Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-29
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The Spartanburg Democratic Convention
decided to nominate county officers by the
primary election plan.
- There are ten prisoners in jail at Walhalla.
Eight of them are United States prisoners,
and two are confined for violating State laws.
Tie total vote registered in Lancaster
county up to the Goth was 3,0l5, which is
within 900 of the voting strength of the
county
- The cost of the last session of the Court
in Lancaster county WAS only S315.1O, or
about twenty cents a minute during the ses
sion.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
Edgefeld county have adopted resolutions
urging the State Committee to double the rep
resentation in the State Convention.
- The advisability of issuing bonds where
with to raise money for the Improvement of
the town of Lancaster is being considered by
the citizens of that place.
- The misunderstanding between the editors
of the Chester Reporter and the Chester Bulle
tin, through the intervention ofmutual friends,
has been amicably arranged.
- Mr.. Il. S. Crayton, Jr., of Anderson,
sold five hundred dollar Confederate note
last week for $50. 1t was the only note of
that denomination issued by the Confederate
government in 1861.
- Mr.. Charles B. IIammett has contracted
for the sale Of his gold mine in Spartanburg
county, including the homestead and about
400 acres Of land. The price agreed on is
about S27,500.
- Hon. Giles J. Patterson has been elected,
without opposition, as Senator for Chester
county, to serve the uneXpired term Of Sena-
tor Walker, deceased. Mr.. David J. Carter
Legislative vacancy.
At o'clock last Thursday afternoon the
Confederate monument in Columbia was
struck by lightning and the statue surmOunt-
ing it shivered all to pieces The statue will
be replaced by new one, steps for securing
which the ladies' of the Monument Association
are now taking.
- The Governor is receiving from different
parts of the State numerous applications for
appointments to cadetshipS in the Citadel
Academy. Each county. is entitled to two
, appointments, and in return for their educa-
tion each beneficiary cadet is required to
, teach for two years in the public schools of
. the county from which he receives the appoint
ment.
- Gen. w. w. 1Iarllee, of Marion, has re-
= Gently written strong letter urging upon the
special session Of the Legislature to leave the
= registration and election law us it now stands,
and asserting that he can give valid reasons
for holding to the opinion that the colOred vo-
| ting majority in the State is only little over
, 5000, which, with the registration law in
force, preventing illegal voting, he claims can
be neutraiZed by votes of cOlOred Democrats
=. and those not entitled to or failing to vote.
r On the 18th instant, says the Edgefeld
Adrcrtiser, DR.. J. b. Dubose, assisted by DR..
L. NJ. Asbill, extracted a large minnie ball
| from the side of NJ. B. Asbill, who received
the wound during the late war, near Marietta.
Ga, about eighteen years since. The ball en-
tered the chest, between the seventh and
eighth ribs, and since gradually made it's way
, down, discharging pus all the while, to the left
, lilac region, causing large abcess in the hyp-
ogastric region, through which, at distance
of four or five inches, it was seized by forceps
and extracted. The patient is doing well, and
: willrecover
- The Edgefield Advertiser of last week
says "Our June term convened on Monday
morning last, Judge Witherspoon presiding.
On Monday afternoon the grand jury were
discharged and on Tuesday afternoon the
Sessions Court was brought to Il close. All
the more important cases on the docket were
continued until next term; and the two or
three cases actually tried were of no earthly
interest to the general public. On Tuesday
afternoon Judge Witllerspoon sentenced two
negro fellows to the penitentiary, one for six
months, and one for three years. The latter of
these, one Silas Bouknight, had contracted an
unpleasant habit of breaking into the houses
of Mt. Willing people and stealing their
goods. The civil court is now in session, but
will probably adjourn on Thursday. And
jures, witnesses and people have gone home
to house their grain and fight the grass.
- Of the cotton seed oil mill to be erected in
, Chester, the Bulletin says: The entire capi-
tai, $4,000, has been subscribed. meeting
of the stockholders was held last Friday and
building was let out. Mr.. a. d. Holler, of
Rock Hill, was awarded the contrct upon a
bid of S.. 800 and force of hands was set to
work on Monday. The building is to he
brick structure of three stories and is to be
100 feet long by 80 feet wide. The first two
stories are to be sixteen feet high, and the
third is to twelve feet. Mr.. w. j. McDer-
mot, of Memphis, who has the contract to
furnish the machinery, subscribed $4,000 to
the enterprise, and the balance was made up
in Chester. A forty ton apparatus is to be
put in, and the mills are to be completed by
the 1st of October, according to contract.
Application has been made for a charter, upon
the receipt of which, the company will be
properly organized
Anderson Singleton, Lucinda Teasdale,
Abraham Anderson and Boston Singletary, all
colored, were hanged at Kingstree last Friday.
The first two were convicted of the murder OF
Phoebe Teasdale, the wife of Anderson Single
ton and half sister of Lucinda Teasdale, on
the 18th of July last. Singletary and Ander-
son were convicted of robbery and arson on
the 9th of March last. The execution was
conducted within the Jail enclosure, but
crowd of about two thousand persons were in
town. There was 10 disorder and everything
passed off quietly. All the prisoners protest
ell their innocence except the woman, who said
she killed her sister in self-defense. Singleton
in his last speech said the rope had been put
around his neck BY witchcraft and named a