Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-25
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Capt. S. B. Lumpkin has been confirmed
postmaster for Chester, vice T. NJ. Graham.
The Republican supervisor of registration
at High Hill, Marion county, charges every
negro who registers five cents for his services.
Major John Sanders, an esteemed citizen
of Carmel Hill, Chester county, died Oh the
10th instant, in the 74th year of his age.
Il. J.. Guffin is mentioned as a possible Re-
publican candidate for Congress in the Fourth
District.
In Pickens county the total registration,
not counting Pickens township, was on Satur-
day last 1852, about one-third the vote of the
county.
Continued cool weather, and especially the
cool nights of the present month, are reported
to have done considerable damage to the cot
ton plant throughout the State.
Capt. A. P. West, of Leesville, Lexington
county, drew off his pond few days since
and caught German carp weighing as high as
seven pounds from spawn placed in it one
year ago.
Mr.. W. A. Geiger, of Lexington, was
bitten on the hand by rattlesnake last week.
Relief was found by the free use of whisky
and the hand being inserted into the body OF
fowl killed Immediately for the purpose.
On Saturday last the Governor issued aproc-
lamaton vacating the office of Probate Judge
of Edgefeld county, on account of the incum-
bent, L. P. Covar, refusing to give new
bond-his old bondsmen having withdrawn.
The Edgefeld candidates are coming out.
cbodo oirhfoon oar6c Ia ar
week. For the Legislature, three judge of
probate, two; clerk of court, seven county
commissioners, four; county, treasurer, two.
Farmers in some sections of Chester county
complain that the young cotton plant is being
DESTROYED by worms or insects. The late cool
weather also had a perceptbly bad effect upon
it. Wheat and oats are still very fattering.
Daniel Davis, colored, died in jail at
Greenville on Tuesday last, from an abscess
in the side. Davis was United States pris-
oner, having been committed on the charge of
retailing liquor without license.
Mr. William Glaze, for many years we'll
known jeweler in Columbia, has failed. His
indebtedness amounts to about 81 900. Half
of this amount is secured by mortgages which
were foreclosed last Thursday, and his store
was shut up.
There was a snow storm in the eastern
portion of Kershaw county on Saturday of
last week. High up in the air the snow flakes
were very thick, but they melted before reach
ing the ground. No damage reported more
than chilling the atmosphere.
Luke johnson, colored, who broke into
~. ;l,oc vi, ntnfo hank in NaWhQrrV
on last January, and stole two hundred and
forty dollars in gold that was concealed there,
was captured in Edgefield county last week,
and was brought to Newberry, Friday.
- The Lancaster Reriep learns that up to
the 18th instant the supervisor in that county
had ISSUED certificates of registration to
about four hundred white men and between
seven and eight hundred negroes. Comment
on such a significant circumstance is unneces-
sary."
In Richland county the decrease in the acre
age of the cotton cropf from last year is 10 per
cent. The crop is ten days later, the cold nights
having rendered replanting necessary in some
places. The stand is Is per cent. worse than
last year. Twenty per cent. less OF fertilizers
were used than last year.
The next meeting of the Democratic exec
utive committee will be held during the ex-
ira session of the Legislature, upon the call
of the chairman, when the work of the CAM
paign will be planned and when the members
of the committee can have the counsels of
leading men from the different sections Of the
State. 1t is the general opinion that the
campaign will be conducted with great zeal,
and that the active work will begin not later
than the 1st of September.
- John Evins, colored, was killed by his
brother, Tom Evins, near Spartanburg, last
week. The brothers were living on the same
then the two brothers took it up. Tuesday
evening, when they met in the horse-lot at
feeding time, they engaged in a fist fight.
They were separated and John left, when
Tom followed in threatening manner. On
his near approach John picked up garden
palng and struck him across the head, near
the temple. from which blow he died Wednes-