Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-07-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

she may die.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The bank of Anderson pays IS cents for
trade dollars.
Senator Mccall, of Marlboro, made over
700 bushels of oats on acres, where he used
Q bushels Of seed oats per acre.
The case against U. B. Whites, the de-
faulting eX-treasurer of Newberry county,
has again been continued in the Court at
Newberry.
AT recent examination at West Point
Military Academy, Cadet John A. Towers,
of Anderson, stood fourth in class Of nine
ty-tWo.
The cadets of the Citadel Academy will
be furloughed about the 18th instant until Oc-
tOber 1St, the summer encampment having
been dispensed with for want of camp
equipage.
A young man named Johnston, hailing
from Tippah county, Miss, has been making
a tour of Oconee county, passing counter
felt ten dollar gold pieces. Officers are now
in pursuit of him.
The following is the dailywork of Clifton
cotton factory, Spartanburg county: Cot
ton worked up, 81 bales; yarn produced,
$500 pounds; cloth made, $4,000 yards.
Clifton is tiourishing town Of 400 in
habitants.
The reunion Of the survivors of the
Sixth Regiment S. G. ", will take place at
Chester on the second Of August. All the
survivors are requested to attend, as ar
rangements are being made for a large
meeting.
In the case of the State VS.. Julius Mills,
eX-treasurer of Chester county, the argu-
ments both FOR the State and defendant
were concluded last week before the referee,
and it is thought that his decision will be
rendered some time during the present
month.
The following gentlemen have given a
thousand dollars each to the endowment
fund of Wofford College: George w. Will
liams, ESQ.,, Charleston ; Hon. Simpson Bo-
bo, Spartanburg Hon. Giles j. Patterson
Chester: DIR. H. Baer, Charleston Mr.. IT,.
w. Standard, Summerville.
AT ameeting Monday, the following del
egates were chosen to represent Chester at
the Joint meeting of the State Grange and
the State Agricultural Society which meets
in Marion on the 25th instant: Jno. S..
Bratton, r. a. Love, G.. J. Patterson, John
A. Walker and Jesse H. Hardin.
-Spartanburg Spartan: l.. Wash Lloyd,
late of Greenville, and one of the actors in
the shooting scrape three weeks ago, regis
tered at the Windsor Saturday, with Mr..
Schumpert, a lawyer of NeWberry. Ger
tain parties from Greenville met them here
Saturday night and Monday morning they
went back to Newberry.
The Chester Bulletin says that on last
Saturday five miles from Chester court
house, a negro boy named Jack Simons,
aged seven years, shot and killed a two year
,or,of1 Tiporoin Hnafh
The shooting was Intentional, but the jury
of inquest agreed that the boy was too
Young to conceive malicious intent in kill
ing.
Rock Hill Herald: On Saturday last DIR.
w. B. Fewell, of Ebenezer, seined his fish
pond and caught from it in a very little
while, forty German carp measuring from
twelve to twenty-five inches in length.
This pond was started two years ago and
was made on land previously planted IN
cotton. DR.. Fewell is so encouraged by his
years. experience that he stocked another
pond with this ''catch."
The report of the United States Fish
Commission for the distribution season of
1882, lust made out, shows that 1881 Ger
man leather carp were sent to applicants
from South Carolina from the commence
ment of the season in October until the
close, June /. Five hundred applicants
were supplied and fish were sent into five
Congressional districts and tWenty-nine of
the counties in the State.
In the Greenville Court of Common
Pleas, last week, the case against lawyer
Nix, being rule to show cause why his
name should not be struck off the roll of
attorneys, was heard, and the hearing occu-
pied three days. Besides oral testimony
and statements of the parties concerned,
about three hundred atfidavits were offered
in evidence by the respective parties. A
number of these aftidavits were ruled out as
not bearing directly upon the merits of the
case. There was strong array OF counsel
on both sides, and argument in the case took
took the papers without any intimation of
when he would render his decision.