Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
For South Carolina Improvements

The sundry civil bill passed by the
house last Wednesday, includes the
following appropriations for South
Carolina: Charleston harbor gets,
S175,OOO; Congaree river, 100000; !;
Winyah bay, S2S5,00O.
Barnwell withdraws.
Joseph w. Barnwell, who some time
ago announced himself as candidate
for congress against Elliott, has decided
not to run. He figures that his
Charleston majority will not be suffi-
cient to offset Elliott's majority in the
balance of the district.
The Money For CharIeston's Exposition.
News and Courier, Wednesday !:
When the Exposition committee met
on Monday afternoon the subscriptions
to the stock Of the Exposition Com
pany aggregated sS7,755. When the
Exposition Office closed yesterday af,
ternoon-twenty-four hours later
the subscriptions aggregated S9l 900 ;
With number of lists not reported.
Three thousand dollars day is doing
tolerably we'll for "a slow old town"
as Charleston has been described by
some ignorant or malicious persons
who do not know Charleston. The
papers were forwarded to the secreta-
ry of state at Columbia by last nights
mail applying for commission to open
books of subscription TO the stock of
the Exposition company, and at the
the present rate of progress the actual
work of construction on the grounds
and buildings of the Exposition ought
to be well under way by the Fourth of
July.
Telephone Consolidation.
Columbia Record, Wednesday: All
of the local or home telephone compa-
nies in the state are to be consolidated.
Mr.. G. A. Browning, of Greenvllle, has
been the prime mover in the scheme,
and all plans were perfected yesterday
afternoon. The new company is to
be known as the Consolidated Tele-
phone company of Columbia, and the
capital stock is to be $50,0OO. The
corporators are G. A. Browning, M. E..
Mcdonald and NJ. A. Malone. Nearly
all the cities of the Piedmont as well
as the country districts are already
connected, and the same is true to a
certain degree in the Pee Dee section.
All these lines will be extended and
will meet in Columbia, which will be
the central station. From the north
west portion of the state the line has
already been extended to Chaplin, ~
miles from Columbia. From the Pee
Dee section the line now reaches Sum-
ter. Telephone connection will be
extended to Winnsboro, and Chester,
York, Lancaster, ETC., will be reached.
The new company secures control of
the South Carolina company, which
has been building line in this city.
Prohibition Gubernatorial Candidacy.
Columbia State, Friday: There was
considerable speculation in regard to
the course of the Prohibitionists, and
now that their determination to put
representatives of their views in the
field for at least two State Offices has
been announced, there is talk about
the probable candidate for governor.
Three gentlemen were spoken of:
Messrs c. G. Featherstone, Joel E.
Brunson and Colonel James A. Hoyt.
Mr.. Brunson was the nominee of the
prohibition convention in 1898, but the
suggested nominees were Withdrawn
by the prohibition executive commit
tee on account of the apprehension
that Mr.. Brunson and the others would
be ruled out as the nominees of a
"faction." Mr.. Featherstone had been
named by the executive committee for
lieutenant governor in place of Mr..
Childs, who declined on account of i'll
health, and when Mr.. Brunson did not
appear at the opening meeting in
Orangeburg, although he had filed his
pledge and paid the sum required, MIR.
Featherstone announced himself a can