Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-09
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


i By the State census just completed, the
population of Charleston is ffty.six thou
sand five hundred and forty.
- The total value of the real estate of the
CITY of Charleston is estimated at s1S, 22,8lO
value of personal property, sS,53S,824.
The new hotel at Union has been leased
to Messrs. E. R. Wallace and w. T. Thorn
son, who have gone North to purchase the
necessary furniture and fixtures.
- Col. John G. Presley, native of this
State but now residing in California, has re-
ceived the Democratic nomination for the
judgship in his section.
- The Supreme Court was to have met in
Columbia on Tuesday of last week, but JUS
tices Willard and Wright beiug absent from
the city, Chief Justice Moses adjourned the
Court until the last Tuesday of this month.
- The Edgefeld Advertiser is informed that
the guns belonging to the State, which were
gathered from the colored militia in that
county several months ago by Col. Parmele,
and deposited in the Jail, are being gradually
taken away.
The Union Times mentions, as remarka-
BILE fact, that the colored boys from thirteen
to eighteen years of age, in Union township,
are dying out very fast. Within the knowl'
edge of the editor, six have died within two
weeks.
- The office of the board of sustentation and
foreign missions of the Presbyterian Church,
South, of which Rev. Richard Mc1lvain is
Secretary, and which has been located in Co.
lumbia for several years past, has been re-
moved to Baltimore.
- Mr.. B. H. Byrd, the census.taker of Ches-
ter county, has submitted the following report
to the Secretary of State: Total number of
whites, 7,22S-males, 3,415; females, 1878.
Total number of blacks, 16,999-males, 1871;
females, S,62S. Total population Of the
county, 24,227.
- There is movement on foot to establish
shoe factory at Hodges, Abbeville county.
Twenty three hundred dollars have been sub
scribed in the neighborhood, and sixteen hun
dred dollars in another community near by.
Four thousand dollars in machinery and
equipments have been promised by parties
from Lynn, Massachusetts,.
- Governor Chamberlain has instructed
Col. Parmele, superintendent of the penitentla-
ry, that under the act of 1866 relating to the
penitentiary, and under rules adopted by Gov.
Orr, in pursuance of said act, he may dis
charge convcts upon expiration Of eleven
twelfths of their sentence, for good conduct
during their imprisonment.
- Governor Chamberlain has appointed
Messrs. Reuben Tomlinson, Samuel Lord, jr.,
and John A Mushingtcn the commissioners to
conduct the election for mayor and aldermen
of Charleston, which will take place on the
9Th of October next These appointments
give entire satisfaction to the taxpayers of
Charleston, and indicate that the approaching
election will be fairly conducted.
- Mattison, Richardson and Andy johnson,
who were under bail on the charge of aiding
in the escape of Niles G. Parker, were brought
before Judge Msckey in Columbia, on Thurs
day last on writs of habeos corpus Elliott,
Youmans and Wilkes, Parker's counsel, ap-
peared in their behalf and acting Solicitor
Northrop for thestate. They were discharged
without delay by Judge Mackey.
Micah j. jenkins, who received the ap-
pointment as Cadet at West Point from the
Charleston District, has successfully passed
the preliminary examination and been admit
ted to the ranks of the students Of the Mill
tary Academy. Samuel j. Sampson, of Al.
ken, who was appointed from the Fifth Dis
trct, also passed and was admitted at the
same time. Of forty-seven applicants from
various States of the Union, only twenty sue
ceeded in passing the examination, three of
whom were appointed from South Carolina.
In Lexington county last week, Trial
Justice Hartman heard an action, brought by
D. L. George u.s. Jesse K. Dooley, "for recov-
cry of damages for ten sheep killed by Mr..
Dooley's dog, in company with a strange dog" !"
The case was one of interest, and created
much excitement among our citizens, it being
the first of the kind brought under the late
laws of this State. Messrs. Rice and Meetze
were engaged in the suit, and expounded the
law fully pro and CON. The case was finally
submitted to jury, who found $40 for the
plaintiff, whereupon both parties appealed to
the circuit court.
- The case of Albert johnson and Abra.
ham Dial, charged with being accomplices in
the murder of DR.. Z. G. Shell, Of Laureus
county, on the night of November 2, 1868,
was brought before Judge Mackey, in Colum-
ba, last Friday. The aftidavts of the &C.
cused set forth that their former statements
we're made under duress, and that unlawful
expedents had been adopted to extract from
them statements connecting Joe Crews and
others with the killing of DR.. Shell. 1t also
appeared that Dial was arrested in Washing
ton city and brought here without due requi-
sition by law, which Judge Mackey charac-
terized as kidnapping, and he ordered the dis
charge of both prisoners from custody.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
A young man named Bolick committed
suicide few days ago near Hickory.
Richard P. Pendleton, an old printer, died
suddenly in Salisbury on Saturday, of spasms
of the heart.
During the year ending on the 1st instant,
tho omount of cotton received at Charlotte
was ,135 bales against 37,549 for the pre-
ceding year.
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