Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-07
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

William Denton, of Lancaster county,
has a five-acre patch OF cotton that he would
not sell for $500.
Winnsboro Neacs, Saturday: We arc
glad that we were in error about the burn
Ing of the mills of Mr.. A. B. Douglass, near
Blackstock. The building did take fire or
the morning it was reported to have been
burned, but Mr.. Douglass and his hands
succeeded in eXtinguishing the flames and
saved the mills.
AT the last session of the Legislature an
Act was passed authorizing the Town Coun-
Gil of Georgetown to provide system tor
the registration of births, deaths and mar
riages within the limits of the town OF
Georgetown. At it's meeting last Thursday
the Council fixed the salary of the Registrar
at 5000 per annum and elected Mr.. LeGrand
G. Walker to the position.
At 40 minutes past o'clock last Satur,
day afternoon the Saluda cotton mills, sit
uated % miles from Columbia, were dis
covered to be on fire, the fire originating
in the loft of the building, and supposed to
be the result of accident. The destruction
of the building was complete. About lot
operatives are thrown out of employment
The loss is estimated at $3.50, 900, covered by
$l1e, 900 insurance in various companies.
The Columbia Register learns from reli-
able authority that typhoid fever prevails
to great extent along the track of the cy-
clone which passed through Fairfield cOun-
ty last spring. Several deaths have occur
red in families attacked by the fever, and
physicians have noted it is singular fact
that a majority Of typoid fever cases are
confined to the stretch of country visited by
the cyclone.
An official in the postal service has emu
merated the postofices in this State, the re-
suit of which he furnishes us for publica-
ton. There are, up to to the present date,
SOS postofices in the State, distributed as
follows: Abbeville, 90; Aiken, "a; Ander-
son, 80; Barnwell, 25; Beaufort, IA; Berke-
ley, q; Charleston 8; Chesterfield, l6; GIar-
endon, II; Colleton, q; Chester, 49,: Oar
lington, 1G; Edgefeld, Sc; Fairfield, %;
Georgetown, 10; Greenville, 38; Hampton,
"a; Horny, 19; Kershaw, 8; Lancaster, 2
Laurens, 80; Lexington, 20; Marion, As
Marlboro, II; Newberry, l9; Oconee, "A ;
Orangeburg, 10; Pickens, 25; Richland, 8;
Spartanburg, 80; Sumter, %; Union, 70;
williamsburg, %; York, %.
Says the Carolina Spartan: DIR. j. +.
Ensor has been travelling over some OF our
upper counties in his official capacity, and
reports that in Union, Chester and Fairfield
the traffic in whisky is sincreasing. 1t is not
confined to towns and railroads, but it is
usual to hear of man out in the coun-
try selling whisky from his house or shop,
or on the road. He has lately made thirty
arrests in Union county. These laWbreak-
ers are generally poor and ignorant men
who would prefer to make one dollar by
this unlawful traffic rather than twice that
amount by hard labor. In Spartanburg
county fewer cases have been reported to
him, and the most of this traffic is carried
on here in town. White men of bad char
acter and negroes who are very poor get a
flask of whisky and retail it out in alleys at
ten cents drink. In some cases white men
buy direct from the negroes, paying them a
small amount for their trouble.