Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- 1T. ~. " FOaT[luSloh, loI luauy years Cou-
nected with the Greenville Railroad, died in
Columbia on Thursday last
The Rev. T. H. Pope, for many years
pastor of the Baptist Church at Greenwood,
died in that town on the 9th instant.
The colored soldiers who served in the de-
partment of South Carolina during the war,
propose to form veteran association.
Capt. John B. Cousart, Messrs. j. T. B.
Cauthen, Eli D. Crockett and John Steele, Of
Lancaster, died last week.
The agricultural department at Washing
ton has taken measures to stock Broad river
with shad, having placed 10000 spawn in
that river last week.
Mrs. James Latta, native of Pendleton,
and wife of James Latta, deceased, died at
the A"..eghany Springs, Va, on Wednesday of
last week.
The Union Times calls attention to the
fact that wherever the demand is made, trial
justices are required by law to furnish an
itemized bill of any costs they may claim.
- The old city waterworks of Columbia, are
advertised to be sold by the Sheriff of Rich
land county, at the suit of the Carolina Ma
tional Bank.
AN election will be held in Fairfield
county on the 24th of August for Sheriff to
gil the .unexpired term of L. w. Duvall,
whose resignation was accepted at the last
term of the circuit court.
Last week, j. P. F. Camp the defaulting
County Treasurer of fSpartanburg, was carried
to Newberry, and by Judge Moses admitted
to bail on his giving security in the sum of
one thousand dollars.
AT the last regular meeting of the Marion
steam fire company, of Charleston, they re-.
solved unanimously to visit Philadelphia dur
ing the centennial, and appointed commit
tee of seven to perfect arrangements to that
end
In the United States Court, Charleston, last
week, John S. Ancrum, colored, tried on an in
dictment to attempt to vote under fictitious
name was convicted and sentenced to pay a
fine of $1,000 and be imprisoned two months
in JAIL
- The Abbevlle Medium advises the people
of the State to appoint their own Commission
er to the Centennial Exposition, and says it
should be the duty of every county in the
State to contribute something to the general
collection.
The war between the rival towns of Barn.
we'll and Blackville has been again renewed.
On the 18th Judge Maher granted a manda-
mus to compel the county officers. who had
previously removed the records to Blackvlle,
to return to Barnwell whereupon the Black.
Williams appealed to the Supreme Court
- The Grange mentions that the Rock Hill
Manufacturing and Industrial Association,
with limited capital of one hundred thous-
and dollars, has been chartered by the clerk
of the court This company was the original
Building and Loan Association to which the
Legislature refused a charter at its last ses-
sion.
1t is stated that Barnwell county has a
genuine case of Samese twins A woman in
that county recently gave birth to two chill
dren who are joined together by a ligature
very closely resembling that which united the
bodies of Chang and Eng. At last accounts,
the twins we're alive and doing "as we'll as
could be expected"
Collector Carpenter, of the third South
Carolina District reports to the internal rev.
enue department the recent capture of five il
licit distillers, the seizure of four distilleres,
and the destruction of one still. He says that
within forty days he has seized 6fteen distille-
ries captured ten men and destroyed large
quantity of illicit whisky.
- Mrs. Jane T. Butler, relict of the late DR..
VIM. Butler, died in Greenville on Sunday of
last week. The deceased was in the seventy
sixth year of her age, and had been sufferer
for many years. She was the mother of sixteen
children, eight of whom are now living, among
them Gen. NJ. G. Butler and Capt. O. N. But
Ter. She was the sister of Commodore Oliver
H. Perry, who won the famous battle on Lake
Erie.