Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-09
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Gen. Conner declines the Presidency OF
4 the State University.
- The people of Anderson are paying their
tax on the Savannah Valley Railroad. They
intend to push it's completion forward as rap
idly as possible.
- DR.. J. L. McCurry, of Oconee, has already
pond full of carp measuring from twelve to
eighteen inches in length. They respond to
whistle and eat out of his hand.
The Greenville Necs gives the testimony
of Zion Collins, just arrived from Arkansas,
that the colored emigrants in that State from
Greenvile seem well satisfied, and have no
intention of returning at least for the present.
- Drury Sawyer, a One-armed Confederate
soldier, of Orangeburg, met with the sad ca
lamty of having his remaining arm caught IN
a cotton gin last Saturday, and it was so mu-
tilated as to render amputation necessary.
- The Chester B,tlletin reports the loss by
an incendiary fire of the unoccupied dwelling
of Mrs. Rev. j. B. Mickle, in the Bullock's
Creek section of Chester county. The barn,
stables and corn-crib were also burned. Total
| loss, s., 900.
- Calvin Black, colored, Of Lancaster coun-
ty, who was sent to the Penitentiary for arson
| for life some years ago, and who made his es-
cape in 1877, was captured in North Carolina
last week, and has been delivered to the super
intendent of the Penitentiary on the requisi-
tion of Governor HagoOd.
DR.. Norwood of Cokesbury has given
81, GOO to Wofford College to establish schol-
srship in that institution. The interest will
he used to pay the tuition Of some young man
from Abbeville county, or in the event that
it be not needed for that purpose, then to pay
the tuition of any young man the Faculty may
select
An attempt to burn the town of Timmons-
vile, in Darlington, county, was made few
nights ago. Kerosine oil was. poured on a
ST. ore of DR.. Blackvile and fired. The flames
were discovered promptly and subdued, else
the business part of the town would have been
destroyed. There is hope of capturing the in
cendiary.
The following sentences were imposed in
the United States District Court at Charleston
last week Augustus Atkinson, white, utter
tering and passing counterfeit coin, four years
at hard labor in the Penitentiary and $500
fine. Simpson Wadsworth, colored, neglect
ing to destroy stamps on empty tobacco boxes,
one year at hard labor in the Penitentiary and
81, 600 fine. David Blackeney, colored, same
offence. one year at hard labor in the Peniten-
tlary and 81 900 fine.
--Greenville Nc,cs of Saturday Special Dep
uty Collector Spratley, and Deputy Marshals
Carson and Bannister, made raid in the up
per part of this county on Wednesday night in
Saluda township. They succeeded in finding
a ''copper'' and several stands OF beer. They
tore out the still and brought the cap to Green
vile with them. They destroyed about two
thousand gallons of beer, but the ''moon-
shnersn had fled. The still was hot and a
run had just been made.
- Mrs. Charles j. Elford, highly esteemed
lady of Greenville, went to attend services in
the Baptist church last Sunday evening, was
taken suddenly i'll, was conveyed to the lee
ture room and died before physician could
he summoned. The Greenville Ne,cS notes
the remarkable coincidence that her husband,
who died in 1867, was attacked with fatal
malady in the same church, was carried to
the room. and laid in almost the same spot
where Mrs. Elford died. He, however, was
taken home and lived until the next Thurs
day.
- The grand musical festival which is to
come off at Charleston during the Agricultu-
raj Fair, will commence on the 9th instant,
and continue for three days 1t is designed
to be one of the largest and most important
concentrations of musical talent ever held in
the State There will be near 125 performers,
composed of twenty-five each from Augusta,
Atlanta and Savannah, and twelve from Co.
lumhia, besides Charleston's quota. 1t is