Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-08
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The physicians of Lancaster county will
organize medical society on the first Mon
day in April.
George Clark, a negro horse thief, was
captured in Newberry county last week and
lodged in Jail.
Manning is soon to have telegraphic
communication with the outside world.
The poles are being put up.
Rev. w. n. Prentiss of Hampton lost
his dwelling house and nearly all its con-
tents by fire last Sunday night. Accidental.
-RumOr says that the authorities of the
South Carolina Railway have in serious con-
temptation the extension of the Camden
branch to Raleigh.
In the election held at Bolton last Friday
on the question ola subscription for the Caro-
lima, Chicago and Cumberland Gap Rail-
road, 403 votes were cast, the advocates of
subscription scoring majority of one.
Three thousand dozen eggs were shipped
from Williston, Barnwell county, last week.
They were the surplus from portions of
Rosemary and Williston townships, and
netted the nice sum of $3.50 to the shippers.
The Marion Mder says that some of the
horse drOVers who have visited that section
recently have their horses teeth filed to
put the right age on them. Many pur-
chasers have been sWindled
BY supposed incendiary fire, the barn
and stables of Mr.. Frank Gilbert, in Able
vile county, were burned last Friday night.
Three mules, two horses and all of MIR. Gill
bert's corn and fodder were burned. Loss,
about 81 800; no insurance.
- The remains Of the late Louis LeCOnte,
who died last week in Colorado, reached
Columbia at II o'clock last Saturday, having
been in transit five days. The funeral SER
vices were conducted under the rites of the
Episcopal Church.
Captain p. l.. Breeder of Marlboro coun-
ty gathered 321 900 pounds of seed cotton
from 194 acres and packed 217 bales weigh
ing over 800 pounds, and none OF it classed
below low middling. He also gathered l72
bushels of clean peas from s acres sOWn after
oats.
Lewis Coleman, a near sighted and i'm
beetle negro boy, while chopping wood near
Greenville, on Monday, killed a negro child
four years old. The child ran in the way
of the axe Just as it was descending. Its
skull was split and it's death instantaneous.
The U. S. District Court at Greenville
will adjourn this week, if it did not adjourn
Yesterday. Over one hundred criminal cases
have been disposed of at this term. Of
these thirty-nine were found guilty, seven
teen not guilty, eighteen entered pleas OF
guilty and thirty one were discontinued.
The following patents have been issued
to South Carolinians during the month just
ended: Henry d. Wilson, Abbeville, head
rest and attachment for railway car seats;
p. H. Low, Williston, floating caisson ;
Thomas d. Faulkner, Fort Mill, spring mo-
ton; H. O. King, Greenville, ice cream
freezer.
Columbia Register: In reply to an in
quiry as to the sale Of tobacco by farmers to
their hands, Internal Revenue Collector
Brayton says: "Under the department rul-
ing they are made liable as regular dealers
and have to pay special tax. Until about
year and half ago, farmers were allowed
the privilege, but based upon the decision
of the United States Circuit Court, the de-
partment made the above mentioned de-
cision.n
The Barnwell People says: Mr.. John
B. Nixon, an energetic and intelligent
Charlestonion, is preparing to start first
class stock farm in our county. He is thor
grain growing, and is making his lands
ready for the new departure. He will set
hundred acres in Bermuda grass for per-
manent pasture and hopes to prove in prac-
tce, as he has done on paper, that it is more
profitable to buy improved implements than
to hire unimproved laborers and to raise
fine stock than to raise low priced cotton"
The Aiken Recorder says that the fen
ces in that county are gradually disappear
ing under the operation of the stock law.
So far it has worked in a most peaceful ana
satisfactory manner. We have heard OF no
i'll feeling or inconvenience experienced by
any one Some farmers have removed their
fences and others are allowing them to grad
ally rot down. If stock are found straylng
they are taken uD and the owner is notlhed
in neighbOrly fashion to come and take
them away. This is a sensible way IN
which our farmers are acting and it is pleas
ing for us to record it.
-McCarney Alexander, Lewis Lineber-
ger, Joe Tillman and Frank Crawford,
colored Republicans, competetely demollsh-
ed the schOO-h0use in 'WaXhaW township,
Lancaster county, a few nights ago. 1t
seems that the teacher, a competent colored
man, employed by the trustees, but who
was a Democrat, did not give satisfaction to
a few of the colOred population on account
of his political principles. Hence number
of them visited the house at night and
razed it to the ground. The trial justice of
that township took immediate action and
very properly indicted them for misdemean-
or and sent the case to the Circuit Court in
session at Lancaster. But the house was
built upon lands belonging to a colored
church, although built by the patrons of the
school, and for this cause the case was mol.
pressed by the solicitor.