Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
There is store in Charleston where cast
off clothes are rented for funeral suits.
The Me,us reports that the crops in Fair
field county are in fine condition.
Rev. Wiley Jones, a Baptist minister, and
Mr.. John Neal died in Lancaster county,
last week.
-Greenville boasts of a boy eight years of
age who can recite the whole shorter catechism
of the Presbyterian church correctly.
Mr.. G.. P. Pelham, who for some time has
been the political editor of the Columbia
Pheniz, has retired from the position.
Cotton squares" have appeared in the
fields in the vicinity of Society Hill, Darling
ton county.
- The entire cost of the new United States
Court House and Post Office, in Columbia,
including the grounds, will be s415,0OO.
William Griffin, charged with the murder
of John Hicks, was tried at Union Court
House last week. A verdict of mot guilty"
was rendered by the jury.
Major c. D. Melton, who has been to New
York on business connected with the ap-
preaching trial of ex-State Treasurer Niles
G. Parker, has returned to Columbia.
The South Carolina Conference of the
NJ. Z. Church meets at Orangeburg on the
18th of December Bishop Keener will pre-
sde
"A gentleman in Marion county has COL
ored man in his employ who chopped out
twelve acres of cotton for him in three days,
being an average of four acres per day.
From the 1st of September, 1874, to the
1st of June, 1875, there were shipped over
the Greenville Railroad from the town of
Newberry, 24,647 bales of cotton.
- The Lancaster Ledger learns that numer-
GUS indictments will be given out at the next
term of the court against those persons who
have been buying corn and cotton at night.
The grand jury of Charleston have pre-
sented NJ. Mclaughlin, Z. G. Miller, and r.
N. Gregorie, formerly County Commissioners
of that county, for official misconduct and
fraud.
The Ne,us and Courier correspondent says
that in Columbia, political combinations are
abundant, and states have been made up for
the next Governorship, United States Senator
ship and Judgeships.
- The grand jury of Union county have
found true bill against ALT. Walker for the
murder of Rev. j. G. Miller. A dispatch
from Union says that the commencement of
the trial was appointed for Monday last
The Barnwell- -Blackville war still RACES.
The Clerk of Court and County Commission
ers have moved to Blackville. The Sheriff
and County Treasurer still remain at Barn
we'll.
Judge Carpenter has declared the act of
the Legislature unconstitutional which directs
that the poll tax of the present year be ap-
piled to the payment Of school claims due be-
fore 1st of November, 1873.
Capt. J. B. G. Smith, who during the late
war was an officer of the 18th Regiment, S.
G.. ", has recently returned to Lieut.. II. A.
johnson, of the 3rd Maine Infantry, sword
that the latter had in his possession when he
was captured by the command Of Capt. Smith,
on the 4th day of May, 1864, at the battle of
the Wilderness.
Rev. w. S. Plumer, D. d., professor of
didactic and polemic theology in the Colum-
bia Theological Seminary, resigned his chair
on Friday last, in that institution. Rev. j.
L. Girardeau was elected to fill the vacancy.
Rev. Plumer resigned the position heretofore
held by him, in order that he might occupy
another chair in the same institution.
The Columbia correspondent of the News
and Courier says: "The interrogatories for
the commission to examine kimpton in the
Parker case have been completed, and served
on Parker's counsel They make 80 or 40
pages of foolscap. The counsel for the de-
fense have until the 18th to frame cross-nter-
rogatories. Comptroller Dunn has gone to
New York in the interest of the approaching
trial."
- Recently difficulty occurred on Mr.. G..
G. Sartor's plantation, four miles below Union,
between two colored men, named Anderson
and George Beaty-not brothers-about feed
ing the stock. George went to his house, not
thinking that anything more would be said
about it. Just after supper Anderson went to
Georges house and called him out On
Georges opening the door, Anderson fred at
him, the ball striking him in the lower part
of the face, inficting shocking wound, from
which it is expected he will not recover. An
derson fled, and has not as yet been arrested
- The Washington Light Infantry, of the
city of Charleston, left that city on Friday
last for Boston, to take part in celebrating
the Bunker Hill centennial to-day. Before
leaving, the company was presented with a
handsome State flag, the gift of Gov. Cham