Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-12
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- 1ne OpdTIauUurS duu hslleFliIo 1soilio"u
has been completed to Hendersonville.
The State Dental Convention will meet
in Charleston, on Monday, the 9TH of July.
More than one-fourth of the whole Of the
State and county taxes due by Newberry
county, was paid last month.
A. L. Tobias, ESQ.,, ll.known insu
rance agent of Charleston, died in that city
on Saturday last, aged nearly fifty.four years.
Secretary of State Sims, who has been in
ill health for some time, left Columbia fer
the Hot Springs in Virginia, on Monday
last
A farmer of Anderson county claims
that he has field of wheat, embracing six
acres, which will yield one hundred and eighty
bushels.
- The indications are good for fair peach
crop in the vicinity of Columbia, the dam
age by the heavy frost in April not being as
great as was supposed.
The Review says the cotton in the lower
part of Lancaster county is being severely in
jured by small worms which feed upon the
roots of the young plants.
The Greenville Neus mentions that the
Piedmont Factory at that place, has recent
ly received an order for forty bales of shirt
ing, to be shipped to China.
- The Ledger claims that Mr.. Amos Cook,
of Flat Creek, Lancaster county, is luxuria-
ting on ripe peaches. Whether of this or
last years growth is not stated.
- Governor Simpson has reappointed Juli-
us Mills treasurer, and j: M. Brawley auditor
of Chester county. Also, w. B. Dunlap,
treasurer, and T. F. Clyburn, auditor Of
Lancaster county.
Mr.. W. H. Westbrook, of the Rossville
section of Chester county, has one hundred
and twenty acres of corn which is knee-high,
and one hundred and twenty watermelon vines
with creepers three feet long.
Major D. j. Devane, of Wilmington, N
c., has been appointed by the United States
Circuit Court, now in session at Raleigh, a
commissioner to sell the Wilmington, Colum-
bia and Augusta Railroad, under decree Of
foreclosure.
The sales of commercial fertilizers in An
derson county aggregate 2,171 tons, against
1885 tons for last year. The Inteltigencer
suggests that it would probably be better not
to hold any indignation convention next
winter.
On the plantation of DR.. Clayton, in
Anderson county, rabbits have been so de-
structive to his wheat crop, that he recently
commenced war of determination against
them, which resulted in the killing of five
hundred in one week.
The trial of D. F. Fleming and William
Gregg, under indictment in Aiken county,
for conspiracy to defraud that county out Of
a large sum of money in connection with the
purchase of building for court house, has
been removed to Orangeburg, where the case
will be tried.
- In Lancaster county, one day last week,
Spinler Crawford, while at work in field, cut
a large black snake in twain with hoe. He
took in his hand that part Of the snake where
was the head. No sooner had he touched it
than he received smart sting on his arm,
and in fifteen minutes was in convulsions.
He had about twelve during the day; but is
recovering under medical treatment.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Charleston Ne,cs and Courier says: "It is
confidently predicted that the Greenbackers
will organize strong party in South Carroll
ma before the next general election, and it is
said with equal confidence that the woods in
that State are full of idle and anxious poll
ticians who will willingly volunteer to become
candidates for State and National Offices up
on Greenback platform. The colored peo-
pie will 60 sn-masse after these leaders, both
from their natural desire for plenty of money
and of their slumbering opposition to the
Democratic party"