Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-21

ly, Republicans, are elected Judges in the
First Circuit. The Legislature will be Dem
ocratic in both branches.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The brick work of the cotton factory al
Rock Hill is about completed.
- The Supreme Court has ordered the case
of York County vs.. John L. Watson to be
reargued.
- Judge Willard has written letter to the
Greenbackers declining the nomination fol-
encouragement. They placed him in nomi
nation without authority.
- The American Union Telegraph Com
papy is now putting up posts and wire along
The line of the Charlotte Columbia and Au.
gusta Railroad, and an office is to be establish
ed in Winnsboro, in few days.
- One day last week, twenty. mock
ing birds, which were being taken out of the
State in violation of the game law, were TAX
en- from steamship in Charleston harbor
and turned loose on the battery.
- The Carolina Review tells Of three cot
ton gin accidents in Lancaster county during
the week. Mr. Best, working for the Messrs.
Drafin, lost two fingers and was otherwise
painfully cut; Ransom Jones, colored, lost
an arm, and Jesse Marlborough, white, had
his left arm and hand severely cut.
1t is positively asserted in Columbia, by
leading Republicans. that no nominations for
State officers will be made by that party. 1t
is also asserted as positively true that the Re-
publicans will make desperate efforts to carry
the electoral vote for Garfield, and elect Con.
gressmen in the First, Second and Fifth Dis
tricts.
A fire broke out on North Commercial
wharf in Charleston, on Sunday afternoon
last, which destroyed about $500 bales of
cotton, seriously injured several ships, the
wharf, and the buildings near the wharf. The
loss is estimated at S4S0,000, which is largely
covered by insurance. The origin of the fire
is unknown, but it is supposed to have been
communicated to the cotton by a pipe or
cigar.
- There are 682 postoffices in this State, d.
vided among the counties as follows :: Able
vile, %; Aiken 26; Anderson, %; Barnwell,
23 Beaufort, IA; Charleston, %; Chester,
ID; Chesterfield, 16; Clarendon, IA; Collie
ton, 25; Darlington, 16; Edge6eld, 40; Fair.
field, IA; Georgetown, Z Greenville, 34
Hampton, 20; Horny, Is; Kershaw, 8; Lam
caster, 19; Laurens, q; Marlboro, 9; New.
berry, IA; Oconee, % Orangeburg, II !; Pick
ems, 49, Richland, 10; Spartanburg, Al ;
Sumter, II; Union, 25; Williamsburg, 10
York, %.
- DR.. Thompson, of Union, is trying the
experiment of keeping green food for his
stock during the winter, by burying it in a
pit, prepared for that purpose. The pit, is
about ten feet square and planked up to
within about four feet of the top of the
ground This pit he has filled with green
pea vines, corn, etc., (about forty two-horse
loads,) which are cut up with feed cutter
and packed in the pit with feet and malls.
The food is covered with plank and four
feet of dirt. People in France and several
of the Northern States keep green food all
winter this way.
STATE POLITICAL NEWS.
A Garfield and Arthur club, composed
of colored people, has been formed at Lewis
Turnout, Chester county.
- The Bulletin says that if the Radicals in
Chester county are solid, they will be hard to
out.vote.
The Fairfield News says that although
the Radicals in that county have been making
no outward demonstration, they have been
holding secret meetings for some time, and
groups of leaders congregate in Winnsboro
and have confabs on the street corners.
The United States District Court opened
in Charleston on Monday last for the appoint
ment Of supervisors of election at all the Vo-
ting precincts in the State County chairmen
are requested to select their men and send
list of the names at once to Chief Supervisor
Saml r. Pointer, at Charleston.
A special dispatch from Camden, to the
Columbia Register, dated OH Saturday last,
saws: "The Radicals of Kershaw held rati-
fication meeting here to day, and it is no use
to disguise the fact that it was bigger thing
than was expected. Taft, Rainey, Freeman
and Blythe all made speeches to an assembly
of about eight hundred"
- McKerrall, of the Marion Star says:
eff we owned Republican Government with
Garfield at its head, and Sam Lee in Con-
gress, and hell, we would rent out the Gov
erpment and live in hell-we would. We
think we would have more peace and pros
perity in the latter place. We think so. Let
the Republicans get control OF the county
and State second time, and you will all
think So
In speaking of the Greenback ticket, the
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