Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-21
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

mail contractors, was stricken out. Vote
yeas 112, nays 1907
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
1t is probable that the State tax, inclu'
ding the levy for school purposes, will not
exceed 81 mills.
- The democrats of Columbia have nomi'
mated Capt. w. B. Stanley as candidate
for Mayor of that city.
- Both houses of the legislature have agreed
to adjourn sine die on Friday next, 22nd
instant
- The long.expected Liberian ship Azol
has arrived at the port of Charleston, and II
is expected she will start on her first trip
from Charleston to Monrovia, in about two
weeks.
- The Spartanburg Herald has made the
necessary calculation, and finds that it costs
about seven hundred and eight dollars day
to pay the members of the General Assembly
The entire cost of the legislative machine is
about thousand dollars day.
- The Carolina Spartan says that the upper
portion of the State, along the Air Line
Railroad, is filling up with Northern settlers
who are brought on principally through the
exertions of Rev. Tilman R. Gaines. The
immigrants are represented as being of the
better class, who bring a small capital with
them.
- The following board of directors has been
elected for the Atlanta and Charlotte Air
Line Railway for the ensuing year: Eugene
Kelly, George Warren Smith, Abram S.
Hewitt, William H. Fogg, Pomeroy P. Dick
enson, Hiram Sibley, Henry G. Hardy, Bel
den R. McAlpine, Hiram W. Sibley, Frank
P. Clark and Skipwith Wiloner.
The Greenvile Nems of the 9th says
Mr.. EIdred Griffith purchased, yesterday, from
Bob Smith, of Laurens, several bales OF
cotton 20 years old. The cotton has been
carefully slowed away and the staple is as
good as if raised last year. For this same
cotton the owner was at one time offered for
ty cents per pound in gold.
- The political campaign of 1878 will be
opened by Governor Hampton and others at
Anderson, on Wednesday next, the 9th
instant. There will be grand inspection
and review of the troops Of the county by the
Governor and acknowledgement on that day
after which the Governor will make speech
upon the political prospects of the party and
the policy to be pursued to ensure success
A grand demonstration is expected.
Mr.. L H. Trevett, an old resident OF
Columbia, died suddenly in that city, on
Friday last, under the following circumstan
ces: His wife died quite suddenly on Wed
nesday and was buried on Thursday. While
the procession was moving along, her hus
band was taken suddenly i'll, and could not
get out of the carriage when the procession
reached the grave. He had to be conveyed
rapidly back to his residence, where he sur
vved the burial of his wife but few hours
Speaking of manufactures in this State
an exchange says: South Carolina is making
progress in manufacturing. There are now
in the Stare $500 spindles and 1,4OO looms,
divided among ten prosperous factories.
When the Vancuse anu Piedmont Mills, now
nearly completed, are filled with machinery,
IL will add some 1900 spindles and 450 looms
to the above figures. In the course of few
months, it will be safe to say that there will be
7,400 spindles and 1850 looms in active prof:
liable operation, besides other factories in
process of construction.
Robert McEvoy, convicted of the murder
of j. j. Gregg, of Augusta, at Graniteville,
in this State, and sentenced to be hanged on
last Friday, was respted by Governor Hamp'
ton on the morning of the day fixed for the
execution. The respite was granted on two
grounds: The alleged iuvalidity of the SEN
tence, and the statement of the condemned
man that he is conversant with the particu-
lars of two murders, the facts of which have
heretofore been shrouded in mystery. 1t is
probable that, on technical grounds, McEvoy
will have to be sentenced again, making the
third time the sentence of death will have
been pronounced against him, and which, &C.
cording to the reasoning of an Irish Judge,
will surely prove a warning to him.