Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-05
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Governor Hampton was expected to re-
turn to Columbia last Monday.
According to the report of Treasurer
Leaphart, the balance in the State Treasury
on the 3Oth of June, was s30,S5012.
1t is said that D. T.. Corbin has gone to
Europe, and will not return before the 1st of
October.
Thirty young men, residing in the vicinity
of Lowndesville, Abbeville county, are ma
king arrangements for emigrating to Texas
next fall.
"A. N. Talley, of South Carolina, has
been appointed mail agent on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, between
Charlotte and Augusta, in place Of Mr.. Lyles,
removed.
-Thos. F. Clyburn, Auditor, and W. B.
Dunlap, Treasurer, appointed by Governor
Hampton to their respective Offices in Ian
caster county, have given bonds and taken
possession of their offices.
The notorious John B. Hubbard, United
States Deputy Marshal, was arrested in Co.
lumbia, on Tuesday of last week, and commit
ted to Jail, in default of bail, on charge of
assault and battery upon gentleman in Pick
ems county, several weeks ago.
- The Rock Hill Herald, of the 2Sth ulti-
mo, says: Secretary of State R. M. Sims has
been in town for the last two days, looking
after his orchard, which is one of the finest
in the upcountry. Daily shipments of peach
es are being made from this orchard to North
ern Cities
- Mr.. James Anderson has resigned the
superintendency of the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta, and the Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Railroads, to accept a similar
position on the Spartanburg and Asheville
Railroad. His resignation will take effect on
the 18th instant.
Crops are promising in Lancaster. The
Ledger says: The wheat harvest is in its glo-
~. All that talk about "sprouted wheat,
and we are ruined" has been dispelled by
the genial rays of scorching sun the past
few days. The average yield is above former
years and everybody has great cause to be
thankful.
Some very fine yields of wheat have been
obtained by citizens of Anderson. Mrs. Bel
lotte made twenty-three bushels on three.
quarters of an acre; Judge Murray got thir-
ty bushels and three pecks from one acre !;
o. H. P. FAINT, Esq, made twenty.seven bush
els on one acre, and Mr.. j. B. MCGEE made
forty-6ve bushels from three acres.
The Aiken Courier-Journal claims to
have at its office piece of oak rail, two feet
in length, which was cut, split and laid in a
fence in Lexington county, nine-ive years
ago, or just after the close of the Revolution
ary war. It is heart wood and sound, and
though not petri6ed, is about the weight Of
marble granite. The rail was cut and placed
in the fence on the first clearing of the plan
tation by the father of the present owner, the
former of whom was then about 20 or 81
years of age.
- The Columbia correspondent of the Neacs
and Courier gives the subjoined information
in regard to the provisions made for promi-
nent South Carolina "carpet,baggers" Col.
j. P. Low has been appointed civil engineer
in the construction department of the United
States Treasury. His immediate duty is the
supervision of the work on the Albany IN.
W Courthouse. Capt. G. A. Darling, late
county treasurer of Richland, has a third
class clerkship. Ex-Congressman Hoge is,
or will be, made head of bureau in the
Treasury at Washington. Worthington, Col
lector of the port of Charleston, will not be
removed before December 1st. Mr.. T. G.
Dunn will succeed him.
speaking of the recent term of the Circuit
Court for Edgefeld county, the Advertiser
thus alludes to Judge Kershaw, who presided,
it being the first court he has held since his
elevation to the bench "From the very first
day of the session the court has been unceas-
ing and indefatigable in its work and as the
grand jury we'll remarked in the close oftheir
presentment, we humbly thank Almighty
God that in His infinite wisdom and mercy
He is again allowing old-time judicial purity,
ability and courtesy to be exempli6ed in Edge
field.' AS for Judge Kershaw, he has simply
brought back the time of Wardlaw and
ONeal, and Glover and Aldrich. And could
we say more? God bless him for a Christian
Judge and gentleman, as he is And the
people of Edgefeld will forever remember
him as the man, who, after years of sorrow
and humiliation, brought back to them the
light and glory of better days"
IS. P. Black, young man respectfully
connected, was arrested and committed to Jail
at Orangeburg, several days ago, charged with
playing confidence game on merchant of
that town. In Columbia he procured mon
ey package envelop of the Southern Express
Company and directed it to himself at Or
angeburg, filling in after the printed words,
"said to contain" 1915. In due time the
package reached Orangeburg, the young man
having also gone there, and after asking for
the package, declined taking it out of the Of
fee just then, giving as reason that if he
did, he would spend the money before night.
His landlord in the meantime commenced