Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-03-02
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Laurens railroad has been completed
to Clinton, fourteen miles from Laurens, and
the work on the road stopped. -... ...-.
The Lancaster Ledger says that efforts
are being made to form new county out of
portions of Lancaster, Chesterfield and Ker-
shaw.
- Master D. M. Holly, of Fairfield, last
week, killed wild cat measuring three feet
from tip to tip, and weighing sixteen and a
half pounds.
The yellow jasmine is deadly poison if
eaten. Last Sunday night, a young lady in
Columbia put one of these flowers in her
mouth, and shortly after became very ill, but
prompt and effective treatment has placed her
beyond danger.
- In January, 1875, Mrs. McDevitt was
severely injured on the occasion of a run Oft
near Batesburg, on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad. Suit was brought by
Major W. T. Gary, of Augusta, for large
amount in the way Of claim for damages.
The railroad settled the case on Friday by
paying Mrs. McDevitt, through her attorney,
the sum of six thousand dollars in cash.
"A petition by one hundred ofthe tax'pay-
ers of Lancaster county has been presented
to the county commissioners, asking them to
appeal from the ruling Of Judge Mackey,
compelling them to levy tax of four mills
to pay the interest on the county bonds issued
in aid of the Chester and Cheraw Railroad.
Other petitions to the same effect have been
spoken of. .. o..
M. Mclaughlin, one of the ex-County
Commissioners of Charleston county, has
been convicted of forging claim against the
county while he was in office, and in connec-
ton with the other members of the Board
auditing the claim, and subsequently collect
ing the amount from the treasurer. McLaugh-
Inns lawyer gave notice of an application for
new trial.
The Aiken Courier Journal has the fol.
lowing: "Grave rumors are circulating
around that our late clerk of court, Joseph
Quash, was spirited out of the way for talking
too much of what he knew about the dis
graceful jury box robberies. 1t was given
out and it may be true for all we know, that
he died of paralytic stroke or apoplexy, but
very many of his colored friends think other
wise and there is some talk Of digging up his
body and submitting the stomach and abdom-
inal viscera to a chemical analysis"
On Tuesday of last week, a squad of
United States soldiers surrounded the house
of a man named Bran. Hall, few miles
above Spartanburg Courthouse, who was
charged with the crime of illicit distilling,
but had evaded the officers for some time.
On finding that the officers were at his house,
Hall threw open the shutter of back win
dow and attempted to escape, when he was
shot by Corporal Davis, and expired in ten
minutes. Davis says that the sudden open
ing of the window frightened his horse and
made him prance about, and in trying to
quiet the animal his carbine went of, and the
ball struck Hall. Hall was about thirty
years DID,, and has left wife and six chill
dren. The soldiers were under the command
of Lieut.. Miller.
The Charleston Ne,rs and Courier, in re-
ference to the meeting of the Democratic
County Chairmen in Columbia last week, says:
"Everywhere the resolve is fixed and general
that South Carolina, in this Centennial year,
must, at any cost, be wrested from the control
of the harpies who have so long held her in
their ruinous and degrading grasp. Never
before in the history of the State have her
citizens been as united in feeling and as firm
in purpose as now. But the task before them
will demand all their zeal and all their ener'
gies. Success is now within our reach; but it
can only be achieved by resolute, intelligent
and persistent work, and by thorough party
discipline and organization, in every county
of the State, from this time until the ides of
November. But the prize is one worthy Of
whatever struggle it may cost for let the VIC
tory this year be made complete and decisive,
and it is tolerably safe to predict that, what
ever political changes the future may have in
store for us, the property and the destinies Of
South Carolina will never be remanded to the
keeping ola ruthless majority Of Doors and
thieves"
- The Charleston Menus and Courier says !:
"a rather serious question has arisen in re-
gard to the official status of the Hon. F. j..
Moses, sr. By the death Of the late Maj. c.
D. Melton, a vacancy was created in the Law
Professorship of the State University. For
the double purpose, as is alleged, of filling that
vacancy, and of keeping Mr.. Speaker Elliott
out of it, the Hon. F. J. Moses, Sr., Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court Of this State,
was at once elected by the Trustees Of the
University to fill the vacant position, and has,
since his election, actually filled the chair and
discharged the duties Of the Professorship.
But, it is held, by so doing, he has vacated
his title to the office of Chief Justice, and has
no longer any legal right to discharge its i'm.
portant and responsible duties. 1t is even
suggested that all of his judicial decisions rem
dered since his acceptance of the Professor.
ship are absolutely null and void. Article 4,
Section 9, of the Constitution of this State,
reads as follows: "The Judges Of the Su-
preme Court and Circuit Courts shall, at sta
ted times, receive a compensation for their
services, to be fixed by law, which shall not
be diminished during their continuance in Of:
foo Tbov shall not he allowed any fees or