday last. He died after a
lingering illness, resulting from an attack of
pneumonia.
"A coored man named Jesse Sharp, who,
several years ago, emigrated from Columbia to
Liberia, has sent bag Of coffee to some Of his
friends in Columbia 1t was raised by him
self.
- the Columbia Union says that old bonds
of the State to the amount of about S50O,OOO
have been funded in new bonds, in accordance
with the act passed at the last session Of the
General Assembly.
- At the recent election in Lancaster coun-
ty, on the question of the county subscribing
100000 to the capital stock of the Chester
and Cheraw Railroad, the voters decided in
favor of such subscription by a majority OF
4S9 votes.
- Dr. R. H. Hope, of Rock Hill, visits FIVE
patients whose total ages amount to 412
years, being an average of 80 2-5 years for
each of them. One of them at the advanced
age of II had three children, all born to him
at one BIRTH They are all living, being now
several years DID,
- The Anderson IntelHgencer says: "Never
before within the recollection of the oldest in
habtant has there been such splendid yields
in the grain crops grown around town. Mr..
L. w. Byrum raised on small field Of only
one and three-quarter acres, sixty-six bushels
of fine wheat. Col. j. N. Brown raised on
three fourths of an acre forty-one and half
bushels of oats, which would be about tifty.fve
bushels to the acre."
- By the amended charter of the town of
Anderson, the plan of cumulative voting will
be adopted at the next municipal election,
which will take place in that town on the Sec
ond Monday in August. The system will,
therefore, on that day be subjected to a prac-
tical test for the first time in the history of
South Carolina. As the Conservatives have a
large majority of votes in the town, the result
will be to give the colored minority fair rep
resentation in the municipal council.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The wheat and the fruit crops in the
Greensboro section are reported as unusually
promising.
- The sale of the Western North Carolina
railroad, advertised to have taken place on
Wednesday of last week, has been postponed
to the 18th of August.
The town commissioners of Newton, Ca
tawba county, have ordered an election on
the question of making $40, 900 subscription
to the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge
Railroad. The election will be held on the
9th instant
Judge Tourgee, who was elected to the po.
sition seven years ago, announces hlpself an
independent Republican candidate for reelec-
ton to the office of Judge of the Superior
Courts of the Greensboro Circuit. Hon.
John Kerr is the nominee of the Democratic
party for the same office.
The suit of Alfred Self and others, en-
Joining the funds in the State Treasurer's
hands and asking that they be applied to the
payment of interest on what is known as the
fraudulent special tax bonds" was dismissed
in the u. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh last
week.
- Blalock and Collins, one white and the
other black, convicted of murder and sen.
fenced to be hanged in johnson county on
Friday last, have had their sentence commu-
ted to imprisonment for life. The murderers
committed the deed disguised in female at
tire, and the trial was reported as "the first
ku.klux case tried in the State courts"
- An excursion train on the Carolina Cen
trail railway was wrecked on Wednesday Of
last week, four miles east of Lilesville, in
Anson county, caused by the washing out of
a culvert, which the engineer failed to dis
cover until he had ran into it, the engine
going down, with four cars after it. -Four
persons-among them John Calvin, the en-
gineer-were killed, and several seriously
wounded.
- The suit known as the Swazey case, has
lust been terminated in the United States
Circuit Court at Raleigh. Swazey and Others
holders of bonds of the North Carolina Rail-
road, brought suit to recover back interest
due on said bonds, and in default of payment
of the interest, praying that execution might
issue against the stock of the road owned by
the State. which is two thirds in amount and