Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-11-11
RECENT ELECTIONS.

RECENT ELECTIONS.
The elections last week, in the different
States mentioned, resulted as follows:
New YoRK.-The Herald says: 1t would
seem that the Democratic State ticket is elect
ed beyond doubt, although some of the Re-
publicans in the interior claim that when all
the returns are in, if the Democrats have any
majority at all, it will not reach 5000. 1t gives
the Legislature thus: Senate, Republican,
%; Democrat, 10; Assembly, Republican,
IA; Democrat, So; Independent, /.
KANsAs-Returns from rs of the 103 leg.
islative districts show the election of 80
straight Republicans and 81 opposition,
classed under the heads of Democrats, IDde-
pendents and Reformers. Last year only 26
members went into the opposition caucus,
showing that the contest this year had been
considerably closer than it was then. The
Democrats also elect a Senator in the district
where there was vacancy, and also elect
District Judge in the Fort Scott district, be-
ing one of three vacancies.
W1scoNs1N.-The Republicans elect the
STATE ticket by majority ranging from 1000
to 5000. The Republicans also carry the
Legislature by three majority on joint ballot
New JERsEY.-Thirty-nine Republicans
and twenty.three Democrats have been elected
to the General Assembly. The Republican
majority on joint ballot is 17-being a Re-
publican gain of 81.
PENNsYLvANIA-Hart Republican,
is elected Governor by about 10000 majority.
MINNESOTA latest estimate shows
that Pillsbury, Republican, for Governor, has
about 10000 majority. The Legislature will
be two-thirds Republican.
M1ss1ssIppI-The Democrats have carried
the State, electing the entire ticket in nearly
every county. They have about 80 majority
in the House and 6 or 8 in the Senate, and
elect the entire Congressional delegation with
the exception of the sixth district.
MASSACHUSETTS. Republican State
ticket is elected by majority of 10000. The
feoPuetieaus- 1Tz Representatives and
the Democrats 81.
V1RGINIA-A large but not full vote
polled. Members of the House, and one-half
the members of the Senate were elected-the
result being generally favorable to the Dem.
ocrats.
MARYLAND.-John Lee Carroll, Democrat,
is elected Governor by majority of $4,000.
The Legislature will stand IS Democrats to
26 Republicans, in the House, and 20 Demo.
Gratis to 6 Republicans in the Senate.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Port Royal is to be made the chief naval
station of the North Atlantic fleet.
- The shock of an earthquake was felt in
Columbia and the western part of the State
on the night of the End instant.
- The grand jury of Charleston county
have found true bills against Martin R. De.
laney, for breach of trust and grand larceny
- Gen. James Chestnut, President, gives
notice that the State Tax Union will meet in
Columbia, on the fourth Tuesday of this
month
- The colleges of Due West are in most
prosperous condition, about ninety students
having already matriculated in the Female
College and more than sixty in Erskine.
The freight depot of the South Carolina
Railroad, at Aiken, was accidentally destroy
ed by fire on the night of the End instant.
The entire contents, except ten bales Of cotton,
were destroyed.
- The postmaster-general,a after an exami-
nation of the facts, has entirely exonerated
David Johnston, late postmaster at Union
Court House, from the charge Of illegally
trafickiug in postage stamps.
H. A. Smith, ex-Treasurer of Fairfield,
was tried in Winnsboro this week, on the
charge Of embezzlement. The jury failed to
agree, and the solicitor gave notice for a new
trial and change of venue.
Says the Union-Herald of Tuesday: "Mr.
Richard Tozer drove his new road locomotive
up Main street to the fair yesterday, having
in tow two other engines and large farming
machine, all of which made an attractive
spectacle.
The contract for furnishing necessary sup
plies of various kinds for the use of the pen
itentiary, for the ensuing year, has been
awarded to MessTs Gary & Tappan, of Co.
lumbia. 1t is estimated that the expenses of
the penitentiary will be full fifteen thousand
dollars short of those of last year.
The Governor has pardoned Eli G.. Lang
ley, convicted of malicious mischief at the
February term, 1875, of the Court of Sessions
for Lancaster county, and sentenced to two
years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The
act consisted in manning horse. His peti-
ton is endorsed by the prosecutor, most of
the jury, all of the county officers, the solic-
itor and the judge.
"A meeting was held at Walhalla on Tues
day, the 2nd instant, for the purpose of revi-
wing the old Blue Ridge Railroad scheme,
and devising plans for its completion. The
meeting was largely attended, and delegates
were present from Georgia and North Carroll
ma. Enthusiastic speeches were made by
General MCGOWAN, of Abbeville Judge
Cooke, of Greenville; Col Rucker, Of Geor-
gia, and Mr.. Murray, of Anderson. Resolu-
tions were adopted of practical nature and
the meeting adjourned to meet at Knoxville,
Tennessee, on the 10th of January next
Not ten miles from the city of Greenville,
lives an cid gentleman and his wife, the
parents of five children, all sons. There never
was daughter born to these people; never