Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-02-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Union county has voted subscription OF
s15O,OOO in aid Of the Spartanburg and Ashe-
Vile Railroad.
More houses have been built in Camden
during the past year than in any year within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
The "Preston Mansion," in Columbia,
which was purchased by Ex-Governor Moses
about one year ago, is advertised to be sold on
the first Monday Of March, to foreclose the
mortgage given to secure the purchase money.
The report of the death of Judge G. P.
Townsend, of the fourth judicial circuit, pub
lshed in the Columbia and Charleston papers,
was premature. The Judge has been serious
ly i'll, but is recovering.
A large quantity of ship pins cut out Of
the black locust, which grows abundantly in
many of the river swamps, of this State, is
being shipped through Charleston to Liver
pool, to be used in ship building in the Eng
lish navy yards.
The Merchants Union and Grange of
Ridgeway, believing that the freights on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad
are too high, have organized wagon train
in charge of Mr.. John S. Cathcart, to ply be-
tween Ridgeway and Columbia.
Two men in Orangeburg Jail are awaiting
the sentence of death for the crime of murder
under peculiar circumstances. The sheriff
elect has not qualified, the coroner who acts
in his absence or default has not qualified,
and the query springs up, if the trial justice
who is designated by the law to act in the
coroner's place is entitled to act as sheriff?
Governor Chamberlain has issued proc
lamation ordering an election in Lancaster,
on the 18th of March, next, for two county
commissioners, in consequence of one of the
commissioners, recently elected, having failed
to qualify within the time prescribed by law,
and another having been convicted of habit
ual drunkenness.
At the recent term of the court at Lam
caster, Judge Mackey sentenced Jas. Martin,
a white man, to six months imprisonment in
the penitentiary for the crime Of bigamy. In
pronouncing sentence, the judge admonlshed
the prisoner, in solemn and impressive man
ner, of the gravity of his crime, closing sub
stantially as follows: flames Martin, the
court is credibly informed that you have six
wives now living in Lancaster county. The
law does not tolerate such monopoly, but
the court recognizes, as mitigating circum-
stance in your case, the fact that you dwell in
this vast solitude, and you may thereby have
been impressed with the belief that you live in
patriarchial times, and you may thus have
multiplied your marriages to relieve the lone
illness of the situation. The court, therefore,
imposes upon you the mildest sentence per-
mitted by the statute; one month for each
wife"
In regard to the lease of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, by the
South Carolina Railroad Company, the Phe-
nir says: eve are advised that the editorial
of the News and Courier, of Saturday, the 9th
inst, under the heading of Discrimination
against Charleston" does injustice to the COM
mittee appointed by the stockholders of the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company. In reponses to the proposition Of
the South Carolina Railroad Company, the
committee insisted that as prerequisite to
the consideration of any proposition, the leas-
ing road must agree to give bond, with ade-
quate security, conditioned for the perform
ance of the terms of the lease. Considering
the fact that the South Carolina Railroad
Company has very large mortgage debt in
addition to large floating debt this require
ment of the committee cannot be regarded as
unreasonable, before entrusting a large a.
mount of bonds not issued or used as collater-
ais, and very valuable railroad property, to
the charge of the South Carolina Railroad
Company"