Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-29
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- There are thlrty-elSnC PRISONERS Ill Ihe
Columbia Jail, of whom two are females.
- The earnings of the South Carolina Rail-
road during the year 1874, after paying all
expenses, were S515,456.6S.
Daniel McHam, who resided about two
miles from Spartauburg, aged 1O6 years, died
one day last week.
The Press says that in Clarendon county
the corn area has been increased about twen'
ty-6ve per cent, and the cotton crop about
twelve per cent.
"A colored man, while engaged in blowing
in field upon the plantation of Mr.. George
w. Bell, in Lancaster county. few days ago,
unearthed the body Of an infant child
- The firm of Walker & Montgomery, Of
Spartanburg, have sold eighteen hundred and
sixty.eight tons of fertilizers during the pres
ent season.
- The News and Courier announces the
death in Charleston last week, of Mr.. Stephen
Owens, who for number Of years was the
business agent of Messrs. 8! S. Farrar and
Brothers.
The band of the 18th infantry left the
post at Columbia on Sunday, by permission
of Col. Black, to play and participate at the
memorial exercises of the Confederate dead
that took place at Augusta, Georgia, last
Monday.
The railroads from Washington to Charles
ton, via Fredericksburg, Richmond, Peters
burg, Weldon, Wilmington, Florence, etc.,
have agreed to return delegates free upon
paying full fare going to the Southern Bap'
tist Convention, which meets in Charleston on
the 9Th of May.
- The citizens of Greenville have contribu-
ted one hundred and forty.eight dollars to
Capt. H. c. Alley, the Spartanburg detective,
in token of the appreciation of his services in
having captured a number of the scamps who
have been committing depredations in that
and the adjoining counties.
- Constable James A. Jarrett, of Spartan
burg, captured whisky wagon the other day,
which was recaptured and taken away from
his house by four countrymen on Friday
night, amidst the barking of dogs, the firing
of pistols, the cursing of men and the rattliDg
of dry bones.
- The Winnsboro Nescs says that last week
Coroner Ruff opened the safe Of Sheriff Duval
of Fairfield, who recently absconded from
that county. The safe contained nothing but
FIVE cent shinplaster Of the town of Camden
and few papers. 1t is rumored that Duval S
defalcation amounts to about ten thousand
dollars.
"A w. Hough, colored, has been nomina'
ted as the Republican candidate for Sheriff
of Kershaw county, to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the death of ex-SherifF Place
The Camden Journal says the nominee is as
"black as the ace of spades" has filled the
office of county auditor and been member Of
the legislature, and is quiet and well-be'
haved man.
The Postmaster. General advertises that
proposals will be received at the post-office
department, until the 31st day of May, fol
carving the mail, once each week, from July
1st, 1875, to June 3O,h, 1876, between York
Vile, S. c., and Charlotte, n. G. 1t is re-
quired that bond of four hundred dollars
accompany each bid. The award Of the con
tract will be made known on or before the
10th day of June.
The Reporter records the following Incl
dent, which recently occurred at Blackstocks
in Chester county: A railroad passenger, a
northern man, seeing Charles Boulware,
colored man who lost his leg in the service
of the railroad company, toiling at the plow
gave him a dollar as a token of the northern
mans appreciation Of pluck and energy
There was in this act, though small, more
real, practical philanthropy than in forty
columns of bowling about the rights and
wrongs of "the poor negro"
On the 21st of July-the fourteenth an
niversary of the first battle of Manassas
there will be reunion Of the survivors Of
the Hampton Legion held in Columbia, under
the auspices of Gen. Hampton, Gen. Conner
Major Barker, and other distinguished gen.
temen connected with that far-famed organ
ization in the late war. The objects of the
reunion are to form permanent association
for the purpose of collecting the necessary
records, for compiling complete history OF
the legion and its offshoots, from its organiza-
80, =, 1881 IN the close Of the war i'm 4 ADril.