Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-05-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

citizens OF Boston III 1aVOr OF reciprocal Lraue
with Canada.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
John Lilley, of Chester, was again lodged
in the penitentiary on Friday last.
Senator j. Hollingshead, of Abbeville,
died from consumption, at his home in that
county, on Saturday last. ......
Gov. Chamberlain has accepted the reslg-
nation of D. NJ Felts, as jury commissioner of
Lancaster county. ... .....--. ..
Hog cholera prevails in portions Of Dar-
lington county. Lime is said to be a preven-
tive and cure.
Drum fish, weighing from fifty to sixty
pounds, were sold in Beaufort last week, for
fifteen cents each. ..
There are now two vacancies in the Uni
ted States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, to
be filled by the appointment Of youths from
South Carolina as cadet midshipmen.
- Messrs. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., dry
goods commission merchants, Of Charleston,
have suspended payment. Their liabilities
will probably reach 100000. fr
- The publication of the Columbia Phenia
and Cleaner is to be resumed in few days,
with Mr.. Julian A. Selby as business mana,
ger.
On Saturday last, thirty persons, recently
convicted in the United States Court for vio-
lations of the Internal Revenue laws, and
sentenced by Judge Bond, left Charleston for
the Albany penitentiary.
- In the United States Court at Charleston,
recently, verdict of s44,4O0 was rendered
against Montgomery Moses, F. j. Moses and
others, on the official bond Of Montgomery
Moses, ex-Deputy Collector Of Internal Rev
enue.
1t is said that in Anderson county there
is small community, composed of mixture
of negroes and whites. The negro men have
white wives and the white men have negro
wives. They have superstitious kind of re-
ligion, and in politics they are neither demo
Gratis nor radicals, but coalitionists..
The Lancaster Ledger of last week says
"The grading on the Cheraw end of the Che
raw and Chester Railroad has reached a
point near Chesterfield Courthouse, and the
contractors are pushing ahead with speed in
the direction of Lynch's creek. The iron is
what is mostly needed at this time to lay the
track between Lancaster and Chester. The
grading has been completed between these
points and most of the trestle is up"
Every lawyer Of Charleston, with the
exception of two or three, has signed a COM
munication addressed to Judge Reed, reques,
ting him to hold on to the Office Of Judge OF
that circuit and maintain his right to the
whole term of four years from the day of his
election. They pledge themselves to sustain
Judge Reed in this course in every way that
may be required of them ; and take occasion
to say that they "are fully determined not to
recognize w. J. Whipper as circuit judge OF
Charleston county, and will resist any attempt
on his part to enforce his right to office"
The Port Royal Standard says: "Passen-
gers by Tuesday nights train from Charles
ton report detention of the cars in the vicinl'
ty of Adams Run, on the Savannah and
Charleston railroad, by the encounter of an
army of myriads Of caterpillars that were
vending their way upon the track, and in
such numbers and manner as to impede the
wheels of the locomotive for miles. This is a
most extraordinary and unprecedented occur
renee, at least at this season, and would seem
to indicate that we are to be inflicted with
further disaster if the next brood, after eating
up vegetation in its track, invades the cotton
plant and provision crops, now tender and in
growing state"
The Charleston Ne,us and Courier, in its
review of the trade in that city, for the week
ending on Friday last says: "Thespring trade
at this point has been restricted in amount by
the limited means of purchasers, as we'll as by
the necessity for prudence on the part of the
mercantile community, who are compelled
by the depression of the times to exercise un-
usual vigilance. The extraordinary shrinkage
in values now taking place makes almost any
business unsafe unless it is done on a cash ba-
sis or the equivalent and to that it appears to
be drifting in nearly every section of the
country. Our merchants here have acted
with a wise foresight, and their transactions
have been of wise and healthy character"
- The Columbia Register prints the follow
ing paragraph, which will interest some of our
local readers: "Some days ago we made men-
ton of an old violin, and as doubts may be en-
tertained concerning the truth of its identity,
we will give the history of it uerbatim by the
owner, Mr.. P. P. Chambers, This violin was
played on just before the battle Of Kings
Mountain and Cowpens by its owner, private
John Henry-nicknamed "Devil Henry" and
"Devil Fiddler" had one brother killed
in one of the engagements and buried on the
field, and another wounded in the thigh by a
rifle ball, and taken to his parents home,
somewhere about the line Of North and South
Carolina, where he recovered and lived to be
80 years of age This noted instrument was
handed us by Mr.. Chambers for inspection, to
whom it was given by his father, John Cham
bers, Sr."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Rev. 7. D. Witherspoon, Of Petersburg,
Va, will deliver the address at Trinity Col
lege Commencement Oh the 2Sth of June.
- Mrs. McDwire, of Hickory, who was re-
Gently shot by her husband, has since died of
her injuries.
- The Lenoir Messenger says the wheat in