Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Gen. James Chestnut died at his home
near Camden at 3 o'clock last Sunday even
ing.
An unsuccessful effort was made by the
prisoners in Edgefeld Jail to escape last
Saturday night. ..
The small grain crop in Kershaw coun-
ty is said to be the poorest ever seen there
at this time of the year.
Major B. D. Townsend, president of the
Cheraw and Wadesboro Railroad has been
attacked by serious stroke of paralysis.
Rev. w. P. Mouzon, of the South Car
olna Conference, died at his home in Bam-
berg, on Wednesday, in the siXty-seventh
year Of his age.
The February term of the United States
District Court opened at Greenville last
Monday. The docket is unusually light,
and the term will be short.
-Comptroler-Gener Stoney says that if
the May collection of taxes yields enough
the claims of disabled soldiers for artificial
limbs will be paid in June next.
Mr. J. f. Woodham, of Darlington coun-
ty, is an exception to the farming class in
this State. He has in his smoke house
5000 pounds of meat Of his own raising.
"A man walked from Campbell county
Ga, to Blarsville, Union county, S. c.,
says the Abbevlle Medium, distance Of
100 miles, to pay his tax -four cents) on
lot of wild land.
- The barn Of Mr.. T. j. Cunningham, Of
Chester county, was consumed by fire last
Wednesday, together with 500 bushels of
corn, a quantity of small grain and 1,S00
bundles Of fodder, hay and straw. Loss
$1,000; insurance, $500.
-Sadder but wiser are many of the color
ed people who went from Darlington coun-
ty to Arkansas, and many of them are now
writing home to their former friends and
employers for money to enable them to
come back to their old homes.
There are twenty-five prisoners in Jail at
Marion. Two of them are United States
prisoners, and the same number are serving
sentences, and the rest are awaiting trial at
the approaching term of court. The cases
awaiting trial embrace nearly every crime
in the catalogue
- Engineer Robert Wall, whose train on
the Air Lire road ran over and killed a
man named Cole, 65 years of age, who was
week, was taken from his engine at Spartan
burg, on his return trip, on a warrant issued
by the coroner, charging Wall with negli-
gence in running over the old man. Wall
was bailed in the sum of 81 900.
The Columbia Register of Saturday says:
At the Agricultural Department yesterday
there was displayed large quantity of to-
bacco seed, secured by Commissioner Butler
for judicious distribution among the farm
ers of South Carolina who propose to enter
upon the cultivation of tobacco. The pack
age embraced the varieties known as big
Oronoco, Connecticut seed leaf, pure Ha-
vana and White Burley.
The stockholders Of the Spartanburg and
Asheville Railroad held a called meeting
at Spartanburg last Monday. They pass
ed resolution authorizing the directors
to issue 500, 900 in bonds and to take action
for building and repairing the road. 1t is
believed byall that they now mean business
and that the road will soon be finished. The
unfinished portion is a gap of % miles be-
tween Hendersonville and Asheville, n. G..
The scheme Of building railroad d-
rect from Greenville to Charleston seems to
have fallen through already, if We may
Judge by the following which appeared in
the Greenville NeUs, of Saturday, under
the significant heading, "The Story of a
Corpse:" "Private intelligence received
from sources in Charleston which cannot be
doubted tell us that the Midland railway of
South Carolina is now conceded by it's warm
est friends and most earnest supporters to be
a failure. Efforts in its behalf have been
abandoned, for the time at least, and we
may expect to hear nothing more Of it for
several years."