Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-02

crowd began to "experience religion" Adam
became especially enthused and began to
dance and sing "Glory" on top of the load.
Hir fervor was 80 great that he failed to use
proper precautions against accident, and in
consequence fell backward to the ground from
the wagon and broke his neck"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Much damage was inflicted by the storm
which swept over the Wilmington section
last week.
- Mr.. Pride Jones, a former citizen of Rock
Hill, has been appointed conductor on the
railroad between Charlotte and Statesville.
ALI the persons who were sent to the AL
bany penitentiary from Rutherford county
for ku-kluxing, have been pardoned, except
one-Owens.
- The Charlotte Observer learns that Hon.
Nathaniel Boyden, of Salisbury, is lying very
ill at Saltville, Va, and that his death is
looked for momentarily.
Work on the United States Government
building at Raleigh-Court House and Post
ofice-has been suspended by order of the
authorities at Washington.
Reports from the eastern part of the State
represent that the damage to the cotton crop
by the rust, wet weather and caterpillar, is
greater than was at first apprehended.
The Wilmington Journal has seen spec
linen of vegetable wool, grown on planta-
ton near that city. 1t bears close resem-
blance to lambs wool, the fibre is very fine,
and will manufacture beautiful fabric.
The Raleigh Ne,us complains that the
cotton farmers of North Carolina are seriously
injured by the financial disaster that has
fallen so heavily upon the northern cities.
Prices are not only depressed, but there is no
demand for the staple at any price.
- The Hickory Press publishes very inter-
esting letter from Vienna, which says the
cotton plant sent from Fayetteville, showing
the bolls fully open, attracted more attention
than any one thing in the exhibition. Speci-
mems of North Carolina tobacco stood at the
head of the list.
- The rice crop in the Cape Fear section is
larger this year than that Of any year since
the war; Formerly the rice fields were very
valuable commanding from $75 to 1925 per
acre-and only lack of reliable labor pre-
vents an extensive production Of this valua-
bic crop.
-Messrs. Suit, Marshall and Cross, Of
Prince George county, Maryland, having is
sued challenge to the world for run of fox
hounds, the amount of wager being 100000,
R. G.. Sneed, of Granville, has responded, and
processes his readiness for the contest any
time between now and the 1st of January, at
any place within one hundred miles of Wash
ington city.
The Hickory Press estimates that the
surplus chicken crop of Catawba would more
than pay the County and State tax for the
current year. The blackberry crop Of Burke
would pay the Governors salary for '73. The
cabbage crop of Watauga would pay for the
Public Printing. The tobacco crop of Nc
Dowell would have paid the expense Of the
Legislature during the Senatorial contest,
while the root crop of Mitchell would have
bought up the Legislature of 1868.
Says the Raleigh Neaus: The two young
ladies who have been giving concerts for the
benefit of the Oxford Orphan Asylum were
very kindly treated in the West The fiat
tering compliments, interspersed with poetry,
which some of the young editors in that Sec
ton are lavishing upon them, show that the
fair performers touched chord in their
hearts which vibrates above the music of the
concerts. There is danger if these young
ladies continue in the West much longer, that,
while diminishing the hardships of the in
mates of the Asylum in Oxford, they may
increase the number of inmates of one of the
Asylums in Raleigh.
Some of our North Carolina exchanges
are publishing as fact, at which they seem
somewhat elated, that there are seventeen
cotton factories in that State. The truth is
and we charge our contemporaries nothing tor
the nformation-there are not less than thir-
ty-six in operation, and one or two others are
in actual process of erection. One mill on
Catawba river, now running 1000 spindles, is
making the necessary preparation for doub-
ling that number, and the proprietors of an
other mill of large capacity are preparing to
increase their facilities so as to double their
present productions The fact fthe propos-
ed enlargement of these two mills would in
dicate satisfactory degree of prosperity;
but the further fact, of which we have been
assured, that these investments pay not less
than 20, and in few instances, 25 per cent.
on the capital stock, would certainly seem to
be proof conclusive that the southern capt.
talists could make no better use Of their
money than to employ it in extending and
increasing this important branch Of industry.
THE COMING LECTURE.
Editor Enquirer II notice that Mr.. S. 3.
Caughman, Agent of the Palmetto Orphan
Home, is to deliver lecture in the Associate
Reformed Church at Yorkville, on the even
ing of Tuesday, 7th October. l take this oc-
casion to state that from my personal knowl-
edge, Mr.. Caughmau represents one of the
most humane and promising institutions in
the State. Such an asylum for our orphans
was badly needed ; and it has justly won the
favor of the people. 1t is fortunately in the
hands of some of the best men in the State.
1t is entirely unsectarian in its nature and