Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-06-17

against the State in 1869, so that the amounts
due the State for the last ten years may be
taken as full satisfaction, has passed the Sen
ate.
During the progress of trial in the ses-
sions Court at Sumter, on Tuesday of last
week, Col J. J. Dargan and Col. JOS H.
Earle had personal difficulty in the Court
room, in which they resorted to blows. Un-
der rule for contempt, the presiding Judge,
Aldrich, fined each of them $50, and sus-
pended them from practice until the 1st day
of January next.
Governor Simpson has respited Neil W..
Blair, colored, who was to have been hanged
in Camden on Friday last, until the 9th of
October. Blair was convicted of the murder
of VIM. Adamson at Camden on the 9th of
August, 1879, was tried at the September term
of the court, and was sentenced by Judge
Mackey to be executed on the 18th of Octo-
ber. Before the date of sentence he was re-
spited until January l6, and subsequently to
March IL, and again until june II. The
murder, like most other affairs Of the kind,
was due entirely to whisky, and was commit
ted in barroom.
"A number of the citizens of Camden have
formed an anti-dueling association, of which
Judge Kershaw was elected president. The
objects of the association are to train, educate
and organize the public opinion and moral
sense of the people to true perception of the
criminality and wickedness of dueling ito use
and enforce all legal means to prevent persons
from engaging in duel and to enforce the
laws against dueling in every case Of their
violation hereafter occurring within the Ccun-
ty of Kershaw, whether the same shall con-
sist of sending, accepting, or bearing chal'
lenge, or the fighting of duel, or the coun'
selling, aiding or abetting any of these Of
fences. Thirty-nine gentlemen have already
connected themselves with the association.
- At the recent term Of the circuit court
for Sumter county, Judge Aldrich, in his
charge to the grand jury, said: "since the Sd
Monday in February, in nine counties l have
tried ten cases Of murder; FIVE have been
found guilty, the other five were properly ac'
quilted Why this is appalling! 1t is blot
upon our civilization and a reproach to our
people. I have been seriously examining to
find cause for this rufian disregard of hu-
man life. My reflections have led me to the
conviction that it is the free use of mean
whisky and the carrying of concealed weap'
ons. The large majority of our young men
90 armed, to the church, the courthouse, the
dance, with pistol, or dirk, or razor, con-
cealed on the person, and if they get under
the influence of this fiery poison that distracts
the brain and inhames the blood, on the first
cause of offence, either real or imagined, the
weapon is drawn and fellow. being lies vel
tering in his blood. Even the boys are car.
rying their concealed weapons. 1t is appall-
ing, and there is no way to stopit but by firm.
ly administering the law. Let the juries of
the country, remembering the high obliga-
tions which they have taken before God and
their assembled countrymen, be true to their
God, their State and themselves, and this
reckless disregard of human life will no longer
impede the administration Of the civil bust
ness of the courts and be blot on the char
acter Of the State"