Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-11-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The Liberian bark Azor, was sold at auc-
tion in Charleston, on Saturday last, and was
purchased by the Exodus Association, its
former owners, for $2,950.
= The annual Conference of the Northern
Methodist Episcopal Church for South Caro-
lima, will commence in Charleston on Wednes-
day, the 2lst of January, 1880. Bishop
Simpson will preside.
Governor Simpson has issued proclama.
tion, appointing Thursday, the 9th instant
as day of thanksgiving and prayer to our
bene6cent Creator for the benefits of which
He has made US the recipients"
Fish Commissioner Butler is engaged in
distributing, in the principal streams through
out the State, number of German carp, sent
to him by Professor Baird, of the Smithso-
nian Institute.
"A fire occurred at Winnsboro last Satur-
day, which destroyed Touring mill, saw mill
and cotton gin belonging to W. B. Creight.
The fire was in the immediate vicinity of the
depot, where large amount of cotton was
stored, but fortunately the fire was not COM
municated to the cotton.
On Wednesday afternoon of last week,
in Union county, negro woman and her
child were burned together in small house.
The fire was caused from wood chimney
catching fire. The woman at last accounts
was not dead, though expected to live but
a short while. The child was burned to
death instantly, and everything in the house
was destroyed. It seems that the woman had
been sick for some weeks, and was unable to
attempt to save her child or herself.
On Thursday last, Senator Zeb Vance, of
North Carolina, delivered an address at Che
raw, before the Pee Dee Agricultural and
Mechanical Association. At night he lec-
tured on the political situation, reviewing the
history Of the country and the tendency of
the Republican party to centralize the Gov
ernment and form despotisn,. He believed
that this would never be consummated, that
Gen. Grant might be the nominee of the Re-
publican party, but would never be President
again. He said desperate effort would be
made in 1880 to wrest this State from the
control of the Democrats, and that South
Carolina should be the last State in the South
to break the Democratic column, but should
remain solid and invincible. He was hopeful
that in 1880 a Democratic President would
be elected, and gave convincing reasons for
the faith that was in him. He expressed no
preference for any man as the nominee Of the
Democratic party.
The Columbia Register Of Sunday, gives
the following account of an attempt at lynch
ing in the town of Lexington on Friday night
last: "About o'clock, and before the stores
had been closed, a party of about fifty or
seventy-fve mounted men rode up to the Jail,
called for the Sheriff and demanded the sur
render of the colored man who had been i'm.
prisoned there on the charge of being the
murderer of Mr.. Hook. They were not
masked, and their demeanor was very quiet
and determined The Sheriff informed them
that the man they sought was not there, but
they insisted on proof of that fact. Their
committee were then taken into the Jail and
shown the receipt of the Superintendent Of
the Penitentiary for the body of the negro.
The party then quietly withdrew and rode
out of town, making no demonstration, ex-
cept the firing of one or two pistols They
had came through Main street from the up
per part of the village, and their approach
was very sudden and quiet"