Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Attorney. General Conner, who accompa-
MED Governor Hampton to New York, has
returned to Columbia.
The county convention of Newberry has
nominated Judge Y. j. Pope as the democrat
ic candidate for the legislature.
up to the date of our latest advices from
Columbia, Governor Hampton had not re-
turned from his northern tour.
The rumor prevails in Columbia that the
post in that city is to be discontinued, and
the 18th Infantry ordered to Atlanta, except
one company, which is to 60 to Greenville.
-Ex- x-Comptroller T. G. Dunn unites with
Senator Patterson and other prominent South
Carolina Republican leaders in denouncing
Chamberlain's Woodstock speech.
- Mr. Theodore D. Kline has been appoint
ed Superintendent of the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, in place Of Mr.. James
Anderson, resigned.
james R. Aiken, Esq, died at his resi-
deuce in Winnsboro, on the morning of the
10th instant, after lingering illness, from an
affection of the lungs.
The members of the Richland Rife Club,
al their regular monthly meeting held on
Thursday night last, decided to change the
name Of the company to that Of the Cover
nors Guards.
The number of prisoners in the State
Penitentiary now amounts to 4S5, nearly all
of whom are colored. All but one or two are
males, and four-6fths are confined for the
crime of theft, of greater or less degree.
- An old colored man in Darlington coun
ty, was lately noticed gathering up and eat,
ing chickens which had died of cholera.
When stopped from this he commenced eat
ing toads, and few days ago died.
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company has adopted the use Of
the patent air-brakes on all trains on that
road, and these are now being supplied and
affixed to the coaches and engines as rapidly
as possible.
= The Fairfield Register says that the crop
prospect in that county is not promising.
The unpropitious weather in the spring, and
the long drought, combined to make the cotton
very backward, while the recent rains have
given great impetus to grass.
- Recently, at Greenville, the wife of
prisoner went to the Jail and asked permission
to see him. The jailer examined her before
allowing her to 60 in, and found small saw
sewed up in the skirt Of her dress. The ex-
cuse she offered for having the saw was, that
she put it there when she was baptized to keep
her dress down, and had forgotten to take it
out
David Pearce and Geo. Stevens, two me-
groes, who waylaid, murdered and robbed
young man named Edings near Charleston,
May 18th, under circumstances of peculiar
atrocity, were hanged at 1875 o'clock last
Friday morning. They were baptized pre-
vious to their execution by Catholic priest,
with whom they left full confession of their
crime. They died without struggle. About
200 persons witnessed the execution.
Judge Wright made temperance speech
at Beaufort recently, but when asked to sign
the pledge himself, refused to do so. He gave
as his reason for the refusal, that che had
been accused of drunkenness, and, for him to
sign the pledge in Beaufort, would be giving
his accusors proof that he was in the habit of
indulging in fluids other than tharthaparilla." !"
The excuse was considered rather thin, but he
was obdurate, and is still at liberty to drink
rum and molasses if he prefers it.
The following item has recently appeared
in papers published outside this State ::
"The promoters of the Liberian emigration
scheme from South Carolina claim TO have
enrolled the names of $500 colored persons
in Charleston, and 10000 in the State, who
consent to emigrate" tits rather strange that
movement assuming such proportions as here
iutimated, has attracted so little attention in
the midst of the people most directly interest
ed. We doubt if there are 100 colored men
in the entire State who would consent to en-
igrate to Liberia, if required to defray their
own expenses.
- The following report of the condition of
the cotton crop in South Carolina for the
month of June has been derived from
the replies of ninety-six correspondents, in
thirty counties of the State The first part
of the month was dry, afterwards showery,
and in portions of the State very wet. Fifty
eight report the weather for the month tav-
orable. Thrty.eight report too vet and un-
favorable. Thirty.eight report it more ia
vorable than last year. Thirteen report as
about the same. Forty-6ve report less favor
able. Eighteen counties, containing two
thirds of the acreage of the State, report a
decrease in acreage since last report, owing
to bad stands, etc., (grain and corn being
substituted,) from 2! to 10 per cent, and one
county an increase of per cent, the average
for nineteen counties being decrease of 3
per cent, equal to decrease for the State of
2 per cent. The stands are reported fair to
good by ixty.four, and bad by thirty-two. The
condition of the crop is reported by twenty
as good and better than last year BY thirty
six healthy and clean, but late ten to fifteen
days; and by forty, fields grassy, cotton late,
condition bad, not so good as last year. Lice
ore ronorted in seven counties