Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SUUIH GAhULlNA NEWo.
Death Of DR.. Talley.
DR.. A. N. Talley, a well-known ply.
sician of Columbia, died at his home
in that city on Tuesday.
Furman's New President.
Rev. DR.. E. C. Dargan, of Louis
Vile, KY, was elected president OF
Furman university, Greenville, last
Wednesday.
Clerk of the Dispensary Board.
B.C. Webb, of Charleston, formerly
bookkeeper for Pelzer, Rogers & Co.,
has been elected clerk Of the state
hoard of control.
DIsgusted With the Board.
Governor Ellerbe is disguised with
the state board of control on account
of the pickering of that body. He
has been requested to move the mem
bers from Office; but this he has not
the power to do. He would be glad,
however, he intimates, to accept their
designations.
Arrested For Arson.
Columbia State: DR.. w. NJ. Meador,
prominent citizen of Union, was ar
rested there on Wednesday afternoon
for attempting to burn the handsome
new bank building in February last.
The arrest was not a surprise, as it
has been expected for some days. DR..
Meador was accused at the time; but
for some reason the case was never
pushed. Immediately after the at,
tempted burning of the Union hotel
the council offered reward of $500
for the party who attempted to burn
the bank building, and this arrest Of
DR.. Meador is the result. Public opin'
ion is about equally divided as to the
guilt of the above party.
Effects Of Persecution.
Atlanta Constitution A confer.
ence of Mormons, led by II elders, was
held in Fairfield county, on last Sun
day, in the only Mormon church in the
state, built, at cost of much sell
denial. A feature of the occasion was
the presence of 16 Catawba Indians,
who had been converted. There was
much feeling against the Mormons,
and at midnight party of men applied
the torch to the church in several
places, burning it to the ground. The
Mormons held their meeting next day
in bush arbor. Christians who con-
demn such warfare have subscribed
for the erection of larger and hand
somer church.
Asylum Population Increasing.
The State, Friday: Yesterday the
regular monthly meeting of the board
of regents of the state hospital for the
insane was held at the institution. A
great deal of routine business was
transacted and the regents inspected
the progress of the work of restoring
the burned laundry and of the erecS'
i ing of the new Parker building. The
population of the institution was found
to be 8S2 patients. The superinten-
dents report showed that during the
month of June AZ new patients had
been received at the institution. This
| is the greatest number ever received
| in any one month. Fourteen patients
were discharged.
Progress In Chester.
The commissioners of public works
for Chester have awarded the contracts
for waterworks and sewerage. For a
complete system of waterworks the
contract was given to Guild & White,
of Chattanooga, 26,77S.42. Stand
pipe, 1Sx12O feet, $5.54S. The sewerage
contract was awarded to George o.
Tenney, formerly of Boston, Mass, but
now of Spartanburg, S. @. His total
bid was $15.O30.47. The highest bid
on sewerage was $19, ,6S6.42, by Bryan
& Patterson, Jacksonville Fla. Bids
will be entertained and contracts let
for $4,000 electric light plant on the
10th of this month, and it is expected
the system will be in full blast, replac-
ing the "gas dots" along the sidewalks
with handsome arc lamps, by Septem.
Der 18th.