Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-12
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
-Kershaw county boasts of twenty-four
we'll organized Democratic clubs.
- The working men of Columbia have NOM
mated Mr.. John A. Ekins as candidate for
the House of Representatives.
The annual agricultural fair of Union
county, will be held at Union G.. H., on the
29th, 3Oth and 31st days of October.
"A Republican County Convention is to
meet at Anderson G. H., on the 21st instant
for the purpose of nominating county officers
The Darlington Ne.os says that recently
in that county, Mr.. B. F. Williamson, with a
fifty saw gin, in eleven hours, ginned thirteen
bales of cotton, averaging SIG pounds each
Miss c. A. S. Slagle. young lady about
10 years of age, daughter of Mr.. j. j. Slagle,
of Belair, Lancaster county, was recently pro-
nounced insane and sent to the State Asylum.
-Adivices from Governor Hampton, as re-
cent as last Monday, report his condition as
somewhat improved. He will not, however,
be able to fill the immediate appointments
which have beeen made for him.
In Lancaster county, last week, William
Wallace, colored, was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to ten days imprisonment in the
county Jail, for killing a wild turkey con-
trary to the game law.
- The Abbeville Medium says twenty ap-
plications, more or less, we're sent down to
the Governor, Monday, for appointment to fill
the vacancy of the absconding sheriff of that
county.
johnson Wright, chairman of the Rcpub-
lican party in Oconee county, has issued a
call for a County Convention to meet at
Walhalla, on the 21st instant, for the pur.
pose of nominating candidates for office.
- The Governor has appointed John l..
Agurs, of Chester, member of the State
Board of Equalization for the Fourth Con
gressional District. The Board will meet in
Columbia on the first Monday in October.
- The primary election in Edgefeld result
ed in the choice of John G. Sheppard, VIM.
Haltiwanger, James Callison, H. A. Shaw
and Thomas Jones for representative in the
lower houses of the General Assembly.
- The Florence Times says: "We have
heard that there are in our county and State,
suspicious strangers, who are probably the
emissaries of Whittemore, Chamberlain and
Patterson. They are moving around among
the colored people actively, and usually at
night"
- Capt. G.. H. Kirkland, of Barnwell coun.
ty, up to the 26th utimo, had picked out and
disposed of IA bales of cotton. Besides this
he will make 600 bushels of corn, 200 bushels
of potatoes, and chufas enough to fatten a
hundred head of hogs. All this was done
with the aid of two mules and nineteen year
old boy.
Col. R. R. Bridgers, general manager,
and A. Pope, Esq, general freight and pas.
senger agent of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, have resigned their posi-
tions, under the new arrangement Sol. Haas,
late of the Atlanta and Charlotte Airline
Railway has been appointed general freight
and passenger agent, to succeed MIR. Pope.
The other officers remain as before the trans
fer.
The following account gives the work of
the August term, 1878, of the United States
District Court at Greenville: Total number
of cases on docket 745, of which 728 are in
formations for violation of internal revenue
laws. These cases consolidated represent 445
defendants, of which 166 plead guilty, ZIG
verdict Of guilty by jury, II not pros, 3 uor
guilty, and "a continued. Of the l66 who
plead guilty, Sc could not write their names.
Governor Hampton has recently ap-
pointed Commissioners of Election for the
several counties of the State. The following
are the appointments for York and neighbor.
ing counties York-James F. Hart and
Thomas G.. Robertson, Democrats; BENJAMIN
Galloway, Republican. Chester-John L.
Agurs and H. M. Ross, Democrats Alfred
Walker, Republican. Union-H. L. Goss
and H. T. Galman, Democrats Paul Aus
tin, Republican. Lancaster-J. N. Crockett
and j. M. Caskey, Democrats; j. G. Clinton,
Republican. Spartanburg-Joseph Walker
and F. M. Trimmer, Democrats; George A.
Settler, Republican.
- In relation to the sale of the controlling
interest in the Charlotte, Columbia and Au-
gusta Railroad Company, the Columbia Reg
lister of recent date says: ave have reliable
information that the stock heretofore owned
by the Southern Security Company in the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company, has been sold and transferred to a
number of parties whose interest will not only
allow but require the road to be so operated
as to bring out the bes capacity of the entire
line between Augusta and Charlotte for in
creased revenues to the road itself and i'm
proved accommodations to large portion of
the line. Its former profitable and convenient
connections with the North Carolina Rail.
road at Charlotte will be at once restored,
while its important connections, with other
lines at Columbia and Augusta will be fairly
maintained"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
"A son of one of the late Siamese twins is
student at the State University.
- The Charlotte Home says the corn crop
in that section promises to be the largest
known in many years.
The Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
Company, having failed for six months past