Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-12-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Rev. j. B. Mack, of Fort Mill, has been
called to the pastorate of Presbyterian
church at Columbia.
Gen. Conner has published card de.
clining to allow his name to be used as can
didate for the Supreme bench.
Col. John D. Wylie will probably be
elected Senator for Lancaster county without
opposition.
- 1t is rumored in Columbia that Corbin
will be re.appointed United States District
Attorney.
On Tuesday last, Col. Henry McIver was
unanimously reelected Associate Justice by
the General Assembly, for six years.
Lieutenant. Governor Simpson publishes
card declining to permit his name to be
used in connection with the contest for AZ.
sociate Justice.
- The Florence Times speaks in very com.
plimentary terms of DR.. P. E. Griffin, the
newly appointed superintendent of the Lu'
natic Asylum.
"A difficulty took place on Thursday last
about seven miles from Ninety-Six, between
Thomas G.. Pinson and Kilt Ingram. during
which the former was shot and killed. The
trouble grew out Of Pinson insulting the wife
of Ingram. Ingram has fled.
Col. Ellison S. Keitt, of Newberry, has
instituted suit against the proprietor of the
New York Times for sander; the said pro.
prietor, in a scurrious article, published in
the Times, having charged Colonel Kett with
bigamy.
- Attorney.General Conner resigned his Of:
fee last Monday, and special message to
that effect was sent to the Legislature. Leroy
F. Youmans, Esq, of Columbia, is the only
gentleman named in connection with the Of
fee, which it ia thought will be filled by spe.
cial act of the Legislature.
Congressman Robert Smalls was admitted
to bail last Monday, in the sum of $4,000, to
await the decision of the Supreme Court upon
his appeal from the verdict of the jury. His
bondsmen are two brothers Frederick W.
and Ernest A. Scheper, of Beaufort, who are
reported to be worth more than double the
amount of the bond.
At Manning, on the 3Oth ultimo, an sro-
naut connected with travelling show, lost
his life by the balloon in which be made an
ascension becoming unmanageable after reach
ing an altitude of several hundred yards.
The body of the unfortunate mau was found
next day in swamp about mile north.
east of the town.
- The Anderson Inteligencer is informed
that Hon. B. F. Crayton, of that county,
president of the State Fair Association, sold
his entire crop of bread corn to Gen. W. G..
LeDuc, United States Commissioner of Ag-
riculture. This corn will be distributed
throughout the United States for seed. Gen.
LeDuc said it was as fine quality of this
important cereal as he had ever seen, and
thereby paid high compliment to Mr. Cray
ton as an agriculturist, and also to Anderson
county as grain growing county.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
John Houston, the oldest citizen of Union
county, died on the night of the 18th nltimo,
aged SO years.
John A. Cameron died at Rockingham,
Richmond county, on Thursday last, from
yellow fever, which he contracted at Rruns-
wick, Georgia.
Daniel H. Smith, of Sharon township,
Mecklenburg county, fell dead on Tuesday of
last week, while talking to some one on bis
premises.
- Notwithstanding the sport made by the
State press of Judge Cloud, his decisions are
affirmed in greater proportion by the Su-
preme Court than the decisions of any other
circuit Judge on the North Carolina bench.
The Hillsboro Recorder is grati6ed to
learn thata disease akin to that which has
been sweeping off the hogs, has laid hold of
the dogs in Chatham county, and the ours
who have grinned defiance at taxation and
public opinion, are melting away before foe
who respects neither.
The Gastonia Herald says that on Friday
of last week, A. B. Rhyme, Of CASTOR coun-
ty, seeing the water rising rapidly in his mill
pond, and fearing the dam would be broken,
took several of his hands and went to work
ing on the dam. The day being wet and
cold some Of the hands INDUCED very freely
in liquor, and, after all, finding their efforts
to save the dam in vain, one Joe Murrell,