Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-10-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- South Carolina will be represented by
about 500 troops at the celebration of the
Yorktown centennial.
Contributions to the Gary monument
have been discontinued on account of the
poor crops this year.
There are now 4S3 patients in the State
Lunatic Asylum, of whom 256 are females
and 227 are males.
The Chester Bulletin mentions that Rev.
j. E. White recently received very painful
injury in having his right wrist fractured.
He was attempting to cross fence and fell.
w. A. Sanders, ESQ.,, of Chester, has been
chosen to deliver the annual Grafton before
the Survivors Association of the Sixth South
Carolina Regiment at the reunion next Au.
gust in Winnsboro.
The Postmaster at Manning has placed a
bulletin. board in front of the Office, on which
he publishes daily the state Of his health and
finances, the Charleston markets and the un-
stamped letters dropped in the letter.box.
Mr.. Robert A. Byers, a son Of Mr.. George
w. Byers, died at his fathers residence, near
Rock Hill, week ago last Friday. For sew
eral years he has been engaged as teacher
of penmanship.
j. M. Wilder the sheriff of Sumter coun-
ty, died quite suddenly at his home in the
town of Sumter on Wednesday night of last
week of apoplexy: j. @. Edwards, coroner,
has qualified as sheriff of the county. Ed
wards is colored and a Democrat.
At meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, held in Columbia on the
9TH instant, Mrs. A. M. Chrietzberg and Mrs.
Samuel W. Melton, were elected delegates to
the National Temperance Union, which meets
in Washington on the 26th of October.
- The Ne,0s says that four hundred and for
ty.two of the farmers who deal with Green.
Vile, have paid for their fertilizers without
question, and the notes are not yet due.
These men represent Greenville, Laurens, An
derson, Pickens, Oconee and Spartanburg
counties.
Col. Butler writes from Atlanta that it is
by no means too late for additional exhibits
to be forwarded to the Exposition from this
State, though the sooner they come the better.
He says other States have fine displays, but
we have nothing to fear if our citizens will
bestir themselves for week in the forest, the
field and among the rocks. He especially de-
sires samples of grain, sheaves preferred, but
where they cannot be procured, send them in
small quantities in grain.
-Caterpillars have made their appearance
in various counties of the State, notably in
Clarendon, Kershaw, Abbeville, Fairfield,
Newberry and Chester. With regard to
Chester county, the Reporter says: "On the
plantation of Mr.. James G. McAliley, cater
pillars appeared in cotton field of sixteen
acres, on Thursday of last week, and in three
days they had consumed leaves and young
bolls, leaving nothing on the stalk except the
open cotton bolls. They have appeared on
most of the farms in that section"
- The Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
aAst says that President Verdery, of the Au-
gusta and Knoxville, and the Greenwood
Spartanburg and Laurens Railroad, recently
returned to Augusta from visit to Whining
ton N. c. 1t is rumored that his visit to
Wilmington, had something to do with some
arrangements whereby the Greenwood, Spar.
tanburg and Laurens Railroad will obtain
a Northern connection at Spartanburg. 1t is
reported that this connection will be obtained
through the Carolina Central Railroad, which
runs from Wilmington to Charlotte, from
Charlotte to Lincolnton, N. c., and from
Lincolnton to Shelby, which is only thirty
five miles from Spartanburg.
- The Anderson Journal says: "At the
last term of court, Thomas Speer, colored,
was indicted for carrying concealed weapons.
He told his attorney that he had no money,
but if he was cleared he would work until
his fee was satisfied but if he was convicted
he would come back after he had served his
sentence in the penitentiary. He was con-
victed and sentenced to the penitentiary for
three months. His sentence expired last
Friday, and Saturday evening he came up
on the train and reported for duty and went
to work for his attorney. He is resident
of Abbeville county, and his conduct is in
deed exemplary in this particular"