Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-16
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- There are 512 post Offices in South Caro-
lima.
- There are twelve stores on Main street,
in Columbia, unoccupied. ........ .....
"A lodge of Knights of Honor, was re-
Gently organized in the town Of Laurens
Rev. F. L. Leeper goes to Fort Mill to
fill the pulpit recently vacated by Rev. J. B.
Mack
- Professor Kennedy, of Due West, is now,
and has been for several months, in bad
health.
WIN. S. May, of Rock Hill, has been ap-
pointed to position in the office of the Sec
retary of State, at Columbia.
- The National Bank of Anderson has de-
clared its usual dividend Of five per cent
out of the profits of the last six months.
- Senator Hampton's term in the United
States Senate, commences on the fourth Of
next March, and continues for six years.
~ Out of seventy Eight men who went to
the Florida war from Kershaw county, in
1886, only six are now living in that county.
- Rev. S. S. Gaillard, an eminent divine
in the Presbyterian church, for many years
pastor of the church at Greenville, died at
Griffin, Geo., last Thursday.
- The town council of Manning. in Clar
endon county, and the county commissioners
of that county, refuse to grant licenses for re.
failing spirituous liquors.
- Only 16s miles of railroad were con.
structed in South Carolina last year. Cheraw
and Chester, u miles; Spartanburg and
Asheville, 9 miles.
- Mr.. Leonard Chaplin, of Charleston, we'll
known throughout the State as a manufac-
turer of and dealer in carriages, died in that
city on Friday last.
- The Herald mentions that in Newberry
county, there has been but little changing Of
farm hands this year. Each year tenants
and laborers, as we'll as landlords, become less
disposed to make changes.
- Fish Commissioner Butler has returned
to Columbia, after a four hundred miles trip,
during which he distributed $4,000 salmon in
various streams in this State, only that mum.
Der having arrived.
- Mr.. Thomas w. Holloway, Secretary,
gives notice that the annual meeting of the
State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will be
held in Charleston, on Tuesday, the fourth of
February.
- Last week, in Charleston, the grand jur.
rors of the United States District Court were
paid in gold, greatly to their surprise. 1t
is said that some of the jurors hesitated to
take the coin.
w. w. Pegg, telegraph operator at the
Airline depot in Greenville, committed
suicide, by taking morphine, last Saturday
night. Disappointment in love affair led
to the commission Of the rash act.
- There are three candidates for the State
Senatorship for Sumter county, made vacant
by the election of Hon. T. B. Fraser as a cir
cult judge-Capt. James M. Carson, Capt. H.
E. Peoples, and Col. Joseph H. Earle.
- The Columbia Register says that recent
act of the Legislature imposes fine Of not
less than 5000 and imprisonment for not less
! LQdu SIX uOuIue oa0 SoifiSeSo va
carrying concealed weapons.
- The Greenwood and Augusta Railroad
is rapidly progressing, and the farmers of Ab-
beville and adjoining counties are anticipa-
ting the prospect of sending their next cotton
crop to Augusta, instead of Charleston.
- Mr.. John F. Jefervs, formerly of York
Vile who has been in the EMPLOYMENT of
Mr.. Andrew G. Floyd, at Spartanburg, for
several years, has removed to Hendersonville,
N. c., and commenced business on his own
account.
A Washington dispatch says that Rainey
and Smalls, the two colored Congressman
from South Carolina, who were candidates
for reelection, have, it is said, decided not to
contest the seats of their Democratic compet-
itors who haye been awarded the certificates
of election.
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