Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Monday, the 10Th day Of February, will
be South Carolina's day at the New Orleans
Exposition.
-Greenville Ners, 14th Andrew Shef-
field, white man, was brought in from the
country and sent to Jail for refusing to pay
poll tax.
Mrs. Saperonia McAlister dropped dead
attending to her domestic duties on Friday,
I'd instant, at the residence of her husband,
Mr.. JAS A. McAlster, in Anderson county.
The South Carolina Railway Company
has give notice of an advance in passenger
fare on that road to three and half cents
per mile for first class and three cents per
mile for second class fares.
FIX Governor ST. John, the Presidential
candidate on the Prohibition ticket in the
last campaign, expects to visit South Caro-
lima in February for the purpose OF deliver
ing series Of Temperance lectures.
Barnwell People, 18TH Captain A. B.
Connor drew the water from his carp pond
last week and caught large number, which
were shipped to points in this State, Geor-
gia and Alabama. The largest caught was
two years old and weighed eight pounds.
- A boat loaded with thirty-five bales of
cotton from the upper part of Union county
reached Columbia last Friday evening via
the old Canal. The trip of 75miles was made
in thirty hours. 1t was found cheaper to
ship the cotton by boat than to haul it four
teen miles to the railroad.
of the former pastor of the Baptist
church at Fort Mill, the Florence Times of
last week says: Last Sunday was the first
anniversary of Rev. B. G. Covington's pas
torate in the Florence Baptist Church.
Forty-six persons were added during the
year. Of these, thirty-three were baptized
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received by letter.
South Carolina can boast Of having the
smallest cotton mill not only in the South,
but the smallest in the United States. This
mandatory, located at Westminster, is not
only the smallest factory in the country, put,
according to its report, is the most profitable:
The capital employed is $4,000; the mill
contains 200 spindles operated by seven
hands. This spins cotton direct from the
seed and reports profit of 40 per cent.
On Friday evening, January 9, an aged
colored man, named Jacob Aiken, of Able
Vile county, disappeared. Search was in
stituted for him and continued until late
Saturday evening when he was found in the
woods dead. From indications he had been
making q button for door and sitting on
the log Whittling the wood out of which the
button was made fell over on the ground
dead He is supposed to have died or
heart disease.
The Columbia Register of Sunday con-
tains the particulars Of the commitment to
Jail in that city, on Saturday, OF Il; ). Pea,
cock, the teacher at Jackson Creek school
in Richland county, for cruelty chastising
two pupils aged ten and thirteen years, re-
spectively. According to the testimony,
which was heard by Trial Justice Marshall, ,
| the chastisement was much in excess OF
what school teacher would be justified in
giving a child. In default of payment Of
$50 fine, the teacher was sent to jail for
thirty days.
"A young white man calling himself Will
| liam Beaufort and hailing from Beaufort
county, was arrested in Augusta on jan
uary Is, for passing off counterfeit five
dollar bill. 1t had very thin, transpa--
rent parchment pasted over its face, and
on this was traced, each word, letter and
line of the original bill, except that an
is put beside the and the word five is
changed to so. The fraud would be at once
apparent to an expert, but was an lngenl-
Gus piece of work and calculated to deceive
men of ordinary observation.
The Red Bank Cotton Factory, situated
in Lexington county, about twelve miles
from Columbia, made an assignment on
the 18th instant for the benefit of its credi-
tors, without preference. Estimated assets
are $40, 900, liabilities less than S27 600. Ca
pacity of the mill is thousand pounds of
cotton per day. The mill property is in
good order. Twelve per cent. dividends
were declared annually, previous to last
wear. The mill manufactured yarns only,
with 2,44S spndles and all necessary ma
chinery, operated by a fine water power.
Inability of the stockholders to furnish cap
ital to run the mill until the market for
yarns improved is the reason given for the
assignment. Fifty operatives are thrown
out of employment.