Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-04-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Charleston is luxuriating on strawberries
and sweet milk the former at thirty-fve and
the latter at ten cents per quart. :
- The blackberry crop of Mollohon, in New.
berry county, was cut ffby the frost, and that
section is in mourning.
Mayor Alexander has appointed T. M.
Wilkes, ESQ.,, to be city attorney of Colum-
bia, in place of L. c. Northrop, ESQ.,, resigned
to assume the judgeship of the Seventh Cir
cult
- Mrs. DR.. Vampill, of Marion, who has
been in attendance on lectures at the woman's
medical college, of Philadelphia, has return
ed. She is the first lady medical student Of
South Carolina.
- Mr.. c. H. Baldwin, the Deputy United
States Treasurer at Charleston, on Thursday
last, received $4,000 in silver for the purpose
of redeeming fractional currency. This is
the first installment of the $4,000 in coin al.
lotted to Charleston under the specie resump-
ton act. Mr.. Baldwin will receive $4,000
each day for five days for the purposes named.
- The steamer Planter, which in May, 1862,
was taken past the Confederate batteries in
Charleston harbor, and run out to the block
aiding fleet by her slave crew, under command
of Robert Smalls, colored, now member of
Congress from the Fifth District of this State,
was wrecked near Cape Roman lighthouse,
in the vicinity of Georgetown, last week.
From the time the Planter was stolen, until
the close of the war, she was used as United
States transport, under the command ofSmalls,
who was commissioned in the volunteer navy.
At the close of the war she was sold to her
former owner, Captain John Ferguson.
- The Charleston Mems n,,1 Nnur;er of Sat
urday, in regard to the silver coin received
by the United States treasurer in that city,
says: "Within the past two days the assis-
tant United States treasurer, at this point,
has received four ten.gallon kegs Of silver
coin, an ounting in value to $4,000, as fol-
lows: Sc, 900 in dimes; S. 900 in quarters; and
$4,000 in halves, all coined during the pres
ent year, and designed for the redemption Of
fractional currency. A number of persons
applied at the treasurer's office yesterday for
a share of the new coin, but were informed
that the redemption would not commence un-
til orders were received from Washington,
which would not be issued until the passage
by Congress of the pending act to substitute
silver for fractional currency"
- The merchants of Sumter have organized
merchants union for selfprotection. The
association proposes to keep two books, one for
white and the other for colored customers, in
which will be entered the names af all parties
with whom any member of the association
NAV have had unsatisfactory transactions.
Each member of the union is bound, without
favor, to communicate to the other members,
through the secretary, the names of these de-
linquent customers, and who will thereupon
be refused further credit. The merchants
claim that this movement is for the mutual
benefit of themselves and their honest paying
patrons Heretofore business has been trans
acted so loosely as, in the words of the consti-
tuition of the association, to increase the risks
of doing credit business and to demand a
corresponding profit on goods and interest on
money, which entails burden on the honest
man and loss on the merchant"
In his charge to the grand jury of Ches-
ter county, at the recent term Of court, Judge
Mackey made the following statement Of the
action of the grand jury Of Lancaster: "At
the recent term of the court for the county Of
Lancaster, the presiding judge Of this court
presiding, while the court was actually sitting,
pistol shot was heard. The crowd rushed
from the court house. Great numbers, al
ready outside of the court house, were seen
hurrying in the direction of the place from
which the shot proceeded. The court instruc-
ted the Sheriff to make inquiry of the cause
of all this, and it was found that notorious
desperate, named Gardner, had shot worthy
citizen, the ball entering the back Of the head
and coming out near the left eye. An in
dictment was at once laid before the grand
jury, and accompanied with statement OF
the facts have recited. In the face of all
this, and with the dogs licking the blood OF
Gardner's victim, the grand jury reported no
BILL"
- On the 18th ultimo, citizens from various
sections of Laurens county, assembled at
Beaver Dam, in that county, to organize the
"Anti-C Cotton Shop and Labor Reform OF
Laurens County" Delegates from eight To-
cal associations enrolled their names. An ad'
dress was delivered by A. M. speights, Esq,
of the Greenville Ne.us, after which consti'
tuition for the county association was adopt
ed. Article second declares the object Of the
movement 10 be the abatement of illicit traf:
fic in seed cotton and other farm products
the control, productiveness and increased re-
muneration of labor, and the lessening OF the
burden of taxation. Article third pledges
the members not to deal in seed cotton in any
manner, nor to permit others to do so, if pos.
sible, except under certain conditions; and
to use their influence in inducing both en-
ployers and laborers to respect the obligations
of contracts; to protect the employer against
wrong from the laborer, and the laborer from
oppression by the employer; and to report
any unjust assessment of property and any
illegal disbursement of the public funds.