Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-18
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
1t is said that there are $4,000 of un-
paid taxes row due in Charleston.
- 1t is rumored that H. B. Clafin & Co.,
the great dry goods firm Of New York, pro-
pose opening branch house in Charleston.
"A bear, five and a half feet long, weigh,
ing 300 pounds, was killed in Aiken county a
short time ago.
According to the Camden Journal, there
are 237 candidates in Kershaw county, with
several townships to hear from.
A number of prominent Republicans are
up for Congress in Charleston, but it is said
that Senator Taft rules the roost.
- The Radicals of Richland county expect
to hold nominating Convention in Colum'
bia on the 7th of August. 1t is reported that
R. B. Elliott will be nominated for Senator.
Ex-senator George Mcintyre has been
again arrested and lodged in Walterboro Jail
on the old charge of defalcation while Treas.
urer of Colleton county.
The directors of the Langley cotton facto'
ry, located in Aiken county, have declared a
dividend of four per cent. out of the earnings
of the company for the past six months.
The Peoples Savings Institution Of
Charleston has taken out an attachment
against the property of the South Carolina
Railroad in Augusta, based on judgment
obtained against the company for $1,000.
During Court in Georgetown, last week,
Judge Thompson passed sentence of death
upon six prisoners convicted of murder.
They are all to be hanged on Friday, the 23d
of August next.
R Erasmus Allison, ESQ., in wel-writ-
ten card, in which he displays much sound
sense, and unsel6shness in an eminent degree,
declines to permit his name to come before
the primaries of Lancaster county as a can
ddate for the Legislature.
"A meeting of the stockholders of the
Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow
Gauge Railroad was held at K1ngstree, on
the I'd instant. S32,7OS of the stock was re.
ported as having been subscribed, and the
company was organized with full board of
directors.
- Robert Smalls is understood to have al
ready declared his intention of being a can.
didate for the next Congress, and ex-Judge
Wright is to locate in Beaufort for the pur.
pose of becoming member of the next Gen.
eral Assembly from that county.
- William Springs, a revenue official, was
convicted at the recent tern of the Circuit
Court for Greenville county, of stealing a
watch from negro. The theft was perpetra-
ted during pretended raid in search of illicit
whisky. Springs has been sentenced to three
years Imprisonment in the State penitentary.
Maj. T. w. Woodward, who had been nom.
mated for Congress for the Fourth District
by the Fairfield Democracy, declines to be a
candidate on the ground that the safe and gen.
eral inclination on the part of the people Of
this State to re-elect incumbents who have pro.
ven faithful to their trusts is shared in by the
voters of the Fourth Congressional District.
He adds: "In leaving the coast thus clear to
my old friend and classmate, Col. Evins, and
rendering my congratulations, which he knous
can come from my heart, even under present
circumstances also take occasion to say
that in 1880 he may look for opposition.
There is large class known as farmers, men
who till the soil and do the voting. They, in
the unreasonableness perhaps of their ideas,
are beginning to think that they have con-
tributed to the personnel and commissariat of
the army long enough to be entitled to more
staff officers at headquarters"
A large number of the prominent Repub-
lican politicians of Charleston county were
recently closeted with Sheriff Bowen in his
Office in Charleston, and caucus of several
hours duration was held. From conversa-
ton with number of Republicans after the
caucus, reporter for the Ne,Us ard Courier
learned that it is the wish of majority of
the Republicans of Charleston county that
the Congressional question shall be excluded
from the deliberations of their County Con-
vention. With much csndor they say that
the State executive committee of the party is
demoralized and broken up. So far as the
county nominations are concerned, it is very
evident that the present intention Of the Re-
publicans is to run straight-ou; Republican
ticket; but with regard to the Governor and
State officers, the unanimous opinion at pres
ent, is that they will offer no opposition to the
Democratic nominees. This intention, of
course, is based on the assumption that Hamp-
ton and the other State officers will be renom.
mated by the Democratic party.
The Spartanburg Spartan has been au-
thorized by Hon. John H. Evins to announce
that a competitive examination for the cadet
ship at West Point Military Academy for
the Fourth Congressional District, will take
place at Columbia on Wednesday, the 31st
day of July, instant. Hon. Hugh S. Thomp'
son, DIR. B. w. Taylor and Louis LeConte,
ESQ.,, have kindly consented to act as board
of examiners. Those who desire to compete
for the appointment are requested to notify
Hon. Hugh S. Thompson of the fact at as
early day as practicable. Applicants must
reside in the Fourth District, and their atten
tion is specially called to the following qualltl
cations: The age for the admission Of cadets
to the Academy is between II and % years
Candidates must be at least five feet in height,
free from any infectious or immoral disorder
and generally from any deformity, disease or
in6rmity which may render them unfit for
military service. They must be we'll versed in