Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-10-27
YORKVILLE. S. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 81, 1881.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Lewis B. Fleming, 26 years old, died
near Antreville, Abbeville county, last week,
after having more than seventy fits in the
course of few days.
- Miss Ellen McAfee, for many years known
as the keeper of hotel in the town of Ches-
ter, died at the residence of Eer brother in
that county, on the 18th instant
- The reorsanized South Carolina Railroad
will be known as the South Carolina Rail.
way. New securities are to be issued in
few weeks and placed on the Stock Exchange.
- The Supreme Court has decided that tax
es are not debts in the ordinary sense OF the
word, and that imprisonment for their non
payment is constitutional.
ALI the companies of the Palmetto Regi-
ment in attendance at the Yorktown cclebra'
tioa, reached their homes in various parts OF
the State on Monday last.
- Two pauper inmates of the Aiken poor
house were married on Sunday of last week.
The groom is seventy years old, while the
bride is only thirty-three.
- The Edge6eld Chronicle is responsible tor
the following: can Augusta policeman, few
DAYS ago, wanted to shoot dog that he sup
posed to be mad, near the Globe Hotel, and
not having pistol with him, he addressed
party of gentlemen sitting in front of the
hotel and said: If there is an Edge6eld man
here he will please loan me his pistol mo-
ment.'
The thirteenth annual fair of the State
Agricultural and Mechanical Society OF
South Carolina, commences at Columbia Oh
Tuesday, the Sth of November, and continues
until Friday, the 18th. Preparations for the
fair are going steadily forward, and present
prospects indicate gratifying success this
wear, Notwithstanding the drought, cotton
worm and general complaint of hard times
Secretary Holloway says that the entries so
far are larger than usual, and the exhibits
will, it is confidently believed. exceed those OF
any previous year.
The First Regiment of the Connecticut
National Guard, and the Second Company
Governors Guards of Connecticut, from
Hartford and New Haven, were IN Charleston
on Sunday and Monday last on visit, and
were the guests of the military companies OF
Charleston. The Connecticut troops were &C.
companied by Governor Bigelow, Ex-Governor
jewell and other distinguished citizens OF that
State. The visitors were royalty entertained
and the good feeling engendered by the asso'
citation will be long remembered by the par
ticipants.
= The Aiken Journal and Reuiew of last
week contains two communications, one NOM
mating G. w. Croft, Esq, Of Aiken as Judge
Of the Third circuit, and John J. Hemphill,
ESQ, as Judge of the Sixth circuit. The
other nominates the following State ticket:
For Governor, Gen. John D. Kennedy, OF
Kershaw; for Lieutenant-Governor, Hon.
Jno. c. Sheppard, of Edgeield; Tor Attorney
General, Hon. James Aldrich, of Aiken; ;
for Adutant and Inspector General; Capt.
Wiley Jones, of Richland; for Comptroller
General, Hon. j. Walter Gray, Of Greenville;
for State Treasurer, Hon. c. R. Miles, of
Charleston; for Secretary of State, George
Johnstone of Newberry.
- The Newberry Neaus says: 1T is known
that the authorities of the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad are anxious to make
combination with the Greenville and Laurens,
which gives them the only really feasible op'
portunity for on extension of their line beyond
Greenwood. The Laurens people are con-
vinced that the road to Spartanburg is i'm
practicable, and have about relinquished it.
Their hopes are now fixed on the Greenville
and Laurens Road, which it is reasonably Ger.
tain vii! be speedily built, and which will put
them on the main line either between Colum.
ba and Greenville Or Augusta and Greenville.
"A correspondent ofthe Columbia Register,
writing from Batesburg, says: Captain Bates
obtained one dozen carp from Commissioner
Butler two years ago, which he put into
small, muddy pond FIVE or six feet deep,
about 40 so yards, surrounded by weeds
and shrubberry. This afternoon he deter
mined to drain off the pond and invited sew.
eral of his friends to witness the failure or
success of his carp enterprise, as he never
knew after he put them in whether they lived
or not. The realization of his success exceed.
ed his most sanguine hopes. He got eight of
the carp first put in, and about hundred
young ones averaging about one pound. 1t
seems the original twelve spawned in the
Spring of 1880 and last Spring, and the young
ones, two sizes, are eighteen and six months
old. When the dozen were put in two years
ago, they were only two or three inches long;
but the eight Of them found today average
twenty fve.inches long and weigh an average
of seven and half pounds, and they are said
to be only half grown. As our own eyes be-
held these monsters of the fnny tribe, we
could not doubt the story of Jonah and the
big fish at Ninevah."
THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SENATE.
After adjourning over from Monday, to
participate in the celebration at Yorktown,
the Senate reassembled in special session last
Friday, and was called to order by Mr.. Davis
OF pnnn Mr. Sherman IN 1lad ur, tho raco1u-