Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-10
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Rev. E. L. Patton has been elected
professor of Greek in Erskine College, Due
West.
"A light frost visited Laurensville and vi
cinity on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings
of last week.
In Marlboro county, last week, j. w.
Covington killed an eagle, measuring six
feet nine inches from tip to tip of his wings.
The Charleston Nescs and Courier has
been authorized to withdraw the name of
Hon. w. D. Porter as candidate for Chief
Justice.
-Writs have been issued for new election
of Representatives in Fairfield on Monday
the 18th, to fill the vacancies caused by the
resignation of Gibson and Bird.
The vagrant law is being strictly enforced
in Union, and large number of vagrants and
gamblers have been arrested and either
lodged in Jail or compelled to leave the
county.
The Chesterfield Democrat, of the 4th in
stant says: "For several days we have had
remarkably cool nights for the season, but
not sufficiently cool to injure the fruit, a
bountiful crop of which is now very promis'
ing. Corn and cotton planting is nearly fin
ished, much of it being already up"
-Adjt.- Gen. Noise is preparing bill to
authorize the Governor to form the white rifle
clubs of the State into volunteer regiments,
with companies of sixty men each. The col
ored companies will remain as they are in
the National Guard. State arms will be fur.
nished those companies, in the militia,
who are unequipped, within thirty days.
"A brutal murder was committed last Sat
urday two and half miles from Blackville,
on the road leading to Barnwell. The MUIR
dered man was one Thomas Harms, an Irish
man who has been residing in Bsrnwell coun-
ty for the past six years. A white man
named Darling Nevils is charged with the
commission of the crime-his object being
robbery-and he has been lodged in Jail to
await his trial for murder.
The chairman of the committee of inves'
tigation in the case of Associate Justice
Wright, has informed the Columbia cores
pondent of the Me,us and Courier, that the CON-
mittee will recommend the declaring of
Wright's seat vacant, but are still undecided
as to the form in which that recommendation
shall be made. The prevailing sentiment is
to recommend the House to declare the seat
vacant, and call upon the Governor to fill the
vacancy Doubts, however, are expressed as
to the legality of this course.
The bill regulating the compensation of
county treasurers and auditors, which, last
Friday, passed to third reading in the House
of Representatives, allows commissions to
county treasurers as follows: Three per cent.
upon the first $4,000; two per cent. upon the
next $4,000. and one-half of one per cent.
on all amounts over $4,000, provided the
same shall not exceed $500 or less than $500
Der annum, except Charleston, where commits
sions shall not exceed $4,000. The salaries of
the county auditors are as follows: Charles
ton, $4,000; Abbeville and Richland, $500
each; Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Beaufort,
Chester, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefeld, Fair
field, Greenville, Laurens, Marion Newberry,
Orangeburg, Spartanburg, Sumter and York,
$500 each; Chesterfield, Clarendon, George
town, Horny, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington,
Marlboro, Oconee, Pickens, Union and Will
liamsburg, s40O each.
Three of the ten Lowndesville murder
Wightman Allen, John Allen and Jenk
Whitener-were hung at Abbeville Court
House on Friday last in the presence of about
1900 persons, but very few Of whom were
negroes. The sentences Of the remaining
seven, convicted at the same time, were conf
muted to imprisonment at hard labor for life.
The following are the facts which led to the
conviction of these negroes: "On the night
of Monday, December 4, 1876, Clayton AL
len and Theodore Baker, two respectable
white men, being on horseback, and having
in charge one Osborne Rhodes, negro GRIM
inal, who had been released from Jail, on con-
dition that he allow these gentlemen to take
him to Georgia, were fred on by band of
negroes in the outskirts of Lowndesville, Ab-
beville county, in this State. Allen was in
stantly killed and Baker slightly wounded
Sixteen negroes were arrested for the crime,
and twelve brought to trial, two having turn,
ed States evidence and two being discharged
for want of proof. They were defended by
able counsel, and the jury before whom they
we're tried consisted of eight blacks and four
whites; but after full, careful and impair
tial consideration of all the evidence and ar
guments, the following ten were found guilty
viz: Gilbert Burton, Edwin Prince, Capers
Allen, John Allen, Hutson Cosby, William
johnson, Jenk Whitener, Wightman lien,
Eli Hunter and Asbury Allen"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Richard G. Badger, Of Raleigh, has been
appointed United States District Attorney for
Eastern North Carolina.
During severe storm on Sunday of last
week the huildinp of the Randalman Cotton