Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-13

natures, as is provided in the United States
Revised Statutes, 1878, Sections 2,0l6 and
2,019? A. Access to them and to examine
them, think so.
T. How are the necessary expenses OF execu-
ting the Registration laws, such as: advertis-
ing, stationery, rent of places in which to hold
the registration at precincts, travelling expen-
ses of supervisor in visiting remote precincts,
rebnding or repairing books when defaced
and worn, to be met ? To whom are the bills
to be rendered for payment? A. The county
commissioners, / think.
8. Can advertisement be made before lst
May, so that registration can be commenced
at that date ? A. think so, certainly.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
They are catching some fine shad out OF
the Catawba River, near the CheraW and
Chester Railroad ferry.
A new post office, to be known as Bascom-
Vile. has been established recently in Chester
county, on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad,
and Lucus Houze appointed postmaster.
We hear, says the Lexington Dispatch,
that many farmers in the Fork, who were
opposed to the Stock law, now say, since they
have completed their pasture fences, that
they think it will prove beneficial law.
"A good many of the farmers in Anderson
county are preparing to harvest their small
grain by machinery this year. About twer
reapers have been sold in the past ten days
by agents at Anderson Courthouse.
- The WaxlIaws was visited OIL Tuesday of
last week by one of the heaviest rains that
has fallen in that section in years. In other
parts of Lancaster county hail is said to have
covered the ground to,a depth of two inches
on the same evening.
- The adage, "Go to law for a calf and lose
the cow,n was verified in the trial of a case in
the Circuit Court of Greenville last week
The jury awarded the plaintiff, on the third
trial, $3.50; but the cost for which he is liza
BILE amounts to $3.50.
AT meeting of the stockholders of the
Charleston on Wednesday of last week, Henry
P. Talmadge was elelected President; Perry
r. Pyne, Vice-President, and John B. Peck,
General Manager. The net earnings of the
road for the last two months is $12l, 1910.
VIM. Dodson, Pleasant Adam, Richard
Bates and Joe Burton, convicted twice of
being the incendiaries who burned the Green
vile opera house, and refused third trial by
the Supreme Court, were sentenced last week
by Judge Aldrich to be hanged on the 18th in
slant.
- Gen. Manigault is making good progress
with the enrolment of the Confederate troops,
but finds great difficulty in getting together
from the widely scattered and almost forgot
| ten records complete roll of many Of the
commands. A more difficult and stupendous
task has rarely been undertaken.
The Chester Bulletin says the machinery
| is all in position at Fishing Creek Factory,
and everything will be in readiness to put in
motion by the first of May. Two sections of
the cards have been ground, and operations
| might begin now, but the race below the tur-
bine wheel is being blasted out, that everything
may be in proper trim. ..... ..
- In the U. S. Court at Charleston on the
4th, the trial of Hugh P. Kane, and others,
revenue officers, for the murder of Amos Ladd
the moonshiner, was concluded. After fur
| ther testimony and argument the case was
given to the jury by Judge Bond in brief
charge, and in thirty minutes verdict of ac-
quittal was brought in.
The Edgefield Advertiser indulges the fol-
lowing felicitation In the light of present
circumstances, it is astonishing to think that
| Edgefeld has achieved all her splendid politi-
cal victories entirely and indisputably within
| the law. Those splendid victories that have
electrified and led the State Not citizen of
Edgefeld has ever been prosecuted in the Uni
ted States Courts !
- In the case of DR.. j. J.. Westmoreland VS..
the Columbia and Greenville Railroad Com
pany, for damage sustained in consequence of
an accident on the road on the 18th of January,
in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, heard
last week in Greenville Court of Common
Pleas, the jury, after fourteen hours delbera-
tion, returned a verdict last Saturday, for the
plaintiff for six thousand and two hundred
dollars.
- The Abbeville Medium, of the 9Th, has the
following: ''It is said that Cyrus Wimbush
has gone to Charleston as a juror of the
United States Court. There must be some
mistake, for it was published that j. G. VIM
bush was drawn as juror, and not G. w.
Wimbush. If we are not misinformed j. G..
died when a convict. We wouldn't exactly
care to trust Cyrus" if wewere charged with Il
political offence.
- All the bar-keepers of Columbia have been
indicted for an alleged violation of the license
law of the State, contained in the Act of De-
cember oath, 1880, which requires that license
to retail intoxicating liquors must be taken out
from the county in addition to that granted
by the city or town authorities. One of the
defendants was tried as test case and having
been convicted, has appealed to the Supreme
Court from the ruling of Judge Wallace. The
other seventeen have since employed Judge
Mackey, who will defend them at the June
term of the court, to which all the cases have
been continued.
speaking Of the operations Of the fence
law in Edgefeld county, the ADVERTISER says !:
We learn from the Saluda side, especially
Huiett and Coleman townships, that the new
order of things with reference to the stock
law gives well nigh universal satisfaction.
The few who opposed it at the start have gone
into it with manly grace and it is now conf
IDENTIFY predicted that the stock law question
will be no factor in politics whatever in the
fall election. Gentlemen Oh each side of this
question have been heard to say recently that
they would vote for good men of the opposite
side as freely as their own.
"A singular marriage took place in the
Greenville Jail OH Wednesday of last week.
One of the negro convicts under sentence of
death for burning the opera house, had for