Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

until the fifteenth of September, it is unlawful
to kill wild turkeys, partridges, doves, wood.
cock and pheasants.
- A white man, recently convicted in Al.
ken of carrying concealed deadly weapon,
was sentenced to imprisonment in the Peni
tentiary for three months and to pay fine
of two hundred dollars.
"A correspondent of the Greenville Ne,rs
writes from Piedmont S. c., that coored
women there gave birth to four children on
Wednesday of last week, three Of whom are
living and apparently in good health
A. W. Hoffman, of Orangeburg, who
allowed his name to be used on the Radical
county ticket in the last election, has been ex-
PEELED from the Home Agricultural Society
of that county.
- The Spirit of the Times is the name Of
new paper, the publica ton of which will
shortly be commenced at Sumter by Mr.. c.
H. DeI.orme. The mechanical department
will be under the control of Mr. H. L. Darr.
The politics of the paper is to be Democratic.
Dolly Branch, colored, of Greenwood,
Abbevlle county, was married when only
eleven years old. At twelve years of age she
gave birth to her first child. She is now
fifty years old and has recently given birth
to her twenty child. All were single
births.
- The Comptroller General, few days
ago, made the assessment Of railroads under
the Act creating the Office of Railroad Com
missioner. The following companies have
paid up: Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line
Railroad, North Eastern Railroad, Ashley
River Railroad, Spartanburg and Asheville
Railroad, Spartanburg, Union and Columbia
Railroad, Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge
Railroad.
"A correspondent writing from Greenville
says: Enquiries amongst farmers from many
neighborhoods in this section of country, re.
veal the facts that first apprehensions as to
the damage done to fruit trees by the extra
ordinary cold spell in January, are fully con
irmed, and that the fruit crop this year will
be very light-in some sections almost none
at all. At first it was thought that peaches
only had suffered, but it is found upon
more careful examination that not only
peaches, but apples and fruit of tenderer
| Ill in ho hpI
of the young bearing limbs being completely
dead from the effects of the freeze"
- The Barnwell People gives currency to
rumor that the General Assembly of South
Carolina will probably be called together
about the 10th of next November. The Peo.
Pile says: "The amount and Importance of the
work to be done at the next session will re
quire time 1t is poor economy to attempt
to crowd the work of two months into one.
Considerable time is occupied by every Leg
islature in supplying the omissions and cor.
rectng the errors of its predecessors. Tax
payers like short sessions, but they dislike
crude legislation. The session, if its work
be thoroughly done, must either be prolonged
after the holidays or it must commence early
in November.
- The Aiken Journal and Reuiew publishes
striking exhibit of manufacturing indus
tries in that county. Half of the cotton man
ufacuring interest in the State lie in its limits,
representing 44,4S0 spindles, 1924 looms,
1880 operatives, and an annual consumption
of II S4S bales of cotton. The Langley mills
enjoy unexampled prosperity. Organized in
1872 with capital of 100000, they had real.
lied S457,O0 of net earnings by the close of
1879, despite three serious accidents, one by
flood and two by fire. Any enterprise that will
clear 1l2 per cent. in eight years, notwith.
standing providential losses and several years
of business depression, must be most desira
BILE investment. The net profits for 1879
alone exceeded eighty thousand dollars.