Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-19
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.

/ At Baltimore, on Wednesday of last week,
the case against the South Carolina Railroad
Company came up in the United States Court
before Judge Hugh L. Bond, sitting in cham
bers The action was brought by Calvin
CaAin and Cyrus Gatewood, of New York,
John Parsons Of New Hampshire, Frank G.
Eddy and Benjamin S. Hatch of Massachu-
sets, and others, against the South Carolina
Railroad Company, praying an injunction to
restrain certain holders of portion of the
second mortgage bonds of the road from dis
posing of them, and an order of the Court
for the appointment of a receiver of the road.
1t is charged by the plaintiffs that the af'
fairs of the road have been mismanaged, that
it is insolvent in default of interest on the
second mortgage bonds, and that portion of
these bonds was illegally issued. A number
of parties are made defendants to the suit,
including the trustees of the first mortgage
bondholders, the Peoples National Bank of
Charleston, the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad Company and others. The issue in
wolves several million dollars, and from twen-
ty to thirty eminent counsel from South Car.
olina, New York and elsewhere are present,
representing various parties.
The argument was opened on a motion
denying the authority of the Court to
issue an injunction and appoint receiver,
while sitting at Chambers without the terri
torial limits of the District Of South Carolina,
where the case is now pending and said to be
ready for trial, and directing the further hear
ing of the motion to be postponed until the
next regular term of the circuit court of the
United States for the District Of South Caro-.
lima. Ex-Governor Magrath, Gen. James
Conner and W. E. Earle, of South Carolina,
argued in favor of the motion denying the ju.
risdiction of the Court, and Ex-Governor D.
H. Chamberlain, representing the plaintiffs,
against the motion.
Subsequent to the conclusion of the argu-
ments, Judge Bond read his opinion upon
the motion for postponement and removal
of the case on the ground that there was a
lack of jurisdiction, overruling the motion
and continuing the sitting at Baltimore. The
arguments in the case will occupy several
days, after which the Jud &c will probably
hold the matter under advisement for time.
DLACk JEWS IN INDIA 1uelo olc OloCh
Jews in India. The majority. are natives of
the Malabar coast, where, especially in the
city Kotechm, they reside in considera.
BILE numbers. 1t is said that they are the de-
scendants of the Jews who were sent to
India by King Solomon to capture elephants
for his use, and to work in the gold mines
and that their skins, in the course of 5000
years, have entirely changed color, so as to
make it almost impossible to distinguish them
from the rest of the natives. They know lit
tie Hebrew, that language having almost died
out among them. Their mother tongue is the
so.called HiDdi, which is used in their scrip
lures and prayer.books. They also possess
Bible which is not printed, but written. Of
the holidays, they only keep the Sabbath and
the passover, the Day Of Atonement being
entirely unknownsto them. In the prepara-
tion Of their food, they differ from the Jews,
as during their 5000 years separation from
the rest of their coreligionists, nearly all Of
their original customs and manners have