Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-09-12
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


an itinerant and local preacher of the Metho-
dist Church, died at Spartanburg on the 25th
ultimo.
June s. Mobley, of Union, requests the
Times to say that the report that he had re-
quested the Governor to send four hundred
stand of arms to that county, is false.
The stone work for the Airline Railroad
bridge over Pacolet, in Spartanburg county,
will be finished in few days. The bridge
will be 130 feet high.
"A National Bank has been organized at
Union Court House. William Munro is Pres
ident Thomas B. Jeter, Vice-President; and
E. r. Wallace, Cashier. 1t will be known as
the Merchants and Planters Bank of Unon." "
The Conservatives ofLexington and Ma
rion counties have made full nominations for
county and legislative positions. John G..
Hope has been nominated for State Senator
in Lexington, and w. S. Mullins, in Marion.
Both were members of the Legislature pre-
vious to reconstruction.
On Sunday night last Jack Brooks, of
Abbeville, and William Smalls, of Charles
ton, escaped from the penitentiary at Colum-
bia. Brooks made good his escape; but Smalls
was shot by the guard and killed while SWIM
ming the river.
The Rock Hill Lantern says that motion
is pending in the United States Court to va
cate the bond required of Dr. J. Rufus Brat
ton after he was brought from Canada; and
that the British government will take no steps
in the matter, unless the United States gov
ernment refuses to vacate the bond.
- The Columbia Union gives currency to q
rumor that Mr.. Myron Fox, formerly of the
New York Tribune later of the Charleston
Republican, and later still engaged on the
Washington Chronicle, is to again take charge
of the Charleston Republican and publish it
in the interest of the Tomlinson party.
"A fire occurred in the printing establish
ment of Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell,
in Charleston, on Thursday night last, by
which it was damaged to the extent of fifteen
thousand dollars. The loss, we are pleased to
learn, is covered by insurance The origin of
the fire is involved in mystery.
We learn from the Reporter that S. P.
Hamilton, Esq, of Chester, as the attorney
for Henry Toole, colored, of Rock Hill, has
brought suit against Major Lewis Merrill
Commandant of the United States forces at
Yorkville, for false imprisonment. Toole lays
his damages at five thousand dollars for forty
two days imprisonment.
Track laying on the Airline Railroad
has been completed from Spartanburg to Pa
colet river, and for about seven miles also in
the direction of Greenville. From Charlotte
to Broad river the track laying will be COM
pleted this week. 1t is thought the road will
be completed between Charlotte and Spartan
burg within the next two months.
&C. G. Bowen, the Chairman Of the Exec
utive Committee of the True Republican
party ofSouth Carolina, has issued circular
requesting the several County Chairmen to
take the necessary steps for the election of
Delegates to Conventions in the respective
counties, for the purpose of nominating candi-
dates for members of the General Assembly
and county Offices.
DR.. Ensor, the Superintendent Of the
State Lunatic Asylum, has again been COM
pciled to call upon private 1uttviduuis
help in order to prevent the patients in the
institution from starving. Mr.. Ed. Hope, a
grocery merchant, Of Columbia, has agreed
to furnish necessary provisions for one month.
In the meantime, DR.. Eusor proposes to visit
Charleston and make an appeal to the banks
of that city to furnish him with sufficient
funds to keep the poor inmates Of the asy lum
from starvation, until the fall taxes come in,
and the Legislature makes another appropri-
alton.
The Chester Reporter referring to the re-
cent meeting at Chester between the Radical
"Regulars" and "Bolters" remarks: "To sum
it all up, the result of the argument is about
the same as that of two school boys quarrel
ing; one says YOU'RE liar" the other says
"you're another" and there it ends. In this
case one says, "your mans thief" the other
says, "your mans bigger thief" and there it
ends; except that disinterested listeners are
forced to the conclusion that both sides are
telling the truth. At the conclusion of Ell
liott's speech, Judge Mackey put it to the
vote of the negroes whether they would sus-
tain the Regulars or the Boilers. All that
voted went for the Regulars; whereupon there
was much and great rejoicing"
The Chester Reporter says: "On Sunday,
the 25th ultimo, Pilgrim Church, on the wes-
tern side ofthe county, was the scene of riot
and tumult disgraceful to the congregation,
and exceedingly annoying to the surrounding
country. This is an African church, presided
over and ministered unto by Rev. Sancho
Sanders, one of the sable legislators of the
State. On this occasion, as we are informed,
one Raymond Wright, colored, presented him
self at the altar asking to be taken into men,
bership with the church. In putting him
through the preliminary examination as to his
fitness for a seat among the faithful, it leaked
out that he had always voted the Democratic
ticket, and that he had not repented of this
sin. The order was given at once for him to
be cast out as an unclean thing, and, in pur-
suance thereof, he was marched out of the
church and out of the yard. Some how or
other collision then occurred between the
police, detailed by the Rev. Sancho, and a
portion ofthe congregation, and soon the fight
became general, men, women and children
participating, and continuing the riot during
the greater portion of the day"