Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-01-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The small grain crops in Orangeburg
county are reported as doing remarkably we'll.
- The Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of the State
of South Carolina met in Columbia yesterday.
- Several cases of typhoid fever are reported
in the vicinity of Abbeville Court House.
- Large shipments of cotton seed are made
from Abbeville.
- The Young Mems Loan and Trust Com
pany has been organized at Rock Hill, with
D. Hutchson as president.
- The Charleston Collectorship still hangs
fire, the contest now seeming to lie between
Wallace and Mackey.
A bar-keeper in the City of Greenville was
arrested on Wednesday for selling liquor to
woman.
During the past week more than one thous-
and tons of guano have been received at
Greenville.
- There are over 200 bales of cotton stored
in the Town of Chester, and it is estimated
that there 5000 bales yet unsold in the county.
- Several hundred bales of cotton are await
ing shipment in Lancaster, detained on ac-
count of high water in the Catawba River.
- Samuel Dorroh, the young man who accl-
dentally shot himself near Greenville on Satur-
day last, died on Monday, greatly to the re-
gret and surprise of every one.
- Charlotte Fleming, colored, who died last
week at Elias Thompson's, near Spartanburg
Court House, was supposed to be 116 years
old.
- From the number of blank liens sold
already, says the Sumter WotcAman, the lien
business is likely to be carried on as extensive
ly this as it was last year.
Jesse Barber, colored, who was to have
been hanged in Winnsboro last Friday, has
been respited by Governor Hagood for thirty
days.
- Forty able-bodied colored men from Green
vile county left Greenville on Wednesday
last to work on the Georgia Pacific Railroad.
The same day family of four German immi-
grants arrived in the city.
j. C. Pike, of Orangeburg, has made an
assignment. His liabilities are estimated at
from $4,000 TO 100000. Nominal assets
S172, ,OOO The cause of the failure is heavy
advances to farmers and short crops
A meeting of the citizens of upper ker-
shaw county, held on the 9th instant, adopted
resolution derouncing the Stock law as un-
constitutional and declaring their purpose to
decline to submit to it until it shall have been
decided to be Constitutional law.
- Justice Elfe, of Charleston, upon the
complaint of several ladies, has given notice
to number of bar-rooms in that city that if
they continue to sell intoxicating liquors to
the husbands Of those ladies, who are lnebrl-
ateS, they will be prosecuted under the recent
act, which provides punishment and fine for
that offense.
- Early last Friday morning, as Deputy
Sheriff w. E. Walker was making his round
in the Chester jail, he WAS seized by two Pf's-
oners, Joe Weldon and Bill Washington, who
were confined for larceny. After desperate
struggle Walker succeeded in getting his hand
on his pistol and shot one of the prisoners
in his back. Tie other rushed down stairs,
but was overtaken by another pistol ball,
which settled the combat. Both prisoners are
in critical condition.
- The Barnwell People has nominated the
following ticket for State officers. 1t says il
does so in Difference to the claim of the upper
counties, that they are entitled to a control
ling voice in the nomination of candidates.
Governor-B. F. Perry, Greenville; Lieuten-
nt-Governor--John c. Sheppard, Edgefeld ;
Attorney-Gener&l-C Richardson Miles, Char
lesion; Secretary of State--Hugh Wilson. Alb
beville; Comptroller General G. Blue,
Marion State Treasurer-B. II. Massey,
York Superintendent of Education-H. G.
Sheridan, Orengeburg; Adjutant and Inspec-
tor General--A NJ. Manigault, Georgetown.