Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-01
den, Colonel; Dove Segars of Lynchwoot

den, Colonel; Dove Segars of Lynchwood
Lieutenant. Colonel These were elected with
out opposition.
On Friday night of last week, the barn
and stables of Levi Burkett, who lives about
six miles from the town of Sumter, were struck
by lightning, which ignited the building
burning seventy.6ve bushels of corn and five
horses and mules. MIR. Burkett is a good
citizen and thrifty farmer, and this is tru-
~ heavy misfortune upon him.
Says the Colleton Democrat: "The wife
of Josiah Bright, a colored man living upon a
plantation known as Cooks Hill, near Wal.
terboro, was aroused from sleep, n few ights
ago by feeling pressure on one leg, and was
almost startled out of her wits to find rattle
snake wrapped round the limb. 1t was for
tunately removed without difficulty and with
out injury to her. The snake had Eve rat
ties and button.
The Republicans of Aiken and vicin-
ity held meeting last week. There we're
no whites present except Democrats, and,
strange to say, they allowed the meeting to
proceed without even attempting to bulldoze
single voter. The purpose of the meeting
was to to elect delegates from Aiken township
to the county convention, which assembled
on the 31st. Amid much uproar and confu-
sion they finally elected seven delegates to
represent them in convention.
- The Lancaster Ledger states that Mr.. G.
A.. Helms, the mail contractor and carrier
between Lancaster Village and Pineville, in
Mecklenburg county, was arrested the other
day by Special Deputy United States Marshal
w. Mex. Mittag, on complaint Of Special
Detective Henry Booth, charged with having
violated the postal law. Mr. Helms waived a
preliminary examination, and in default of
an $500 bond was committed to stand his
trial at the next sitting of the United States
Court
In the Pickens county convention, last
week, the primary election plan of nomina-
ting candidates was adopted also, unanimous
ly, a resolution urging the denomination of
Congressman Aiken. Resolutions were adop-
ted declaring that no member of the General
Assembly should accept free pass on rail.
roads that the Legislature should not sit over
thirty days; that three dollars day is pay
enough; that the representatives from the
county turn over to the county any pay in
excess. Hampton was endorsed, and the
platform of 1876 was reafirmed.
On Wednesday morning Of last week the
I,berian bark, Azor, arrived in Charleston,
having made the voyage from Monrovia in
thirty six days. The Azor brought Mr.. Will
liams, the special correspondent of the News
and Courier, and fifteen colored passengers
who went to Liberia under the auspices of the
Liberia Colonization Society, but on the first
opportunity that presented itself decided
to return to the United States. Recent 10.
sues of the Neus and Courier contain several
interesting letters written by Mr.. Williams
while in Africa, descriptive of that region.
The Union Times of last week says the
heated term eliminated on Saturday night
at that place in one of the most terrific storms
of thunder and lightning, rain and wind,
seen there for many years. The wind lasted
nearly three hours; the rain fell in torrents,
and the lightning appeared to be almost one
continuous sheet of fame, so vivid and quick
did the flashes come, while the thunder was
deafening during the whole time. One oak
tree was struck by the lightning, in Mr..
Culp's yard. The storm blew down a great
deal of corn, but no serious damage to the
crops is reported.