Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-28
The MurkriIle Guqairer.
YORKVTLLE, s. c.:
THURSDAY. MORNING, NOV. %, IS
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Judge Presley has appointed Gen. Jas.
Conner, of Charleston, receiver Of the Green
Vile and Columbia Railroad. ..
- According to the official count Of the
canvassers Governor Hampton's vote in the
State foots up 119,550. ..-. aj
-Ex- United States Marshal j. P. M. Ep.
ping, died at Gillisonville, Beaufort county,
on Friday last.
In Beaufort county, at the recent elec-
ton, four votes were cast for Chamberlain for
Governor. .
Sampson Hall, colored, who lives but q
few miles from Rock Hill, bought planta-
ton recently, for which he paid S2,lO0; all
cash but about $500.
The publication Of the Pee Dee Watch
man, at Darlington, has been discontinued.
Cause-too many other newspapers and not
enough readers and advertisers.
The annual meeting of the South Caro-
lima Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, will begin its regular session
at Newberry on the 18th of next month.
The act of the Legislature repeating the
lien law goes into effect on the 1st of next
January, unless further legislation is had on
the subject. Let it die; its days of usefulness
are gone.
"A late number of the Scientific Ameri'
can states that William G.. Reid, of Rock
Hill, has patented an improved plow. The
invention is designed to regulate the depth of
the furrows. .~75s
The Board Of State canvassers concluded
their labors on Friday night last, at IL o'clock,
and adjourned sine die. The election has been
declared and certificates sent by the Secreta
ry of State. to every officer chosen at the re.
cent election. - t~9|h':
The Greenvile Mountasneer nominates
Gen. James Conner, of Charleston, for United
States Senator. A correspondent of the Lam
caster Ledger nominates Gen. Samuel Nc.
Gowan, of Abbeville, for the same position.
Governor Hampton will be elected.
A meeting of stockholders of the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com
pany, was held in Columbia on Saturday last.
A majority of the capital stock not being
represented, the meeting was adjourned, with
out transactiug any business, until Friday,
the 18th day of December.
Anderson Farrow, an industrious color
ed man owning small farm, near Rock Hill,
has produced and gathered this year with one
little mule, II bales of cotton, averaging 5l2
pounds, 80 bushels of corn, 80 bushels of po-
tatoes and ten bushels of peas; in addition to
which, being, blacksmith, he has earned
about 800 at the anvil.
III. G. Worthington, ex.Collector of the
port of Charleston, is defaulter in the sum
of $1,s15, and suit has been entered in Wash
ington against his sureties. His sureties are
Hardy Solomon, T. G. Dunn, T. B. Johnston,
w. j. McKinlay, William Gurney. Casper
Bart, Angelo Canale, Robert Howard, John
Hanlon and Alexander R. Shepherd.
-Ex.Judge Wiggin, who is now United
States Commissioner, was arrested at Black
vile, in Barnwell county, on Wednesday of
last week, on warrant charging him with
malpractice as solicitor in 1875, in taking
bribe of fifty dollars to compromise case of
grand larceny. He gave bond for his ap-
pearance at the Barnwell Court of General
Sessions.
The Baptist State Convention of South
Carolina convened in the Baptist Church at
Sumter, on Thursday last at half:past ten
o'clock. Eighty delegates reported. The
Rev. R. Furman, D. D., was elected presi-
dent; B. W. Edwards, Esq, vice-president;
Rev. Luther Broaddus, secretary; E. B.
Murray, Esq, assistant secretary, and Prof.
G. H. Judson, treasurer.
A fatal shooting affray occurred at Union
C. H., on Wednesday of last week. 1t seems
that James R. Peake, proprietor Of bar
room on Main street, near the Union Hotel,
being under the influence Of mean whisky,
met James Turner, ex-deputy sheriff and bar
tender, in the street near his saloon. Some
words passed between the parties, and Peake
became enraged and cursed Turner. A fight
ensued, in which Turner knocked Peake
down twice, he himself getting slightly cut
on the cheek. Outsiders interfered, and pre-.
vented further violence at that time. Peake
turned into his saloon, muttering something
which seemed to be threat. Turner walked
across the street to the hotel, but soon return.
ed and met Peske coming out of his front
door. The marshal being near, tried to take
Peake off, but Turner drew his pistol and
shot Peake in the abdomen, inficting NOR
tai wound, from which he died next day.
Peake was known as d desperate character,
being very offensive when under the influence
of liquor. Turner is also kind of rough,
and is thought very little of by respectable
citizens.
Rev. R. E. White, young Baptist min
lister, who was the pastor of several churches
in Williamsburg county, and who was mar
ried only about month ago to Miss Rosa
Turner, of Spartanburg county, while going
from Manning to Sumter on Wednesday of last
week in buggy with his wife, when about
nine miles from the latter place, was shot in
the head and killed. At first the tragedy
was enveloped in great mystery, and sus'
pected negro was arrested; but it is now
known that the unfortunate minister was the
victim of singular accident. He was killed
by 12 year old son of Mr.. Spencer Davis,
who was hunting for hawks in the woods near
the road. The rifle used was Remington,
and the heavy ball missing its aim and prob
ably glancing downward from contact with a