Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-11-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Not long ago grape shot was cut out OF
pine-tree on the Cowpens battle ground
- The Governor has accepted the resigna'
ton of S. w. Ruff as one of the trial justices
of Fairfield county.
BIN. Ward has been elected Senator from
Horny county, in place of 7. G. Dunn, elected
Comptroller-General.
In Lancaster county there is colored man
six feet FIVE inches in height, and a colored
woman six feet seven inches high.
The Baptist State Convention of South
Carolina will meet in Spartanburg on Wed
nesday, the Oath of November.
- Col. A. H. Waring, we'll known through.
out the State as an insurance agent, died sud.
denly in Florence, last Monday, from apo
plexy.
- The State fair in Columbia offers pre-.
MUM of $500 to the county that has the most
creditable exhibition of articles at Columbia
on the 9th of November.
During the month of October, 1865 bales
of cotton were received at Rock Hill From
the 1st of September to the 3lst of October,
the number reached 1866.
The News and Courier correspondent
mentions that the various committee-rooms,
offices, &c., in the State.house, are being
cleaned. Wagon-loads of abused furniture
are being repaired, and the grounds are being
put in order for the coming Legislature.
Maj. j. w. Tench informs the Union Times,
that he raised five hundred bushels Of wheat
the past season, from which he made one hun.
dred barrels of flour, and from the -four, bran,
shorts, etc., will realize one thousand dollars.
Maj. Tench proposes to SOW for one thousand
bushels this season.
Mrs. D. w. Jordan, of Camden, raised
three bales of cotton upon one acre of ground
last year. She has grown this year upon the
same lot crop which is expected to yield
from three and half to four bales of cotton.
She used, in both instances, seed which she her.
self selected and improved through series of
years.
In their presentment at the recent term
of the Circuit Court for Lancaster county, the
grand jury place upon record their apprecla-
ton of the presiding Judge Of this circuit as
an able and fearless jurist and a courteous
and dignifed presiding officer; and "unani-
mously express the hope, if in accordance
with his own wishes, that the Legislature at
its next election will return him for another
term to the office, the duties of which he has
so impartially and justly discharged
On Wednesday of last week, Governor
Chamberlain pardoned Samuel j. Dawkins,
convicted of bigamy at the June term, 1878,
of the Court of General Sessions for Union
county, aud sentenced to undergo seven
months imprisonment in the county Jail. He
has been confined in Jail in accordance with
the sentence since February last. His petit
ton is endorsed by I. G.. McKissick, H. H.
D. Byron, j. S. Mobley, Gen. W. H. Wallace,
and the solicitor and judge Of the court in
which he was convicted.
- The Charleston Ne,us and Courier men
tions that there were in that port on Satur.
day last, six steamships, nine ships, twenty-one
barks, FIVE brigs and fifteen schooners. Of
these twenty-five were under the flag of the
United States, seventeen with the flag of
Great Britain, five of Spain, six of Norway,
two of Germany, and one of Russia. Twelve
were loading for Liverpool, four for Havre,
one for Antwerp, two for Rotterdam, one for
the Continent, three for Barcelona, and the
balance for coastwise ports, ready for sea or
waiting.