Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-20
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Corn ia beinp sold in Abbevilte at S1.30


SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Corn is being sold in Abbeville at s1.3O
per bushel for cash, and sl.75 on credit.
A reunion of the survivors of Orr's Reg
iment will take place during the coming sum-
mer
- Blackberries and tomatoes have appeared
in the Charleston market The latter, how
ever, we're brought from the Bermudas.
Since 1870, Greenville county has sup
piled the penitentiary with seveuty-one con-
victs, and in the same time sent forty-three
lunatics to the asylum for the insane.
j. P. F. Camp, ex-County Treasurer of
Spartanburg, was arrested on Monday of last
week, on the charge of being defaulter. He
was lodged in Jail in default of $4,000 bail.
A true bill has been found by the grand
jury of Fairfield county against H. A. Smith,
once a county treasurer, for fraud and en-
bezzlement in not accounting for the sum Of
$4,000.
- William NJ. Connors, Esq, prominent
citizen of Lancaster, a lawyer by profession,
and at one time editor of the Ledger, died at
his residence at Lancaster Court House, on
the 10th instant, after short illness.
Col. Robert S. Duryea, prominent law.
yer and citizen of Charleston, died in that city
on Saturday last Previous to the close OF
the war, he was, for eight consecutive years,
member of the legislature.
A new cotton factory, with capital Of
s25OOO0 is to be built at Greenville without
delay. Sampson, Hall & Co., of Boston, are
the principal parties who will furnish the
necessary capital.
The grand jury of Fairfield, in their re-
port last week, presented Sheriff Duvall for
neglect of duty, but declined to present him
for refusal to pay over moneys paid into his
office, on the ground of insufficient time to
examine into the correctness ofthis complaint.
- The Neacs and Courier announces that it
has authority for saying that Governor Cham
berlain, Immediately after the meeting of the
legislature next winter, will veto the tax bill
which passed the legislature just before ad.
journment.
- Governor Chamberlain, upon the recon-.
mendation of the prosecutor, the grand jury
and Judge Mackey, has pardoned George
Thompson, of Fairfield county, convicted of
larceny in 1872, and sentenced by Judge Rut-
land to FIVE years in the penitentiary.
IF. R. McKinlay, the former school COM
missioner of Orangeburg, and j. L. Humbert,
the late county treasurer, will be tried at the
Court of General Sessions this week, on an
indictment with ten counts for forgery while
in office Humbert is in the penitentiary, but
Judge Reid has ordered that he be brought
to Orangebulg.
- The students of Erskine College, at Due
West, Abbeville county, have extended most
cordial and unanimous invitation to Governor
Chamberlain to deliver the annual address
before the literary societies of that College at
the approaching commencement, July7. The
Governor has been compelled, reluctantly, to
decline the invitation on account of a previous
engagement to perform similar service at
Yale College, his alma mater, at nearly the
same time.
The colored Orphans Home, which has
heretofore been located in Charleston, has
been transferred to Columbia, the Elmore
homestead having been purchased for that
purpose The Neus and Courier says that
when the orphans we're mustered in Charles
ton for starting to the depot, about forty of
them were found to be absent. On making
inquiry about the absentees, it was ascertain.
ed that they had decamped in a body, because
of being impressed with the idea that they
we're to be carried to the penitentiary.
At the recent session of the legislature, an
act was passed authorizing an election to be
held in Barnwell county, for the purpose OF
deciding whether the court house for the
county should be located at Barnwell or
Blackville. The election was held Wednes-
day of last week, and it is claimed, resulted
in majority of l,076 for Barnwell, and the
vote was to have been 50 declared by the
commissioners of election last Tuesday, On
Saturday night last, however, the ballot
Jokes, pOll'lStS anu al PaPeio "PPei's' 's''i''oS s
to the election we're stolen or "spirited away
from the office of the Clerk Of the Court at
Barnwell, where they had been deposited.
- The late session of the legislature made
law providing for the disposition of funds
arising from liquor licenses. All revenue de-
rived from retail and tavern licenses is made
a specific fund to be used for the support OF
the paupers and poor farms Of each county IN
the State and if there shall be surplus over
the amount deemed necessary for this pur'
pose, it shall be applied by the County Com
missioners to the settlement of any claim
against the county accruing in the fiscal year
Ia which said money was raised. 1t is made
the duty of the county Treasurer for each
county to report all funds arising from this
class of licenses to the County Commissioners,
and to hold the same subject to their order
who shall disburse the same, for the above
purposes and none other. For any violation
of the provisions of this law, the officers
charged with its execution, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding