Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- South Cardinals first new bale was pro-
duced near Campbellton, on the Port Royal
Railroad, and consigned to Charleston
house last Thursday.
- A young girl named Watson, aged eleven
years, fell from the bridge over Coronaca, in
Abbevie county, one day last week when
the creek was swollen and was drowned.
- The Carolina San says that since 1866
thirty-one murder cases have been tried in
Chesterfield county and no one has been
hanged.
The Trustees of the State University at
their meeting on Wednesday night unani-
monsly elected Prof. James Fl. Carlisle pres
ident of the South Carolina College.
- The grain shipments from Greenwood to
date amount to $4,000 bushels, netting cash
return of over $4,000. The bulk of the grain
was shipped over the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad.
The Spartanburg post-office has been raised
to second class, and the postnaster's salary
is 50, 600 a year, with fuel, light, &C., furnish
elected superintendent of the track Matthew
ed by the department.
Nearly four thousand liens have been filed
in Spartanburg county, averaging about $50
each since the 1st of January. This indebt
edness foots up nearly quarter of million
of dollars, or nearly six thousand bales Of cot
ton.
Cadet Whitaker lectured in the colored
Methodist Church, Columbia, last Monday
night on "The Color Line at West Point"
He says he is endeavoring by this means to
raise money with which to complete his educa-
ton.
"A colOred man named Daniel Blakely was
lynched near Lancaster Court House on the
Sth instant for attempt at rape. He confessed
the crime. On the same day another colored
man was lodged in Lancaster Jail, charged
with similar offence-his victim being mll-
latto girl.
- The Abbeville Press and Banner says:
''The corn crop will be enormous in this Sec
tion, unless cut off by some unexpected calam-
ity. We learn that in Anderson it is thought
that corn will not command more than forty
cents, while it is said that it will not be worth
more than from fifty to seventy-fve cents in
Abbeville."
- Says the Edgefeld Advertiser Methodism
fourishes more and more in this Edgdefeld
county. We have taken deep root and are
growing and bearing fruit to the glory Of the
great Husbandman. Within space Of less
than thirty miles from Trenton to Gilbert
Hollow, extending not more than ten miles OH
either side of the railroad, there have been erec
ed twelve handsome and substantial Methodist
churches since the war. .......r
- On Monday last the South Carolina Rail-
way Company discontinued the night express
between Charleston and Columbia, and SUBJ
stituted for it fast mail train which leaves
Charleston at P. NJ. daily, and arrives at
Columbia at P. M. A fast mail train leaves
Columbia at 8 A. NJ, and arrives at Charles
ton at P. M. The regular mail train that
leaves Charleston at A. NJ. and returns the
same day, will be continued.
- Aiken county is threatened with drought.
They have had but one rain Of any conse-
quence since the 4th of July. Cotton is COM
pletely parched, dropping all but the natural
fruit, and cracking that open prematurely.
Our cotton crop will be less this than last
year, although the yield was not more than
two-thirds of crop then. The corn crop
was matured before the dry weather set in
and is fine.
A meeting of the new board of directors
of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad was
held in Chester on the 9th instant. A resolu-
tion was adopted combining the offices of Sec
retary and treasurer and the Chester agency,
with a salary of $500. Mr.. j. B. Latham was
elected to the Office. Mr.. w. D. Ingram was
White ESQ.,, was elected a director in place
of Capt. W. T., D. Cousar who declined to
serve. It is proposed to make crossing con-
Meeting with the Chester and Lenoir Road, so
that trains may run through from Lincolnton
to Lancaster if desired.
- Says the Union Times of Friday Last
week we announced the death of Mr.. James
Barnette, which occurred the Friday before,
and it is our sad province this week to state
that two of his sisters, Miss Mary, aged 21,
and Miss Josey, aged 16 years, have since been
laid beside him in the silent grave, while an
other sister, Miss Louisa, is very sick and not
expected to live, all from typhoid fever Miss
Mary died on Thursday last, the Bird, and Miss
Josey on Tuesday, the Sth. Thus in ten days
udS QedCn VlSlCeu WIDOWS uOLlt dllu tdhell
from her three of her brightest jewels.
- Says the Anderson Intelligencer: On the
5th of April last ten small carp about the
size of mans little finger were put into Mr..
Jere Browns fish pond, ten miles south OF
Anderson. On the 1st Of August, four months
afterwards, the pond was drained and the
fish examined. They had all, except one,
grown immensely. The three largest weighed
eight pounds each, and were about the size Of
shad. The increase in four months in flesh
has been about one thousand per cent. in the
largest fish. One Of the ten, which had been
injured before it was put in the pond, had not
grown at all. This experience is similar to
that Of other gentlemen engaged in carp cul-
ture, and demonstrates the fact that the carp
ponds can be made the source Of great deal
of pleasure and no little profit in this country.
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STATE POLITICAL ITEMS.
julius T. Edwards, a colOred Democrat,
is candidate for county commissioner for
Sumter county.
- In the Edgefield campaign there are Tim
mermans and Zimmermans in the field, and
the voters are warned to be careful how they