Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


- The publication of the Columbia Dait.!
Phenir has been discontinued. e..
On Friday last, the Supreme Court ad
journed until Monday, the 18th Of April.
Lancaster county bonds issued in aid O.
the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, are selling
at sixty cents on the dollar.
The supply of homemade provisions il
Darlington county this year is greater thar
any year since the war. ,'.'' ... ....... 81.
- In Sumter county, there are six candi
dates in the field for State Senator for that
county.
The Airline Railroad Company has re
Gently added several new passenger coaches
to its already fine supply of rolling stock.
- The Charleston Ne0s and Courier has
added "Chess Column" to its other attrac
tions. This department is under the control
of Rev. G. E. Ranken.
- The Herald says that the price demanded
for commercial fertilizers, is causing the
spartanbu.g farmers to buy less this season
and RELY more on home made manures.
Capt. H. L. Farley, the late editor Of the
Spartanburg Spartan, has taken up his resi-
dence in Augusta, Ga. He has gone there
for the purpose of finishing his legal studies
Governor Hampton has abandoned his
trip to Florida. He has not been doing quite
so well for few days, and it is not thought
advisable for him to overtax his strength.
The South Carolina Railroad is said tc
be doing thriving business at every point
along the line Receiver Fisher is managing
the affairs of the road in a very satisfactory
manner. '--. ;.'
At recent meeting of the stockholders
of the Charleston Fertilizer Company, it was
determined to wind up the affairs finally, and
the solicitor was instructed to take the steps
necessary to effect this object.
The receipts of cotton at Greenville this
year are seven thousand bales greater than
for the same time last year. There are said
to be yet three times as many bales to market
as there were at this season last year.
The Teller investigating committee con.
cluded it's labors in Charleston on Thursday
last, and adjourned to meet in Washington
last Monday, where E. w. M. Mackey, james
B. Campbell and r: M. Wallace, are to be
examined. .!"' ri! .. .' ."'
- The Herald says that Mr.. Henry Massey
who resides seven miles north of Rock Hill
lost number of hogs recently from the eff
fects Of acid phosphate which the animals
had eaten after burglariously making en-.
trance into the lint room Of his Clubhouse
where the stuff was stored.
The Ne,us mentions that there are numer.
Gus inquiries in Greenville for chemicals with
which to make cheap fertilizers. The farm
ers of O'Neall townshipin that county, have
adopted resolution in which they declare
that they are not willing to pay over four hun
dred pounds Of lint cotton for ton Of com
mercial fertilizer, freight included.
In Kershaw county, most Of the negroes
who have made contracts for 1879, have gone
to work, four days in each week for their EN-,
ployer and two for themselves. The employ.
er furnishes them houses, rations and as much
land as they want to attend themselves, and
lets them have his stock to do their plough
ing, but pays them no wages. Those who
work for wages alone, get from s5 to 81 per
month and rations.
At the recent meeting of the South Car
olina Conference of the Northern Methodist
Church, the following appointments, among
others, we're made: A. G. Dutton, presiding
elder of the Greenville District Thomas
Wright, Edisto Forks in Port Royal Dis
trict. S. Anderson King, Greenville circuit.
George W. Beckham, Cherokee. j. R. Rose
mond and A. McLees, York circuit. G. F.
McElwee, Chester circuit. j. R. Beckham,
Anderson.
"A Washington letter says "F. L. Car
dozo, colored, ex-State Treasurer Of South
Carolina, who few months ago was appointed
to 81, 200 clerk in the sixth auditors office,
has at last arisen to the dignity of second
class clerkship, reaching that elevation after
an examination in which he worsted twenty:
one competitors" At the August term, 1877,
of the Richland Circuit Court, Cardozo. was
convicted of conspiracy to cheat the State
and sentenced to the Jail of that county for
two years and to pay fine of four thousand
dollars failing to pay the fine, to be impris'
oned for one year more. Cardozo appealed
to the Supreme Court, pending which, the ex'
ecution of the sentence was suspended by or.
der of the presiding judge. A petition is
being circulated in Columbia asking for Car.
dozo's pardon.
Mrs. Elizabeth Leopard, died at Granite.
vile on the 26th ultimo at the age of 10Y
years. She was born in Buckingham county,
Va, on the 25th of December, 1771, and emf
grated to South Carolina when she was sew
enteen years of age, and lived near Ninety
Six. She raised twenty-five orphan grand
children and great.grandchildren. At the
funeral was her only surviving son, over
eighty years of age Around her grave stood
this son, grandchild ffty-six years old, sew.
eral great.grandchildre over forty years
of age great grandchildren twenty-five
years old, and a number of great-great:gre
grandchldren-fve generations in all. There
are living at present eighty Of her descendants
and two hundred and ten have died, making
altogether nearly three hundred. Last fall
Mrs. Leopard knitted two pairs of stockings
for one of her grandchildren. She read the
Bible, without spectacles, the Sunday before
she died, and conversed with friends and rela