Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

lowed.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The people of Greenwood, S. c., have
subscribed $4,000 to the capital stock Of the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad.
Mr.. Samuel McDill, of Chester, was badly
bruised on Saturday of last week by falling
down a we'll.
Six hundred dollars have been subscribed
in Columbia towards creating fund for pros
ecuting the swindling State officials.
The Republicans of Chester have elected
T. ]. Mackey, B. G. Yocum and John Lilly
delegates to the State convention.
Preparations are making for the opening
of the State Savings and Insurance Bank of
Anderson, and in few days the business ope-
rations of the bank will begin.
Hon. George S. Bryan, Judge of the
United States District Court for South Caro-
lima, is in favor of Horace Greeley for Pres
ident
- The Columbia Pheni1 of the 18th says ::
eve are highly grati6ed to state that DR..
Ensor has made arrangements by which the
Lunatic Asylum will be kept aaoat, without
material difficulty, until the meeting Of the
Legislature"
A new mail route on which the mail is
to be carried twice week, has been establish
ed to run from Union G.. H., v;a Fair Forest
to WoodruA's in Spartanburg county. The
mail will leave Union on Tuesdays and Thurs
days.
- Mr.. A. D. Jones, whose name appears in
the list of those receiving money under the
EARNED force" resolution requests the Colum.
bia Phenir to state that it should have been
published as freight expenses on the arms
shipped per Southern express.
Sergeant Thomas E. Doyle, of Troop E,
Seventh United States Cavalry, was found
guilty at the last term of the Court Of General
Sessions at Spartanburg of robbing the post
trader, Mr. Frederick Schmidt, Of 1915. He
sentenced to four years in the Penitentiary.
- The Horny Ne,us says: "From every Sec
ton of the county, we learn that the army
worm, in combination with the caterpillar, is
devastating the crops. The destruction Of
late crops of rice, corn and cotton by this
scourge, is fearful" 1T
Edward Harris and William Lucas, who
we're under sentence to be hanged in Colum-
bia on Friday last for the murder of John
Simpson. have had the execution of the death
penalty suspended by the Governor until
Friday, the 3Oth day of August.
- The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says
that Gen. E. P. Alexander, at present Super
intendent of the Charlotte, Columbia and Au-
gusta Railroad, has been elected Professor of
Military Science and Mechanics in the Uni
versity of Georgia.
- The Times says that sufficient amount
of stock has been subscribed by some of the
substantial men of Union county to authorize
the establishing of National Bank at Union
Court House. Initiatory steps have been
taken to put the institution in operation as
soon as possible =:
Governor Scott has appointed David
Hemphill John L. West and John Lilly,
Commissioners of Election for Chester coun-
ty; William McKenna, John @. Cousart and
Robert McClain, for Lancaster; H. H. D
Byron, NJ. G. Long and H. N. Duncan for
Union G. A. Settler, Basset Weaver and B.
F. Bates for Spartanburg. ...,...
- Edward F. Stokes, the champion Demo-
crat of South Carolina, and who signs himself
member of the Executive Committee of the
Democratic party of the United States" has
issued a call for "the true Democrats of South
Carolina" to meet in Convention in Columbia,
on tomorrow, for the purpose of electing del
egates to the National Democratic Convention,
which will be held at Louisville, KY, on the
3rd of September.
Judging from paragraphs in our ex-
changes, Hon. A. S. Wallace, the present in
cumbent and the nominee of the Republican
party in the fourth district for Congress, will
not be permitted to walk over the track with
out opposition. A correspondent Of the
Greenville Mouutaineer suggests the name OF
Col. E. P. Jones, of Greenville, as o candidate
of the Conservatives. The Spartanburg Era
says that Col. I. G. McKissick, of Union, is a
candidate, and citizens of Laurens propose to
nominate Hon. B. F. Perry, Of Greenville.
The Republican Convention for Richland
county has made the following nominations
for county officers: Sheriff-Jesse Dent
Clerk of the Court-D. B. Miller; Judge Of
Probate-S j. Swygert; School Commission,
er-David Salmond; County Commission,
ers-Wm. Hayne, Uriah Portee, Ellison Ev'
erton House of Representatives,. B.
Thomson, A. w. Curtis, Charles Minort. In
regard to the nominees, the Columbia CORES
pondent of the Charleston Ne,Os says: "The
county nominations here with the exception
of that for clerk of the court and for sheriff.
are as bad as bad can be. Miller is nomina'
ted for clerk. Swygert, the nominee for pro-
bate Judge, knows nothing of Webster's ell
ementary spelling book, much less of law
The school commissioner is even more igno'
rant than the present incumbent, Edwards
There is strong talk among the darkies OF