Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-06-10

ty, shot himself in the head with pistol, on
Monday oflast week, from the effects of which
he died on the following Wednesday. From
the time of the shooting until his death, he
was unable to talk, and it could not be ascer-
tanned whether the shooting was accidental or
Intentional.
- The Hon. D. w. VOORHEES,, United States
Senator from Indiana, has accepted the invi.
tation Of the Agricultural and Mechanical
Association of South Carolina, to deliver the
annual Grafton before the Association on the
occasion of the State Fair, to be holden in
Columbia. commencing on the 9th Of No.
vember next.
%The Charleston and Savannah Railroad
sRas sold in Charleston on Monday last at
public auction for $3O0,2O0. The purchasers
of the road are the representatives of the
holders of the six per cent. and seven per cent.
bonds. The following gentlemen will be the
board of directors of the new company: Il.
B. Plant, VIM. Cutting, W. T. Walters, B.
F. Newcomer, w. H. Brawley, A. F. Rave
mel and c. G. Memminger. Mr.. H. B. Plant
will be the president of the Road.
The following resolution, unanimously
adopted by the Democratic State Convention,
was accidentally omitted from the report of
the proceedings as published in the News and
Courier: "Resolued, That this Convention, as
sembled in its wisdom, hereby expresses the
most profound admiration for the ability,
craftsmanship and distinguished services rem.
dered the party by the'Hon. NJ. w. Gary, and
that we do hereby tender our unfeigned thanks
and appreciation of his character, his un.
swerving patriotism and devotion to the best
interests of the State of South Carolina"
A colored man, living within twenty
miles of Sumter Courthouse, recently beat his
son "a youth of ten years. to death with a
leather thong. He first beat him until his
arm wearied with switch and then tied him
up to stake in his yard and struck him in the
neighborhood of four hundred lashes. The
boy expired under the lash. 1t seems that he
had been married twice, this boy being the
child of his first wife, who is still living. On
this occasion the wrath of the father was
evoked by the boy having gone to see his
mother in violation of his fathers orders.
He has been arrested and is now in Jail
charged with murder.
-Ths grand jury of Clarendon county, in
their presentment made at the recent term of
the Court, say: "The grand jury is deeply
impressed with the importance of legislation
for the suppression of carrying concealed
weapons, and the indiscriminate use and sale
of intoxicating liquors-two monstrous evils
which threaten the peace and good order of
our county and State at large, and believing
them to be the prolific source of large mum.
Der of the broils and bloodshed now dis.
gracing our civilization, would therefore re-
commend that no license be issued by the
county comm issioners, and that those already
issued be at once revoked, and that our repre-
sentatives be requested to use their influence
in the passage of such stringent laws as will
abate the evil of carrying concealed weap'
ons."
| At the recent Democratic State Conven.
ton, the several counties of the State voted
for and against immediate nominations of
State officers as follows: For immediate
nominations Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort,
Charleston, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton,
Darlington, Georgetown, Hampton, Kershaw,
Laurens, Oraugeburg, spartanburg. Sumter,
Union, Williamsburg. For postponement-
Abbeville, Anderson, Chester, Edgefeld,
Fairfield, Greenvile, Horny, Lancaster, Lex
iugton, Marion, Marlboro, Newberry, Oconee,
Pickens, Richland, York. In the election of
1878, these counties favoring immediate nom-
nations, gave Hampton 66,366 votes. Those
counties favoring postponement. gave him
53,1S3 votes, which sshows majority for i'm
mediate nominations Of 49, 1873 votes
POLITICAL NEWS.
dispatches from Utica, New York, show
that Ex-Governor Seymour's candidacy for