Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Hon. J. B. Campbell, of Charleston, is
dangerously ill in Washington City.
- The ladies of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church at Winnsboro have
bought chandelier at cost of over 500.
- The Blue Ridge Railroad paid its State
and county tax this year, something 1T has
not done before in ten years. The amount
was $2,052.56.
The State Treasurer reported about S174,-
600 in taxes received up to the close of busi-
ness on the 31st ultimo, which was the end
of the fiscal year.
- Armistead Burt, a distinguished lawyer
of AbbeviIe, died suddenly in his office on
the Both ultimo, from an affection of the
heart, aged 81 years.
Col. Coward, State superintendent of ed
ucatlon, addressed convention of trustees
and teachers of public schools at Orange
burg last Friday.
Fifteen of the delegates from this State
have signifed their intention to attend the
Cotton Planters Convention to be held at
Vicksburg, Miss, on the 2lst instant.
A number of the political cases arising
out of the election of 1882 will be tried in
the U. S. Circuit Court at Columbia, be-
ginning on the fourth Monday of the present
month.
Governor Thompson has appointed f.
NJ. Atkinson, of Chester delegate from
the Fifth Congressional district to the Farm
ers' Congress of the United States, to meet
in Louisville, Ky, on the 5th Of next month.
In Union county on Monday, Union
and Goshen townships voted subscriptions
to the Union, Gaffney City and Rutherford
ton Railroad. Dayton township voted al
most unanimously against it.
- Columbia Register: Colonel Coward
states that the reports to his otice in refer
ence to public schools are highly eneourag-
ing and show wonderful improvement in
educational work for the past year.
The New York World is authority for
reinstatement that "Senator Butler, of South
Carolina, will give up cotton planting and is,
now in New England buying stock for a
grass and horse farm.''
- According to the Columbia Register, it
will take 1900, carp to supply the demand
which is on file with the Fish Commission
er, and every one of the $50 applicants have
made pond especially for carp.
Willie Chafee, a Lancaster youth, who
is a student at Fort Mill Academy, was Sc
riously shot in the head with a pistol, the
other day, by companion, who did not
know the weapon was loaded.
- The merchants of Spartanburg say that
the farmers generally are prompt in pay
ing their past indebtedness. This speaks
we'll for the county, Notwithstanding the
shortness of crops.
The cOlored Baptist Association of Fair
field met at WinnSboro last week. There
were one hundred and thirty delegates in
attendance, representing the territorial juris
diction embracing the counties of Fairfield,
Richland, Chester and Kershaw.
"A correspondent of the Winnsboro News
a,M Herald complains that there is an ac-
tive business done at Monticello, Fairfield
county, in ''bitters" and "tonics," and that
this is a violation of the law regulating the
liquor traffic.
- The value of real estate by the last as
sessment in Lancaster county is 81 ,256, 1878,
and the value of personal property S712,S71.
The average assessed value Of horses in the
county this year is $663; the average assess
ed value of cattle is So, and the average
assessed value of mules is S77s.
The Newberry Observer having charged
Major E. B. Murray, of the Anderson Intel
ligencer, with being prospective candidate
for Congress, that gentleman replies in his
newspaper, virtually admitting the soft i'm
peachment. There are prospects of an eX.
ceedingly lively fight in that district.
u. B. Whites, the defaulting Treasurer
of Newberry county, having pleaded guilty
to the charge of failing to turn over money
to his successor, was sentenced to pay u
fine of $4,000 or to one year in the county