Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Professor Hood, of Abbeville, declines tt
be a candidate for legislative honors.
Mine miles more Of the Spartanburg and
Asheville have been completed and trains art
now running through to PAGES Gap.
Last week, at Sumter, decree of divorce
was granted by Judge Thompson, to Mrs
Emma Moses, wife of Ex-Governor Moses
The statement is made that in Orange
burg county, there are one hundred and fifty
candidates for the lower House of the Gener
al Assembly.
Hon. John H. Evins, member of Con-
gress for the Fourth District, returned to his
home in Spartanburg, on Sunday morning
last.
- The Union county Republicans have en-
dorsed June Mobley as their leader in the
coming campaign, and will follow the course
laid down by him and the County Committee
DIR. Plumer's old church-the Central
Presbyterian Church, of Allegheny, Pa
has extended him unanimous call to return
to their pulpit, from which he has been ab.
sent sixteen years.
w. N. Taft, Yankee "carpet.bagger,'
and E. W. M. Mackey, "scalawag," are un'
derstood to be prominent Republican candi'
dates for Congress from the Charleston dis.
trict.
The Me,us and Courier says: ut is not
alone aboard the bark Azor that the Libe-
rian emigrants have suffered. Since the de-
parture of the bark not less than thirty of
those who could not get passage, have died in
Charleston. Fifteen of these have come un'
der the Jurisdiction of the coroner, whose ju-
ries have given verdicts for neglect, &c. At
this rate of mortality, there will be but few
emigrants left for the Azor to take on her
next trip"
The Ne,os and Courier has the following
cable dispatch, dated Monrovia, June 8, via
Southampton, June %, from its special cor
respondent who accompanied the Azor: "The
Liberian bark, Azor, from Charleston on
April 21st, arrived here to-day. Nothing of
Importance occurred after the bark touched
at Sierra Leone. The emigrants are in good
spirits, and will be warmly welcomed"
At Darlington last week, Judge PRESLEY,
in charging the jury in the case of an assault
and battery in the road in front of mans
house, expounded some law as to the privi.
legs of persons on the highway which may
be we'll for all to know. 1t is simply right
of ,uay-a right to the use of such highway
for the purposes Of travel, &c. The soil is
the property of the party owning the ada
cent lands, and any one becoming boisterous
or making himself otherwise Objectionable in
front of mans house in public road, after
first being ordered to leave, may be elected
as trespasser by the use of such force only
as is necessary to get him away. s. -
The Democratic County Convention of
Fairfield met at Winnsboro on Saturday of
last week, sixteen clubs being represented.
Gen. John Bratton was unanimously elected
County Chairman, and the following delegates
we're chosen: St.,te Convention-John Brat
ton, T. w. Woodward, James H. Rion, H.
A. Gaillard. Congressional Conventiom-R.
E. Ellison, Jr., DR.. V. P. Clayton, Henry
Helms, w. H. Sigh. The last named dele
gates were instructed to give Major Thomas
w. Woodward, their hearty support for the
nomination for Representative from the
Fourth Congressional District. Resolutions
were adopted endorsing the administration
of Governor Hampton, and recommending
all the present State officers for reelection.