Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The State Grange will meet in Columbia
on Tuesday next.
The Baptist State Convention is in ses'
sion in the town of Anderson.
-"Blind Tom" gave several concerts in
Charleston last week.
- Fifteen hundred additional spindles have
recently been ordered for the Rock Hill Cot
ton Factory.
The South Carolina Conference will meet
at Union C. H., on Wednesday, 18th instant.
Bishop Pierce will preside.
Carp fish were offered for sale in Green
vile last week. They we're caught in the Sa-
vannah river.
The residence of G. H. McMaster, in
Winnsboro', was destroyed by an accidental
fire on Saturday night last. Loss $4,000.
Insurance $1,000.
Squire Clark, anegro convicted OF mur-
der in Lexington county, and sentenced to be
hanged on Friday last, has been respited by
the Governor until the 23rd instant
At the recent meeting of Bethel Presby-
terry, Rev. R. E. Cooper, of Rock Hill, was
transferred to the Presbytery Of Northern
Texas.
- Thomas, only child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Brainerd McLure died in Chester on the 18th
ultimo. This is the second child they have
lost in the space of nine days.
Much of the cotton which is shipped
from Chester to Charleston, is sent over the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad, via Lincolnton
Wadesboro, and the North. Eastern Rail
road.
The Chester Reporter says: "Judge Press
ley strongly favors the requiring of all con-
tracts for farm laborers to be in writing; and
says that the Legislature should pass a law
making void all contracts between farmers
and their laborers, unless the contract is in
writing"
The Abbevile Banner says: "Never since
the world began, has Abbeville county had so
fine prospect as now for large crop OF
small grain. Numbers of our farmers have
sown the greater portion of their farms, and
every one of them have good stands. The
area in barley is FIVE times as great as in any
previous year.
Henry johnson, colored, was hanged at
Sumter on Friday last, for the murder of
John Davis, colored, last February. John
son was born and raised in the vicinity of
Kings Mountain, N. G. Richard Jones, col.
ored, was hanged at Marion, on the same
day. for the murder of D. NJ. Harrell, white
man, on the 9th Of August last.
- The Columbia Register says that Judge
Mackey, when approached on the subject of
the election of judge for the Sixth Circuit,
stated "that he would decline being candi-
date for reelection, and would not accept the
Office if it were rendered him. The Judge
said that he had most lucrative offers of pro.
fessional business, and had determined to re-
sumo the practice OF the law as soon as his
term expires, which will be on the 18th of
February, 1882.
- The Supreme Court has recently decided
an election case in which the plaintiffs claim
ed that the election was illegal, null and void,
for the reason, among others, that it was not
held according to the Constitution and laws of
the State, in that there was no registration of
electors as required by law. The Supreme
Court decided the election to be legal, and
with regard to registration, say: 1T is the
duty Of the General Assembly, under the
Constitution, to provide for registration.
They are the law making power, and, if they
neglect their duty, no other persons or body
can legally supply the OMISSION
The Columbia correspondent of the Green
vile Ne,us, says that Mr.. Jones, of York, has
introduced a bill in the House amendatory of
the liquor law. 1t is proposed to amend the
law by striking out section 2, and inserting
in its stead a section providing that no license
for the sale Of intoxicating liquors shall be
granted by any municipal authority in any
town or village in this State, in quantities Of
less than quart, except in cities of five thou
sand or more inhabitants. Another section
is added permitting the sale, without license,
by vintners, of wine made from grapes of their
own growth at the place where the same is
made, in quantities Of not less than one
quart.