Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-30
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- -Greenville county fair will be held about
the last of October.
The State Treasurer is engaged in paying
out the school appropriations. All Of the
counties are to have their quota at once.
Judge T. o. P. Vernon died at his resi-
dence in Spartanburg, on Saturday, the 18th
instant, in the 57th year of his age.
j. D. F. Duncan and R. L. Hope, of
York county, have been drawn as jurors for
the next August term of the United States
District Court.
The Governor has appointed VIM. r.
Davie, Esq, of Landsford, Chester county,
as an aid-de-camp, with the rank Of Lieuten-
ant Colonel.
Ira White, a colored penitentiary con-
vict from Chester county, employed on a
plantation near Columbia, while attempting
to escape, one day last week, was shot and
mortally wounded by the guard.
As "sign of the times" it is announced
in Charleston that the price of lager beer has
been reduced to five cents glass. 1t is six
teen years since this beverage has been sold
at that price in Charleston.
-Ex-Clerk A. O. Jones was released from
Columbia Jail on Friday last, on a bond
-preclseiy the same as that OF W Woodruff
$27 900 in Bonanza warrants and $4,000 in
real estate, his wife being surety.
Ex-Associate Justice Wright left Colum-
bia, on Friday night, for New York. 1t is
stated that the Judge kept his proposed de-
parture very quiet, and it is thought that he
will not voluntarily return to South Carolina.
Capt Butler P. Aston, a native Of York
Vile, is principal Of the Male Academy. at
Bamberg, in Barnwell county. A correspon-
dent of the Nesos and Courier writes very
pleasant paragraph in commendation Of Capt.
Alston and his school.
The Educational Convention was in ses-
sion in Columbia last week, busily engaged in
the work of revising the defective school laws
of the State, with view to having their
amendments submitted to the legislature at
the next session.
For some time there has been considera-
BILE dissension in the Democratic ranks in
Fairfield county, in consequence of two tick
cts being in the field for county commission
ers and clerk of the court. One of the tick
cts was nominated by county convention.
The other was known as the "Citizens' Tick
et," and was the result of individual enter
prise The schism has been healed by the
withdrawal of the latter ticket, and the Dem
ocratic party of the county now presents an
unbroken front.
Last week public meeting was held in
Clarendon county, to take the initiatory steps
for the building of narrow gauge railroad
to run from Georgetown, S. c., to connect
with the Chester and Lenoir Railroad at
Chester. 1t is proposed to run the road from
Georgetown to Lanes, on the Northeastern
road, thence to Manning, thence to Sumter,
thence by Bishopville (and perhaps Camden)
to Lancaster, and terminate at Chester. 1t is
stated that the route suggested offers many
advantages. being free from heavy grading
till it reaches the upper end. The whole
length of the road is ITO miles.
- The attorney general, as attorney for the
clerk of court of Rchland county, has brought
an action against T. G. Dunn the receiver of
Solomon's bank, and his bondsmen, James P.
Low, j. P. Southern, D. Epstin, John S. WI
ley and VIM. German, for costs and twenty
FIVE thousand dollars, which is the amount of
Dunn's bond. The complaint sets forth the
appointment of Dunn, &c. the value of the
property turned over to him as receiver,
($3l4,76O J that he has failed to submit his
accounts to the special referee, Nathaniel
Barnwell has failed to turn over his receiv'
ership to Hoyt, his successor, and has, in d.
vers other particulars, neglected to discharge
his duty or obey the order Of the court, and
that he is now absent from the State and be-
yond the Jurisdiction of the court
Between the 10th and 10th of this month,
elections on the question of fencing stock or
crops, were held in several of the up-country
counties. In Chester, every township in the
county voted in favor of fencing stock. In
Anderson county, eleven townships voted in
favor of fencing stock, and five in favor of
fencing crops. In Fairfield county, nine
townships voted in favor of fencing stock and
three in favor of fencing crops In Lancas.
ter county, elections were held in but two
townships--Belair and Waxhaw--both of
which voted in favor of fencing stock. In
Abbevlle county elections were held in four
townships. Three voted in favor of fencing
crops and one in favor of fencing stock. In
Laurens county every township in which an
election was held, voted in favor of fencing
the crops No election was held in Spartan
burg county. The negroes in the several
counties generally voted in favor of fencing