Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30

end of the bill, when an amendment was Of
fered as an additional section, transferring
the management of the Indians to the War
Department. After long discussion on the
point of order, the chairman (Springer, Of
Illinois, decided the amendment to be in or
der Without voting on the amendment
however, the House adjourned.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Green corn has made its appearance on
the tables in Columbia.
June apples and peaches have made their
appearance in the Charleston market. APP.
Piles sell for $3.50 per crate, and peaches for
$3.50.
- The statement is made by the Columbia
Register that a well.informed Republican
says his party was never better organized
than it is at present in the lower counties Of
the State.
- The Carolina Spartan says that Mr.. Til.
man R. Gaines, of the immigration firm OF
Gaines & Yingling, New York, was in that
town last week, while on his way to locate a
colony of immigrants in Pickens county.
AN able and distinguished lawyer Of the
Abbevile bar is engaged in writing the Life
of George McDuffie, one of the grandest men
ever reared on American soil, one of our few
great men who left lasting impression upon
the century in which he lived
The Special Court created by law to de.
eide the liability of the State upon the unre.
cognized Consolidation Bonds and Stocks will
re.assemble in Columbia on tha 9th of July
for the purpose of hearing argument on the
Bond cases.
Bills of the Bank of the State to the
amount of S29,75757 have been rendered to
the county treasurer of Charleston during
the present month in payment of taxes. The
total amount of coupons of unrecognized
Consolidated bonds rendered is $3.50, and
the amount of taxes paid in United States
currency is S48,1OO.
Three prominent members of the Coum'
bia bar-ex-Judge Samuel W. Melton, G.
Washington Clark, ESQ.,, and Col. John T.
Sloan, Jr.-left that city last Tuesday for
Europe. The three gentlemen 60 direct to
New York by rail, and thence sail for the
continent. They will visit the exposition now
in progress at Paris, and afterward visit Ger
many, Spain and Italy.
Two families of colored people, number
ing seven persons in all, who went to Charles
ton some months ago, to 60 to Liberia on the
emigrant ship Azor, have returned to their
home in Lancaster, and it is said that there
are many others who are longing for home,
but have not the means of getting there.
The families alluded to are named Cunning
ham and Baylie, respectively.
Governor Hampton recently restored to
the widow of Gen. Custer field glass be.
longing to the deceased soldier, which was
captured by some of Hamptons men at the
battle of Brandy Station during the late war.
Mrs. Custer returned letter to Governor
Hampton, saying that she would doubly ap-
precate the relic because it had been the
property of two brave men, and she added
that her husband had been an admirer of
General Hampton.
George Williams was arrested by Sheriff
Thompson, at Columbus, Polk county, N. c.,
on requisiton from Governor Hampton,
and brought to the Spartanburg Jail for con-
6nement, charged with the killing of Titus
Cooper, which occurred about seven years
ago, near Glenn Springs. George Williams
has been over in North Carolina, ever since
the killing, and has been engaged preaching
politics and religion-the former being his
torte He says he has suffered no remorse on
account of the killing.
Sixteen hundred liens have been filed in
the clerks office of Charleston county under
the amended law, and of this number about
twelve hundred have been given for supplies,
and four hundred for rent and guano. The
Meps and Courier says that "the sum Of
money represented by these liens will aggre-
gate, at the lowest estimate, more than one
hundred thousand dollars for advances alone,
and still our agricultural people are living
economically and doing the very best they
can. They are just one year behind, and
what they make this year will 60 to cancel
the obligations incurred in the production of
the crop, and so they are never easy, are
never up with their accounts, and are getting
poorer and poorer every day. The number of
liens for this county will probably be greatly
increased before the time is up. The hardest
part of the year is yet to come Hundreds
of liens and mortgages have been recorded in
the clerks office for Charleston county since
the passage of the usury law at stipulated
yearly interest of ten and twelve per cent"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
On Tuesday of last week, there was a
severe rain and wind storm, accompanied
with thunder, lightning and hail, in Raleigh.
John H. Smythe, colored, Of Wilmington,
has been confirmed by the Senate as U. S.
Minister to Liberia.
A Raleigh gentleman is raising moles on
his farm near the city for the sake of their