Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-10-14
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was on visit
to Charleston last week.
The Greenville County fair begins on the
10th instant.
Mr.. Everett Page, of Marion county, lost
five children from diptheria in one week.
-Greenville county lost s9,72O0l by the
failure of the South Carolina Bank and
Trust Company.
Several farmers in Marion county have
refused as much as $50 and S35 per acre for
their lands.
On and after tomorrow, the game laws
of this State authorize the shooting of part
ridges and other game
Governor Chamberlain has appointed
Col. NJ. r. Delany one of the trial Justices
for Charleston county.
A great many deaths have recently oc-
Cured among the colored people in Abbeville
from consumption.
The census returns show an increase of
population, in FIVE years in Greenville, of
10000; Beaufort, 5000; Chester, 5000; Ma.
rion, 5000; York, 1000; Richland, 1000.
The municipal election in Charleston last
week, resulted in the success of the Cunning
ham ticket. The majority for Cunningham
as Mayor, was 2,202.
The Union. Herald has been informed that
the Jail of Laurens county was destroyed by
fire on Thursday night of last week. Two
prisoners, all that were in the Jail, escaped.
Mr.. Julian A. Selby, the proprietor of
the Columbia Phenir, has filed petition in
the United States District Court for volun-
tary bankruptcy. The indefinite suspension
of the Phenir is announced.
The contract for grading the Cheraw and
Chester Railroad, from Lancaster to Cheraw,
has been let to Capt. Ellis, who was one of
the contractors on the line between Chester
and Lancaster. The contract is to be COM
pleted within twelve months.
chandler, a conductor, and train hand
on the Air Line Railroad, have been arrested
and bound over in bonds of $500 each, to
appear at the November term of the United
States District Court in Columbia, to answer
the charge of putting three colored men off
the train at Gafheys Station, several weeks
ago.
The following persons were admitted into
the University on the State scholarships at
the recent examination held by the State
Board of Examiners at Columbia: York
county-L. K. Wagner. Chester-B. F.
Hartwell. Union-C. Mcbride. Lancaster
T. Phelon. Fairfeld-G. G. Tucker. Spar
tanburg-E. T. Cannon.
"A specimen of the flying fish was caught
in the waters near Charleston last week. The
fish measures fourteen inches long and fifteen
inches across from tip to tip of the wings.
The body and wings are both covered with
tiny scales of every color of the rainbow, and
in the sunlight the fish presents all the ap-
pearances of gorgeously tinted butterfly.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
PROF. Hensler,a music teacher we'll known
in various sections of the State, died recently
in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Federal Court is in session in Greens.
boro. There are on the docket 100 criminal
cases, libel, II civil and % in equity.
Two aged and highly respected citizens
of Guilford county-Archibald Bevill, aged
7S, and William Permar, aged 96-died last
week.
Col. P. Donan, who has earned consider
able reputation as editor of the Lexington
(MissourD Caucasian, is announced as the
future editor of the Raleigh Sentinel
The State fair commenced in Raleigh on
Monday. The attendance is good, and there
is larger quantity of machinery on exhibi-
ton than ever before. The stock department
is also we'll represented.
The question of constructing narrow
gauge railroad from Mt. Airy via Danbury,
Madison, Greensboro and Asheboro to Che
raw, S. c., is under discussion by the people
along the proposed route.
- A recent interview of a correspondent of
the New York Herald with Gen. Clingman
on the subject of finances, is attracting con-
siderable attention throughout the country.
Gen. Clingman seems to be an infationist
The post.ofices at Castinia and Cottage
Home-the former in Castor and the latter
in Lincoln county-have been discontinued,
very much to the annoyance of the people Of
those neighborhoods.
- Edgecombe county is evidently good
field for fox hunting, as we learn by the Tar
boro So,therner, which says that party of
huntsmen caught sixteen in three consecutive
days last week. And the weather was unfa-
vorable for foxes at that
Gov. Brogden has pardoned William ELL
wood, who was sentenced to have been hanged
in Charlotte on Friday last Ellwood was
tried and convicted on the charge of shooting
man named Sanford at Kings Mountain
Gold Mine, over year ago. The killing was
not denied, though the defense pleaded that
it was done accidentally and without malice.
The petition for pardon was signed by large
number of citizens of Cleveland, Rutherford
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