Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-20
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
: There is general complaint in the

There is general complaint in the lower
counties of the State of bad stands of cotton.
The United States Court at Charleston
yesterday ordered the sale of the George
town and Lanes railroad. This is what
Col. McKissick called the Gopher route"
because the chief expense of building it con-
sisted of filling up gopher holes.
1.-THE cards are out for the wedding of
Captain Willie Jones, of Columbia, and Miss
Annie Reaux Caldwell, niece of ex-United
States Senator Thomas j. Robertson. The
ceremony will take place at Trinity Church,
Columbia, to-day at 7 P. NJ.
- Candidates for political Offices are be-
ginning to declare themselves in Spartan
burg county. Ralph E. Carson and Smith
Thomasson are rival candidates for the Of
flee of probate Judge. The present incum-
bent, George w. Nichols, who has held tine
Office for ten years, will no longer be a can
didate.
: The elegant Hampton place on Rich
Nand street, Columbia, has been sold to
Mr.. w. L.. Lewis of Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl-
vania, who will make it his Winter resi-
dence. Mr.. Lewis paid 49, 900 for this fine
property, and, it is learned, will remodel it
and make improvements costing several
thousand dollars.
Colonel Edward Magrath, of Charleston,
died in that city on the 18th, aged 67. He
was at one time a member of the Legisla-
ture. He was a lawyer by profession.
Twenty-Five years ago he engaged in a duel
at the Charleston race course with Mr.. Ia
Der, one of the editors of the Charleston
Mepcury, whom he killed at the third fire.
- The Honea Path Plaindealer says there
is considerable uneasiness among the farm
ers of Anderson county about their cotton.
The dry weather and cool nights have pre-
vented its coming up, and fears are enter
tanned that they will not get a stand and
that if replanting becomes necessary there
is not enough seed in the neighborhood to
do so.
Rev. G. w. Holland, President of New
berry College and Grand Reporter OF the
KNIGHTS of Honor, will sail from New York
next Saturday for Liverpool, England. He
will be absent for several months, and will
visit England and Scotland, together with
points Of interest in Ireland, France and
Germany. His family will spend the sum-
mer at Salem, Va.
A colored girl was killed by a singular
accident in Fairfield last week. During a
gust of wind, a gun which was hung in a
rack over a door, fell to the floor, and in
falling struck some object which caused a
discharge of the load. The girl, who was
sitting in one corner of the room, received
the whole contents in her shoulder and head.
She lived about an hour after the accident.
NM. T. j.. Langston, of Johnston, Edge
field county, had about two tons of ice
slowed away in a vault under ms mouse
which was recently burnt. 1t stood the fire
without being scorched or even materially
reduced in bulk. He cut it from a pond in
the vicinity during the long freeze last win
ter, and is now disposing of it to those who
NAV have a fancy for roasted ice on reason
able terms.
Austin, the youngest son of Mr.. G. j.
l.. Moody, who lives about five miles south
east of Lancaster, met with a painful acct
dent on the 9Th instant, by the explosion of
a dynamite cap in his hands. Two fingers
were torn from his left hand n both
hands were badly larcerated and burned.
Austin had been wearing the cap on the
end of his slate pencil for several days,
thinking it was simply a brass shell. He
was picking at it with a pin when it ex-
ploded.
Lancaster Leqder, 18th: w. j. Blake
ney, who shot and killed Mr.. Robert Perry
in a difficulty at Welsh's store, in this coun-
ty, on the night of the 5th of April last,
and who surrendered himself to the Sher-
if on the 30th ultimo, applied to Judge
Kershaw at Camden on Monday last for
bail. Ira B. Jones, Esq, represented the
defendant. After hearing the testimony
taken before the Coroner, the afidavits in
behalf of the defendant, Judge Kershaw
granted the application and fixed the
amount of the bail at $4,000. The Deputy
Sheriff returned IN yesterday with MIR.
Blakeney, when bail in the required sum
was at once given.
speaking of the survey in Sumter coun.
ty by the engineering corps of the Massa-
chucattc and Snuthprn Construction Comma
ny, a Sumter correspondent saysin the News
and Courier of last Tuesday: Maj. Ramsaur
and his party, who are surveying the pro:
posed route of the Charleston, Cincinnati
and Chicago Railroad, reached Sumter last
week. Judging from present prospects, we
have reason to believe that this road will be
built in the near future. The surveyors say
that the hills in the upper portion of this
county are not so great obstacles as they
were at first supposed to be-. A natural way
has been discovered through them which
was not generally known before, and the
grades will not be near so heavy as was at
first feared.