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

| - Over three hundred negroes voted at the
recent primary election in Pickens county
charleston claims to have done busi
ness of s44,OOO,O00 last year.
The Radicals of Richland are talking
about getting up meeting, on which occa
sion all hands are to wear blue shirts.
- According to the recent decision fudge
Bond, the mortgage debt of the South Caro-
lima Railroad is se,OOO,0O0 and its floating
indebtedness nearly S1,2O00OO
Mr.. John H. Fisher, the recently ap
pointed receiver of the South Carolina Rail
road, assumed control on Wednesday of last
week.
Down in Colleton, the Democratic can
didates are assessed $25 each for campaign
purposes, and if they fail to "come down
with the stamps" they are expected to steE
down and out.
Eighteen car loads of cotton from Char
lotte, N. G., arrived in Charleston on Friday
last 1t was sent by way of the G. c. & A
Railroad to Augusta, and thence by the Port
ROYAL Railroad and the Charleston and Sa
vannah.
- Ex-Solicitor G. w. Butte has returned tc
Charleston, and wants to represent that dis
trict in Congress. From all the present in
dications it appears that there will be tri
angular Republican fight between Taft
Mackey and Buttz
"A Greenville dispatch of the 3rd instant
says: "a. j. Hinkle, one of Redmond's raid
ers, who was convicted at the last term of the
United States court, and was serving out his
term in the Jail here, died to-day of typhoid
fever"
Mr.. Jeremiah Wise died at his home in
Union on the 23d ultimo, at the advanced
age of eighty years. He was the village
grave digger, having dug nearly all the
graves of those who have died in the town for
the past twenty-five years.
Work on the Greenwood and Augusta
Railroad is progressing rapidly. Twenty-one
and half miles have been finished, and only
seventeen miles are to be graded between
Greenwood and the Savannah river. The
work is also being pushed on the Georgia
side.
There is a parrot on Wentworth street
in Charleston, whose enthusiasm for Hamp.
ton and straightout Democracy is made
known by incessant cheering, and passers.by
never fail to hear him proclaiming, "Polly is
straight-out Democrat" "Hurrah for
Hampton p
Chlls and fever prevail to such an ex,
tent on all the plantations bordering on the
Catawba River and the large water courses in
Lancaster county, that it is with great diff
Guilty that farmers can procure labor to pick
their cotton. In some instances all work has
been suspended on account of sickness.
Last week, at Radical meeting in
Hampton county, at which the democracy
claimed division of time" a Democratic
colored constable and some colored Radicals
got into dispute and fight ensued, in
which one of the RAIDS got his throat cut and
severe wound across the back. The Demo.
crat made his escape.
A letter from New York to a citizen Of
Beaufort in this State, says: "Who do you
suppose came to beg for money yesterday to
buy food, and this was the second time he
had Gomez Poor devil! 1 felt sorry for him
in bis abject misery, and gave him enough to
carry him through the day. The fellow was
your ex- Governor Moses. He pretends that
he wants to return to Sonth Carolina, but has
not the means to return"
- Recently, in Lancaster county, Mr.. Da.
vid w. Montgomery, an industrious farmer,
living about four miles from the village of
Lancaster, committed suicide by taking
strychnine. He told servant what he had
done, but before physician could reach him
he died. When asked what caused him to
take the poison, he merely remarked, Goods
not pleased with me" 1t is thought that his
mind had been impaired by recent excessive
drinking.
- Governor Hampton returned to Colum-
bia last Saturday, where large and enthusi-
astic demonstration awaited hm-the Red
Shirt Democracy of Richland having assem-
bled in Columbia on that day. The meeting
was addressed by Governor Hampton, Gen.
Kennedy, Senator Butler, Attorney-General
Youmans and ex-Judge Cooke. With the
exception of the Hampton day in Charleston,
it was the largest gathering of people that has
yet greeted the Governor since the opening
of the canvass.