Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-03-11

Der next. lhe Dill had not been SlgneQ Dy
the President five minutes before scores of
them were at work, franking, to send away
their two years accumulatons Of documents.
The mails will be loaded for the next six
months with these documents.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Green peas by the crate are being shipped
from Charleston to New York.
- There were thirty.6ve deaths in Charles
ton last week, of which fifteen were white
persons.
Judge Archibald J. Shaw visited Sumter
on Thursday last and took the oath of office
from Chief Justice Moses.
About twenty bridges iu the upper por-
ton of Greenville county were carried off by
the late flood.
- The Airline Railroad has been troubled
with high water and land slides, and the
trains have been delayed several days.
Dr. O. R. Broyles, an aged and highly
respected citizen of Anderson, died on the 25th
ultimo.
Judge Townsend is improving in health,
and expects to hold court at Marion at the
usual time
-Jown w. Belk and W. P. Plyer, have been
appointed trial justices for Lancaster county,
in place of John Taylor and Albert Hinson,
removed.
- The Postmaster General has fixed the
box-rent in the post-oftice at Spartanburg at
three dollars per annum, commencing April
1st, 1875.
County Treasurer Tim. Hurley, of Char
lesion, has been ordered by Judge Reed, to
show cause, on the first Monday in April,
why he does not accept bills of the Bank of
the State in payment of taxes.
Judge Mackey, who has been in Wash
ington in attendance on a meeting of Mexican
war veterans, has returned home. The survi-
vors of the Mexican war number about three
hundred
- The Intendent and Clerk of the town Of
Chester have been instructed to issue 81 900
of new fractional currency, for the purpose of
redeeming mutilated currency and to meet
necessary expenses.
At regular monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the South Carolina Loan
and Trust Company, held in Charleston last
week, E, Horny Frost, Esq, was elected
President in place of the late George S. Cam
eron, Esq.
Governor Chamberlain has accepted the
resignation of S. L. Hoge as Comptroller
General. 1t is probable that the vacancy will
be filled by an election by the legislature, a
bill for the purpose having been introduced.
The Phenir says "The all-important
question now is, who will step into the comp
troller-general's shoes2 The names of the
candidates are legion-Gen Stolbrand, Col.
Fillebrown, Lieut..Col. Dunn, Major Jones
and Capt. Little. The names of the privates
are omitted"
The Lancaster Ledger says that several
thousand cross-tes have been deposited along
the line of the Cheraw and Chester railroad,
ready to be put down. The Chester Reporter
mentions that the work Of grading is going
on actively, and that the contractors ex-
pect to finish the grading between Rocky
Creek and Chester by the middle Of April.
Last week, in Fairfield county, Major
Woodward and Mr.. T.. M. Rembert, with
their hounds, caught two wild cats weighing
respectively sixteen and eighteen pounds, and
three gray foxes, in one hunt. In Chester
county few days ago, three miles above
Landsford, Mr.. W. B. Crosby caught wild
cat weighing forty-6ve pounds.
On the first day of this month, Jimmy,
aged about seventeen years, the only son Of
Capt. S. G. Means, of Spartanburg, while out
hunting ducks on the plantation of Capt. T.
J. Moore, in that county, accidentally shot
and killed himself. He was attempting to
cross stream on log, but stumbling over
another log, the gun was discharged d-the
whole contents entering the left cheek, passed
upward to the right, causing instant death.
The Spartanburg Herald mentions that
Mr.. Juan S. Valencia, Of Mexico, a nephew
of President Jaurez the distinguished Liberia
tor, matriculated as a student in Woford Col
lege last week. The South Carolina Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, having agreed to contribute money to
pay the board and tuition Of two Spanish stu
dents to be educated at Wofford College, the
Board of Missions, through DR.. Davis, Super
ntendent of the Mission in the city of Mexi-
co, selected Mr.. Valencia as one of the num-
Der for college training. Mr.. Valencia is an
Aztec, Qndian,) though he speaks the Span
ish language.