Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-18

alton bill, with an amendment appropriating
100000 for the payment of fees and expen-
ses of United States Marshals and their gen.
eral deputies, thus making the total amount
appropriated by the bill 81, 265 $50, was dis.
cussed in committee of the whole without &C.
ton, and when the committee rose, the House
adjourned until Monday.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
There was light fall of snow in Colum.
bia Friday night and slight fall of sleet on
Saturday morning.
WIN. E. V. Estes has been appointed
store keeper and gauger for the district of
South Carolina.
Senator Butler is at his home in Edge.
field, where he went to attend the sittings of
the Circuit Court for that county.
- The Anderson InteLigencer quotes fox
hounds in demand in that county at from Eve
to twenty dollars head, while sheep are a
drug at two dollars.
- The Iatelligencer estimates that the cotton
crop of Anderson county was increased last
year, from twelve to twenty. five hundred bales,
by the abolition of the old system of fencing.
Isaac W. Hayne, Esq, for many years
Attorney General of this State, died in
Charleston on Monday of last week, in the
list year of his age!
- The net earnings of the South Carolina
Railroad, for the year ending March 1st, are
reported to be S249,000 after restocking and
almost rebuilding the road.
In charging the grand jury Of Hampton
county, Judge Aldrich said that he had sem
fenced thirty.six men to be hung during the
two years of his term of Office. Most of the
murders are attributable to strong drink.
Judge Hudson has recently decided at
Bennettsvile, that tenants occupying farm
lands cannot remove manures, accumulated
by them during the year, even where they
haul litter from the woods and add to the &C.
cumulations about the lots.
Arrangements are being perfected, by
the surviving members of the family of John
G. Calhoun, for the removal of his remains
from St. Philips church.yard in Charleston,
to the burial place of the family near Pendle-
ton. 1t is expected that the removal will
take place at an early day.
There are three prominent candidates for
the State Senate in Edgefeld county at the
next election: Hon. James Callison, for the
past four years leading and influential
member of the lower house; Major J. Hamp.
Brooks, brother of the Hon. Preston S.
Brooks and Dr.. H. A. Shaw, a member of
the lower House for the last four years.
Mrs. Spearman, whose throat was cut at
Silver Street, in Newberry county, by her
husband recently, is now pronounced out of
danger and will recover. She says she knew
her husband had been crazy for two weeks
before the tragedy. He still refuses to con-
verse on the subject, but is cheerful and talks
freely and nationally on ether topics.
The Winnsboro' Ne,rs says that Fairfield
granite is acquiring increased reputation.
MIR. Robert Crawford recently shipped eight
hundred dollars worth to Charleston. besides
filling orders for Columbia, Augusta, Green.
Vile, Nashville and other places. Last week
granite for monument was sent to St. Louis.
The stone is of the finest quality and the sup
ply inexbaustible.
Cornelia Reese, of Greenville, publishes
the following card in the News: 81 heard
Sol. Westmorelsnd was going to marry Tex
as Prior, and it must be true for she has her
clothes made, but l forbid anyone to marry
him, for be and are engaged, and I have
witnesses to that effect. He told one of the
witnesses that he intended to marry me for l
was smart girl that he was not going to
fool me, and heard him when he told it"
- Bill Dodson, colored, has confessed that he
in connection with Fletcher Madison, Pleas
ant Adams, Rich Bates, and Joe Burton, all
colored, set fire to the Academy of Music in
Greenville on the night of the 7th of Decem-
ber last. All of the accused except Burton,
who has not been arrested, have been lodged
in Jail to await trial. From the confession of
Dodson, it appears that the only incentive to
the burning was to conceal the robbery of one
of the stores in the lower story of the build.
ing.
- Jefferson Davis has recently declined an
invitation to address Phrenakosmian Society
of Newberry College. The invitation was
signed by over two hundred ladies and large
number of gentlemen, besides being supple
mented with a special letter from Governor
Simpson. Mr. Davis, in replying to the
Governor, says: "It would be peculiarly
gratifying to me to accept the invitation to
attend the commencement at Newberry COL
lege, but 1 regret that engagements that can
neither be postponed nor neglected, render it
impracticable for me to be present with you
at the time indicated"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- John Alfred, highly respected citizen of
Randolph, committed suicide by drowning
himself in a mill-pond on Sunday Of last
week.
The Injunction against building the town.
ship boundary fence in CASTOR county was re.
fused by Judge Mccoy before whom argu-
ments were made in charlotte last week.
- Petitions have been forwarded to the
Postmaster General, asking for the establish
ment of three new postotHces between Shelby
and Kings Mountain.
-Cannady, the Republican oracle Of Will
mington, says that seven Of North Carolina's
ten delegates to the Republican Convention
at Chicago, are solid for Sherman.