Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The Richland Volunteers, of Columbia
will 90 to Texas in May to participate in al
inter State drill and encampment.
| Lawrence Cain, cOlored, who will be re-
membered as the Senator from Edgefield in
The days of Radical supremacy, died in Col
umbia last week.
| Mr.. a. S. Todd, of Anderson, and editor
of the Journal, has been appointed clerk fol-
Representative Aiken's House committee
on education.
"A petition is being circulated in Green.
vile for the removal of Lewis r. Redmond
from the penitentiary at Auburn, New York,
to the similar institution at Columbia.
solicitor Orr, of Greenville, will be can
didate for reelection to the office which he
now holds. He will not enter the Congress
siOnal race.
-Abbeville was visited by heavy rain
storm last Thursday night. There was very
little wind, but the rainfall was heavy,
swelling the streams and proving damaging
to bottom lands.
- The work of grading the Greenwood,
Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad will be
completed by the end of this month, when
the work Of laying the crossties and rails will
begin.
AT public meeting in Bamberg, Barn.
we'll county, last week, it was unanimously
agreed that tax of three mills on the dol
lar should be levied for the establishment
of a graded public school in Bamberg, as
authorized by the last General Assembly.
The Republican Convention TO nominate
candidate for Congress from the "BlaclS
District" to succeed the late E. w. NJ.
and after organization, Robert Smalls, COL
ored, received the nomination on the first
ballot, the vote being for Smalls, 35; Swails,
3; Straker, l.
! Union Times: We are glad to learn
that the oat crop was not so badly injured
by frost as was supposed. The early soWed
are looking fine, and even those soWed
late and plowed in pretty deep have 'come
out" amazingly and show a pretty fair
''stand." If nothing further Injuries them
there will be very large crop of oats made
this year. We are told that large area
has been sOWn in wheat and it looks well.
Most of those persons injured during the
recent storm in Edgefeld are much i'm
proved except Mrs. j. II. Burnett, who is
still in a critical condition. Senator CALI
son says, concerning the ravages of the cy-
clone in his section "The details would be
more narrowing than the first general re-
ports. Suffice it to say that scarcely the half
has been told ~
- The Governor has pardoned from the
Penitentiary Robert Grant, colored, of
Charleston county, who was sentenced by
Judge Graham, in February, 1874, to tWen-
ty years imprisonment in the penitentiary
on conviction of manslaughter. The par
don was granted in view of the previous
good character Of the convict, the great
provocation causing the crime, and the Pc
tition of prominent citizens of Charleston.
- The examination of the papers of those
who recently applied for certificates to teach
school in Orangeburg county has just been
completed by the Board of Examiners.
Twenty-seven applicants presented them
selves. Of these four received first grade
certificates, seven second grade, five third
grade and eleven were rejected. Of the
sixteen who succeeded in getting certificates,
only seven reached the grade applied for.
A serious fire occurred in Lancaster
about 5 o'clock last Saturday morning, de-
stroying property to the amount Of $4,000,
ON which the aggregate insurance is about
$4,000. The heaviest loss was the Moore
building, valued at $40, 900, insured for ST.