Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- A large sash, door and blind factory
is about to be established in Spartanburg.
Governor Hampton is not expected to re-
turn to Columbia until about the 18th instant.
- The Lancaster Ledger printing office, in
cluding the subscription list of the paper, is
offered for sale.
By majority of about eight hundred,
Sumter county has voted in favor of sub
scription to the Georgetown and North Caro-
lima Narrow Gauge Railroad.
- Tho -ssst -bale- of -urw COTTON wax soffd at
Rock Hill on Friday, 23rd ultimo, by Mr.. j.
M. Williford. 1t was purchased by j. M.
Ivy & Co.
- A mass meeting will be held at Cross An
cbor, Union county, on the 18th instant, for
the purpose of taking steps looking to the for
nation of a new county out of parts of Spar
tanburg, Union and Laurens counties.
- Attorney. General Youmans and Col.
Treutlen have returned to Columbia from
Massachusetts,, whittier they had gone, hoping
to return with Kimpton. They are said to be
mum and grum."
"A store.house belonging to Mr.. A. G..
Floyd, located at Graham's, on the Spartan
burg and Union Railroad, together with its
contents, was destroyed by fire on Sunday
night last.
The Rev. James Rosemond, the colored
presiding elder of the Methodist Church in
Anderson county, has requested the ministers
in his district not to meddle with politics, but
to give their whole attention to their minis.
terial duties.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Union Savings Bank, of Columbia, on Fri
day last, resolution was adopted to suspend
the business of the bank, and committee was
appointed to wind up its affairs. The depos-
its are small-about slO,0O0-and are sup
posed to be fully secured.
- The work on the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad is progressing. The iron will be
laid down and the cars running to Fishing
Creek, eleven miles from Lancaster G. H.,
within the next ten days. A depot is to be
built at Fishing Creek without unnecessary
delay.
- The Edgefeld and Pine House Railroad
Company, have secured seventy.fve convicts
from the South Carolina penitentiary, who
will be employed in grading the road bed.
The road is but eight miles long, and it is ex-
pected that the line will be in operation by
Christmas.
Governor Hampton is yet at Cashiers
Valley, N. c., and is reported as not being
we'll enough to attend to business, if, indeed,
at all benefited from his trip to the noun.
tains. He, however, announces his intention
of entering the campaign just as soon as his
health will permit, and hopes to be able to
meet every appointment made for him.
On Friday of last week, Miss Mamie
Faulkner, young lady of Lancaster, S. c.,
who was visiting the family of Mr.. A. g.
Reid, in Providence township, Mecklen'
burg county, narrowly escaped death by
taking dose of morphia under the impression
that it was quinine. Her life was saved
with great difficulty.
- The Charlotte Home of Friday says: Mr.
w. J. Anderson, near Clay Hill, S. G., who
lives in the burnt strip which runs through
Mecklenburg and York, reports that the out
look of the crops is not so gloomy after ALL
Five weeks ago, it did not look as if the in
habitants could make living, but the rains
have revived things wonderfully. In hls
field, standing in one spot, he touched Oh one
row with yard stick, 81 full ears of corn.
A mass meeting of the Democratic Work
ingmen of Columbia, is advertised to have ta-
ken place on Tuesday night last, for the pur-
pose of nominating full ticket for the vari'
Gus Offices to be filled at the coming election,
composed of persons in sympathy with the
aims and objects of the industrial classes, and
especially to have one or more representatives
from the mechanical element of Richland in
the House of Representatives.
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