Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-07
The Aurkrille Gmqnirer.
YORKVILLE, S. C. /:
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1877.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

CAhV1nNh NG"Cs
There are now $50 convincts in the peni-
tentiary.
- The Sumter Watchman complains of the
presence of grave yard thieves in that town.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain left Columbia
on Wednesday night of last week for New
York.
The little baby boy now entering life
Graves no higher shibboleth to fame than the
initials "W. H."
The President of the Greenwood and Au.
gusta Railroad has applied to the Legislature
for two hundred convicts.
The people residing in the vicinity of
Pleasant Valley, Lancaster, are circulating a
petition for the formation ola new county.
The stands of cotton and corn in Barn
well county are equal to any previous years,
but they are three weeks later than usual.
The United States South Atlantic Navy
squadron is ordered to rendezvous at Port
Royal for drill by the middle of the present
month.
Judge Mackey says that "Hayes has beer
Aabbergasted by Patterson, and has counter
marched on the path of administrative re-
form"
Maj. A. G. Spain is suggested as suita'
BILE person to represent the people of Darling
ton in the State Senate, in place of White
more, resigned and absconded.
Port Royal harbor having been made a
naval station, the Secretary of the Navy has
decided to send a sectional dock and erect
machine shops for the repair Of naval vessels
"A concurrent resolution has been intro
duced in the House of Representatives re-
questing j. J. Wright, Associate Justice, to
resign. Wright's friends say that it is not
likely that he will do anything of the kind.
- In Columbia last week, company OF
colored men, to the number of twenty-seven,
met and organized company Of infantry, to
be known as the Hampton Light Infantry.
The following is list of the officers elected :
Captain, VIM D. Turner; 1st lieutenant, E.
Henderson I; I'd lieutenant, T. H. Kershaw.
The Columbia Register mentions that
President Hayes last week offered the Solici-
torship of the United States Treasury to Judge
Samuel W. Melton. The proffer of the office
was made to Judge Melton by telegraph, and
was promptly declined. 1t is stated that the
Judges practice is too lucrative for him to
think for moment of giving it up for the
sake of a paltry government office, which only
paid 81, 1000 per annum.
"A destructive fire occurred at Union, G.
H., about IL o'clock last Sunday, commenc,
ing in w. R. Briggs & Co.'S establishment,
burning them out, and the following j. T.
Hill & Co., j. M. Gibbes & Co., Dunn Il Co.,
j. P. jacob, R. F. Briggs, w. E. Nease,
w. R. Davis (the buildings belonging to D.
G. Fant), Mrs. w. D. Humphrey, Spears &
Cotton, w. H. Wallace. and the estate of
Giles Sharp, together with the railroad shops,
depot, and considerable rolling stock. The
estimated loss is from $4,000 to 100000.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is
supposed to have been from carelessuess. The
insurance will amount to from $4,000 to
$4,000.
- The Darlington Ne,cs furnishes the fol.
lowing story: "Where affairs are managed SO
recklessly as to allow lunatics to sit on the
jury, it is not to be wondered at if crime goes
unpunished. Such was the case with the
Court here last week, though not discovered
until Saturday, when the jury was being en-
panelled for the last case-State against j. R.
Wadford for murder, when certain colored
man, who bad set on the jury and heard sew
eral important cases during the week, was
called to be sworn, the counsel for the defence
objected to him on the ground that he was
insane. The judge ruled that the fact would
have to be proven before he could be objected
to on that ground, when the counsel proceeded
to question him as follows: "Thomas, how
about the war debit" Juror-"I paid it. u
Counsel-"Are you engaged to Queen Victo,
ria?" Juror-"Yes; we are gwine to be
married in short time" Counsel-"How
much are you worth, Tom?'' Juror-"My
papers say four millions" This convinced
the Court that the man was insane Later in
the day the same man walked into the Court
house with carpet-bag suspended on his
shoulder and took seat beside the judge"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The residence of DR.. J. A. Ray, of kice's
Mountain, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday
night of last week.
Commencement exercises at Trinity COL
lege will begin on the 18th instant. Cover
nor Hampton is to deliver an address on the
18th.
The residence of Prof Alderman of Greens.
boro Female College, was destroyed by fire on
the morning of the Both ultimo. Every arti'
Gle ofapparel and furniture in the building,
excepting few chairs, was destroyed
Col. W. H. Thomas, ex-agent of the band
of Cherokee Indians in the western part of
North Carolina, and who commanded body
of Indians on the Confederate side in the late
war, has become insane, and last week was
placed in the lunatic asylum.
james P. Wilson, who surrendered him
self to the authorities of Mecklenburg county
for the murder of Nathan G. Clayland, COM
mitted in Charlotte twenty.three years ago,
and was sentenced by the Court, last week, to
five years imprisonment in the county Jail,
has been pardoned by Governo. Vance.
The board of aldermen elected in Will.
mington last March, took charge on the lst
instant. The board consists of six Democrats
and four Republicans. This is the first time
the city has been under Democratic control
since the days of reconstruction. The new