Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-02-19
SOI1TH CAROLINA NEWS.

- SlnCc the eXteuSlOu OI Ine IiIIe, Iilo P"J
ment of taxes has been almost entirely sus
pended throughout the State.
DR.. John A. Watson, native of York
county, has established himself in Chester as
practicing physician.
1t is currently rumored that the Charles
ton Mercury is to be revived under the edito
rial management Of r. Barnwell Rhott, Jr
and backed by one of the wealthiest mer'
chants in Charleston.
H. w. Major, at the recent term of the Cir
cult Court for Anderson county, was convict
ed and sentenced to imprisonment in the penl'
Tertiary for sixteen months, on the charge Of
selling property on which lien existed.
twenty-five immigrants arrived in Colum'
bia on Saturday last, en- route for Chester
Rock Hill and other points. They consisted
of English and Irish families recently arrived
from Europe.
- Robert S. Bruins, Past Grand Master Of
the Grand Lodge Of Ancient Free Masons OF
this State, died in Charleston on Saturday
last after painful and lingering illness. He
was also Past Grand High Priest of the
Grand Chapter, and was we'll known to the
NJ sonic fraternity throughout the State.
49, The Ledger says that at the recent term
of the Circuit Court for Lancaster county,
"Judge Mackey ordered the Sheriff to remove
the criminal dock from the court room. He
designated it, and very properly too, as "a
relic of barbarism, neither fit for man nor
beast; that the law presumed a man innocent
until he had been found guilty The county
commissioners sold it at public auction on
Friday for the sum of ST."
- Robert F. DeLarge, colored, who has
figured quite prominently in the politics OF
South Carolina since reconstruction, died in
Charleston on Saturday last. He was a
member of the first General Assembly, and
was the contestant of G. G. Bowen, Esq, for
the seat in the last Congress. He also held
for short time the position of land commits
sioner of this State, succeeding Mr.. Leslie in
that office, and for the past two years has
been trial justice of Charleston county.
james A. and B. l.. Duffus, two brothers,
who murdered young West in Charleston on
the night of the 4th of July last in billiard
room, we're tried in that city last week. Jas
A. Dufus was found guilty of murder and
sentenced to be hung on the fourth Friday Of
June. B. L. Duffus, who was accessory to
the murder, was sentenced to Imprisonment
in the penitentiary, at hard labor: for teg
years. Notice was given of an appeal for
new trial, and the Judge signed an order
suspending the executions of the sentences
until the motion in arrest Of judgment for a
new trial was heard.
- In the House, on Thursday last, bill to
relieve the citizens of Union county from
paying taxes on their lands on the assessment
of 1878, passed its second reading; as did also
bill to authorize and empower certain coun'
ties (includng Chester, Lancaster and Ches'
terfclD to issue bonds in subscription for
preferred stock of the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad Company. In the Senate, the joint
resolution altering the tenure of Office of the
attorney general, State treasurer, secretary Of
State, comptroller-general, adjutant and in
spector-gcneral and superintendent of educa'
tion to two years, passed its third reading.
! - In Chester, the work Of encouraging i'm
migration is moving in the right direction
On the 22d ult, a meeting of the grange rep
rescntatives was held at that place, for the
purpose of strengthening the cause. Several
of the members present assumed the RESPONSE
bilty of acting for their oranges, and the work
of Encouraging immigration was made public
The general outlines of the plan are as fol-
lows: 1st. That the Patrons of Husbandry
oncu this schcmc tn the public, I'd, That q