Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-02
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Sharks FIVE and seven feet long are being
caught off the Charleston wharves.
-Greenvile is Dragging over ninety
pounds watermelon.
-Diphthera is prevailing to considerable
extent in portions of Lancaster county.
- The bonded debt of the Air Line Railroad
is said to amount to $7,7S7,5 $50.
- The Supreme Court met in Columbia on
Monday last.
"A reward of five hundred dollars has been
offered for the capture of the burglars who
have been recently operating in Winnsboro.
Col. r. NJ. Simms has been chosen by the
trustees as principal of the Rock Hill Male
Academy.
- The survey and location of the entire line
of the Cheraw and Chester railroad has been
completed.
Cotton is opening very rapidly in Ker-
shaw county, and picking has been commenced
in good earnest.
In many portions of Union county the
rust is doing great injury to the cotton. Some
extensive planters assert that they will not
make more than one-third of crop
- New cotton has been sold in Charleston,
Columbia, Newberry and several other towns
in the State. The prices paid for "6rst bales, D
ranged from 12! to 49, cents.
Col. James H. Rion has growing in his
ward at Winnsboro four cork trees, one of
which is twenty-three feet high. They are
all seedlings having been planted in 1860.
Prof. S. A. Ollever, musician and teach
er of music in Columbia, and we'll known
throughout the State, has been stricken with
paralysis.
- Mr.. John T. Wightman, ST., the father of
the Rev. J. T. Wightman, died on Saturday
morning last, at his residence in Charleston,
in the ninety-second year Of his age.
The prominent business houses in Spartan
burg are putting up telegraph lines connect
ing their offices with the leading centres Of
trade
- There is one man in Spartanburg county
who has read all the proceedings of Beecher's
trial. His head has turned prematurely gray,
and he has gone to Glenn Springs to recuper-
ate.
The Union. Herald mentions that the mon
ey market is so stringent in Columbia that 2!
per cent is asked and free ly paid for money.
In one instance a money lender succeeded i'll
loaning a sum at five per cent. per month.
- The recent election for Sheriff in Fair
field county resulted in the choice of Ruff, the
Radical candidate, by majority of S54
votes. The old story-the whites refused to
come up to the polls.
- Laborers in Marion are demanding sew
enty-Gve cents per day for gathering fodder
Planters refuse, on the ground that it is cheap
er to buy provender than to pay that price to
gather it.
- The Laurensville Herald regrets to state
that the work on the Laurens Road will cease
unless the stockholders and subscribers at
Clinton pay up. Mr. Magrath, however, has
expressed a willingness to push on the work,
provided guarantee is given him that the
amount of money promised shall be paid by
the 1st of November next
The county commissioners of Richland
adopted the following resolution at their last
meeting "That G. W. Davis, chairman Of
this board, be authorized to call upon the ex.
county treasurer, John L. Neagle, and demand
settlement of his account with the county
and that, upon his failure to come to settle
ment, legal steps be instituted to enforce such
settlement"
- Messrs. Bachman & Youmans, and Hoge
g. Wilkes, attorneys who were in the service
of Parker, have served notice on l.. G
Northrop, Solicitor, pro tenn, of the Fifth Cir
cult, that they will make application on g
writ of habeas corpus for the release of Mat
tison, who is under bond for his appearance