Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-03-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The colleges at Due West are reported
in prosperous condition. The female COL
lege has $50 pupils the male 65.
County Treasurer Runion, of Greenville,
has been on trial before Judge Cook, on SUM-
dry charges, but was declared not guilty.
The DeKalb house in Camden has closed,
leaving the town without hotel. Cause,
civil rights.
The residence of Mr.. VIM. Mex. Mittag,
of Lancaster, caught fire on Saturday morn
ing, 9th instant, and was totally consumed.
The loss is estimated at about $500.
Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, was in
Columbia last week. While there he was
visited by Governor Chamberlain, Speaker
Elliott and a number of other persons.
-Flovill Haynes, of Pickens, near Farrs
Mills, killed five wild turkeys at one shot a
few weeks ago. The place had been "bated,"
and Mr.. Haynes was secreted in a."blnd."
L. Cass Carpenter, ESQ.,, has been appointed
Internal Revenue Collector for the Third
District of South Carolina, vice General G. L.
Anderson, removed
The Richmond and Atlanta Airline
railroad makes fast time. One night, last
week, passenger train got behind, and the
engine ran at the rate Of fifty miles an hour
for some time and made it up.
Judge Carpenter has issued writ OF
m,andamus to compel the county treasurer OF
Rchland to receive bills of the bank of the
State for taxes. The 18th Of April is fixed
for hearing Of the case.
The streams in Anderson county, during
the recent rains, were higher than they have
been since the freshet of 1852, and most of
them as high as they are recollected to have
ever been.
The Second Internal Revenue District of
South Carolina, to the Collectorship of which
ex-Congressman A. j. Ransier has just been
appointed, is composed of the counties of
Charleston, Colleton, Barnwell, Orangeburg
and Beaufort.
A little two-year-older disappeared from
his home in Abbeville, few days ago, and
was not found till next day, sitting on fence
some distance from his home. When asked
where he slept, he said in fence corner that
he was little afraid, but that the Good Man
took care Of him.
"A scoundrel in Lancaster, last week, un-
tied a horse belonging to John B. Erwin,
which had been temporarily left in front Of the
post-ofice, led the animal into an old field,
and there broke its fore-leg with rock, and
cut the tendons of each foot A more bru-
tai outrage we never heard of.
In Spartanburg, the price of salt has
come down from 1925 to s1.65 per sack, by
reason of competition brought about by the
completion Of the Carolina Central railroad
from Wilmington, N c., to Charlotte. Com
plete the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge
Railroad to Lincolnton, and salt can be sold in
Yorkville as cheap as at Spartanburg.
DIR. Thomas Smith died at his residence,
at Society Hill, in Darlington county, last
week, in the eighty-third year of his age. At
the time of his death he was the oldest living
graduate of the South Carolina College, He
was very fond of his Alma Mater, and served
her with great devotion as trustee from 1880
to the end of her existence, rarely missing a
meeting of the board for period of over
thirty years. He took his medical degree at
Philadelphia, and practiced his profession
with great success for many years. He was
the first President of the Cheraw and Dar-
lington Railroad Company, and to his energy
the successful construction of the road was
chiefly due.