Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-03-27
SOIJTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The United States Circuit Court will
meet at Charleston on the first Monday in
April.
Ex-Treasurer Cardozo returned to Co.
lumbia on Monday last, surrendered him
self to the sheriff, and was lodged in Jail.
"A gentleman residing in the vicinity OF
Cross Anchor, Spartanburg county, has a
"patch" of wheat that averages fifteen inches
high.
The Sentinel says that some of the color
ed people in Pickens county have given liens
on their crops for bacon at the rate of 24O
per cent. above cost.
1t is said that arrangements are being
made to have the Spartanburg and Asheville
Railroad completed TO Hendersonville, by the
1st of June.
Eight white boy babies were recently
born in Abbevile within two weeks. and yet
the Medium says the Radicals still talk OF
winning the next election.
- The New York Herald says that Con-
gresham Aiken, OF this State, expresses his
preference for Mr. Thurman as the Demo-
cratic nominee for President, and that Con-
gresham Evins thinks that Thurman would
be acceptable to the South.
- An effort is being made to convert Will
liamston, in Anderson county, into great
watering place, and steps have already been
taken to organize joint stock company, with
sufficient capital to build hotel, improve
the spring property and start the travel that
way.
There is "Greenback Club" at Feaster-
vile, in Fairfield county, composed of about
twenty members which proposes to hold reg
uar meetings on the third Saturday of each
month. At late meeting, the club endorsed
the platform of the Greenback party, recent
ly adopted by the Convention at Chicago.
A quarterly meeting of the stockholders
of the Charlotte Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road, was held in Columbia one day last week
and was largely attended. Col. Palmer sub
mtted report covering the transactions OF
the road for the five months ending Novem'
Der 1st, 1879, and showing an increase in in,
come of $4,000 for that time, as compared
with the corresponding period last year.
A gentleman who returned to Charleston
on Monday last from Green Pond, makes q
cheering report of Senator Hamptons health.
His wound has caused some pain OF late,
but the distinguished invalid was progressing
as we'll as could be expected, and was so
we'll on Friday last that he spent the day in
fishing. 1t is thought that there will be no
necessity for clipping the bone of the amputa-
ted limb.
The ClaAin University and South Carroll
ma Agricultural College, at Orangeburg
now has 21S students, onethird of them fe.
males, representing every portion of the State,
and receiving scientific and classical educa'
ton. Onehalf the expenses of the college are
paid by Northern philanthropists, the State
government paying the other half; three Of
the professors are South Carolinians, two Of
them being white and the other colored.
The other professors and president are North.
ern men.
- The Presbyterian Chulh at Gaffney's,
on the Airline Railroad, was dedicated on
Saturday, the 10Th instant. From the Spar
tauburg Spartan we learn that "Dr. Miller,
of Charlotte, N c., preached Saturday and
Sunday. His sermons are highly spoken of,
especially the one preached on Sunday. The
subject was, Christ the Corner Stone,' and
the sermon will be long remembered by those
who heard it. We congratulate our friends
on the completion of their church, and hope
they will fill up gap in the battle line that
is waging war against sin and iniquity."
Col. George W. Bushyhead, an ex-Chief
of the Cherokee Indians, Of North Carolina,
and also an ex.Confederate Colonel, was
recently at Rock Hill, in York county.
He had with him Cherokee Baptist preach
er named Suate Owl, who could not speak one
word of English. They had been on visit
to their friends among the Catawba Indians,
eight miles south of Rock Hill. From COL
Bushyhead, the Rock Hill Herald learned
that about three hundred of the Cherokee
tribe, out of total of about fifteen hundred,
belong to the Methodist and Baptist denoml-
nations. Col. Bushyhead raised regiment
from among his warriors during the Confeder-
ate war, and led them most gallantly on
many bloody field in East Tennessee.
- The Lancaster Ledger of last week fur
nishes the following information in regard to
the Cheraw and Chester Railroad: FIFTY
thousand dollars of the first mortgage bonds
of the road have been cancelled by order of
the Board of Directors, leaving but $780,.
900 of these bonds on the market, which
are selling readily at 70 cents on the
dollar; and it is the impression among well
informed capitalists that they will advance to
100 cents in few weeks. The Road is in
splendid running order to Cedar Shoals, III
miles from Chester and 10 miles from Lancas-
ter by the railroad ferry, which ferry will be
fully completed and established in few days
The contract for the building of Fishing creek
bridge will be let to party in Atlanta, Ca,
at about $4,000. The larger portion Of the
material for this bridge will be iron; and the
contractors guarantee to complete it in 60
days from the time they commence the work
The cost of the bridge across the Catawba is
estimated at $4,000, and the friends of the
road are very sanguine and contemplate but
short delay on the other side Of the river"
- The Circuit Court for Richland county
convened in Columbia on Monday last, Judge
Thomson presiding When the case of the
c.4 AN Cb,n,horloin Kimnton Parker