Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-03-20
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

immense pecan tree on her lot from which
she annually gathers bushels of the finest nuts.
A dead whale was recently towed into
the harbor of Port Royal. 1t is said that
this monster of the deep will yield 800 to 900
barrels of oil, and about 1000 or ], 200 pounds
of bone
The Spartan says that the indications are
that more guano will be sold at Spartanburg
this year than ever before. In Abbeville, the
guano trade is quite brisk. The Medium
saws the farmers are coming to the terms Of
the phosphate companies.
The work of excavating the grounds pre-
liminary to laying the foundation of the Con-
federate monument, was commenced in Co.
lumbia on Thursday last. The position cho-
sen is in front of the east wing of the Capitol
building, and corresponds to that of the iron
palmetto tree in front of the west wing.
The bark Azor, which belongs to the Ii
berian Exodus Association, has been ibelled
in the United States Court at Charleston, in
the sum of $6,7S3, most of which is due the
captain and mate 1t is claimed that the
vessel is worth twenty-five thousand dollars,
but as the association cannot pay the claims
against her, she will be sold.
The Eighteenth United States Infantry,
which was stationed in this State FIVE or six
years subsequent to 1871, has been ordered to
leave Atlanta, Ca, for Yankton, Dakota Ter
ritory, by the 1st of April. From the latter
place, it will proceed to Montana, where it
will be employed in building the new post of
Fort Assinaboine, on one of the tributaries Of
Milk River, near the British boundary.
- The Supreme Court has recently decided,
in a case which came up from Union county,
that only those articles of personal property,
enumerated in section thirty-two, article two
of the constitution, are exempt from levy and
sale. The following are the articles mention
ed in the constitution: Household furniture,
beds and bedding, family library, arms, carts,
wagons, farming implements, tools, neat cat
tie, work animals, swine, goats and sheep, the
whole not to exceed in value, in the aggre-
gate, five hundred dollars. In addition to
the above, the necessary wearing apparel is
exempted.
Two trial Justice cases in Anderson coun.
ty have lately excited attention as illustrative
of the new stock law. A negro's COW strayed
and trespassed on the land of another negro,
who killed it. The owner of the COW had the
killer prosecuted for malicious killing, and the
latter prosecuted the former for allowing his
COW to 60 at large and damage his property.
Both parties were found guilty and sentenced
to pay fine of five dollars each, or to be i'm
prisoned for ten days. An appeal was taken
which involves the jurisdiction of trial justices
in cases under the new stock law, and that
question is likely to be fully discussed and in
time finally settled.
Information has been received Of the
death by suicide in Union, of Mr.. 0. B. H.
Graham. He had been confined to his house
for several months by severe attack of pa
ralysis, but had recovered sufficiently to ena-
BILE him to walk out of doors with crutch.
On the afternoon of the 18th instant, he had
been up town, and had just returned to his
house, when he shot himself through the
head with pistol, inficting fatal wound.
1t is thought the act was caused by distress
of mind consequent upon his helpless condi-
ton. He was veteran Of the Confederate
and Mexican wars, and at the time of his
death was the coroner of the county. He
leaves wife and two children.
Under the act passed by the last General
Assembly, appropriating $4,000 for the pur-
chase of arms, &C., for the use of the State
militia, Adj. Gen. Noise has obtained sup
ply of improved cavalry and artillery sabres,
which have been distributed as follows: For
ty-fve artillery sabres to the Marion Artillery
of Charleston; 100 cavalry sabres to Gen.
M. w. Humphreys, Anderson; 100 to Gen.
VIM. M. Stokes, Early Branch; 100 to Gen.
J. G. Anderson, Spartanburg; and so to
Capt. Tullin's company, Laurens, S. c. Also
two Blakely guns (1O-pounders) to the Beau
fort Light Artillery, Capt H. M. Stewart,
Beaufort, S. c.; and one 10-pound Parrot
gun to Capt Anderson Mills, Sumter Light
Artillery, Sumter, S. G.
We learn from the Register, that Mr.. D.
M. Thompson, of the firm of Thompson &
Nagle, of Providence, Rhode Island, has
been in Columbia 70. several weeks, engaged
in consultations with the Columbia Canal
Commissioners and inspecting the canal prop
erty, with the view of developing and using
it for manufacturing purposes. As the re.
suit, Mr.. Thompson has submitted PROPOSE
ton to the commissioners, in writing, setting
forth the conditions upon which he is willing
to undertake the work of utilizing the prop
erty. The following is the substance of the
proposition submitted: GAS soon as the Leg
islature approves Of his proposition and pass
es an act of incorporation, he will proceed to
organize joint stock company with capital
of one million of dollars and the privilege of
increasing it. The company will then erect
dam across the Congaree river just above
Geigers mill, the dam to have a water front
or rolling way of about eighteen hundred
feet. This will throw the water into the ca
nal just above Geiger's mill. The canal will
be made two hundred feet wide and ten feet
deep at the upper end and become narrower
as it goes down, and will extend about two
miles down the river from that point After
it passes Gervais street, the line of the canal
will follow the line of the river and be about
four hundred feet from it, without regard to
the location of the old canal. By this means