Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-07-12
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


ping post in South Carolina
The first brick of the second brick house
that has been built in Edgefeld within the
last half century was laid last week.
The South Carolina State Sunday School
Convention will meet at NeWberry, on July
25th.
The proposed Rutherford, Gaffney City
and Union Railroad is to be extended to
The Baptist congregation at Camden
have secured the services of the Rev. d. M.
Ramsey, of Richmond, Va, as their pastor.
The Kershaw farmers are unanimous in
the opinion that farm labor is more unreli-
able at this time than it has ever been be-
fore.
In the Richland Court of Sessions, last
Thursday, j. B. Oliver, tried for the MUIR
der of j. B. Williamson, both white was
acquitted.
- The surveying corps of the Carolina,
Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad,
who are engaged in locating the new route
to Greenville, have reached Pelzer.
Joseph Kirkland has been acquitted in
the Barnwell Court Of the charge of murder.
The killing was done ten years ago and was
accidental
There is a rumor that Col. f. B. C. Cash
is a candidate for the Office of U. S. Marshal,
made vacant by the resignation of Mr..
Attorney Melton and Mr.. w. p. Snyder.
The building of cotton factory in Un-
ion is assuming definite shape. Subscrip-
tions to the amount Of 5000 have already
been made to the capital stock Of the con-
Germ.
Fred. Dolfelder, a native of Hanover,
but who has lived in Charleston for the last
ten years, committed suicide in that city
last Monday, by shooting himself No
cause assigned for the act.
There was appropriated at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature $1,000 for artificial
limbs for manned Confederate soldiers. OF
this amount $6,035 have been paid, which
leaves balance of 1865 yet undraWn.
A white woman preacher has been
preaching among the African Methodist
Churches at Marion during the past week.
She halls from New Jersey and says she is
commanded to be no respector of persons,
hence she stays with the colored people.
There is general rejoicing among the
friends and patrons of Newberry College
because of the refusal of the Board of Trus-
tees to accept the resignation Of President
Holland.
William Johnson, white, was arrested in
NeWberry and lodged in Jail on last Mon
day on a charge Of highway robbery, the
warrant having been issued upon the COM
plaint of J. O. Berry of Edgefeld county.
Physicians report an unusual amount of
sickness throughout Barnwell. Typhoid fe-
yer is quite common. There were five
deaths from the disease in Williston town.
ship last week.
Elisha Wilson, colored, who was, per-
hapS one of the worst sufferers by the eX-
Of hn IN
weeks ago, died on Monday. Charles Car
ter, it is thought, cannot survive long.
Mrs. MichaloWski, ofGeOrgetoWn, failed
last week, on account, as the Georgetown
Enquirer says, of the reckless mismanage-
ment Of her business. Her probable as
sets amount to about 900.
At the recent election in Colleton coun-
ty, on the question of making a county sub
scription to the Green Pond, WATERFORD
and Branchville Railway, the vote stood
as follows: For subscription 1,279; No SUBJ
scription 352; majority for subscription 927.
"A plasterer named Latimer was drown
ed in the Pacolet river, near the factory,
on Sunday of last week. He went into the
water to bathe while intoxicated, and sink
ing, did not rise again. His body was re-
covered in two hours afterwards.
The Chester county Teachers Institute
opened Monday night of last week. Senator
G.J. Paterson delivered an address of well
come. Superintendent of Education Cow
ard delivered the first of a series of lectures.
About fifty teachers are in attendance.
"A case exciting some popular curiosity
in the Greenville Court Of Common Pleas
is the rule against J. T. Nix, attorney at
law, to show cause why he should not be
disbarred. The return to the rule was to
have been heard yesterday.
"A private telegraph line has been built
from old Allendale, Barnwell county, to
new Allendale, on the Port Royal and Au-
gusta Railway, a distance of three and a
half miles. Arrangements are being made
to extend the line to BarnWell c.. H., seven
teen miles.
The resignation of the Rev. w. H.
Strickland, pastor Of the Baptist church at
Greenville, has been accepted by the con-
gregation, to take effect September 1st, when
he will assume the pastorate of Edgefeld
Baptist church at Nashville, Tenn.
The people of Sumter are loudly COM
planning that the liquor law of that town is
being shamefully violated, and member of
the Town Council is now under bond for ap-
pearance at the next term of Court for SELL
ing whisky clandestinely.
The treasurer of Orangeburg county has
now collected by his overhauling the regis
tration books and comparing them with his
books 593 polls in all, which, with 20 per
cent. penalty added, amounts to $711.60.
The cost to the county in collecting this was
S45, which makes total net gain to the
county of $696.6O.
The rolls Of the Confederate troops are
coming in slowly. Since the advertisement
by the acknowledgement in February Al COM
pany rolls have been sent to him, seven of
which were made up at regimental re-
union. There are still lacking the rolls of
116 companies of South Carolina troops,
which should be furnished by the survivors
as soon as possible.
The residence of Mrs. S. E. Turnipseed,
in Greenville, was destroyed by an acciden-
tai fire last Saturday afternoon. A part of
the roof Of the burning building fell in, Sc
riously injuring several young men who
were endeavoring to rescue the contents ola
room. James Dorrah, white, one of the vic
Tins of the fire, died on Saturday morning,
and Ben Johnson, colored, died on Monday.
The annual reunion of the survivors of
the Twelfth South Carolina Regiment of
McGowan's Brigade, will be held in Colum-
bia, on the 18th of August. The officers of
the Palmetto Regiment in that city met
last Monday and requested Col. Marshall
to tender the survivors a reception and an
escort on the occasion of their reunion. The
survivors will meet at the Fair Grounds,
where they will have barbecue.
- Columbia Register: Rev. Show Hook,
native Of Africa, has arrived in Columbia.
He has sufficient command of the English
language to make himself understood.
When conversing on matters Immediately
Africa he grows warm to the