Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Fifteen men went to the Jail in BarnWell
last Monday night for the purpose of taking
out Dick Smalls, negro burglar, and lynch
ing him. They were thwarted in their de-
signs by the watchfulness of the jailor.
- The Fish Commission department re-
ceived last Friday 200 young German carp
from Washington. The fish are of various
sizes, from two to six inches long, and are
in fair condition.
The municipal election at Gaffney City
on the Goth ultimo resulted in the choice OF
dry ticket as follows: NJ. Simon, inten-
dent; wardens, w. F. Macarthur, A. M.
Gilmer, L. Baker, L. G. Byers.
The United States Circuit Court convened
for the April term, in Charleston, on Mon
day last. AS has been previously intimated,
the civil business will be taken up first, and
criminal cases will not be tried before the
18th instant.
The Columbia Register of Saturday says
that the Railroad Commissioners are still
hard at work on the freight tariffs, and are
making as rapid progress as the necessity
for careful and judiciOuS work on this I'M
portant matter will justify.
The freights on goods from Atlanta to
Walhalla ria the Blue Ridge Road have
been revised. The new rates went into op-
Grafton on the Dist of March. The reduc-
ton amounts to more than twenty per cent.
on former rates.
-Greenville Ne,cs: The Rev. Silas Knight
died on Tuesday at 6 A. M. of Inflammation
of the bowels consequent on asevere attack
of cholera morbus. He was citizen OF
Centreville, Laurens county, and the Oldest
Baptist preacher of Reedy River Assocla-
ton, being in his 10th year.
Robert McFadden, a colOred man OF
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home while sick, by US. Marshals, charged
with political offences. After he had been
taken Is miles to Florence it was discover
cred that he was not the man wanted, and
| he was turned loose, penniless and hungry
| He has died, it is alleged, from the effects
of the treatment he received.
| Columbia Register: An examination OF
the record shows that the amount of fertili'
zers upon which the tax was paid in up tc
3Oth March, 1882, was SS,449 tons, and that
for the corresponding period ending 30tt
March, 1883, the tax has been paid on 81, l4t
tons, being an increase Of 1864 tons for the
present season. 1t IS estimated that by the
close of the season the increase will be moi
far from 1000 t2.ls.
- Mr.. H. Blanchard, a Boston capitalist
interested in railroad movements, was
in Georgetown last week-the object of his
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| ticability of building the Georgetown and
North Carolina Railroad, for which char
ter was obtained in 1877. After consulta:
ton with leading citizens, Mr.. Blanchard
expressed the opinion that he could build
the road.
The Columbia correspondent of the Ne,cE
and Courier gives the following informa:
ton regarding the pay received by Willard
and Snyder for their services as assistants
of the 3. S. District Attorney, in the politi'
cal prosecutions: It may interest the pub
| lie to know what the Government pays
Messrs. Willard and Snyder for their ser
State. learn that Willard receives $500
per month and pays his own expenens, and
that Snyder is paid 5000 a month and his
expenses. If Snyder's expenses continue
as high as they were in December, $l36, he
will be really the better paid of the two.