Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-04-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The rains last week appear to have been
general throughout the State.
A native African is in Charleston, guest
of Major Delany.
- The State Democratic Executive CON-
mittee met in Columbia on yesterday.
- The Charleston Journal Of Commerce says
the Liberian bark Azor will carry the mail
regularly between Charleston and Monrovia.
State Treasurer Leaphart has commenced
paying interest on 80 much of the bonded
debt of the State as has been declared valid.
- The new artesian we'll in Charleston has
been bored to a depth of 1875 feet. High
hopes are entertained of soon obtaining an
abundant supply of good water.
- The State Press Association, the Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance, and the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars, will meet
in Charleston, on Wednesday, 24th instant.
1t being understood that Col. Simpson
will not be candidate for reelection to the
office of Lieutenant Governor, Gen. Samuel
MCGOWAN, of Abbeville, has been suggested
10 a suitable candidate at the next election.
Samuel Dibble, Esq, of Orangeburg,
has accepted an invitation to deliver the
annual oration before the Preston and CAL
houn Literary Societies of Wofford College,
at the ensuing commencement.
Miss Sallie Pauline Wood, charged with
the killing of Samuel Henry, jr., in Richland
county, on the 5th of November last, for hav-
ing made improper proposals to her, was tried
in Columbia on Tuesday of last week. The
jury rendered verdict of acquittal.
The Governor has again extended the re-
spite of Robert McEvoy, under sentence Of
death at Aiken, for the murder of Capt. Gregg,
from the 18th to the 18th instant. This &C.
tion was taken in consequence of communi
cation received by the Governor from Judge
Thomson who is now holding court at Aiken.
The United States Circuit Court commen-
ed its sitting in Charleston, on Monday Of
last week-Judge Bryan presiding. The
Clerk of the Court, one day last week, receiv
ed letter from Judge Bond, in which he sta
ted that he would not arrive in Charleston
until about the latter part of the month.
-Speights' Daily wants the State Democrat
ic Convention to meet in the upcountry, in
stead ofat Columbia, and suggests Greenvile
or Spartanburg as the proper place. The
News and Courier objects to any change un.
less Charleston is selected. The Inte!igencer
thinks that Anderson has claims that should
not be ignored if change is to be made
The German Artillery, of Charleston, has
determined to make an excursion to Hilton
Head, on next Wednesday, for the purpose of
celebrating its first parade since the reorgani
cation of the corps. At the time the Federal
fleet made its attack at Port Royal harbor in
November, 1861, Fort Walker, on Hilton
Head, was garrisoned by the German Artil-
lery.
Governor Hampton has appointed Hon.
w. D. Porter, of Charleston, and W. M.
Hutson, Esq, of Orangeburg, Masters in
Equity, for their respective counties. These
appointments are made under an act passed
at the recent session of the legislature, crea-
ting the Office of Master in Equity for the
counties of Charleston, Orangeburg and Rich
land.
In Union county last week, while Trial
Justice Gibbes was arresting a negro woman
in whose house goods stolen by her husband
we're found, the husband slipped up behind
Mr.. Gibbes and struck him a very powerful
blow across the shoulder, with an inch plank,
breaking the upper part of the shoulder
blade and so disabling him that both the man
and woman escaped.
Ex-Treasurer Cardozo has been released
from the jail of Richland county on bond of
$4,000 for his appearance at the July term of
the Court of General Sessions. His bail bond
was signed by the wife of Charles Wilder, the
present colored postmaster of Columbia F.; Pol
ly Pickens, -- Green, the Sergeant-atarms
of the South Carolina Senate, and Wm. M.
Taylor. The Register says: Call the bonds
men are colored people, and, pecuniarily
speaking, are fully responsible for the sums
for which they have bound themselves"
- The dwelling house of Mr. Emanuel Liv-
ingston, the night watchman at the railroad
depot in Newberry, was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire on Friday morning last, at about
2 o'clock. A correspondent of Columbia
paper says: "It is generally believed that the
house was burned in order to deeoy him from
his watch, and though the house was not over
a quarter mile distant and in full view to him,
and the flame threatened the very life of his
household, yet, like the sentinel at the gate of
Pompeii, he stood at his post of duty, immov-