Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-18
S0uTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The engineer corps of the Union, Gaff-
ney City and Rutherford Railroad are get
ting everything in readiness for early work.
The township subscription to the Savan-
nah Valley Railroad was badly defeated in
Anderson county last Saturday.
-Mr:J. w. Hollemann, county treasurer
of Oconee, opened his books for the collec-
ton of the second installment of taxes on
the 1st instant, and up to Saturday night,
-Abbeville Press and Banner: Charles
legged, at the age of 116 years. While very
few of our citizens are able to testify GER
tainly to his age, yet it is known that he
lived to an exceeding great age.
j. S. R. Thomson, Esq, of Spartanburg,
was elected Supreme Vice Commander of
the knights of the Golden Rule, at the re-
cent session of the Supreme Cmmandery in
Cincinnati. This is benevolent order
having the same objects as the Knights of
Honor and similar associations.
Julius Mitchell, the young colored man
recently appointed by the Secretary of War
to cadetship from the Black District, has
failed to pass preliminary examination
for admittance to the Military Academy at
West Point. His alternate, Andrews, also
failed to pass the examination.
ty, recently captured on his plantation in
Centerville township snake with forked
neck with two distinct heads. 1t was about
the size of mans little finger and about
twelve inches long. Many who saw it say
that it was king snake.
Mr.. G. Wanner, of Walhalla, has brought
down from Jocassee Valley over sixty spec
linens of mountain timber to be sent to the
New Orleans Exposition. He has a speci-
men of chestnut two feet long and seven
feet in diameter and weighing sixteen hun
dred pounds. He has few other speci-
mems equally as large or larger.
The Republican Convention of Oconee
county met in Walhalla last Saturday. Of
sixty-fve delegates only thirty-fve were
present. e. F. Blodgett and Alexander
Robinson were elected delegates to the State
Convention. VIM. Perry, Frank Whitner
and Anderson Walter were elected dele
gates to the Congressional Convention.
While there was much discussion as to the
prOpriety of the State Convention putting
out State ticket, the delegates go unln-
structed.
Secretary Holloway, of the State Fair
Association, says that the prospects are that
we will have this year the finest fair ever
held in the State. Already there have
been about thirty-ive entries of live stock
and stalls have been engaged LOT twenty
other lots. Quite number of applications
have been received from the North for space
for machinery and farming implements.
One stock raiser in Virginia proposes to
send the fair three carloads of stock. At
this early day the applications for space are
so numerous that the secretary has already
had to answer about three hundred letters.
Columbia Register: In suit before
Judge Presley, in Kershaw county, GER
tain items in a bill were allowed, including
one for sixty cents, to which the defendant
took exception and appealed to the Supreme
Court The highest Judicial tribunal in the
State has concluded its protracted consider
alton of the grave issue involved, and has
reached the conclusion that the allowance of
the enormous charge of sixty cents in ex-
cess of the established bill was an error in
the courts below, and that much of the pro-
ceedings is overruled. The decision was
filed on Tuesday the 9th instant.