Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

September 1st, 1880, to April %, 1881, aggre-
gate 32,S47 bales.
- Hon. Hugh S. Thompson will deliver the
annual address before the Literary Societies
of Wofford College in June.
j. K. Davis, of Fairfield, was recently
fined twenty-five dollars, by trial justice, for
hiring laborer who was under contract with
another person.
- Gen. John S. Preston, died at his home
in Columbia, Oh Sunday morning last, Of cir
rhosis of the liver, in the seventy-third year
of his age.
The Governor has appointed DR.. j. K.
Bratton, of Yorkville, and DR.. j. Ford
Prioleau, of Charleston, members of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the State Board of
Health.
Col. Boykin, the new commissioner of
immigration, has opened an Office in room
of the State House in Columbia He is now
prepared to receive applications for immi
grants.
- The Cowpens Centennial Committee have
received information that President and Mrs.
Garfield and Secretary Blaine, expect to be
present at the unveiling of the Morgan stat
ue at spartanburg, on May 11th.
The Graniteville and Vaucluse factories
cleared ninety thousand dollars last year, or
Gfteeu per cent. upon their capital. An eight
per cent dividend was declared, and the Lal-
ance transferred to the profit and loss account
which now aggregates hundred and sixty
eight thousand dollars.
Rev. J. I. Bonner, President Of the Due
West Female College, and editor of the As
sociate Reformed Presbyterian, died at his res
idence in Due West, on Friday, the 29th ul-
timo, at half past two o'clock, aged about 59
years. He was born in Monroe county, Ala
bama, but spent the greater part of his life in
South Carolina.
- Miss Mary Bell Culp was married to Mr..
Charles A. Woods, of Marion, at her brothers
residence, at Union Courthouse, on Wednes-
day evening of last week. Miss Culp repre-
resented the State of South Carolina at the
unwilling of the Kings Mountain monument,
during the Centennial ceremonies last Octo-
Der.
- The Governor has received the official
report of the coroner of Laurens county, en-
bodying the testimony taken at the inquest
upon the body of Judy Metts, the negro wo-
man who was brutally lynched short time
ago. and he has offered = reward OF $2O0 tor
the arrest and conviction of each one of the
twenty-five or thirty reported lynchers.
The Rev. T. P. Bell, of Anderson, and
the Rev. John Stout, of Society Hill, both
Young and talented ministers of the Baptist
Church., have rendered their services to the
Board of Foreign Missions of the Southern
Baptist Church for missionary work in China.
Their services have been accepted by the
Board and they will depart for their field of
labor in October.
The Chester District Bible Society has
elected the following officers for the ensuing
wear Rev. j. P. Marion, president; Rev. r.
w. Sanders, Rev. G. A. Trenholm, Rev. G. T.
Harmon, vice presidents Joseph Wylie, Sec
retary; &. D. Heath, treasurer; j. j. String
fellow, depositary. Executive Committee
John G. McFadden, J. F. Douglass, j. l..
Harris Matthew White, G. j. Patterson, E.
T. Atkinson. =,
Hon. NJ. P. O'Conner, member of Con-
gress from the Second District, died in
Charleston, at quarter past IL o'clock, on
Tuesday of last week. His death was caused
by a malignant tumor in the stomach, evi'
dently of long growth, which prevented the
stomach from assimilating food and finally
caused the sufferer to die of inanition. Mr..
O'Conner was born in Beaufort, S. c., On the
29th of September, 1881, and, consequently,
at the time of his death, was in his fftieth
year.
The Columbia Yeoman says that Capt.
Percival, the auditor of Richland county, re-
sides seven miles from Columbia, and that he
walks from his residence to his Office in the
court house every morning, and back every
afternoon, making fourteen miles day.
Counting the six work.days, he walks "a
miles week, 1854 miles in a month of 26
DAYS, or at the rate of 1858 miles in year
of 3l2 days. In addition to this, he faithful
ly discharges his duties as Auditor, rarely, if
ever, being absent from his Office during bus
iness hours.
&C. F. Jackson, large dry goods mer-
chant of Columbia, who has been in business
in that city ever since the war, last week made
an assignment for tho benefit of his creditors
His assets consist of house and lot and the
goods now in stock, which he conveys to his
creditors. The assignee is to pay mortgage
on the house and lot and the homestead e1-
emption. Probably no surplus will be real
lied. The stock on hand is valued roughly
at $4,000. Against this are to be put sched-
ule A of debts (prefered creditors) $685.
81; schedule B (Northern creditors) $780,
As schedule C "a Baltimore debit 4,254.lO.
The assets will probably only repay the pre-.
fered creditors. The cause of the assign
ment was business embarrassment extending
over period of several years.
On Thursday last, near Allendale, in
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