Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-07
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

State Supreme court laSt week.
A council of the American Legion Of
Honor was instituted in Chester on Tues
day of last week.
The United States Fish Commissioner
placed $50, 900 young shad in the CataWba
river last week and 100000 in the Congaree.
- Bishop Wilson is to preside over the
next session of the South Carolina Annual
Conference, which convenes in Sumter,
December 3.
Senator Hampton has accepted the invi-
tation extended to him to deliver the ora
ton on the occasion of unveiling the Con-
federate Monument in Camden, >. e., on
the Goth of June.
THE West gold mine, near West Springs,
Union county, is in full operation, running
twenty stamps day and night The yield
of gold is satisfactory to the company. MIR.
f. Mcdowell lately sold his interest for
$4,000.
- Mr.. NJ. J. Myers has discovered vein
of almost pure gold on his land in Chester
field county. The vein is a string of white
flint, fairly studded with glittering metal.
He has gone to Boston to purchase mining
machinery.
The school houses of South Carolina av-
vererage in cost SIT. In North Carolina they
average much better-S130. In Virginia they
average S491; in Tennessee S2O2. This is
for the South. Go North and you find COM
fort and luxury. The average in Illinois is
81, ,436; in Ohio 81 800; in New York 81, ,5S4.
The barn and stable of Mr.. w. ID. Hyatt
in Lancaster county was destroyed by tire
on Sunday night, May 20. There was no
insurance on the building and Mr.. Hyatt
estimates his loss at $1,000. The fire was
undoubtedly the work of an incendiary and
the torch is thought to have been applied
inside the barn among the straw and fodder.
The Columbia and Greenville Railroad
is in fourishing condition, as will be seen
by the following statement, estimated in
round numbers, of their transactions: From
October |, 1882, to April 80, 1883, the eXpen
ses were $l5, 900 less than the corresponding
period last year ; the earnings for the same
time were 0000; making an actual saving
Of Sl05, 900.
- In Columbia, last Friday, a young man,
adjudged insane and waiting transfer to the
Asylum, managed to slip off and hire
hack. Driving to a house he induced the
unsuspicious driver to go in with mes
sage, and while the driver was on this
duty he drove off, and was not intercepted
until he had gone four miles into the
country.
The State Superintendent Of Education
has issued a circular announcing the begin
ming of State Normal Institute for colOred
teachers in Columbia on July ., ending Au-
gust |, 1883. Tuition to all cOlOred teachers
will be free. Board can be obtained in Col
umbia at low rates, and may be secured in
advance by applying to the Secretary, Mr..
Thomas J. Gregory, Columbia, S. C..
AT an enthusiastic meeting Of the citi-
Zens, and business men of Greenvllle last
Friday night, resolutions were adopted de-
claring it to be the sense of the people that
GreenVille will subscribe 100000 to the
capital stock of the Carolina, Cumberland
Gap and Chicago Railroad, on certain con-
ditions, one of which is to secure Greenville
| on the main line. A subscription of 81, ,OO
for surveying purposes, will be paid over at
once.
- The Carolina Spartan says: Tine frost
of the 18th instant will be a memorable one.
1t will be long time, perhaps, before an
other comes as late. Winter fires were
kept going all day the 22nd and 23rd.
| Farmers rode into town with Overcoats
| buttoned around them. Laborers built fires
| in the cotton fields to warm while they
| were chopping cottOn-a thing not often
seen in this section. Men ploughed with
| their coats buttoned around them. In
many places the leaves and twigs Of the
persimmon were killed. In bottom lands
| the frost was white as is seen in winter.
The Charlotte Journal Observer learns
that while party of Turks with perform
| ing bears, were encamped near Lancaster
last Thursday, the big black bear killed and
partly devoured one of the children. The
Turkish women were not noticing the child,
and it got too close to the bear, when the
savage animal knocked its brains out with
one blow of it's huge paw, and then tore its
flesh off by the mouthful before the men
could beat the bear into subsection. The
body of the child was buried by the Turks,
who then turned and gave their remaining
two children good whipping each, to make
them keep away from the bears.
- The people of Spartanburg are hopeful
thatthe projected Railroad from Rutherford
| ton, n. c., will come to their town. The
Spartanburg delegates returned from rail
road meeting held in Rutherfordton last
week, and are much encouraged with the
| prospect. Some time ago Rutherford coun-
| ty voted subscription of $4,000 to road
to be built to Spartanburg, but the county
commissioners have never issued the bonds
and certain parties now want to divert this
subscription to another line in the direction
of Shelby. A large majority of the people,
however, are in favor of the Spratanburg
road, and it is probable that this will be
built first and the Shelby road afterward.