Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-06
for Grant; Bowen, for the winning man in

sight.
Tive colored men, who were recently COM
mitted to Jail in Charleston. for thirty days,
for failing to pay their poll tax, were brought
before Judge Pressly, in the Court of Common
Pleas, on Friday last, on a writ of habeas
corpus. The Judge ruled that the Act of the
Legislature prescribing imprisonment for fail
ure to pay poll.tax was unconstitutional, and
ordered the prisoners to be discharged.
- The schooner Matte E. Hand, which has
been on the way to Charleston for FIVE or six
months, having twice been compelled to put
back into Norfolk, has arrived at last. She
has cargo of railroad iron for the Cheraw
and Salisbury Railroad, and the connection
of Charleston with Wadesboro' may therefore
be expected in a short time.
Gen. M. w. Gary has recently written a
letter in which he says: 81 am satisfied that
our next General Assembly ought to pass an
act prohibiting the granting Of license for the
sale Of liquors at our Court Houses, where
all good citizens are at times compelled to 60
for the purpose of transacting their business ;
also law prohibiting the wearing Of conceal
ed weapons"
- The Ledger says that the sons of Mr..
VIM. Langley, all now living in Lancaster
county, measure respectively: I. G. Langley
feet inches; J. B. Langley 6 feet inch !;
J. M. Langley 6 feet 5 inches; M. D. Lang
ley feet inch; E. B. Langley 6 feet 8
inches; w. G. Langley 6 feet 5 inches.
Their weights vary from 156 to 100 pounds.
At the recent meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Good Templars at Newberry, the follow
ing officers were elected for the present term {:
G. w. c. TT. B. Crews, ESQ.,, of Laurens
G. w. V. T.-Mrs. C. E. Gilbert, of Cam
den G. w. Counsellor.-J. H. Bryce, of
Spartanburg; G. W. secretary-T. N. Berry,
of Greenville G. w. Treasurer-C. L. Fike,
of Laurens; G. W. Chaplain-J. p Bodie,
of Edge6eld; G. W. Marshall. H. James,
of Newberry G. S-Mrs. C. R. Crews, Of
Lsurens; G. G.-Mrs. Mays; g. W. A. S.
C. H. Beard, Of Columbia G. D. M.-Miss
L. White, of Newberry; G. MT. F. Gala
han Representatives to Right Worthy Grand
Lodge-W. H. Cuttino, of Sumter; Mrs. G.
E. Gilbert; Alternates N. Berry, G. L.
Fike. The next meeting will be held at Sum-
ter.
There seems to be detection from General
Gary in his own county. A letter from Edge
field Court House, to the News and Courier,
contains the following: "The Hampton Dem.
ocratic Club met and organized last Saturday.
1t is the club at the villsge. Mr.. Arthur
Tompkins, young man twenty-three years
old, was elected pr, sident. Gen. M. w. Gary
was nominated as delegate to the County
Convention from this club, and was defeated
by large majority. Mr. R. G. Bonham re-
ceived forty-eight votes and General Gary
twenty two. There were number of candi.
dates on both sides, but the ticket headed by
Mr.. Bonham was elected, as stated. The
delegates from the Hampton Club to the
County Convention, six in number, are op-
posed to the nomination of General Gary for
Governor. In the contest in the club on
Saturday, Mr.. Bonham was supported by the
young men and a majority of the old citi-
zens"
- The News and Courier, of Saturday, says:
"In an interview yesterday with leading
member of the Republican party, and one
whose words will be received as authority
upon matters touching the state Of feeling in
that party, Reporter for the Nsus and
Courier was informed that Meior D. T. Cor
bin, ex-United States district attorney. ex-
Congressman A. S. Wallace, Major William
E. Earle, formerly assistant United States
district attorney, ex.Attorney- general Samuel
w. Melton, Col. j. G. Cochran, ex-Congress-
man Simeon Corley and others, who repre-
sented the brain and courage of the Repub.
lican party in this State, are intensely dis
gusted with the composition and conduct Of
the recent Republican Convention held at
Columbia. They say that adversely has
taught their party nothing. That the same
disreputable crowd that ruled and disgraced
the party in the past is as powerful and as
rampant as ever, and if they should again re.
cover power in the Estate, would again disgrace
the party as heretofore. 1t has leaked out
since the adjournment of the Convention that
the most respectable members of the old par
ty expected to obtain powerful moral support
at least from the North and West in the COM
ing canvass, and hoped, by this means, that
they might make some impression on the solid
Democracy of South Carolina. They are
now so utterly disgusted that, in their present
frame of mind, their friends at the North will
best serve them by letting the black rebels
in this State severely alone
POLITICAL NEWS.
- The Ohio Republican Convention has
declared for Sherman.
The Pennsylvania delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention, will probably stand 3S
against and 20 for Tilden's nomination.
- The Texas Democratic Convention ex.
pressed preference for Hancock, but pledged
Texas enthusiastically for the nominee Of the
party.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, whose political dis
abilities are removed by Congress, expects to
run for Congress on the Democratic ticket in
Brooklyn next fall.
The California Republican Convention
adopted resolution instructing the delegates
from that State to the Chicago Convention to
vote as unit first, last and all the time for
Blaine.