Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

will meet at Sumter next month.
The Rev. DR.. Bonner, Principal of the
Due West Female College, is seriously ill.
Two men were recently arrested at Green
wood and fined FIVE dollars each for carrying
concealed weapons. '..
At recent meeting of the Faculty, Dr..
J. Ford Prioleau was unanimously elected
Dean of the Medical College of Charleston.
A new African Methodist Church, to seat
FIVE hundred people, has recently been COM
pleted at Winnsboro.
- The State Agricultural Department will
pay into the State Treasury, this year, $685.
900 from the 25 cents tax per ton on fertil.
izers.
- The Supreme Court has granted a new
trial to Dodson, Adam, Bates and Burton,
colored, convicted of burning the Opera House
at Greenville.
- The Pelzer Manufacturing Company,
which proposes to erect large cotton factory
at Williamson, in Anderson county, has con-
tracted for 100000 bricks at $3.50 per
thousand.
- Municipal elections were recently held at
Hampton and Varnville, in Hampton county
The issue in each case was "wet" or "dry.
In the former the wet ticket prevailed; in
the latter the dry.
"A. A. Clisby was recently tried at Edge
field on the charge of numbering Dr. Bland
in that town last April. The jury, after be-
ing out for half an hour, returned verdict
of not guilty.
- The Newberry Herald says petition is
being circulated, in that county, and is
receiving great many signatures, asking
the Legislature at its next session to pass
law prohibiting the manufacture and sale o.
spirituous liquors in the State.
- Several citizens of Pickens county, who
went to Texas last fall and winter, have re
turned, satisfied that, taking health ano
other advantages into consideration, this is
better country than Texas, and just as gooc
as any other.
On Saturday last, an election was helc
in the city of Greenvile. on the question O.
subscribing twenty-five thousand dollars to
ward building the Greenville and Lauren'
Railroad. The result was 7O9 votes for sub
scription and IA against subscription.
- The Columbia people are at last going te
work in the right way. They are discussing
plans to get rid of Thompson and Nagle, who
now have control of the Columbia Canal, af
ter which they propose to build cotton fac
tory with local capital. This is the only sen
sible course.
The Directors of Camperdown Mills have
made an appropriation Of twelve hundred
dollars for the erection of church on theil
premises in Greenville, which is to be opened
TO the denominations of the city. Rev. Ian
dy Wood is looking to that particular field o.
religious labor
E. NJ. Brayton, the Collector of Interna
Revenue, who has recently returned from
Washington, informs the Columbia CORES
pondent of the Neus and Courier, that the
South Carolina Republicans had forma
Interview with the President last week, bu
no assurance of any kind was given them az
to the appointments in the State.
| - The Associate Reformed Church ir
Winnsboro, has decided to present call te
the Rev. J. T. Chalmers, of Charlotte, N. G..
for his services as pastor, and it is understood
that he will accept the same. Mr.. Chalmers
has just completed his course of theological
study in Union Seminary in New York city
and has been laboriug for short while in
his fathers congregation in North Carolina.
Mr. james S. Simons who has for the
past two years been acting as chief deputy
| United States marshal for this State, has beer
appointed marshal to discharge the duties o
the Office until the successor Of ex-Marsha
Wallace has been appointed. Mr. Simon:
is native of Charleston, and is Democrat
He was private secretary to Governor Orr
and subsequently the secretary and treasurer
of the Taylor Iron Works of that city.
- Seventy eight Democrats Of Barnwel
county, have been arrested and bound over
for trial at the April term Of the United
States Court, in Charleston, on the charge ot
violating the election laws Of this number
three were arrested on the charge of interfer
ing with United States Supervisors; eight fol
illegal voting; three for fraud as managers
6fty-eight for obstructing voters; and six fol
threatening United States witnesses.
ID. T. Corbin recently told reporter oi
the Charleston Neps and Courier, that, al
though the office of district attorney for South
Carolina had been urged upon him by his
friends for nearly year, he had declined to
be a candidate and was not candidate now.
The statement had been made that his name
was to be handed in to the President, but this
had been done without bis knowledge. fap-
pointed to the position, he said that at pres
ent he was unable say whether he would &C.
cept or not.
- The Charleston News says that Judge
William Henry Hunt, the new secretary of
the navy, is a native of Charleston. He is
the son of the Hon. Thomas Hunt, who was
at one time the British Governor of the Ba-
hamas, who married Louisa Gaillard, a sister
of the Hon. Theo. Gaillard of that city, and