Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Complaints Of drought are almost general
throughout the state.S
Doctor John Fisher, a prominent citizen
of Columbia is dead at the age of II years.
- Mr.. Hamilton Fuller, of Beaufort, shot
at crane on the river, and the ball gancing,
accidentally killed a man.
The State Sunday school Convention will
assemble at Spartanburg on the 10Th OF Au'
gust.
- At Richmond, Va, on the 3rd instant,
Mr. R. D. Galbraith, of Chester, was married
to Miss. Matte Gregory, daughter of ex.Gov-
ernor Gregory, Of Virginia.
- Saturday was the most oppressive day
known in Charleston for many yes.rs. There
were fifteen deaths from heat-10 whites and
5 colored persons.
"A Greenback meeting at nniversalist
church in Winnsboro, on the 4th, broke up in
a row between DR.. V. P. Clayton and Mr..
James Heron.
"A Survivors Association, with Gen. e.
lison Capers as president, has been organized
for the purpose of erecting monument 10 the
Confederate dead of Greenville county.
- In the absence from Columbia of Gov.
Simpson, who has gone to Laurens to visit
his father, who is lying there very i'll, Sena.
tor Hampton is by courtesy acting as Gov
ernor .,5-,
Judge Pressly recently announced from
the bench that the word "lengthy" is not
-geod English that it is equally. correct to
say "breadthy" for broad as "lengthy' for
long.
- The manager of the Airline Railroad
has found it necessary to build wire fences
along the line of the road in certain sections
to keep the COWS off the track. 1t is much
cheaper than to kill the COWS and pay dou.
BILE price for them.
In the Court of General Sessions of Rich
land county, last Thursday, the motion of Mr.,
Melton for continuance in the case of the
State against VIM. Rose and Geo. w. Dan.
iels, charged with the murder of ohm E. En-.
glish, was granted.
Near the Tugalo river on the Airline
two magnificent fountains burst from the
rocks to the height of thirty feet They ap'
pear to be natures work entirely, but in real
ity have been made by running pipes from a
stream on the side of the mountain underneath
the railroad embankment.
Says the Charleston Ns,us and Courier
In the rear of Centennial Hall, on Sullvan's
Island, may be seen the skeletons of several
Confederate soldiers buried there during the
war. The tides and winds have shifted the
sands and uncovered the bones of the dead
heroes and left them bleaching in the sun.
- Says the Lancaster LEDGER: Though the
rains have been partial, we are pleased to hear
that the prospects for good crops in this coun.
ty are bright The small grain crops have
been harvested and have given pretty general
satisfaction. The acreage this year was some
larger than dsual, and the same as to the corn
crop, which also promises fine yield. Cot
ton is doing we'll, and, if it continues as at
present, a rich harvest is in store for the far.
mers.
Says the Carolina Spartan of the 9th
"Hon. John H. Evins returned from Wash.
ington last week. He is in the main satisfied
with the work of the extra session, and quite
hopeful as to Democratic prospects in the fu-
ture. His constant work, and diligent atten'
t on to the business entrusted to him by his
constituents, has not hurt him in the least,
for he looks as if he might have fought it out
on that line, even if it had taken him all sum.
mer."