Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Ninety.six elected dry ticket last week,
without opposition.
- The truck gardeners of Charleston have
commenced the shipment of strawberries to
the Northern markets.
- The Abbevile Banner notes that Hon.
D. Wyatt Aiken has been quite i'll at his
home, in Cokesbury, but is glad to learn that
he is now convalescing.
- The car shops at Helena, on the Colum
bia and Greenville Railroad, will be consoli
dated with the Charlotte, Columbia and Au.
gusta shops at Columbia.
- Mrs. Gary, the mother of Gen Mart. w.
Gary, died at her home in Cokesbury, on
Sunday afternoon last, aged IA years. She
did not know of her sons death.
Steam has been applied, the machinery Of
the Rock Hill Cotton Factory is now daily
in motion, and the process of grinding the
cards is going on. In short time, the man
ufacture of yarn will be commenced.
- The latest railroad story is that the
Georgia Central and South Carolina Roads
are to combine, giving through line. 1t is
rumored that President Wadley, of the Geor.
ga Central, proposes to run line of steam
ers from Charleston to New York to connect
with the combination line.
The Barnwell People is reliably informed
that in some sections of that county, colored
laborers are enrolling themselves in labor
leagues and pledging themselves to work for
no white man after the present year for love,
money or an interest in crops. They prefer
renting land and getting advances.
The engineer corps has finished the field
work on the road to Greenwood, by way Of
Woodruff, Spartanburg county. They are
now at work making out estimates and maps.
The distance from Spartanburg to Woodruff
is nineteen miles, to Laurens thirty-nine miles,
and to Greenwood sixty-seven miles. In
few days they will be ready to be begin the
line by way of Glenn Springs.
- Petitions are being circulated in Chester
county, petitioning the Legislature to pass
law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of
spirituous liquors as beverage. 1t is pro-
posed to hold mass meeting at the Court
House in Chester on Wednesday, the 10th of
April, to decide upon some plan of action for
bringing the subject Of prohibition to the at
tenton of the Legislature at its next session.
- Bethel Presbytery, recently in session at
Lancaster, adjourned on Tuesday of last
week, after having been in session from the
preceding Friday. Rev. Mr.. English, Of
Yorkville, was elected Moderator, and Mr..
Witherow, of Chester, temporary clerk.
The meeting was entirely harmonious. Revs
Pratt and Trenholm, with Elder /. N. With
ers were elected delegates to the General
Assembly.
"A writ of habeas corpus has been granted
by Chief Justice Simpson and served on the
superintendent of the Penientiary, in the
case of Henry and Griffin Duckett, convicted
of stealing cattle in Laurens county and SEN
fenced to two years in the Penitentiary. The
writ is made returnable on the 18th inst.
One point in the case is whether the term of
Imprisonment runs from the date of the sen.
tence, or the date of the incarceration in the
penitentiary.
In the United States Circuit Court in
Charleston, on Thursday last-Judges Bond
and Bryan presiding-the hearing of all the
cases arising out of the recent election, was