Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-09-05
Straps aud fatts.
John Lee; instead of John Lilley, is
Republican County Chairman for Chester.

ly gaVeablrth to three girl children.
Newark, N. j., claims to be the third
manufacturing city in the Union.
of the eight nominees on the "Moses
ticket" four are natives of this State, and
four are natives of other States.
- There is great complaint in the middle
and low counties Of South Carolina in regard
to rust in cotton.
The "True" Republicans have adopted
as their candidates for Presidential electors,
the nominees of the Regular" Convention.
- The Conservative County Convention
of Greenville, has nominated Hon. B. F. Per-
ry as candidate for the State Senate.
Gen. Wade Hampton says that he is
compelled to decline serving as member of
the Democratic State Executive Committee.
- Mrs. Rebecca Foster and Mrs. Patience
Foster, died in Spartanburg county last week.
They we're aged respectively 80 and 80 years.
The South Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church will meet at Anderson
Court House, on the 18th of next December.
- Major T. Jarman Elford, commissary
of Jenkins regiment during the late war, died
dI vi OIu ulIiluO.
- Bullock, late Governor of Georgia, is
said to be travelling in Canada under an as
sumed name
- The Due West Female College resumes
its exercises on Monday, the 7th Of October.
See advertisement in another column.
The Columbia Union says that secret
society is being formed in Charleston in the
interest of the Tomlinson wing of the Repub-
lican party of this State.
- Gov. Scott has pardoned Elijah Laney,
convicted at the fall term of the Court for
Lancaster county, in 1870, and sentenced to
two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
- Cotton caterpillars have appeared in
the fields near Columbia and are doing much
damage The editor of the Phenir counted
twenty worms on one stalk Of cotton.
- The tobacco factory at Walhalla, in
this State, has proved decided success. 1t
has been in operation portion of two seasons,
and is now turning out an article of chewing
tobacco which cannot be excelled.
- James H. Rion, of Fairfield, publishes
card in which he repudiates the Louisville
Democratic Convention. He says that he
approves of no movement that endangers the
election of Horace Greeley.
We regret to learn from the Abbeville
Medium, that the Hon. D. L. Wardlaw was
struck with paralysis of the right arm and leg
on Monday of last week. The disease is only
partial, and strong hopes are entertained Of
the Judges speedy recovery.
"A Baltimore man has been arrested for
killing monkey. As the monkey bit him
first, it can't be made out more than murder
in the second degree, though the matter of
relationship will increase the heiniousness of
the offence.
Blanton Duncan's ''straight-out" Dem
ocratic Nominating Convention met at Louis
vile, Kentucky, on Tuesday last About
one hundred and fifty delegates are in attend
ance-Stokes Of South Carolina among the
number.
- William Lucas and Edward Harris,
colored, were hanged in Columbia on Friday
last Lucas for the murder of John Simpson,
white, near the Charlotte depot in Columbia,
on the 18th of March last; and Harris for
the murder of Patrick Murphy, pump-tend-
er on the South Carolina Railroad.
Professor La Borde, of the South Car
olina University, has recently issued pam
phlet entitled "a Tribute to Hon. John Bel
ton O'Neal, L. L. D." 1t is a summary Of
the life and labors of Judge O'Neal, and is
quite readable. Twenty-Five cents is the
price, and Duhie and Chapman, Columbia,
have it for sale. a."
- The Aiken Tribune says: &c. Davis
Melton, Esq, one Of the most prominent law
yers of this State, and heretofore identified
with the Democratic party, has been elected
a member of the State Central Executive
Committee of the Republican party, and will
soon take the stump in favor of the Moses
ticket, nominated last week."
IS. A. Pearce, jr., of Columbia, men,
ber of the National Committee of the Liberal
Republicans for South Carolina, calls upon
the voters in the State favorable to the elec-
tion of Greeley and Brown, to organize a
Liberal Republican party on the basis of the
Cincinnati platform, and to take steps for the
formation Of Greeley and Brown clubs.
The following deaths have recently oc-
Cured in Chester: On the 22nd ultimo Mrs.
Catharine Kennedy, widow of the late Major
John Kennedy, in the eighty-sixth year of her
age. On the 23rd ultimo, Mrs. James Braw-
ley, eldest daughter of Major James Pagan.
On the 25th ultimo, Mrs Louise N. Mcclure,
wife of Major Edward c. Mcclure, editor of
the Reporter. 80
THE Washington Chronicle of Friday
says: "In consequence of information receiv-
ed at the Department Of Justice from official
sources in North Carolina, the Attorney Gen.
eral considers it necessary to have further in
vestigation made into the ku-klux workings
there, and on his advice the President has de-
termined to suspend the issuing of pardons
for the men heretofore recommended to be re-
leased from the Albany penitentiary.'
-Parson Brownlow, having conscientious
ly spent the last few years of his life in get
ting others into trouble, is at last in trouble
himself An interesting and accomplished
daughter having contracted an attachment
for young stone cutter, endeavored, recently
to- cut away with him, but was caught by the
Parson, who has since placed her in convent.
If the young lady has inherited any of the
paternal obstinacy, she will marry that young
stone cutter yet.----Neau Orleans Times.
The "True''' Republicans have appoint
ed the following persons as County Chairmen
for the. respective counties Charleston coun,
ty, w, H. Thompson; Beaufort, w. G. Nor
rison;, Orangeburg, W. H. Mounts Green
vile, Thomas Bryan; Aiken, Frank Arnim ;
Lexington, John J. Dent; Marion, E. Pryor /;
Oconee, Alex. Bryce Pickens, A. NJ, Folger ;
Union, John Williams; Spartanburg, Javan
Bryant; York, B. F. Briggs; Darlington, j.
S. Fillebrown Newberry, Mat. Grey; Ches-