Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-31
The Aurkrille &nqnirer.
YORKVILLE, S, c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 81, 1877
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Gently captured IN broad river.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain has been in
Columbia for several days past.
The Greenville Neaos thinks that there is
q million year to be saved to the State by
abolishing the old fence law system.
"A good many farmers in Newberry in
crease their corn crop by planting rows of
corn in their cotton fields across the cotton
rows, sixteen feet apart.
e. M. Brayton, of Aiken county, car
pet-bagger, has been appointed collector of
revenue in South Carolina, vice Carpenter,
resigned.
The town council of Anderson has passed
an ordinance to prevent dogs from running
upon the streets without muzzles after the
first day of June.
Recently, in Aiken county, Sheriff Hol'
ley's son, aged 13, was bitten by snake. A
pint of whisky internally, and local applica'
tion of ammonia cured him.
The work on the Spartanburg and Ashe'
vile Railroad is being rapidly pushed. There
is large gang of North Carolina convicts
employed on the portion of the line in that
State.
Anderson farmers begin to complain of
drought. Much cotton, and even corn has
been unable to force itself through the crust
of dried mud, which is the result Of the recent
hail storm in that section.
The Abbeville Banner wisely remarks
that fthe people of South Carolina were as
anxious to save as they are to borrow money,
they would not be concerned about the pass
age of usury law.
Col. Christopher Hampton, brother of
the Governor, has purchased the handsome
residence of Ex-Governor Chamberlain, on
Arsenal Hill, in Columbia, and will take pos
session Immediately.
The Spartanburg and Union Railroad
will hereafter be known as the Spartanburg,
Union and Columbia Railroad. 1t is in fine
condition and will form a part of the Grand
Trunk Line from Charleston to the West.
Whittemore, who it will be remembered
asked and obtained "indefnite leave of alb.
sence" from the State Senate, several days
ago, has fled the State, never to return. 1t is
no longer secret that his formal resignation
has been duly written and signed, and will be
made public at an early day.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain has addressed
a note to the New York Tribune for the pur.
pose of correcting statement in the CORES.
pondence of that paper to the effect that he is
supporter of the Presidents Southern poll.
cy. The Ex-Governor says emphatically that
he is not supporter of the Presidents South.
ern policy, and that his views in that respect
have not been changed by any thing that has
occurred since he relinquished the Office of
Governor.
The Anderson Journal says: The valua-
bic property known as the Pendleton Factory
was sold at public outcry on Wednesday Of
last week. The property was divided into
three tracts and sold separately. The factory
proper was bid off for the bondholders by COL
Jos. N. Brown at $4,000; the Keasler Mill
tract was bid off by Capt. John McGrath at
$1,000, and the tract of thirty-one acres OF
bottom land was bid off at S400 by the bond,
holders. These prices are exceedingly low
considering the cost and real value of the
property.
Says the Abbeville Medium of the 23rd
instant: "There is a coal-black negro man
in our vicinity who will soon have a beautiful
white stomach-a stomach covered with as
pure white Democratic skin as ever grew in
Edgefeld. This no doubt sounds both ridic.
ulous and alarming, but we will explain.
Some weeks back, DR.. Walter Hill and DR..
Wallace Bland cut off from the stomach of
this negro huge tumor, weighing many
pounds, and upon the large bare spot left by
the operation, they have planted numberless
little stars of skin nipped from their own
arms. These stars have taken root and are
fast spreading out to meet each other, so that
as we have already said, the black man will
soon have beautiful white Democratic stom-
ach-at all events on the outside. Science is
wonderful, and in this case noble. Skin is
about all the Radicals and negroes have left
u.s. and to be thus generous with it is certainly
very magnanimous."
The Whittemore and Woodruff investi-
eating committee are in possession of book,
which is a transcript of the accounts of the
Republican Printing Company, of which
Woodruff and Jones were the bosses, showing
the amounts of money paid in bribes, for ser.
vices rendered by the members Of the House
and Senate in securing the passage, through
the General Assembly, of an appropriation
of 1925, 1000 for public printing in the session
of 1884. The whole amount paid in such
bribes, aggregates about sixty thousand dol
lars. A few persons, reported to be Demo.
Gratis, figure in the mystic pages; but they
were not members of the General Assembly,
and only received small sums. The amount
paid Cardozo "for paying out the money from
the treasury" was, as this book shows, sl7,'
S66. The amount paid Ex-Governor Moses,
"for approving the bill" was s10,3O4.5O. The
amount paid Nash, 'for services in the Sen
ate and as chairman of the finance commit
tee," was $4,000. The amounts paid White
more and Y. J. P. Ovens, "for services in the
Senate" was $4,000 each. The amount paid
Tim Hurley, for services that can better be
imagined than described, was $1,000. E. W.
M. Mackey, it appears, received about $1,000
"for important services" The book contains
q large number Of other entries of other
amounts paid out to members, running down
as low as s25, which make up the grand az
gregate.