Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ,

- The grand jury OF Edgeheid county mas
returned true bills in the Bland Clisby Glover
homicide case
&C. A. McClung and j. G. Martin, charged
with the murder of L. P. Gufin, in billiard
room at Abbeville-the former as principal
and the latter as accessory-haye Been admit
ted to bail by Associate Justice MCGOWAN in
the sum of $1,000 each.
- -Abbeville county nominated three Doc
tors for the House of Representatives: Dr.
F. F. Gary, DR.. j. D. Neel and DR.. M. G.
Taggart-the other nominee is W. H. Par
ker, ESQ. The Senator from Abbeville is
DIR. J. c. Maxwell. -J
The second primary election in Fairfield,
resulted in the nomination of G. II. McMas'
ter for the House of Representatives, John
D. McCarley for sheriff; H. O. Duke, j. A.
Hinnant and j. r. Harvey for County Com
missioners.
- Martin Chaplin, who was nominated tor
State treasurer at the Greenback convention
in Chester On the 28th ultimo, declines to
allow his name to be used as candidate.
He SAYS that he was not consulted in regard
to his nomination, and that he would do moth
ing whatever to divide the Democracy, and
consequently he declines the nomination.
- Mr.. D. A. Thomas, of Gaffney City, had
his dwelling house, with most of his furniture
and wearing apparel, destroyed by an accl-
dental fire on Thursday night last. About
three o'clock in the afternoon Of the same
day, a small house belonging 10 Mr.. A. V.
Falls, citizen of Kings Mountain, was de.
troyed by fire. The loss is small. Z ?
Gen. Walker, the Superintendent OF the
census, has submitted report to the secre
tary of the interior, in which be says that the
recent investigation, conducted by Special
Agent Gannett, into the alleged frauds made
by the census enumerators in South Carolina
last June, shows that the census of 1870 was
very defective, and that the population emu
meration made in June last is correct.
The South Carolina College Of Agricul-
ture and Mechanics, was formally opened in
Columbia, on Tuesday of last week, twenty
six young men being present and enrolling
their names as students. The opinion is freely
expressed that the number will be rapidly
increased. DR.. Faber, of Charleston, was IL
censed as instructor in the modern languages,
and Mr.. Jacob S. Muller, of Columbia, was
chosen professor in the classics.
IT.. c,.o,,. (t,,b Chopnon dpol naca Iuas
to have been tried last week in Darlington,
the Attorney General assisting in the prose
cution but the State was unable to procure
and produce the evidence necessary for the
proper presentation of the case, and the At
torney General declined to give out bills of
indictments to the grand jury. Thus the case
necessarily goes over to the February term,
but in the opinion of many it will never be
tried, as it will be next to an impossibility to
get the witnesses together to try the cause.
Capt. T. P. Benson, the popular proprie'
tor of the Palmetto House at Spartanburg
died suddenly on Saturday afternoon last
between the hours of four and six o'clock.
At four he was in his usual health and retired
to chamber on the third floor Of the hotel
for rest. When found at six o'clock, life was
extinct. A post mortem examination was
made, but without any satisfactory result
The brain indicated congestion, but letter
was found in his pocket book, dated in June
last, which showed that at one time he medi-
tated suicide in consequence Of pecuniary en-
barrassment.
According to the Lancaster Reuiew, at
the recent Radical Congressional Convention,
"a delegate arose and stated that he wanted
to make statement in regard to Union coun.
ty. That county he said would give Blythe
1000 majority. The Republicans there were
thoroughly organized and they didn't pro.
pose to be bull dozed or intimidated. The
county was organized into clubs-one in each
precint. On the day Of election the mem.
bers would go up to the polls in files, and
would only cast such ballots as were given to
them by the officers of the clubs. The cen
sus told him Union was Republican by a
large majority, and they would see that the
rights of that majority we're respected"
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