Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-21
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The county treasurer or Lancaster mas Is
sued near four hundred tax executions.
- Gov Moses has appointed D. d. Going a
trial justice for Union county.
Gov. Moses has appointed M. L. Owens,
of York, notary public.
- Monroe G. Long, of Union county, has
been appointed by the Governor as coroner
for that county, vice John Tinsley, deceased.
The grand jury of Fairfield county have
refused to grant tavern license" to any liquor
dealers in that county.
The County treasurer Of Greenville adj
vertsed to be sold Oh Monday last, 1882
acres of land for non.payment Of taxes.
- The German immigrants who have set
tied at Lowndesvlle, in Abbeville county,
will give a grand ball during the present
month.
Mr.. Cyrus H. Baldwin, recently appoint
ed assistant United States treasurer at Char
lesion, took possession of the Office on Monday
of last week.
The sale of the Blue Ridge Railroad,
which was to have taken place in Charleston
last week under decree in bankruptcy, has
been postponed until the 22d of October, next.
In the vicinity of Greenwood, and other
sections of Abbeville county, the cattle are
grievously affected with the bloody murrain
and are rapidly dying. In every case the
disease has proved fatal.
Robert Smalls and w. j. Whipper, of
Beaufort, both colored, have announced
themselves as candidates for Congress from
the fifth District embracing the counties OF
Colleton, Barnwell, Beaufort, EdgeGeld and
Aiken.
The grand jury of Kershaw county re-
ports the system of education in the county a
complete failure and the school commissioner
wholly incompetent for his office. Persons
uneducated and of disreputable character,
they say, have been employed as teachers.
A number of planters in Greenville, Ker-
shaw, Sumter, Oconee and Abbeville counties,
have contributed seven thousand acres of
land to be divided into farms of fifty and one
hundred acres, to be given in fee simple to
such immigrants as are able to build them
selves home and purchase for themselves
farm implements, &c.
The Columbia Union says that the "names
of first lieutenant Joseph K. Hyer and second
lieutenant Chas. B. Hinton, of the ighteenth
u. S. Infantry, stationed at Columbia, have
been sent to the Senate for promotion-the
former as captain, vice John Christopher, who
committed suicide at Yorkville few days
ago, and the latter as first lieutenant, vice
Hyer, promoted. Both of these officers are
now attached to Captain keeler's company"
The Columbia correspondent of the Ners
and Courier says that claims against Moses
have been greatly deprecated in consequence
of the effort to throw him into bankruptcy.
Itis thought by many that the whole thing is
an effort on his own part under cover, and
that his object is to get rid of his debts on
terms rendered favorable by this proceeding.
1t is thought that he must have deal of
money hid somewhere.
Judge Mackey is credited with the follow
ing in sentencing man at the recent term of
the Circuit Court at Winnsboro, who had
been convicted of burglary: "You have
been found guilty of an ofense for which you
might be sent to the Penitentiary for thirty
years. The court will sentence you, however,
to only one year. you are convicted again
you will be sentenced to twenty years; if a
third time, to thirty years. Ifyou are con-
victed fourth time, you will then have be-
come eligible to scat in the legislature"
The Columbia Union is responsible for the
following conundrums: "Is there another State
! in the Union where members Of the legislature
do nothing from one years end to another
but attend to their legislative duties? Is it
not time that men were elected to Office who
/ have some other means of living than from
the office which they are elected to fill :? What
hinders member of the General Assembly,
or a county commissioner, or school COM
missioner, from engaging in some other en-
ployment at least eight months in the year !
Echo answers what?
- The Columbia Union says: "a move
ment is on foot to unite the good men of all
parties upon common platform in favor OF
the selection of competent, honest men for all
county offices. Inasmuch as these offices are,
or ought to be non-political, there is no reason
why the best men, those who have the interests
of the whole people at heart, should not be
elected to fill them. The country has had
enough public officials who have no other
business to engage their attention than poll
tics. The movement ought to receive the
countcnancc of all good men"
The Columbia Usion-Herald says that in
the court of General Sessions for Richland
county, on Monday last, the grand jury re-
turned the indictments against John H. Bry-
an, John J. Goodwin and Uriah Portee, ex-
County Commissioners for Richland county,
for official misconduct, and the indictments
against Ellis NJ. Weston, VIM. NJ. Hayne and
Uriah Portee, the present Board of Commits
sioners for Richland county, for official mis-
conduct Bench warrants were ordered to be
issued for the arrest of the above named
parties.
A dispatch to the Charleston News and
Courier of last Monday says that in the cir
cult court of Orangeburg, on that day, "the
grand jury brought in true bill on the in