Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS,

The Laurens Railroad is to be completed
by the first day of July.
A plough mandatory, on large scale, is
soon to be started in Spartanburg by MIR.
Mark Cooper, inventor of the Cooper plough.
Union has been put in telegraphic con-
nectiou with the rest of the world by the COM
pletion of the Southern and Atlantic Tele-
graph line to that place.
A bale of cotton weighing SO2 pounds,
was sold at Spartanburg on the 18th ultimo.
1t was "packed" in the neig ighborhood Of Cross
Anchor, in that county.
-Messrs. Perrin & Hall, of Abbeville, are
collecting the bones from dead animals in
that vicinity, preparatory to the establish
ment of phosphate works in that town.
John E. Webster has been elected Inten-
dant, and Nathan Lipscomb, Robert NJ Gaff.
ney, T. Davenport, Kendrick Humphries,
Wardens of the town of Gafney's.
- The Times says that business is so dull in
Union, that the merchants employ their time
in throwing dice at ten cents throw, to pay
their clerks, while the clerks are kept busy
keeping an account Of the game.
The Fairfield News mentions that l.. w.
Duval, the sheriff of that county, has not
been heard of in three weeks, and the opinion
is freely expressed that he has forever shaken
the dust of Winnsboro from his feet.
- At the recent election in Lancaster, Capt
N. B. Vallandgham and H. L. Belk were
elected County Commissioners, and John W.
Twitty, Esq, Probate Judge. The Governor
having ordered the election postponed, it is
possible that another election will be held
james Reid and Madison Pendergrass,
of Chester, convicted of neglect of duty as
county commissioners" and for "breach Of
trust with fraudulent intent, }" were last week
lodged in the penitentiary-the former for
two years and the latter for three months.
- The tax bill passed by the Legislature
which has just adjourned, foots up thirteen
mills for State purposes. Governor Chamber
lain did not return the bill to the Legislature
previous to its adjournment. At the next
session it is thought he will return it with his
veto.
"A special dispatch from Sumter to the
Charleston News and Courier, under date of
the 23rd ultimo says: can unfortunate diff
6culty occurred last night, in which Butler
Spears, colored, formerly a member of the
Legislature, and now chairman of the board
of county commissioners, was severely beaten
by Joseph M. Skinner, white, a young lawyer
of this place. Afterward Spears attacked
Skinner with an iron plough-heel pin, when
Skinner fired upon Spears, wounding him bad
ly twice in the thigh. A crowd of excited
negroes attempted to seize Skinner, but he
was safely lodged in the town guard-house,
and afterward placed in the county Jail.
This morning Spears is improving, and ex-
presses great sorrow for the difficulty, and at
his request Skinner was released. The cause
of the difficulty was an attempt of Sheriff
Tindall to introduce social equality at his
house, between Spears and Skinner Grow
ing out of the first affray there was another
fight between Ned James, colored, and ).
Rembert Harvin, white, youth of sixteen,
which resulted in the death of James by a
stab with a pocket-knife in the hands OF
| Haruin "