Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-26
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Whooping cough is prevailing, to con-
siderable extent in portions Of Chester county.
The grand Inauguration ball, in honor of
Governor Hampton, will be given in Colum.
ba on the evening of the third of May.
The Rock Hill Herald records the death
of Mr.. James P. Creighton, near that place, on
Wednesday of last week.
"A mail route has been established between
Anderson C. H. and Liberty Station, Pickens
county.
Large flakes of snow fell at Pickens G.
H. on Friday, and the mountains were white
with snow, which remained on them till Sun
day.
A negro child was recently born on
plantation in Georgetown county, with an
elongation of the vertebral column, about six
inches.
| - The Newberry fire occurred nearly six
weeks ago, and the debris of one store, which
contained several hundred bushels of corn,
are still smoking.
- The Boston White Lead Company have
made arrangements for operating, on large
scale, the barytic mines near Blacks Station
on the Airline Railroad. Mr.. R. E. Wad-
dell, of Gastonia, N. c., has been employed
to superintend the work of excavating the
stone.
The Register says the chairman of the
committee of the inaugural ball, receives
about a half peck ofletters per day, from va
rious sections of the State, urging him to do
his best to make the ball grand success.
Many of the letters are from ladies'
The total amount of fertilizers shipped
from Charleston, for the FIVE months, ending
April 1st, 1877, foots up 1876 tons. For
the same period last year, the shipments ag-
gregate 46,44a tons. A decrease this year,
as compared with last, of 667 tons.
1t is rumored that Internal Revenue COL
lector L. c. Carpenter, has rendered his resig.
nation as Collector of Internal Revenue for
this State. 1t is understood that the vacancy
is to be filled by the appointment of ex.Gov-
ernor R. K. Scott.
"A few days ago, Observation-Disclosures
Gleaves sent messenger to Col. Sims, Secre-
tary of State, requesting him to inform Lieu
tenant. Governor Simpson that he was ready to
turn over the books and papers of his Office to
that gentleman.
Rev. W. H. Fleming, D. D., pastor Of the
Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, in
Charleston, and prominent member of the
South Carolina Conference, died in that city
on Monday, the 10th instant, from congestion
of the lungs.
Lawrence Cain, the colored ex-senator Of
Edge6eld, has written communication to
the advertiser, in which he exhorts the peo-
pie of his race to accept the situation peace
fully and in dignity, and to 60 to work, mind
their own business and do their duty as intel
ligent and good-feeling citizens.
= Steve Anderson, convicted of completely
in the murder of Messrs. Portman and Hause-
mann, in Aiken county, S. c., and sentenced
to be hung at the same time with the other
four murderers, but who was respited for
thirty days by Governor Hampton, was
hanged in Aiken last Friday.
M. R. Delany, colored, of Charleston, has
written letter favoring "convention of the
prominent colored men of this State to take
into consideration the affairs of our State, the
bearing they have upon the condition of the
colored race" &c. Maj. Delany says "the
colored line must be obliterated in our politi-
cal relation to each other" and "any other
race, Gas in the British government,) may be
part of the ruling element of country; but
the race by which the government is founded,
must be the ruling element essentially"
- The Chester Reporter of last week says
that "Mr. w. H. Hardin, President of the
Cheraw and Chester Railroad, has purchased
from the Cooperative Iron and Steel Works,
of Danville, Pa, three hundred tons of rail-
road iron, with all the necessary Fish bars and
spikes. He also contracted with the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, for the
construction of superior passenger and
freight locomotive and secured complete
material or construction train. 1t was cash
transaction throughout, and On very favora-
BILE terms. The engine and iron will soon ar
rive at Chester, and the work of laying down
the iron will begin within thirty days."
Charles P. Pelham, ESQ.,, the editor of the
Columbia Register, died in that city on Thurs
day morning last at half-past 6 o'clock of ty-
phod pneumonia, contracted about two weeks
previous. Mr.. Pelham was born in Marlbo.
70 District, S. c., November IA, 1916, and
entered the South Carolina College in 1886;
graduating with distinction in December,
1888. Immediately upon his graduation, he
was elected, by the Faculty, Tutor in the De-
partment of Languages. This Office he vaca-
ted in 1S43, and the next year he sailed for
Europe, visiting England, France, switzer-
land, Italy and Greece. In December, 1845,
he was called to the Classical Department of
Mount Zion College, at Winnsboro, and in
November, 1846, be was elected Professor of
Roman Literature in the South Carolina Col
lege. In September, 1857, he was elected to
the Chair of History, Political Philosophy
and Political Economy, his connection with
the College terminating in November, 1857.
After his retirement from the College, Profess
sor Pelham became the proprietor and editor
of the Southern Guardian, published at Co.
lumba. This paper he conducted with both
ability and success. After the war he became
editor of the Columbia Pheniz, and at the
time of his death he was editor of the Colum-
bia Register.