Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-22

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damages consequent upon an accident to him
on the road near Ridgeway last Summer.
- The Radicals of Spartanburg have elect
ed G. G. Turner and G. A. Cummings, white,
and Joe Young and E. Jones, colored, dele
gates to the Republican Convention which
assemblies in Columbia on the 28th instant.
They we're instructed to vote for Wash
burne delegates.
The Columbia correspondent of the Nesrs
and Courier is informed that Corbin will not
allow his name to be used as Republican
candidate as Governor, and it is not consid-
cred probable that Republican State ticket
will be nominated, the intention being to
make the fight for the Presidential Electors.
At meeting of the Executive Board of
the Baptist State Convention, held in Colum-
bia, recently, Rev. Wm Henry Strickland
pastor of the Baptist church in Anderson. was
elected Corresponding Secretary and General
Agent. He has forwarded his letter of &C.
ceptance, and will enter upon the discharge
of his duties in this field about the first of
July.
There are two factions of the Radical
party in Beaufort county-one led by State
Senator Collins and the other by ex-Congress'
man Smals-the former working for Grant
and the latter, it is said, for Sherman. At
the recent county Convention, however,
smalls was called upon to explain, when he
expressed himself in favor of Grant, and a
solid Grant delegation was chosen to the
State Convention.
WIN. S. Bates, white, was hanged at
Barnwell G. H., on Friday last, for the MUIR
der of Stephen w. Bush, in Barnwell coun-
ty, on Christmas Eve last. AS usual, the
killing resulted from the use of whisky and
the carrying of deadly weapon. Bates was
present at dancing party, and while under
the influence of whisky, entered the room
Aourishing his pistol, and without any provo
cation shot Bush dead.
On Thursday last, the Richland Radical
County Convention, elected E. M. Weston,
colored, W. NJ Fine, white, Andrew Lee,
white, Andrew W. Curtis colored, and Adam
Thomas colored, delegates to the State Re.
publican Convention. The Convention was
solid for Grant, and adopted set of resolu.
tions, endorsing him as their first and last
choiee. Elliott was put forward as dele
gate, but the convention declined to elect him.
He has; however, been elected as delegate
from Barnwell county. Elliott favors the
nomination Of Sherman.
Within the last two years, DIR. Benjamin
Wyse, who resides On Saluda river in Lex
ington county, has succeeded in trapping
about fifty wild geese, which he has success
fnlly domesticated, and they are now as gen.
tie as tame geese A correspondent of the
Register says: Every evening on being call
ed they come into the lot and are so gentle as
to eat food on the ground at your feet The
Doctor has large and beautiful pond Of
water in his lot and in this native element
the geese spend much time. In appearance
they are very beautiful and yield every spring
profusion of beautiful feathers"
- Last week William Dodson, Pleasant
Adams, Fletcher Maddox, Joseph Burton,
and Richard Bates, all colored, were tried at
Greenville and convicted of burning the Op-
era House in that place last August Judge
Thomson, before whom they were tried, SEN
fenced them to be hanged on the 18th day of
June. Before the sentence was passed, mo-
ton for new trial had been made and re.
fused. The Greenville News says that very
exciting scene followed the passing Of the SEN
tence. Dodson fell upon the floor Of the box,
and Maddox's poor old mother ran to him
and threw her arms around him with frantic
shrieks, while Maddox's cries could be heard
all over the court room. The relatives of the
different prisoners gathered around them with
agonzing cries and violent manifestations of
grief. Dodson had not strength enough to
stand on his feet when they were taken to the
jail, and had to be carried out by one of the
officers.
speaking of the damage by the recent
rains to the Air. Line Railroad track, the
Charlotte Observer of Friday says: ''The
train on the Air Line Road, which left here
at 11:30 o'clock yesterday morning, went
through to Atlanta across the chasm which
has been yawning between Tuccoa and Mt
Airy for two weeks. For FIVE miles the road
bed was terribly torn up by seventeen distinct
washouts The whole surface of tho earth
was removed to the bare rock in some places,
and it has been necessary to build a trestle
lO5 feet high over the gap made by the Mid
die Broad, a small branch only few feet
wide, but which, when the water spout burst
filled up to depth Of eighty feet against the
railroad embankment. 10 repair the track
and run trains over these frightful holes in
two weeks time, and to have avoided tie
slightest accident, not q wheel off or msn
injured, reflects the greatest credit upon The
management of this fine road"
The Sumter True Southron says: "A COL
ored man, who gave his name as Eugene
Holt, of Virginia, arrived in town on last
Friday, and stated that he had travelled on
foot from Charleston having been ten days
on the road-and was trying to get back
home. He says that, with his father, mother,
brothers and sisters, ten in all, he emigrated
from Richmond to Liberia, in 1873. Some died
on the voyage; his father and others died in
Liberia, and he aliI the survivors in his fami-
ly with his wife, "a colored teacher from New
Jersey, whom he had married in Liberia,)
being dissatisfied with the country, and having