Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

peared and took the oath Of office.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The publication of Republican news
papers will shortly be commenced at Green.
Vile and Sumter.
The only grain elevator on the South
Atlantic coast, was put in operation at Port
Royal on Thursday last. 1t has a capacity
of 100000 bushels.
- The popluar vote for President in South
Carolina is reported by the Baltimore Sun
as follows: Hancock, 1882; Garfield,
1 5S,O7l; Weaver, 566. Total vote 170,949.
1t is estimated that at least tweuty.thou.
sand dollars worth of spirituous liquors were
sold at Greenwood, Abbevile county, last
year.
- The Supreme and Circuit Court Judges
will meet in Columbia to day, for the pur-
pose of electing commissioners to revise the
laws and make penal code.
A postofice has been openened at Corn
wells Turnout on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, in Chester county,
and Mr.. w. H. Neal has been appointed
post master
- The directors of the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad have authorized the president to get
up estimates for the cost of bridge across the
Catawba river, the work to be undertaken at
as early day as is consistent with the finances
of the company.
- The seats Of the Democratic Congressman
for the first. second, third and fifth districts,
are being contested by Republicans. By
Sam Lee in the first district, E. w. M Mack
ey in the second, C. j. Stolbrand in the third,
and Richard SmalIs in the fifth.
- Benjamin Schnell and Hattie Gertrude
Posey, the latter only years old, of Atlanta,
Georgia, were married at Seneca City, South
Carolina, on Tuesday, by Trial Justice James,
with the full approval of the child's mother
who witnessed the ceremony.
- The Pelzer Manufacturing Company, of
Charleston, propose to erect cotton factory,
with capital of four hundred thousand dol.
lars, at Williamson, in Anderson county
The first day on which the books were opened,
seven. eighths of the stock was subscribed On
the second day the balance was subscribed
- The Camperdown Mills, near Greenville,
are unable to fill their orders with the present
force employed, and the superintendent is
now forced to run all night as we'll as all
day. He has issued circulars calling for two
hundred and fifty additional operatives to
whom good wages and steady work is prom
ised
- The office and material of the Lancaster
Review was entirely destroyed by FIRE on Mon.
night of last week. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, two thousand two hundred dollars
of which is covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire is ascribed to an incendiary. The
proprietors announce that the publication of
the paper will be resumed 30 soon as the
necessary arrangements can be made.
- Mr.. John Williams, of Spartanburg, has
halfounce musket ball which was lately
cut from pine tree at Blackstock in that
county. This ball had been there long enough
to have 1O1 rings of growth around it, show
ing that it was shot about l77S or 1878. tits
supposed that it was used during the Revolu-
tionary skirmish at that place.
- An effort is being made to raise enough
capital to start cotton factory at Hodges,
in Abbeville county. Fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars have been subscribed by
persons living at Hodges, and all engine of
one hundred and fifty horse power has been
pledged in the way of stock. The projectors
of the movement expect to secure 100000 to
$4,000 in subscriptions, and have the factory
in operation by the first of next October.
- The Wilmington, Columbia and Angus
ia Railroad Company, has presented a peti-
tion to the City Council of Columbia, asking
the exchange of an eligible and unencumber-
ed tract of land in another part of the city,
belonging to the company, for the "Potters
Field" place used for many years for
burying the friendless poor of that city. The
railroad company wish to erect on the ground
large depot and make other improvements
required for the use of the railroad. The
company promises to make such removal of
remains to their ceded lot as the city may
require.
The Piedmont Factory building, in the
vicinity Of Greenville, has been recently more
than doubled in size, making it the largest
factory building in the South. A correspon-
dent says: ut will use 10000 bales of cotton
a year, and one hundred thousand dollars of
wages will be paid to its operatives. The daily
capacity of the mill will be thirty two thou
sand yards of cloth. The new. machinery
will be put in as speedily as possible, and
people are moving in every day to commence