Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-12-09
The Aurkville Gmqnirer.
YORKVILLE, s. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING. DEC. 9. 1880.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
"A. NJ. Boozer. Esq, has been re-appoint'
ed clerk of the Su RENE Court
Col. J.C. Colt qualified as comptroller
general on Wednesday of last week.
Col. Wade H. Manning has been appoint
ed private secretary to Governor Hagood.
Capt. J. Duncan Allen, for many years
prominent citizen of Barnwell, died in that
county on the 26th ultimo. a..
-Messrs Winthrop Williams and W. +.
Stoney, have been appointed clerks in the Of
fee of the comptroller-general.
The annual communication of the NJ. w.
Grand Lodge, A. r, NJ, Of South Carolina,
will be held in Charleston, commencing on
Tuesday, the 14th instant.
Isaac Keller, Of Abbeville county, this
year made sixty bags of cotton and thous-
and bushels of corn with FIVE horses. Twelve
bags of cotton and two hundred bushels of
corn to the horse is good farming.
- On Thursday last, the Legislature unan-
imously reelected Hon. Joseph B. Kershaw
as Judge of the Fifth Circuit. The nomina'
was made in joint session by Senator Wylle'
of Lancaster, and seconded by B. II. Massey,
Representative from York.
- Wilson Cook, colored, of Greenville, has
been appointed by the Bishops of the Method
list Episcopal Church, one Of the delegates to
the Ecumenical Methodist Conference, to be
held in City Road Chapel, London, in the
month of September, 1881. He has accepted
the appointment.
- The Abbevillo Medium says that Peter
Paschal, colored, who resides at Due West, is
represented to be l2O years and to have been
wagon driver during the Revolutionary war.
He is active and can easily "skin the cat or
"iump up and crack his heels together twice
before he hits the ground"
A number of divers and wreckers, while
operating in Town Creek, in the vicinity OF
Charleston, recently brought to the surface
two cannon which had evidently been used
in the Revolutionary war. They are 10 feet
in length and 6inch bore, and have been
brought to the city and will probably be ex'
hibited at the Industrial Exhibition which
commences this week.
- The Register says that "Messrs. Sample
and Wetmore, of North Carolina, are in Co.
lumbia for the purpose of perfecting arrange
ments made some time back with the board
of penitentiary directors, for the manufacture
of shoes in the penitentiary. These gentle
men propose to enter largely into the busl'
ness of manufacturing shoes within the pris'
on walls with convict labor"
- The report of DR.. Griffin, the superlntend-
ent of the Lunatic Asylum, shows that there
we're present in the asylum at the beginning
of the year 375 patients; lSl males and 1874
females. Of these 252 were white, and l23
colored patients During the year l66 were
admitted, making the whole number treated
SAL. Of this number 81 recovered, 3 escap'
ed, 55 died and 81 were released, leaving the
number of patients in the Asylum 42O-26S
white and 152 colored. Of this number 39l
are State and 20 pay patients.
- The Charleston Nesus of Thursday says /:
"A number of noted turfmen have reached
the city and are ready for the races. Among
the arrivals at the Charleston Hotel yesterday,
we're James McCloud, Joseph Cotton, E.. T..
Beaman, MCLEAN Brothers, Dan. McClinch,
C. w. Medinger, Joseph Walters, Hughey
Gafney, John Croker and Dan. Mace, Of New
York; H. Ball, of Kentucky, and Green
Morris, of St. Louis Twenty five horses will
reach the city this morning, and it is estlma'
ted that not less than twenty stables, contain
ing eighty horses, will be ON hand at the
races, which will be the best ever given by
the Jockey Club"