Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-12-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Journed.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
General Hagood has been nominated in
at least six different newspapers for Governor
1T is said that the entire unpaid taxes in
Lexington county does not exceed five hun
dred dollars.
There is negro man in Anderson coun
ty who is said to be the father of thirty five
children.
The South Carolina Conference of the
M. E. Church, will meet in Charleston on
Wednesday next, 18th instant.
Several droves of Tennessee hogs were
in Greenville last week, which were being
sold at FIVE cents per pound, gross.
Governor Simpson has appointed COL
Alfred Rhett, Of Charleston, Chief State Con-
stable.
An exchange says of Gen. Mart. w.
Gary, that he is one Of the richest men in
Edge6eld, and pays taxes upon larger land
ed estate than any other man in the county.
Hon. Henry Gourdin, for many years a
prominent citizen of Charleston, died in that
city on Thursday last, in the seventy sixth
year Of his age.
At the recent meeting of the South Car.
olina Synod at Rock Hill, five churches in
Fairfield county were transferred from the
Presbytery of Harmony to the Presbytery
of Bethel.
- In case which came before Judge Mack
ey, in Columbia, several weeks ago, he deci-
ded that person is entitled to homestead
exemption in personal property, whether the
owner of land or not. The case has been ap
pealed to the Supreme Court.
Hon. John H. Evins did not leave his
home in Spartanburg until last Thursday,
on account of illness in his family, and con.
sequently was not in his seat on the first days
of the session of Congress.
Rev. A. W. Lamar, we'll known in South
Carolina as the General Agent and Secretary
of the State Baptist Convention for several
years, has resigned that position and accepted
call to the pastorate of the Camden Bap.
tist Church.
Paris Simkins, colored, in the days Of
Radicalism member of the Legislature from
Edgefeld county, has been appointed, by the
internal revenue authorities at Washington,
storekeeper and gauger for the District OF
South Carolina.
- There is a man residing in the town of
Laurens-an old merchant-who has never
been to the depot, nor ridden on the railroad
since it was rebuilt, eighteen months ago,
yet he has done business in town all the time,
and was once a conductor, in ante bellum days,
on said road.
-Ex.Judge Wiggin died at his residence
in Beaufort, on Wednesday of last week. He
was native of New Hampshire, and came
to South Carolina with the Federal army at
the close of the war. He was elected to the
bench by the black combination in the Leg.
islature which elected Whipper and Moses.
A number of persons who emigrated to
Texas from Lancaster county, have returned
after remaining about one year. They repre-
sent that the lands in Texas, on an average,
are not any better than those in South Caro-
lima, while the disadvantages as to health,
water society, comfort, &C., are ten times
worse.
Mrs. Sarah Stoney died at the residence
of her son-in.law, Mr.. Middleton Stewart, at
Glenn Springs, Friday, 2Sth ultimo. She
was passing from one room to another of low
er elevation, and fell at full length on the
floor, striking her cheek, which injured her
80 much that she died soon after. Her age
was about IS years.
- In consequence of his election as Presi-
dent of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company, Judge A. G. Haskell, on
Friday last, rendered his resignation as one of
the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court,
to take effect Immediately. The resignation
has been accepted, and the duty of filling the
vacancy will devolve upon the Legislature
now in session.
- The case against the South Carolina
Railroad Company, for foreclosure of mort
gage, came up before the United States Cir
cult Court, in Charleston, on Monday last, for
full hearing and final decree, on which
an appeal to the Supreme Court might be
based. The Court refused to grant the mo-
ton on the ground that no final decree could
be made until all the creditors had been call
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