Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

extent in Marlboro county.
The grand jury of Newberry county have
raised the license fee to $780,
"A fatal disease is killing all the hogs and
chickens in Laurens county.
The grand jury Of Lexington county have
fixed the liquor license at $50.
Corn, at Lancaster Court House, COM
mands s1.7O cents per bushel.
Col. r. w. Seymour, of Charleston, has
been appointed an aidede.camp to Governor
Moses, with the rank of Colonel.
- The grand jury of Anderson county have
presented J. j. Gilmer, trial justice Of that
county, for malpractice in Office.
OF 11,770 acres of land in Clarendon
county, forfeited to the State for taxes, over
half of it is the property of F. j. Moses, Jr
- Cucumbers are being used in Charleston
as boiled vegetable, and are said to equal if
not excel the summer squash in delicacy.
- On the 1st instant two daily trains were
commenced on the Spartanburg and Union
Railroad, connecting with the Greenvlle and
Columbia and Airline Railroads.
1t is asserted by knowing Republicans
that Gov. Moses will be candidate in the
next gubernatoral canvass whether regularly
nominated or not.
AT the recent election in Lancaster, it
was decided, by a majority Of five hundred,
to issue county bonds in aid of the Chester
and Cheraw Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Two brothers, twins, nine years old, sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. II. K. Carlton, were drowned
in Thompson's mill pond, near Spartanburg,
while bathing, on Thursday last.
- Mr.. j. r. Allen, Of the firm of Allen &
Barber, at Rock Hill, who has been seriously
i'll for several weeks, we learn from the
Grange, is now convalcscent.
The County Commissioners of Lancaster
have determined to grant no licenses for the
sale of spirituous liquors in that county. 1t
is understood that the town council of Lam
caster will pursue similar course.
- The Abbevlle Medium says that white
man in that county is accused of being the
father of pure negro baby. The Medium
man wants to know if this freak of nature is
a result of the civil rights bill.
The Kingstree Star is authority for the
statement that Williamsburg county is at.
ficted with fifteen candidates for the legisla
ture, and seventy-fvc for the office of county
commissioner.
- The citizens of Rock Hill have perfected
arrangements for procuring fire engine and
the town authorities are sinking cistern for
the purpose Of getting the necessary supply
of water.
- Between the 1st of September, 1878, and
the 1st of May, 1874, thirty-two thousand and
forty-sx tons of commercial fertilizers were
shipped over the South Carolina Railroad.
During the same period the previous season
there were 42,574 tons.
- The Columbia Union gives the following
as the Congressional slate which has been
fixed up in Charleston: j. H. Rainey for
Congress, from the 1st district; E. ". NJ.
Mackey, I'd district; r. H. Cain, Sd district;
T. J. Mackey, 4th district, and W. j. Whip
per, 9th district.
Anderson Rinehart, colored, formerly
employed on Kings Mountain Railroad, was
convicted at Chester last week of stealing
cotton and sentenced to one year in the peni-
tertiary. Subsequently the Governor COM
muted the sentence to Imprisonment in Ches.
ter county iail. and reduced the term to six
months.
George E. Tupper, who killed Caldwell
in Columbia something more than a year ago,
and was tried and convicted Of manslaughter
and sentenced by Judge Carpenter to five
years in the Pcnitentiary, which was immedi-
ately committed to a service for the same
period in the county Jail, was pardoned by
Governor Moses on Thursday last.
The trial of James Reid, one of the county
commissioners of Chester, indicted by the
grand jury Of that county for breach of trust
and grand larceny, has been postponed until
the next term of the Court. The case of
Madison Pendergrass, another of the commits
sioners, charged with embezzling county funds,
was also continued until the next meeting Of
the Court.
The mandamus case to compel the State
Treasurer to issue certificates Of Indebtedness
in accordance with the Act of the Legislature,
came up before the Supreme Court on Thurs
day last for a hearing Owing to the illness
of Attorney. General Melton, the Court de-
cided to continue the case until the 18th in
slant, when the return to the writ will be
heard, and the argument on the 18th.
In the United States District Court at
Charleston, last week, in the case of the Blue
Ridge Railroad Company, Daniel Horlbeck,
ESQ.,, the clerk of the court, was authorized
to negotiate a loan of s35,119 at one and a
half per cent interest per month, to pay fees,
costs, expenses, compensation and commissions
of the assignees, trustees, attorneys, solicitors,
pettioning creditors and officers of the court,
due up to May 30, 1874.
-Rev. Thos. G. Herbert, presiding elder,
writes to the Southern Christian Advocate as
follows: "Rev. j. H. G. Mckinney, member
of the South Carolina Conference, was called
before committee of investigation, May 1,
1874, under charge of gross immortality.
The charge was sustained, and he has been
suspended from Ill the privileges Of the
church. After the investigation was over,
(though he bitterly denied the charge before
and during the investigations he sent me
full written confession, accompanied with his
credentials"