Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30


The new law makes n uniformity in all other
matter than letters, newspapers, and period
icals, limiting packages to four pounds, at the
rate of one cent for each two ounces.
The salaries of first, second and third. class
offices are fixed on new basis, according to
the receipts Of the respective Offices Post
masters Of the fourth class are to be paid by
a commission on the receipts, and the full re-
ceipts Of post office box rents.
Crops In the West.
- The Memphis Committe on Information
and Statistics of the Cotton Exchange make
report derived from 81 responses from West
Tennessee, 81 from North Mississippi, 81 from
Arkansas, north of the Arkansas river, and
Is from Alabama, of an average date of July
Is, as follows: Of 265 responses, 10S reported
favorable weather since 18th ultimo 157 re-
port too dry, and too wet; III report more
favorable weather to date than for correspond
ing date of last year; q per cent. Of the crop
planted has been abandoned from drought
and overflow; AZ per cent. Of the crop was
planted early. Ofthe early planting ITO re-
port better stands than last year, and 95 re-
port not so good Of the late planting 165
report better stands and 100 not so good.
Of the early planting 206 report the crop
we'll forward and boiled. Ofthe late planting
14O report favorably. On labor 166 report
the labor working we'll and 100 moderately
we'll to bad. Ofthe early planting 141 report
better conditional crop than last year, 52 as
we'll, and SO not so good. Of the late plant
ing 1O2 report better, IA as we'll, and 80 not
so good. Responses as to the general condi'
ton of the crop indicate that it has been bet
ter cultivated than for years, but that it is
suffering materially from drought, and antici'
pate danger from frost upon so latea crop, with
slight indications of rust and blight. % per
cent of the crop planted did not come up be-
fore June l ; 1871 per cent. was planted after
the 3Oth. 86 responses report good corn crops
SO fair, SO inferior. 14l report good wheat
crops, 81 moderate poor. 81 report good oat
crops, ia moderate poor. Grasses generally
are poor, owing to the drought.
Republican Executive Committee.
AT a meeting Of the Executive Com
mittee of the Republican party, held in Co.
lumbia on Tuesday Of last week, the following
orders and rules for the organization Of the
party machinery were promulgated:
Notice is hereby given that State Nomi'
mating Convention Of the Union Republican
party of South Carolina will he held at Co.
lumbia on Tuesday, the 9th September, 1874,
at IL o'clock, m., in the State House, for the
purpose of nominating candidates of the Un-
ion Republican party for the Offices of Cover
nor and Lieutenant Governor to be voted tor
at general election to be held on the Sd day
of November, 1874. ..
The convention will also select State Ex-
ecutive Committee, chairman of each county
and chairman of each Congressional Dis
trict, and will transact such other business as
may be deemed necessary.
The convention will be composed of l24
delegates, apportioned among the several
counties in accordance with the ratio Of rep.
resentaton in the House Of Representatives
of this State, viz: Abbeville, 5; Aiken, 4; An.
derson, 3; Barnwell, 4; Beaufort, 7; Charles.
ton, 18 Chester, 3; Chesterfield, 2; Claren-
don, 2; Colleton, 5 !; Darlington, 4 Edge6eld
S; Fairfield, 8; Georgetown, 3; Greenville,
Horny, 2; Kershaw, 3; Lancaster, 2; Lau'
rens, 4 ; Lexington, 2; Marion, 4 Marlboro
2; Newberry, 3; Oconee, 2; Orangeburg, 81
Pickens, / Richland, 4; Spartanburg, 4
Sumter, 4; Union, 3; Williamsburg, 3;
York, 4.
For the purpose of selecting delegates to
the State Convention, the Chairman of each
county will issue call for County Conven'
ton in accordance with the rules adopted by
the last State Convention for the government
of the Union Republican party. (See para
graphs 5, 6, 7 and 10 of said rules hereunto
attached)
Delegates from the various counties com.
posing the several Congressional Districts will
also be elected by said county conventions at
the same time and place that delegates are
elected to the State Nominating Convention.
The Conventions of the several Congressional
Districts will be held at such time and place
as may be designated by the Chairman of
such District, to be selected by the State Con-
vention.
EXTRACTS FROM RULES.
5th The County Chairman shall give at
least ten days notice of the County Conven-
ton, by advertising at least once week in
one or more newspapers published in the
county, or, if there be none such, then in the
one having the largest circulation in the
county, and also by any such additional means
he may deem requisite. Such notice shall
state the time and place>of meeting, and the
purpose of such conventions.
9Th. The County Chairman, in his call for
the County Convention, shall state the time
and place of the precinct meetings for the elec-
tion of delegates to the County Convention.
At all such meetings the Precinct Chairman
shall call the meeting to order, and Temporal
rily preside.
9TH. The County Conventions shall consist
of not less than thirty-two delegates nor more
than one hundred, and the County Chairman
shall fix the number of delegates from each
precinct, to the County Convention, in pro-
portion to the number Of voters at each pre-
cinct, according to the returns of the latest
election except the county of Charleston.
10TH Delegates to the Congressional Dis:
trict and Judicial Circuit Conventions shall
be elected at the same time and place that
delegates are elected to the State Nominating
Convention. And the County Chairman shall
give due notice of this in his call for the
County Convention.
REFORM.
The citizens of this State may be divided,
politically, into three classes; the radical re-
publcans, who swear by their party, right or
wrong; the old democratic leaders and their
eolloUora uhn still nlinp TO the dead issues of