Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

-Spartanburg is improving. Five or SIX
new buildings are being put up at present.
Judge Kershaw is spending his summer
vacation at his home in Camden.
Barnwell has sent two bales of the new
crop to the Charleston market.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in the north
western section of Fairfield.
-Orangeburg has produced a bale of new
cotton, ten days in advance of last year.
- Mr.. Thurston Gist, formerly of Union
county, died in Lee county, Arkansas, on the
22d ultimo.
- The Catholics of Florence have formed
an association for the purpose of building a
church.
The county Republican convention Of
Newberry met with "a delegates, all colored
save one.
The executive committee of Edge6eld
county have appointed the 9th of September
for holding primary elections.
Col. James A. Hoyt, editor of the Co.
lumbia Register, is now in Anderson, where
he will spend the remainder of the summer.
- The Republican Congressional conven-
ton of the 9th district, has nominated Rob-
ert Smalls for reelection to Congress.
- Messrs. S. D. Mobley, j. B. Mobley and
John Mobley, with their sister Miss Rebecca
Mobley, and Mr.. John Erwin, moved from
Fairfield county to Texas last week.
Six men-all colored-are to be hanged
at Georgetown on to morrow week. Five of
them are brothers. 1t is understood that the
Governor will not interfere.
- Brightsville township, in Marlboro coun-
ty, has Democratic club numbering over
200, and there is not among the number a
candidate for Office.
- The New York Herald says the Democ-
racy of South Carolina have strengthened
themselves before the country by renomina-
ting Governor Hampton.
- The Republicans of the 3rd Congression-
al district have nominated DR.. j. F. Ensor,
ex Superintendent Of the Lunatic Asylum,
for Congress from that district, in opposition
to Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken.
"A few months since the Slabtown Grange,
Anderson county, offered premium to that
member of it who would grow the most wheat
upon one acre. TS. Glenn's acre gave the
greatest yield, being 2S3 bushels, and carried
off the prize.
Camden was visited with heavy rain on
Monday, which continued several hours, do
ing an incalculable amount of good to gar
dens and crops. Good raius, the Gazette
says, have fallen in nearly every section of
Kershaw county.
Mrs. Rosa L. Sims, the wife of James l..
Sims, one of the proprietors of the Spartan
burg Herald, died Thursday night, 1st in
slant, in the 23d year of her age. Mrs. Sims
was daughter Of the late 7. NJ. Mouzon, of
Kingstree, Williamsburg county.
- The Kingstree people are in great tribu-
lation at the prospect of the colored poll
tician, Swails, coming to the surface again.
No prosecution can now be entered against
him for any crime committed by him as State
Senator, full and complete amnesty having
been granted him when he resigned.
- The famous bark Azor has been libelled
by creditors for debts incurred during the
trip to Liberia. The larger proportion of the
Indebtedness has been paid, and the vessel is
now loading with naval stores for Antwerp,
by which the managers of the Liberian Emi-
grafton Association hope to pay all the debts
against the vessel. 1t will be some time before
it can attempt another trip to Liberia.
In the United States Court, in session at
Greeuville, the following business was dis
posed of last Friday: Robert Davidson, for
breaking into the postoffice was found guilty,
The grand jury returned the following bills
of indictment: The United States against
VIM. c.. Trammell, indictment for an attempt
to brbe an officer. No BILL The United
States against Gideon Sanders, indictment for
counterfeiting coin. True bill. The United