Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-06

recently convicted in Charleston Of the kill.
ing of Perrin, and sentenced to five years im-
prisonment in the penitentiary, is now an in
mate of that institution.
-Messrs. John Wilson, W. G. Keith, I. @,
Donaldson, Thomas C. Dunn, W. p. Hol-
combe and G. w. Duvall, Conservative Sena-
tors, filed their protest against the bill to ap-
propriate $4,000 to pay the ku-klux hunters
Postmaster Wilder, of Columbia, has re-
signed his position as Alderman of one of the
wards of that city, in consequence of the order
torbdding United States officials from hold
ing more than one office.
Thirty foreign emigrants are said to be
on their way from New York to Columbia,
under an engagement to work in stave and
shingle factory recently established in Rich
land county.
Just previous to adjournment, the Legis-
lature elected Macon B. Allen, colored, Judge
of the Inferior Court of Charleston, vice Judge
Lee, colored, deceased. Allen was the "bol-
ters'" candidate for Secretary of State at the
last election.
The Columbia Herald says there will be
a meeting of the incorporators of the Chester
and Cheraw Railroad at Lancaster OH the
10Th of April, after which it is probable that
consolidation will be effected, under the
name, style and firm of the Little River,
Cheraw and Chester Railroad Company.
Trains are now running upon the Air
Line Railroad from Charlotte to thirteen
miles west of Spartanburg The road is
nearly all graded, and as soon as the bridges
can be built the track will be laid from sew.
eral points at the same time, viz From Spar.
tanburg west, from Greenville east and west,
from the Blue Ridge Railroad east and west,
and from Gainesville, Georgia, this way. 1t
is expected that the road will be completed
in June.
"A circular letter was issued last Saturday,
by Comptroller-General Hoge, to each of the
county auditors, requiring them to instruct
the county treasurers to proceed at once to
issue executions for the unpaid taxes of 1872
73, with the addition of the twenty per cent
penalty imposed by law. The county treasu-
rers will thus be required to make speedy
collection of all unpaid taxes by distress or
otherwise, the personally of the tax payer
being required to be first exhausted before
proceeding against his real estate. The pub
lication of the lists of delinquent taxes is to
be commenced on April 18th, and the sales
of real estate for unpaid taxes are fixed for
May 9th. . ..
The Columbia Evening Herald Of Satur-
day last, says: Senator Dunn goes to Ches-
ter tonight for the purpose of starting the
"ball in motion" for the Chester and Cheraw
Railroad. 1t is stated that this road will be
commenced Immediately. 1t is an important
link in the proposed seaboard route, connect
ing with the Little River and Cheraw Road,
thence on the Chester and Lenoir route up
through York county, striking the Western
North Carolina, near Hickory Tavern, thence
on to Eastern Tennessee, ultimately striking
the Knoxville and East Tennessee Road, and
thereby opening to the seaboard some of the
richest and most productive portions of the
country in the United States"
- The Charleston News furnishes the follow
ing information in regard to Macon B. Allen,
recently elected Judge of the Inferior Court
ofCharleston: "Macon B. Allen, the newly
elected Judge Of the Inferior Court, is fifty.
five years old, and native Of the State of
Indiana. He is colored man of light COM
plexion, and is said to have Scotch blood in
his veins. He commenced life as school
teacher, but shortly giving up that vocation,
he removed to New England, where he stu
died law in the Office of the Hon. Samuel
Fessenden, at Portland, Me-, and is said to
have been the first colored man in the United
States to gain admission to the practice Of
law. He practiced for many years in Boston,
Mass, which place he left for South Carolina
in 1868. He is respectable colored man of
temperate habits and courteous bearing"
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