Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


-Forty.one candidates are making things
lively in Edgefeld county.
-Greenville county has adopted the prima-
ry election system.
-Edgefeld has open bolls of cotton and
boasts of thirty-two Democratic Clubs.
The Gordon Light Infantry, new militia
ry organization in Winnsboro, had their first
parade with arms last Thursday afternoon.
"A cavalry company has been organized
at Hanging Rock Mineral Springs, composed
of citizens of Kershaw and Lancaster counties
The Democrats of Edge6eld will have
a grand celebration on the 18th instant, com
memorative of the Inauguration of the red
shirt policy on that day two years ago.
The Kershaw County Democratic Con-
vention unanimously adopted resolution rec
ommending the denomination of Col. Evins
for Congress-
The widow of Henry Timrod, the poet,
has been warmly recommended for an Office
in the postal department by Governor Hamp-
ton.
The work of constructing the Charleston
jetties will not be commenced before frost.
So Gen. Gilmore writes to friend in Co.
lumbia.
Wade Frazier, colored, convicted of for
gerry at the February term of Court for Lam
caster county, and sentenced to twelve months
Imprisonment in the county Jail, has been par
doned by Governor Hampton.
The Union Times records the death Of
Mr.. Hamlet Jeferies, of that county, which
occurred on the 28th of June, in the 4Sth
year of his age, after suffering for many years
from paralysis and disease of the heart.
Last Wednesday evening, Center Gibson
and John Wade, of Winnsboro, got into diff:
6culty, in which Gibson struck Wade in the
head with hammer, inAicting painful but
not dangerous wound.
- The crops in Sumter county we're greatly
benefited by the rains of last week. Up to
that time, but little water had fallen upon the
parched earth, but now the prospect is bright
er and more encouraging.
Capt. S. S. Kirkland has completed the
survey of the proposed branch of railroad,
to be built from Edge6ed G. H. out to the
line of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, distance of miles.
The central and eastern part of Spartan
burg county is suffering much for want of
rain. Gardens have failed, early fields of
corn are almost past hope, cotton has stopped
growing on red land, and the prospect is not
at all hopeful for the farmer.
"A Washington dispatch says that private
letter received there from South Carolina in
Inmates that E. M. Brayton, collector of in.
ternal revenue at Columbia, is working to Sc
cure the Republican nomination to Congress
from the Third district.
The Columbia correspondent of the Ne,7s
and Courier prefers some serious charges
against the contractors Of the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad. From the statements
coming to the correspondent, it appears that
the convicts employed on that road are over
worked, insuficiently fed and clothed, and
finally killed as the slow result of the first
named causes combined. A rigid investiga'
ton is deemed necessary.
The publication of the Charleston Jour-
nal of Commerce was suspended on the oath
utimo, after a vain struggle of nearly two
years. 1t is understood that Col. Rhett, who
was its editor, has left, or will at an early
day, leave the State permanently.
"A regiment of infantry, the first since the
war, has been organized iu Kershaw county.
1t is composed of six companies, and the
6eld officers elect are F. r. Cantey. of Cam.