Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-11-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SVU1h CAhVAANA NIWOs
- The Orangeburg Agricultural Society is
talking about establishing a cotton factory in
that county.
1t is understood that bill will be intro
duced during the present session Of the Leg
islature, making it a crime to carry deadly
weapon.
- In Orangeburg county, the Radicals left
the taxpayers legacy of "back indebted
ness" aggregating slS1O7, and the amount
now in the treasury with which to pay it,
is only 81 cents on the dollar.
Mr.. w. w. Clark, one of the persons
lost on the steamer Champion, was formerly
citizen of Columbia, sign painter by pro.
fession, and painted many of the signs now
on Main street.
- Sheriff j. Y. Jones, of Abbeville, who
some time ago became sadly mixed up and
left for Texas, has settled in full with his sure
ties, says the Press and Banner, and is now
relieved of all debt.
- The knights of Honor at Anderson have
determined to erect building which is to
contain two large store-rooms on the first
floor and an opera hall and lodge room on
the second.
"A negro named Holmes, aged about six.
teen years, who last summer committed a
nameless outrage on a little two years old
girl in Union county, was hanged in the
presence of large crowd at Union c. H., on
Friday last. He was convicted before Judge
Thomson last October.
Recently, in Aiken county, negro was
arrested and brought before trial justice for
brutal treatment of work OK. The law in
such cases leaves no discretion with the court,
but says all such offenders Of law and decen.
cy, upon conviction, shall be fined fifteen dol
lars or be imprisoned for fifteen days in Jail.
The negro was convicted of the offence and
released after the payment Of the 6ne.
Superintendent Kline, late OF the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, enter
ed, on Monday last, upon the discharge Of his
duties as superintendent of the Richmond and
Petersburg Railroad, to which position he
was recently elected. 1t is reported that he
will be succeeded on the c. c. Il A. Road by
Mr.. Clark, of Baltimore civil engineer and
bridge builder of considerable experience.
"A leading firm in Charleston, has entered
suit for $4,000 against the proprietors Of the
two principal gambling saloons in that city,
the amount sued for, or portion of it, being
alleged to have been lost at various times by
young men in whom the prosecutors are in
terested. The action is brought under the
law which provides that money won at gam
bling shall, upon proof, be restored four.fold.
A car load of horses from one Of the
Western States, recently arrived at station
on the Camden Branch of the South Carroll
ma Railroad. On unloading the car hen
was discovered in one corner sitting on nest
containing thirteen eggs. All the horses were
loose in the car, and they had travelled a long
ways but it was found on examination that
not single egg was broken. It was close
quarters for the old hen, but she did not seem
to mind it any more than if she was quietly
sitting in chicken house.
The complaint is general throughout the
State in regard to drought. In Marlborough
county the "branches are all dry and the
wells lower than in ten years. In some sec.
tions the cattle get no water except from the
creeks and the river, or from the wells at
home" In Newberry, MANY of the mills
are unable to run on account of the scarcity
of water, and some farmers have even to
draw water from wells in order to supply
their stock"
1t is hoped that some member of the
Legislature now in session, will prepare an
amendment to the constitution, to be pre-
sented to the voters at the next election,
which will secure the homestead exemption
in personal property to those who own no
land. As yet the Supreme Court has not de-.
cided the question but there is little doubt
in the minds of many of the lawyers, that
when the question is squarely presented the
Court will decide adversely to the interests Of
those who own no land.
A convention, under the auspices Of the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars, will be
held in Columbia on the 18th of December.
The object is to awaken a more general in
terest in the cause throughout the State, and
all temperance organizations. divisions of
Sons Of Temperance, lodges of Knights Of
Jericho, lodges of Friends of Temperance, as
we'll as Young's Mems Christian Associations,
are invited to send each three delegates. An
exchange mentions as sad fact, that there
is at this time a greater amount Of drinking
in South Carolina than there has been for
years.
One of the features of the recent State
Fair in Columbia escaped general notice, and
that was the general gathering of the Radi-
cal clans in that city. The time was cum
ningly chosen, in the expectation that this
Aocking together of barpies would be unob-
served in the immense crowd that visited Co.
lumbia during Fair week. But their pro-
longed absence from Columbia makes their
assembling conspicuous. What they did is
not known. What they desired to do every
one can guess. They are preparing for a
fight in 1880, as desperate as any yet witness
ed in the State; and they hope, through the
aid of Northern Republicans, the Federal
government and Democratic dissensions, to
carry South Carolina for the Presidential
nominee of the Republican party and for
Radical Congressman. 1t is idle to pooh