Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

pany, has decided to attend the Mecklenburg
Centennial
ID. S. Legg was arrested in Greenville
last week, and lodged in Jail, charged with
having abducted young girl from Rock Hill
Maj. VIM. T. Gary, of Edgefeld, has re-
moved to Augusta, where he will engage in
the practice of law.
The Lancaster Ledger mentions that the
wheat crop in that county has been only
slightly damaged by frost.
Judge Mackey has ordered the grand
jury of Fairfield county to investigate the re-
cent disappearance of Sheriff Duvall.
The Pickens Sentinelis informed by some
of the farmers that their wheat has been con-
siderably injured by the recent frosts.
In Fairfield county, recently, colored
girl aged about ten years, in whose care an
infant of her sister was left, carried the baby
to neighboring creek and drowned it.
james Moore, convicted offorgery at the
recent term of the Circuit Court for Fairfield
county, has been sentenced to Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for two years.
- Everidge Cain, colored, an ex-member Of
the Legislature and public school teacher in
Abbeville, has been arrested for assault and
battery with criminal intent upon the person
of colored woman.
An election has been ordered by the
County Commissioners ofSpartanburg, for the
3lst of May, to decide in favor of or against
a subscription of sl50,000 to the Spartanburg
and Asheville railroad.
Mr.. James K. Means, one of the oldest
citizens of spartanburg county, about eighty
FIVE years of age, died at the residence Of his
son, Capt. S. C. Means, on Saturday, the 1st
instant
The ship Henrietta, the largest vessel ever
built in South Carolina, was successfully
launched at Bucksville, in Horny county, on
the 10Th ultimo The launch was celebrated
with becoming honors by the citizens of Horny
county.
The County Commissioners of Richland
county, for the years 1902, have been con-
victed of official misconduct, and are booked
for the penitentiary. The Commissioners for
the years 1924 have been indicted for pay
ing all account not itemized and not sworn to.
-Thirty-six jurors were drawn in Laurens
county the other day, of whom six were whites
and thirty blacks. This is understood to be
a put up job in order to get true bills against
a number of gentlemen charged with being
ku.klux. Judge Moses has made threats that
he intended to have true bills found against
the last one Of them.
"A true bill has been found by the grand
jury of Fairfield county against H. A. Smith,
once county treasurer, for fraud and en-
bezzlement in not accounting for the sum of
$4,000. 1t will be recollected that Smith
was convicted about a year ago on an indict-
ment for not making returns of money collect.
ed. He served six months in Jail, and doubt.
less supposed that he had heard the last Of the
matter.
A correspondent Of the Union Herald,
writing from Winnsboro, on Saturday last,
says: "L. w. Duvall, sheriff of Fairfield
county, who had been indicted, under the in
structions of Judge Mackey, for official mis-.
conduct, consisting in habitual neglect of his
duties as sheriff, rendered his resignation on
yesterday, through the presiding judge, in
open court, who thereupon transmitted it to
the Governor, and ordered mol. pros. to en-
ter. The mol. pros. relates only to the alleged
neglect of duty and does not relieve the sheriff
from prosecution for any defalcation proved
against him. 1t is now currently stated that
Duvai has effected an arrangement whereby
he will be enabled to settle in full with all
parties for whom he has received any moneys
as sheriff"
South Carolina can contribute relic of
royalty to centennial exhibitions in the mace
used by the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate on
great occasions. 1t attracted a good deal of
notice at the inauguration of Gov. Chamber
lain, when it was first used since reconstruct
ton. In "Draytons Memoirs" note thus
speaks fit: "This mace is now the only rem
nant of official royalty among US. Lord
William Campbell would have taken it with
him when he took the great seal of the pro-
vince, but it was fortunately beyond his con-
troll. 1t is made of silver, gilded over with