Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-20
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son, was stricken with paralysis at his home
at Glenn Springs. This is the second stroke
Mr.. Simpson has had, and the chances are
very much against his recovery.
Mr. A. B. Williams, who for several
years has been a correspondent of the Ne,cs
and Courier, and is we'll known in consequence
of his trip to Liberia in the Azor, and his re.
port of the incidents of the voyage, will here
after be the editor of the Greenville Daily
News.
- Rev. j. L. Girardeau, D. D., has tender.
ed his resignation as Professor of Didactic and
Polemic Theology in the Presbyterian Theo'
logical Seminary in Columbia. The Board
requested him to withdraw his resignation,
but he insisted upon it, and they reluctantly
accepted it. In consequence Of this resigna,
ton the exercises of the institution are sus-
pended until the Board can fill that chair.
- Several towns in the State have passed or
dinances against carrying concealed weapons,
and the Legislature doubtless will be called
upon to act this winter. The Herald says
Winnsboro has decided to enforce the ordi'
nance against the sale of liquor on Sundays,
and an ordinance against concealed weapons
has been adopted If the sale of liquor to
minors be also prevented, good work will
have been done.
At meeting of the board of trustees Of
the South Carolina University, held in Col.
umbia on Wednesday of last week, the fol.
lowing gentlemen were elected as the faculty
of the Agricultural College: William Porcher
Miles, of Virginia, president and professor Of
English Literature, salary $1,000. DR.. Jo'
seph LeConte, of the University of Califor'
mia, professor of geology, mineralogy and bot
any, salary $4,000. Col. Benjamin Sloan, Of
Adger College, Walhalla, professor of mathe'
MATES and natural philosophy, salary $4,000.
DR.. VIM. Burney, of Johns Hopkins Univer'
sity, Baltimore, professor of chemistry, salary
$4,000. Jesse Jones, of Charleston, foreman
of the mechanical department., salary $3.50.
The election of foreman of the farm was
postponed until the regular meeting in August
next
- The News and Courier says that Of the
fifteen counties of the State which have elect.
ed delegates to the Democratic State Conven
ton, six are opposed to nominating State off,
GERS in June, and eight leave this matter to
their delegates or express no opinion. The
delegates so far elected from the counties OF
Abbeville, Chester, Chesterfield, Edge6eld
Georgetown, Greenville, Hampton, Horny,
Lancaster, Laurens, Marlboro, Orangeburg
Sumter, Williamsburg, York, are grouped as
follows, with reference to their choice Of a
Gubernatorinl candidate; l. The delegates
who prefer Gen. Gary to any other candidate
named or unnamed. 2. The Hagood dele
gates who, in like manner, prefer Gen. Ha.
good. 8. The delegates who are opposed to
the nomination of Gen. Gary, but have not
announced themselves as supporters of Gen
Hagood, some in this group preferring third
candidate The fifteen counties alluded to
are entitled to 64 delegates, which are dis
tributed as follows: Gary, 9; Hagood, "a
anti Gary, lS. The Ne,us and Courier in this
connection says: "The friends of Gen. Gary
expect to carry Beaufort and spartanburg
counties with IL votes and the friends OF
Gen. Hagood will carry Aiken and Barnwell
with II votes, and expect to carry nearly ev'
cry other county in the State"
- Thomas White, who was convicted ofthe
murder of Pet Hawkins, colored, at the last
term of Spartanburg court, was hanged in
that town on Friday last. White has all
along manifested stolid Indifference to his
fate. He was calm and collected to the last
mounting the scaffold with firm tread, with
out betraying the slightest fear. After pray
er and the administration Of the sacrament
by the Rev. Minor Jones, the rope was
placed around his neck, when he complained
of its being too tight. 1t was adjusted, and
he expressed himself as being prepared to
die. He asked once or twice for an absent
brother and sister. He maintained to the last
the profession of a total ignorance of the
deed for which he died, but alleged that Byrd,
the barkeeper, put pistol in his hand re,
marking that he (Byrd) intended to kill a
negro Lefore morning. Whites last words
,oere that he Danted everybody to know to ~hat
end whisky and bad company would bring a
man. Had it not been for these, he said, he
acould not have died upon the gibbet He drop
ped four feet eight inches, at eight minutes
past l2 o'clock, made three slight struggles,
and all was over. The pulse ceased to beat
in eight minutes White was about % years
old, and is another sad victim of pistols and
whisky. May his fate prove solemn warn
ing to the youth of our State The following
are the circumstances of the crime: "White
was resident of Spartanburg County and
lived near Glenn Springs. He had all his
life borne the reputation of being dissipated
character and was hard drinker. On the
day of the murder White came to Spartan
burg Courthouse from Cowpens Station, on
the Air Line Railroad, and had been drink
ing all day with boon companions. During
the afternoon, while White was in barroom
with DR.. Lee Smith, negro boy came to the
door of the saloon and asked DR.. Smith to
come out for moment as he desired to speak
with him. DR.. Smith did not 60, and White
stepped to the door and found two colored
boys, one of whom was Pet Hawkins. the de-
ceased. White asked Hawkins if he was
the - rascal who had called Dr. Smith out
Hawkins had a. bundle in his hand which he
put down and appeared as if he expected an