Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- "A meeting OF tne stOCRnOluerSOI IIe Onar
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com
pany, will be held at Columbia on the 18th
instant.
Judge Wardlaw has recovered from his
recent severe indisposition and is again at
tending to the practice of his profession at
Abbeville Court House.
". G. Robinson, of Rock Hill, has been
licensed as pharmaceutist, druggist, etc., by
the University Board of Medical Examiners
at Columbia.
DIR, R. w. Gibbes, of Columbia, has been
elected Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in
the South Carolina University, vice Dr. John
T. Darby, resigned.
WIN. j. West, ESQ.,, of Greenville coun-
ty, has been granted a patent for seed and
guano distributor by the Patent Office at
Washington.
Mrs. Sarah Steen, of Union, met with
very serious accident recently, by being
thrown from buggy while returning from
meeting of the Baptist Association.
At a mass meeting of the "regulars" in
Winnsboro last week, resolution was adopt
ed pledging the support of the party in that
county to Hon. A. S. Wallace, Republican
nominee for Congress.
- The Masters, Past Masters and Deputies
of the order of Patrons Of Husbandry in South
Carolina, are to assemble in Columbia on the
9th instant, at 2, p. M, for the purpose Of
forming State Grange.
The Columbia Union says that the Divis-
ion of the Sons of Temperance in that city is
in a prosperous condition. New accessions
are frequent, and the order embraces most Of
the steady young men in the city.
DR.. w. S. Miller, of Spartanburg, was
last week severely injured by getting his left
hand mangled in a cotton gin. A nearly sim
liar accident occurred to Mr.. A. P. Graham,
of Anderson county.
- The Columbia Carolinian publishes in its
advertising columns, with the name of Ed
ward F. Stokes appended, the platform of the
National Democratic party, adopted at the
TGCeuG LOUISVILLE SOuNCa0tou'
II. @. Donaldson, Esq, has been nomina-
ted by the Greenville county convention for
the State Senate, in place of Ex-Governor B.
F. Perry, lately nominated for Congress from
the Fourth Congressional district.
"Hurleyville" in Columbia, embracing
thirty-two cottages, erected by Tim Hurley
on one of the squares in the vicinity Of the
depot of the Charlotte, Columbia and Angus
ia Railroad, is advertised for sale by the sheriff
of Richland as the property of Hurley.
Mr.. G. NJ. McJunkin, of the Working
Christian, proposes to commence the publica-
ton of new temperance paper in Columbia,
when 1000 subscribers are obtained. The
subscription will be s1.25 a year, or five copies
to one address S..
BY recent census the town OF Chester
is found to have population Of 1906, dis
tributed as follows: White males 400; white
females, 43S; colored males, 304; colored fe-
males, 1854. Assessed value of real estate,
s457 800.
- Mr. S. T. Pointer, whose address is
Charleston, has been appointed Chief Super.
visor of Elections for South Carolina. Ap-
plication may be made to him, in writing, for
disappointment of supervisors at election pre-
cincts whenever deemed necessary. The law
requires that when appointments are made,
there shall be one from each political party.
At meeting of the "Bolters," held at
Union Court House, last week, the following
ticket was nominated: Sherif-Charles Nc
Gukin Clerk of the Court-Charles Bolt /;
Judge of Probate-A. A. Hammett; School
Commissioner-D. D. Coins; County Com
missioners Farr, T. j. Coleman and
Abel Farr; Coroner-James Carlisle.
- The Conservatives of Aiken have put in
the field the following ticket: Major A. j.
Hammond, for senator; DR.. CAN'T, G. w.
Croft, S. Corley, Philip Kitching, for repre-
sentatives NJ. T. Holley, for sheriff; L. w.
Williams for clerk H. D. OFT, for probate
Judge; DR.. T. H. Morgan, for school commits
sioner; Captain A. P. Brown, S. P. Kitching,
Rev. E. A. Price, for county commissioners
- DR.. Javan Briant, formerly Democratic
member of the Legislature from Spartanburg,
but more recently convert to Republican,
ism, has sued the editor and proprietor of the
Spartan for libel. The warrants are based
upon an editorial which appeared in late is
sue of the Spartan in reference to the acts and
doings of the Radical county convention held
few days previous.
- The Fairfield Neacs gives the particulars
of difficulty which occurred recently in that
county, near GLADDEN. Grove, between George
Moore and Ned Graham, both colored, which
resulted in the death of the latter at the hands
of the former. Itseems that Moore's calf got
into Gladden's field, and was being chased
about by Gladden's dogs, when Moore came
up and rencontre ensued, during which
Moore shot GLADDEN. with double-barrel shot
gun, killing him instantly. Moore has been
arrested and lodged in Jail.
The Columbia papers report that Gov.
Scott has retained counsel in New York to
institute at once legal proceedings against the
New York Tribune, for an alleged slanderous
and libellous article said to have been pub
lshed in the issue of that paper oft the 9th ul-
timo. The Governor states that he is deter
mined to submit no longer to the circulation
of libellous articles without giving theIoppor-
tunity in court to prove the charges that have
been and are being made against him in some
of the public prints.