Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Hu6lCe. lue VI ClIHSi Dloono
or Baxter is not as yet known.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The Governor has appointed Rufus Lam
caster, Of Spartanburg, a notary public.
- Tax unions are being formed in Fairfield
and Marion.
- Statistics show that $4,000 gallons Of wine
were manufactured in this State last year.
- The Trial Justices are strictly enforcing
the new liquor law in Camden.
Judge Glover who was recently appoint,
ed County Treasurer Of Orangeburg, has
taken charge Of the office.
"A cat in Charleston has given birth to a
litter of kittens, not one Of which had any
Sign of a TAIL
- Niles G.. Parker, ex-State Treasurer, and
G. P. Pelham, jr., have recently been admit
ted to practice law at the bar of this State in
all Circuit and Probate Courts
"A correspondent of the Reporter COM
plains of the frequent loss of money sent
through the mails by citizens Of Chester
county.
- The Union and Spartanburg railroad
has recently been supplied with four engines,
and in short time daily trains will be run
over the road.
Many of the colored people in Williams
burg county have paid up in full and received
titles for the land they purchased from the
land commissioner.
The Columbia Union-Herald gives cur
rency to report that MIR. j. P. F. Camp, of
Spartanburg, is prominent candidate for
Congressional honors from the Fourth Dis
trict.
R. D. Montgomery, formerly of Lancas-
ter, has recovered $4,000 from the Misss-
sippi Central railroad, for damages sustained
by the loss of his wife and child by accident
on the road.
1t is said by persons who have travelled
much. that faster time is made on the Air
Line Railroad, between Charlotte and Attain
ia, than on any other road in the Southern
States.
- The cornerstone of a monument to the
Confederate dead was laid in Sumter on the
9th, with appropriate ceremonies. Gen. j.
B. Kershaw presided and delivered mastery
address.
- The City Council of Greenvile has had
forwarded to Hon. A. S. Wallace, at Wash
ington, the title to a lot of land in Greenville,
on which it is proposed to erect court house
and postofice.
- Rev. James Thornwell, sou of the late
DR.. Thornwell, has been called to the Pres
bytcrian church of Ninety.Six, in Abbeville
county, to fill a vacancy occasoned by the
resignation of Rev. w. F. Pearson.
- Three cofins have recently been discov-
cred near the old Star Fort, at Ninety-Six.
The evidences we're that they contained the
remains of the soldiers of the British garri-
son, buried some ninety-four years ago. The
planks composing the cofins were in re-
markablc state of preservation.
- The Abbeville iMelium is responsible for
the following: "a colored man who has some
political aspirations, tells us that when he goes
to the legislature he will have law passed
making it right for negro to steal from a
white man. He thinks this privilege should
be given to the colored people on account of
their long service in slavery"
1t is serious matter to hire a farm la
borer who is under contract to another party,
provided the second employer is notified Of
the previous contract. A case of this kind
was recently tried at Abbeville before Judge
Cooke in which the first employer prosecuted
the second employer of the laborer, and OBJ
tained judgment for $500 damages.
The Carolina Savings Bank, chartered
at the recent session of the Legislature, was
organized in Charleston on the 29th ultimo.
The following are the officers: Geo. W. Will
liams, president; Joseph r. Robertson, vice.
president; William E. Breese, cashier. Di'
rectors-Geo. w. Williams, Joseph r. Rob-
ertson, Edward G. Williams, James Bridge,
Jr., Frank L. Taylor, Robert S. Cathcart,
Edward j. Gage
"A dispatch from Charleston says that on
Friday last petition was filed in the United
States Court that day for theiuvoluntary bank
ruptcy of Franklin J. Moses, Jr., Governor
of South Carolina, and an injunction was
granted restraining the Sheriff of Richland
county from seizing and selling his effects
until the further order of the Court. The
debts of the Governor, in excess of his assets
are currently stated to be over s25O,O0O.
The Union. Herald says the question Of
the validity of the Blue Ridge scrip may be
tested soon in the United States Court. A
certain amount of the "swag" will be offered
in payment of taxcs-rcfuscd of course; and
when the authorities proceed to sell the road
an INDUCTION will probably issue, and the
whole question Of the right of a State to i'm
pair the obligation of a contract will be ven
tilatcd even up to the Supreme Court.
The Columbia Union-HeraI publishes
the following as an incomplete list of the
! candidates for Governor Of this State: "Hon
+. j. Moses, Jr., Hon. D. H. Chamberlain
Hon. r. X. Scott, Hon. S. W. Melton, Hon
S. J. Lee, Hon. R. H. Gleaves, Hon. 7. j
Mackey, Hon. r. H. Cooke, Hon. j. A. Bow
ley, Hon. Simeon Corley, Hon. H. G. Worth
ington, Hon. F. A. Sawyer, Hon. c. G. Bow
Ell, Hon. A. j. Ransier, Hon. j. Fl. Rainey
Hon. George I. Cunningham, Hon. Johr
Winsmith, Hon. ]. T. Green, Hon. II. +