Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-24
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

other single circumstances IN the Whole con-
nection.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Pee Dee river is lower now than it
has been for fifteen years.
The thermometer has registered 105 at
Cheraw.
"A large force of hands are at work on the
Cheraw and Wadesboro Railroad at West.
field creek, seven miles above Cheraw.
The Colleton Democrat reports several
horses having died of the heat in that Sec
ton last week.
Six persons died in Columbia during the
week ending last Saturday-thr whites and
three colored.
Rev. Ellison Capers is preparing histo,
ry of his old regiment, the Twenty-fourth
S. G. Volunteers.
- Representative Henry Hartzog died at
his home about two miles from Bamberg
Barnwell county, last Saturday morning, after
painful illness of two days.
The Colleton Democrat says no less than
five storms have passed over portions of that
county since the tornado of April 10th, all
cyclonic in character.
Some weeks ago the wife of Mr.. Odom
Wilson absconded from Society Hill, leaving
her husband and five children. Nothing has
been heard of her so far. She went off with
man by the name of Frank Tolbert.
Senator Hampton rides out daily. He is
taking great interest in State and national
politics. He leaves this week for the Vr-
ginia Springs, and will be accompanied by
Col. Tom Preston.
Says the Neaus and Herald: The Cedar
creek section of Fairfield county was visited
with terrific thunderstorm on the 18th, but
not much damage was done. This was the
first rain for about eight weeks. Upland
corn, in consequence of the drought, is COM
plete failure. Cotton generally is good, only
small for the time Of year.
Gen. Conner, Gen. Hagood and others
have issued circular requesting contribu-
tions in behalf of Gen. R. H. Anderson's fam
lily, who were left in very needy circumstances.
Every Confederate should remember the bril-
liant services of Gen. Anderson, and aid in
this the time of their necessity his wife and
children. g..
The Lancaster Ledger says: Farmers from
several sections of the county report that they
have not had water to run in the furrows in
their fields since the last of April. They also
say that old corn is now beyond recovery, even
should they receive seasonable rains from this
to harvesting time Cotton is not yet hope
lessly injured, but they donot calculate upon
more than half crop.
- The Washington Post says dispatch has
been received in that city from Hon. j. c.
Robertson, brother of ex-senator Robertson,
of South Carolina, dated Chicago, stating that
son of the ex-senator, named T. S. Robert
son, was shot. The dispatch contained moth
ting more definite than this. Mr.. Robertson,
who is at the White Sulphur Springs, was in
formed by telegraph of the news.
"A Batesburg correspondent of the NeUs
and Courier says the the political pot in Edge
field county is boiling, caused by the death
of the late representative from that county,
Capt. Thomas Jones. Speaker of the House,
the Hon. John G. Sheppard, has ordered an
election which will take place on August B.
There are three candidates in the field They
are all good, staunch Democrats, and no
doubt the contest will be warm.
The wife and family of the absconding
ex. treasurer Of Lexington county have left for
parts unknown, except to few. 1t is now
thought that the whereabouts of Mr. Hendrix
is known to some of his intimate friends, and
that his family has gone to meet him in one
of the Southern States. If this is the case the
honesty of the ex-treasurer will be doubted
more than heretofore, the opinion having been
entertained by many that he left home on &C
count of domestic trouble.
Mr.. D. Nordmeyer, Charleston saloon
keeper, committed suicide last Wednesday
morning in an unusually deliberate manner.
After bathing, shaving and dressing himself
carefully, he lay down on the bed, took a
pistol in one hand and a looking-glass in the
other, and aiming the weapon with the aid of
the glass, shot himself through the right tenn
pie. A friend in the room below hearing the
report, at once rushed up stairs, but Nord-
meyer was dead before he got there.
- The Rev. Samuel Lander of Williamson,
communicates to the Greenville News very
remarkable case where negro man, % years
old, deaf and dumb from childhood, was re.
Gently endowed with the sense of hearing and
speech. He was suddenly attacked with Sc.
we're bodily pain and apparently mental ago
ny, and after suffering in that way for some
days, spoke out words for the first time in his
life and heard music and singing. Since then
he has been improving every day in speech
and is we'll of the pains.
speaking Of the crop prospect in Union
county, the Times says: Crops about Smiths
Ford are fine, the cotton being three weeks
ahead of any season for years. Crops about
Skull Shoals have stood the drought we'll to
the present, but will fail rapidly without rain.
In Goshen Hill, Santuc and Jonesville town.
ships, and generally through the Pea Ridge
region, good rain fell on Sunday; but in
other parts of the country they either had no
rain at all or very little. Around Fair For
rest particularly, from Gibbes' store to Muir
phys Mill, the crops are suffering sadly.
Upland corn is now beyond redemption, while
that on the low lands is beginning to fall 1t