Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

There are twenty.one lawyers located in
the town of Newberry.
- The May term of the Circuit Court for
Fairfield county, commenced it sessions at
Winnsboro on Monday last.
IT. w. Parmale, recently appointed Su-
perintendent of the State Penitentiary, has
entered upon the discharge of his duties.
- The county commissioners of Kershaw
have determined to grant no licenses for the
sale Of Intoxicating liquors.
Since the first day of January last, 6O9
crop liens have been recorded in the Office Of
the Clerk of the Court for Marion county.
- The store of White & Finger, at Valley
Falls, Spartanburg county, was bro ken open
last week, and about 500 in money stolen
from the safe.
- The new board of County Commissioners
for Lancaster county, qualified on Monday of
last week, and entered upon the discharge Of
their duties.
-Neage's bridge, at Columbia, was adver-
tised to be sold on Monday last by the sheriff
of Richlaud county, at the suit Of Lewis Mer-
rill rs. j. l.. Neage.
The real estate of Ridgeway, in Fairfield
county, on the line of the Charlotte, Colum-
bia and Augusta Railroad, is assessed at forty
thousand dollars.
DR.. Vampill, of Marion, who is largely
engaged in grape culture, lost his entire pros
pective grape crop for this year, by the recent
cold "suap." He has about $4,000 bearing
vines.
The dead body of an Irish peddler was
found some days ago. at point little above
fuckers Ferry, near the Laurens and New.
berry county line. The man had evidently
been murdered.
Union county boasts of colored citizen
who owns fine tract of land four mules, all
necessary farming implements, cows, hogs, &C.,
and has over $4,000 out bearing ten per cent.
interest.
- There are now at anchor in Port Royal
harbor, five vessels of the "Key West Squad
ron," to wit, the Colorado alag ship, Wor-
cester, Dictator (monitor), Pawnee and Pinta.
On Tuesday of last week, Gov. Chamber
lain returned to Columbia from his recent
trip to Massachusetts, where he went to attend
the centennial anniversary celebration Of the
battle of Lexington.
The News mentions that Sheriff Duval, of
Fairfield, who mysterously disappeared some
time ago, has returned to Wnnsboro. He
claims that he has been in Georgia under
medical treatment
- The Phenir learns that John, aged ten,
and Minnie, aged eight, children Of Isaac w.
Finney, of Clinton, Laurens county, were fa-
tally poisoned on Sunday, by their parents
accidentally giving them morphine for qui-
nine.
- Some of the colored people about Able.
vile have organized secret society known
as the "Union Mechanics and Laborers Socie-
ty." They have number of mysterious
grips and passwords, and their object is to
use the organization at the next election.
~ Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, whose
funeral obsequies took place in Columbia on
Tuesday, was for several years principal re-
gent of Mt. Vernon, and it was through her
persistent efforts that the Home of Washing-
ton was recovered and made national proper
ty. She was the daughter of Col. Robert
Cunningham, of Laurens county.
The Lancaster Ledger of last week says {:
"The contractor, Maj. Ellis, has sub.let three
miles of the grading on the Cheraw & Chester
Railroad, between Cane creek and the Ca
tawba river. A force of thirty or forty hands
commenced throwing dirt there on Monday
last. We hear that the work on the Chester
side of the river is progressing satisfactorily,
about eight or ten miles of the grading being
nearly ready for the cross.ties to 60 down."
The Charleston Ne,rs and Courier pub
fishes table showing the number of tons of
fertilizers shipped over the South Carolina
Railroad for the past six years, to wit, from
the 1st day of January, 1870, to May 1st
1875. The average shipment for the six sea-
sons was 32,475 tons. The shipment of the
present season is less than that of 1870 and
1878, but is in excess of the average ship
ment for the six years. The following are
the number of tons for the six seasons: In
187O-38,253 tons; 1871-1S,677 tons
1S72-29,136' tons; 1S73-42,399 tons
1s74-31 ,72S tons 1S75-34,660 tons.
/ Judge Reed, of the Charleston circuit, has