Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The Columbia Register says that L. Cass
Carpenter is sick in Jail.
- Mr.. M. B. Friedberger, of Union, is
dead.
- The notorious desperate. Bob Sartor, shot
and killed his wife, on Mr.. S. M. Rice's prem
ises, in Union, Christmas eve.
- The number of students at the Columbia
Theological Seminary is unusually large at
present.
- In Clarendon and Abbevile counties the
repeal of the lein law is causing serious dis
tress to the poorer farmers
- The Pee.Dee river was higher last Fri
day than in the great freshet of 1865. Sew
eral bridges were washed away, an he des-
truction of fences was enormous.
The prospect for good supply of fresh
The new artesan we'll has been bored to
depth of 1910 feet, and the flow of water
from it, averages about ninety gallons per
minute.
At the recent election in Newberry, the
regular Democratic nominees we're successful,
Mr.. George Johnstone having been elected a
member of the legislature, and Rev. }. Z.
Boyd, School Commissioner. The average
majority was about S5.
In a recent interview with reporter of
the News and Courier, Senator Butler de-
clared himself an uncompromising hard mon
ey man, and opposed to the repeal of the re-
sumption act As to the silver bill now before
Congress, he says he has not given that mat
ter sufficient investigation as yet, to form an
opinion.
The Beaufort Tribune says that the two
phosphate companies there are doing large
business, and getting out, at present, a very
superior article of rock. The coming sum-
mer is expected to develop very large bus
iness. The cost of procuring the rock, with
the present facilities, is about $3.50 per ton
which readily sells in its crude state for S6.
- A street rencontre between number of
white persons occurred in Charleston last
Friday. The difficulty seems to have had
its origin in the late municipal election in that
city. The colored citizens did not get
showing in the disturbance-it being exclu'
sively among white meu-all, as we gather
from the account of the affair, of the same
political faith, except on the one point of
division of the offices within the Mayors
gift. No one was killed, though two or three
were slightly wounded by pistol shots.
- The Bond Commissioners are working
night and day in order to get their report
ready to be submitted to the Legislature,
which reassembles on the 10th instant, and it
is said, the last page of the report will not
be completed until the morning Of that day.
The many pages of figures and numbers OF
bonds which make up the body of the docu'
ment will probably be prepared before hand,
50 that the entire report can promptly be laid
on the desks of members, in printed form, as
soon as called for.
Major Wagner, special agent of the
Internal revenue department. has been sent
from Washington to make thorough inves-
tigation of the recent occurrences in Union
county. 1t is also understood that he is
charged with organizing and increasing the
force of special deputies in this State. 1t is
understood the Treasury department will not
ask for troops to assist it's officers in vindica-
ting the laws, as it is thought that sufficient
force of officers of the department, properly
commissioned, and with arms to back their
authority, will not be resisted in the arrest of
offenders, and the seizure of illicit distilleries
and other property forfeited to the govern.
ment
The Columbia Register asserts that Gov
ernor Hampton does not desire that Senator
Butler should lose his seat 1t is singular
that our cotemporary should have supposed
it worth while to enter denial to this silly
rumor. No one, we apprehend, ever attached
the slightest Importance to it or supposed, for
a moment, that it was founded upon fact.
The Register also says it is the declared inten-
ton of Governor Hampton not to become
candidate for Patterson's place, if it was made
vacant, as Hampton has repeatedly asserted
that he will 6ll the office of Governor to the
end of the term for which be was elected.
-Comptroller-General Hagood has issued
the following circular in reference to the poll
tax: The so per cent. penalty for non.listing
does not attach; the 20 per cent. penalty for
non. payment does attach, as also the costs
allowed for collection of taxes. This tax can
be collected by distress and sale of PERSONAL
ty, the time for which, however, for the fiscal
year 1876 is now passed. In accordance
with the Acts of Assembly, 1877, No. 277,
Section 5, where persons have failed or re.
fused to pay the poll tax of the fiscal year
ending October 3lst, 1877, county treasurers
will proceed against them before a trial JUS
tice as for misdemeanor.
The special Senate committee appointed
to sit during the recess of the General Assem-
bly, for the purpose of investigating the char
ges of bribery preferred against Corbin, met
in Columbia last Friday, and has begun its
work in good earnest. The correspondent of
the Neps and Courier says the committee had
not been in Columbia twenty-four hours be-
fore they struck trail, which apparently
leads in the direction of the penitentiary, and
the footprints whereof tally exactly with
those of the Hon. D. T. Corbin. Witnesses
are plentiful and many have been summoned.
The majority of them are believed to be men,
bers of the Mackey Legislature, and their
benefactor will doubtless soon be in position
TO appreciate keenly what good King David