Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-10-30
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

ted boarding officer for the port Of Charleston.
DR.. J. C. Hiden, of Greenville, has resign
ed the pastorate of the Baptist church in that
city.
The Court of Common Pleas for Orange
burg county, was adjourned sine die on Friday
last, in consequence of the illness of Judge
Aldrich.
Work on the Barnwell Railroad is near
completion. The track is now about half
mile from the town, and will be in the village
in few weeks.
Capt. F. w. Dawson, one of the pro-
prietors of the Neaos and Courier, who has
been summering in Europe, has returned to
Charleston.
Col. B. H. Rice, of Union county, has re-
ceived the Democratic nomination for the Leg
islature, to fill the vacancy caused by the res
ignation of R. W. Shand, Esq.
Capt. H. A. Gaillard requests the Fairfield
Herald to say that the ,''statement that he is
a candidate for Congress in the next election,
is entirely without foundation"
- The institution for the deaf, dumb and
blind, at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg county,
opened on Wednesday of last week, with thir-
ty pupils.
- The Abbeville Medium says that over
bacon counter at Greenwood, hangs this in
scription: ''The Lord helps every man who
helps himself but Lord help any man caught
helping himself here"
The applications for membership in the
Edgefeld Lodge of the Knights of Honor are
so numerous, that extra meetings are held
each week in order to initiate the persons who
are elected.
Mr. Thomas Cauthen, ST., who recently
died in Lancaster county at the age of ninety
two years, had nine children living at the time
of his death, 125 grand children, and in the
neighborhood of 800 great-grand children.
- Col L. D. Childs, formerly President OF
the Carolina National Bank, died in Colum-
bia on Monday afternoon last. William john
son, owner of the Saluda cotton factory, and
Paul Joyner, formerly proprietor of the Ma
tional Hotel and trial justice at Eastover, are
also reported to be at the point of death.
- Amongst the other attractions of the Alb
beville Fair, will be a pedestrian contest. The
knights of the tramp are to be negroes, who
are to walk for three hours around the track !;
the prize to be given to the one who goes the
greatest distance. The competitors can 60 as
they please, run, trot or walk. At least ten
must enter, or there will be no contest. Three
prizes will be awarded, S12, 81 and S.. Each
competitor will pay an entrance fee of 80 cents.
The Darlington NeDs says that nearly all
the colored people in that county own horses
and COWS, and many of them own land, and
that seme of the landowners no longer depend
ON liens. but work their lands with their own
money, and pay for their provisions in cash.
Their moral as well as their pecuniary condi-
tion is improved. There is less stealing,
churches are numerous and well supported,
and newspapers and periodicals are liberally
patronized.
The winter term of the United States Cir
cult Court will commence it's sitting in Co.
lumbia on the fourth Monday in November.
Judges Bond and Bryan will preside. The
session in Columbia will probably occupy two
weeks, and will be confined to the transaction
Of such civil and criminal business as will re-
quire the attendance of a jury. After that
the court will adjourn to Charleston, when the
equity docket will be called and number of
important cases heard.
favor General Gary as candidate for Govern
or. The Orangeburg Times thinks that ''with
Gary as a candidate, unless he has receded
from his past utterances, we cannot 60 before
the country with "equal political rights for all
races and classes of men" inscribed on our
banner and we want no candidate who is not
in thorough sympathy with this sentiment.
Unless we adhere strictly to the liberal views
which worked the redemption of our State
already, j. B. Campbell may be put up as an
Independent, and it will be hard work to beat
him.
The Spartanburg Erpress of last week
SAYS: ''The great mill-dam case OF NJ. S.
LYNN VS.. J. s. R. Thomson ct al, was tried
at Union last week. There were about seven
ty witnesses, and it took five days and half
in trial, but the jury were only out eleven min
utes, bringing in verdict for the defendants.
Judge Thompson held that the gradual filling
I'D of stream gave no cause of action where
a dam had stood for over twenty years, which
reduced the points at issue to the question of
whether the dam in rebuilding had been raised
higher than the old DAM"
With the proceeds of a subscription,
monument has been recently erected at Middle
Tiger Church, in Spartanburg county, to the
memory of Miss Frances Woodward, who was
murdered on the 9TH of June last, by John j.
Moore, for which crime Moore was lynched in
the vicinity of the place where he had COM
mitted the deed. The monument is of italian
marble, and stands six feet high on a base of
native granite. The inscription is cut on
raised shield facing the east, and is as follows:
SIN memory of Frances Woodward, born June
20, 1859 Died defending her virtue, June s.
1879. She loved her church, and proved her
fidelity in the sacrifice of her life Gently,
stranger, softly tread, for Christian sleeps
below. She is not dead, but sleepeth in the
arms of Jesus" An address was delivered
on the occasion of unveiling the monument,
by Rev. A. c. Durham
The Greenville Ne,cs of last week says:
ssThe Piedmont Manufacturing Company, on
Saturday, received telegraphic orders for six
hundred bales of their goods, three hundred OF
which are for export to China, and one hum
dred bales more for the same point, which they
cannot FILL The value of the goods thus or'
dered is about S36, 900, a pretty good sale for
one day. Last week the same company re-
ceiyed an order for $1,000 pounds of yarn
from one party, the value of which is about
S17. 600. and OH Saturday another large order
was received from another party. The COM
panv cannot begin to fill their orders. Their
goods are popular, and are being sought after
from all parts of the country. President Ham,
NETT deserves great credit for pushing the en-
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