Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-01-25
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Governor Hampton has commissioned the
newly elected sheriff of Anderson county
James 81. Mcconnell, Esq.
There are at present one hundred anc
twenty prisoners in the Jail Of Charleston
county. Ofthe number, but twelve are white
men.
Governor Hampton has supplied the asy
lum for the deaf, dumb and blind, in Spar
tanburg county, with sufficient amount o.
money to meet all necessary expenses for sew
eral months to come.
At Rock Hill, on the 9th instant, the fol
lowing gentlemen were elected town officers
for the current year: Intendant-J. M. Ivy
Wardens-W. L. Roddey, W. L. Roach, A
Friedheim and j. c. Sharpe.
The County Auditor of Anderson, Mr.
Thomas j. Webb, has been enjoined from pro-
ceeding in the matter of collecting the Cham
berlain taxes Messrs. Murray & Murray
with John B. Moore, on behalf of themselves
and other tax payers, filed complaint for in
junction, which was granted by Judge Cooke
At the recent term of the Circuit Court
for Abbeville county, twelve negroes we're put
upon trial for the murder of Mr.. Allen, OF
Lowndesville, in that county, on the 4th OF
December last. Ten of the number were
convicted and sentenced to be hanged on the
third Friday in April next.
Gen. MCGOWAN has written a communi-
cation in reply to the letter in the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel on the subject of the
South Carolina canvass. He says every eff:
fort was made to ensure the success Of the
Democratic Electoral ticket, and that the
proposition to coalesce with the Republicans
in the Residential contest was not entertained.
- Some days ago a statement was made by
the Union Herald to the effect that Governor
Hampton was seeking money loan in New
York to run his government. Inquiries made
in the proper quarter, develop the facts that
the statements of the Union- Herald are false
and that the receipts from the incoming tax is
amply sufficient to meet all present require
ments.
On Wesnesday night of last week, ayoung
lady, daughter Of E. j. Pensen, of Williams
ton, S. c., was stabbed in eleven places by
Lawrence Smith, of Golden Grove Station,
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, and is now
lying in critical condition. Smith had been
visiting the young lady for several months,
and his action is supposed to have been the
result of failure in his suit Smith, who is
thought to be insane, has surrendered himself
to the authorities.
- The State House is still guarded by a
squad of United States soldiers and gang OF
State constabulary. Fifty-six negroes consti'
tute the constabulary force. Three are sta
toned at each door (there are three doors,)
and guard of six are kept in reserve, in the
room of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, at
all hours. When trouble is anticipated, an
other reserve of six or dozen more are held
in readiness in one of the Offices upstairs
The constables are all ragged negroes, the po'
litical vagrants of the town, and the battal'
ion is regularly oficered from corporal to
captain. The present captain is John Little,
(white.) All visitors are halted at the doors,
and required to state their business, whom
they desire to see, &c., by these negroes, be-
fore they are allowed sdmittance.
MERE.MENTION.
Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, re.
fused, last week, to grant requisition for a
Philadelphia bank defaulter, on the ground
that criminal law could not be used to enforce
payment of civil liabilities. '''.''''There are
1,1OS convicts in the Georgia peniten.
tiary. .'"...".A fall of live snakes is reported
to have occurred in a Memphis rain storm
the other day. .''''''"'After his bloodless duel
with Mr.. May, James Gordon Bennett has
made Florida his place of temporary abode,
having arrived at Jacksonville, in company
with four friends, one day last week. ''''''The
New Hampshire Democracy, in State Con-
vention assembled, on the 18th instant, adopt,
ed resolutions denouncing the conspiracy to
seat Hayes by corruptly controlling returning
boards at the South, and also denounce the
use of the military by Grant in South
Carolina and Louisiana ''''''."Howe's Lon.
don Circus was levied on by attachment in
Augusta, Ca, on the 18th, at the instance o1
the United States Rolling Stock Company, Of
Cleveland, Ohio, and will be sold at auction
Among the desirable articles offered are five
elephants, a number Of lions, tigers, hyenas
etc. .'.''''..Georgia expends two and hall
millions dollars annually for fertilizers.
The Florida Circuit Court decides that il
has jurisdiction over the electoral vote of that
State. '.'.....'A bill has been introduced in
the Georgia Legislature to exempt from taxa
ton all cripples, manned and disabled soldiers
of the late war, and the widows of soldiers
who were killed during the war, or have died
since the war, to the amount of $780, ''"'''The
managers of the New York Cotton Exchange
have so amended their rules that on and after
March 1st. decimals shall be used in cotton
transactions. instead of fractions, as at pres
ent. No transactions to be made at less
rate than 100 per cent. nt.""'''''The silver
mines of Storey county, Nevada, yielded 49,,
42,4OO in gold and silver bullion for the
quarter ending Goth oflast September ''"The
ronort of tho ELECTORAL committees submits