Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-25
SOUTH CAROhINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAkOMNA NEVSs
Senator Butler has returned to Washing.
ton after brief visit to Edge6eld.
The tax assessment in Pickens county
this year is 273 mills.
In Laurens county complaint is made Of
rust in the wheat fields.
- In Orangeburg county, the Radicals are
organizing with great earnestness for the ap.
preaching campaign. So says the Times.
- The Greenville and Columbia Railroad is
advertised to be sold at Columbia, on the 10Th
day of April, under foreclosure of mortgage.
-Thesaes of commercial fertilizers through.
out the State are probably larger than ever
before:
"A correspondent of the Columbia Yeo-
man nominates w. A. Metts as candidate
for Adjutant and Inspector General.
- The clerk of the court for Darlington
county has registered 1866 liens this season,
and the end is not yet. They range in amounts
from SIS to $1,000.
- Rev. Ferdinand Jacobs, D. D, president
Of the Laurensville Female College, has &C.
cepted a call to the pastoral charge of the
Presbyterian Church, on James Island, near
Charleston.
The Democrats of Columbia have nomi-
matted Capt. Richard O'Neale, jr., as candi-
date for Mayor of that city. Tuesday, 9th of
April, is the time appointed for holding the
election.
Recently, in Augusta, Georgia, Judge
Eve sentenced a citizen of Edge6eld county,
convicted in his court of the offence Of carry
ing concealed deadly weapon, to pay fine
of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in
the county Jail for ninety days.
At Branchville, on Tuesday night of
last week, nine houses, including the post of:
flee, were destroyed by fire. The loss is esti'
mated at about $4,000, part Of which is COW
cred by insurance. The fire was evidently
the work of an incendiary, as the town was
fired simultaneously in two places.
- The Edgefeld advertiser has this to say
about the practice of carrying concealed
weapons: "The custom of men going about
with one, two and three pistols girt about
their waists, or hidden in their pockets, is dir.
ty, coarse and cowardly infamous, disgusting
and ungentemanly; defiant of the laws of
God, Of human life, and Of public and pri-
vate peace"
The Me,rs says that in Fairfield county
the recent rains have seriously damaged the
wheat and oats crops, and it is feared by some
that the crop will be almost failure. 1t has
caused rust and mildew in it, and much of the
wheat is now lying fiat upon the ground. II
will require an unusual amount -"f vitality in
the stalks to enable thep:- e0 recover from the
GEsats,of~r,,st ard midew, coming so early
in the season.
- The Charlotte Observer of yesterday has
the following particulars of the recent tragedy
enacted at Gafney City. Henry Littlejohn
and Henry sarratt, cousins, were drinking
A difficulty was begun without any apparent
cause. Littlejohn stabbed Sarratt in the head,
the knife penetrating two and half inches
into the skull. Sarratt has not spoken since
the afray, and there is little hope Of his re-
covery. Littlejohn has been arrested and is
now in Jail. The difficulty occurred a day
after the election in the town on the question
of whether or not the sale of liquors should
be licensed, the election resulting in favor of
the dry ticket.
The Winnsborc Herald of last week says
"One day last week, Mr.. John Patrick, of
White Oak, was having some blasting done in
his we'll, which was of depth of sixty feet.
On descending the we'll after one Of the blasts
had been discharged, it was found that an
iron wedge had been blown out Of the solid
rock in which it had been embedded. 1t was
picked out from the debris and fragments of
rock lying in the bottom of the we'll, and is
now in the possession of Mr.. Patrick, still
having portions of the rock adhering to it.
How it came to be in the rock at a depth of
sixty feet, we will not pretend to say; but
there are witnesses of unimpeacbable veracity
who will testify to the truth Of the fact. The
wedge is valuable as work of art, that
evinces the skill of the primeval blacksmiths
of this country, and as relic of high state
of civilization that has been swept away. Mr..
Patrick thinks of sending the wedge to the
Smithsonian Institute.
The Beaufort News says: "On Tuesday
last, public meeting was called at Grey Hill,
which was numerously attended. Speeches
were made by Bam6eld, Smalls, Whipper,
Deas, Robinson and Thomas. Bam6eld re-
viewed national politics and endorsed Grant
as the next Republican nominee for the Pres
idency. He said that if Grant received the
his election, with square count,
would be certainty, and if elected, no power
in tho world could keen him from taking the