Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-09-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

ted his 18th birthday.
Judge Pressly is holding court at Able
vile.
- 1t is expected that Senator Hampton will
return to Columbia in few days. He has
been summering in Virginia.
There are ten Lodges of colored Good
Templars in the District which includes New
berry.
The survivors of the Confederate cause in
Edge6eld propose to erect monument to the
memory of their fallen comrades.
Mr. A. D. Ray, of Gaaneys, has beard
five feet four inches in length. He has not
shaved since the war, and his beard keeps on
growing.
The management of the Charlotte, Co.
lumbia and Augusta Railroad has given no.
tice that no Sunday excursion trains shall be
run on that road.
The Democrats of Barnwell have nomi-
mated DR.. w. B. Rice as candidate for the
House of Representatives, in place of Mr..
Hartzog, deceased.
On the first Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday of this month, more than six hundred
tracts of land were sold by the county audit
or of Colleton county, for delinquent taxes.
Most of the tracts were forfeited to the State.
Rev DR.. Meynardie is gradually improv.
ing from his late severe injuries, occasioned
by the railroad accident near Ridgeway. Sew
eral months will probably elapse before he
can resume the discharge of his duties.
- Seven of the townships of Anderson
county recently voted on the question of ma
king subscription in aid of the Savannah
Valley Railroad Each township gave a
majority in favor of the subscription.
Senator Butler, who was chairman OF
the committee to investigate Congressional
matters, returned to his home in Edge6eld
last week, from Newport, R. l., where the
committee has been in session for several
weeks.
The Sentinel says that in Barnwell coun'
ty there are some four or FIVE candidates
out for clerk, as many for sheriff, and sup
poses that there are about four or FIVE hun.
dred persons who desire to represent Barn
we'll in the Legislature.
- The grand jury of Aiken, at the recent
term of court, express, in their presentment,
the opinion that the act of the Legislature
creating the county board of equalization is
unwise, and recommend to the senator and
representatives of the county that they use
their influence to have it repealed at the
next session of the General Assembly.
The Yeoman says that bad looking
white man named Ross, who claims to have
been sent to Columbia by the Republicans Of
Washington, is to be seen about the street
corners of the former city, haranguing to
knots of idle negroes. The Ycoman is also
informed from trustworthy source, that an
effort will soon be made to re-organize the
Young Mems Republican Club, of Columbia.
The following is given as the cause for
the assassination of Alexander Bryce jr., re.
Gently, in Oconee county: "The difficulty is
supposed to have been the result of business
transaction between the deceased and a man
named Moore. Several years ago, Bryce's
friend Moore was lodged in Jail under crimi'
nal charges of some kind, and it is alleged
that Moore applied to Bryce to sign his bail
bond, which Bryce refused to do until Moore
assigned his titles to tract of land, as secu'
rity against loss. Moore has not been able to
get possession of the land since, and he has
become exasperated at the perpetrator of the
wrong. Bryces brother-in.law, Jesse F. Cox,
is presumed to know the assassinating party,
and rumor says that Moore and his brother
and third party did the shooting. Robert
Cobb, Henry Long, Robert Dunlap, Massiah
Cobb, Americus Moore and Riley Moore,
white men, have been arrested and lodged in
jail in Oconee county charged with the mur'
der"
The Abbeville Medium, of the Sd, has
the following "Another very valuable dis
covery has been made on Judge Thomson's
Little Mountain plantation deposit of the
richest and purest platinum. This is very
rare and exceedingly valuable metal. Speci
mems of the stuff have been sent North, but
no returns have yet been received. The metal
is a shiny substance, something like lead be-
fore it becomes dscolored by contact with the
air. The discovery was made by Mr.. B. D.
Cade, who has followed the vein in distinct
marked development three or four hundred
yards. The vein runs northeast and south.
west, and is definite and conspicuous. A good
aborer can take out about four pounds Of the
metal day, which is worth five hundred
dollars pound. If the metal is pure plati
mum, and there is every present indication
that it is, it will at once be seen how surpass'
ingly rich the deposit must be. Mr.. Cade
is now running five years lease on Judge
Thomson's plantation, and is pushing his
mining operations with great energy and
with exceptional success"
- Sometime ago, Professor Bibikov, of Co.
lumbia, made the announcement that he had
discovered coal in the vicinity of Gran
iteville. Forthwith, Professor Holmes, Of
Charleston, denied the truth of the story and
undertook to ridicule the supposed claim of
Bibikov to having made new discovery,
asserting that the supposed coal is nothing
except brown Ignite, the existence of which
had been known for years. and that it is com
paratively worthless. Nothing daunted, Bib.
ikov procured quantity of the mineral, and
with a crudely improvised apparatus, pro-
duced gas that burned with bright fame.
Not satisfied with this, he proposes to test