The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-22
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an extravagant estimated
Barnwell.
A letter to THE News, dated Barnwell Court
house, October q, reports TINT the Radicals have
1000 majority Ia Bsrnwell County. It seems to be
conceded, however, that three OF the Reform can
didstes for the Legislature are elected. Bowen
and DeLarge are 30 close in their vote that It Is
impossible to tell which is ahead.
Chesterfield.
A telegram to The NEWS, dated Cheraw, Octo.
Der 21st, says:
1.-THE Reform majority at the Courthouse is 2ls;
at oros ia; at Old Store o. one poll yet to hear
from.n
A later telegram says:
1.-THE Reform majority in this county, by the
unoffcial count OF our committees, Is 1881
Orangeburg.
A letter to TIE NEWS, dated october 81, says:
.The total vote SO fur is: Whites l540 and color
ed $780, The remaining four precincts will give .
small colored majority"
letter frsm Branchville to The News says:
Everything passed or quietly. The Radicals
threatened the lives OF the colored men who voted
the Reform ticket, but did not carry their threats
into execution. The votes is, whites 1877, cOlored
1S4 colored majority Of only 81. The whites
turned OUT almost to o man, and the Radicals
voted all their strength
orangeourg County will probably give 1000
Radical majority.
Another report from orangeburg is as follows:
"The Radicals claim majority OF 1000. At
Branchvllle and oraageburg Courthouse there
are large Conservative gains; at tile other polls,
Radical gains, as the whites did not turn out at
all WELL"
A telegram to TIE NEWS, dated Augusta, octo-
ber 2l, says:
"The vote In Edgedeld is very close. Both
parties claim the county. The ofdcial count alone
will decide"
Georgetown.
A letter to TIE NEWS, dated Georgetown, 0cto-
ber 90, says:
"The vote in Georgetown was whites 1877, and
blacks 6el. There never was better turning out
OF the whites since the war"
second dispatch says: ''The polling was
small, the number OF votes polled being about
onc.thlrd OF the number at the last elections"
A dispatch to The NEWS, received last night,
says:
"The whole vote cast was 2S72, or 355 white and
25l7 colored. The Radical majority Is 1000. The
full vote of The county is 4Ul0, falling on l16s.
There was no Reform county ticket. All quiet"
Marion.
The following significant telegram was re-.
ceiyed yesterday by Judge Carpenter:
MARION, October 20.
"The Union Reform Party have carried the
county by four hundred majority. The commits.
sioners are all Republican and Two Of them are
candidates. They refused to allow any guard or
joint custody ofthe boxes. They have them now
in private house. "a. Q. MoDUFFIE."
We presume that the commissioners intend to
"countu themselves In.
Marlboro.
A dispatch to Tue News dated Baanettsyille,
Ociobar 20, says:
srrhe Radicals hay carried Marlboro by ma. {.
iority OF one hundred votes, as well as We can
calcu ate from the returns. It has been appre-
hended that we would be imposed upon by votes
imported from North Carolina, Chesterfield and
Darlington. Such has undoubtedly been the
case in spite OF oil precautionary measures. The
vote is the largest by far ever poed 10 the coun.
ty. We man, possibly. have elected the probate
ind ,o mi anhnnl com m LIZ Jioner