Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05
The Murkrille Guquirer.
YORKVILLE. s. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING. AUG. 5. 1885,

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THURSDAY MORNING. AUG. 5. 1880.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Marlboro county has adopted the Con-
vention plan of making county nominations
- The Fairfield Democratic Convention will
meet in Winnsboro next Saturday.
-Spartanburg county has eleven candl-
dates for sheriff, eleven for the Legislature,
and eleven for county commissioners.
- The Governor has respited the Greenville
incendiaries, Richard Bates, Pleasant Adams,
Joe Burton and VIM. Dodson, who were sem
fenced to be hanged on Friday next, to Fri
day, February 6, 1881.
- The County Convention of Lancaster
met last Monday to determine the mode and
manner of nominating county candidates for
Office. 1t was thought the primary election
plan would be adopted over that Of the con-
vention.
Gen. R. G. Nj. Dunovant, the last COM
mander of the Palmetto regiment in Mexico,
and the first Colonel of the Twelfth S. e.
Regiment in the late war, announces himself
as candidate for Probate Judge Of Edge
field county.
Lexington, Sumter, Ocopee and Green.
Vile counties, have adopted the primary sys-
tenn. The two latter adopt it with the plural
ity rule, and Greenville will hold the election
on the 25th instant Greenville also sends
Evins delegates to the Congressional Conven-
ton.
Commissioner Butler is preparing table
showing the financial condition of every
county in South Carolina. His information
comes directly from those in authority.
Twenty. FIVE counties have reported, and their
aggregate Indebtedness, bonded and floating,
amounts to $1,157, 1855.
The Baptist Workers. a society connect
ed with the Springfield Baptist Church, OF
Greenvile, have about perfected their com
mittees, preparatory to organization for a
systematic effort to raise fund to build a
college for the education of colored young
men. They are sanguine of success
- The Cowpens committee met in Spartan
burg Monday afternoon. Congressman Evins
was present by invitation. The reports show
satisfactory progress, and promise great sue
cess. The grand masters of the Grand Lodges
of the Old Thirteen States and Tennessee
have been invited to lay the cornerstone in
October. The Town Council has given site
in the public square for the memorial column
The fine residence of Col. Robertson, of
Abbeville, was burned down on Wednesday
morning of last week. The fire originated
in the pantry from an unknown cause. There
was no insurance on his furniture. The pic
lures belonging to Mr.. Burt, which were in
the lower part Of the house, were saved Ev-
erything in the upper part of the house was
destroyed.
- The Charleston Ne,cs and Courier of Sat-
urday, says "The South Carolina Railroad
Company paid out $4,000 interest on the
bonds yesterday, making total Of 1900
paid since Wednesday. The whole amount
of interest due to the Charleston bondholders
and payable at the company's office in this
city, is $4,000. The total interest held in
New York, London and Charleston is about
s97 900, to meet which the company has ample
funds"
The Orangebarg county Republicans will
run county ticket under the direction of the
old leaders. The nemocrat says: "The order
has already gone forth for two and three days
meetings, with the purpose of making the
pulpit an agency in their diabolical scheme.
The clans are to gather at midnight, in coun
try localities, to be organized and instructed
in the mysteries of the new order. Every
agency will be brought to bear upon our COL
ored voters, and if they maintain their inde-
pendence it will be through great tribuations
and trials"
After declaring that "the work of organ
izing the Republican party in this State is of
the most encouraging character" the Beau.
fort News (Republican) says: "There is
majority for the Republican party in the
Fifth District. A. vigorous contest will this
year be made, and a more determined spirit
apparently prevails amongst the Republicans
In Aiken county the signs of life and activi
ty are a noticeable feature. The county is
one net work of Garfield and Arthur clubs
An address has been circulated looking to
the bringing out of the full strength of the
party in support of the national ticket"
Last Friday, while workmen were en-
gagged in removing remains from the old De-
Saussure burying ground, in Camden, to the
cemetery, they exhumed the body of lady
that had become petri6ed. The form was
as perfect as when buried, but had become
so heavy that it required FIVE men to lift it.
The upper portions were as hard as stone,
while the lower limbs, though maintaining
their shape, had soft spongy touch, show
ing that the process of petriGcation had not
been completed. The features, we learn,
were we'll preserved. The hair of the head
had grown very long and adhered firmly to
what was once the scalp. The remains were
those of young lady who was drowned in
the Mississippi river over thirty years ago,
and her body was brought to Camden in a
zinc lined coffin for burial.
A Garfield and Arthur ratification meet
ing was held in Columbia last Saturday.
About 1900 negroes were present. Curtis, of
Richland, was elected Chairman. The meet
ing was address d by the notorious Sam Lee,
&c Snn,tar. TIE of Charleston f. NJ. BRAY.