Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-02-19

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ed 81, and subscriptions opened throughout
the county to raise fund to bring laborers
for any parties who desire them, and will pay
the cash transportation cost. The rules were
made public at once and, in few hours, a
small sum, about $3.50, was paid into this
fund, and was despatched for labor. The
work has assumed systematic course.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The cotton planters of Rowan county are
now buying corn.
The latter part of last week the Cape Fear
river took rise Of forty feet.
In Charlotte, last week, bonds Of the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad,
sold for 729 cents on the dollar.
- The Greensboro Patriot learns that there
is twelve year old boy in Davidson county,
who is suffering from case Of hydrophobia,
induced by the bite of d cat.
An impostor, who has been representing
himself as agent for various northern news
papers, has been swindling the people in va
rious parts of the State.
- Hon. w. A. Smith, member Of Congress
from the Raleigh district, publishes II lengthy
letter in which he excoriates several promi-
nent democratic members of the Legislature.
The pretext Of the letter is the alleged at
tempt of the Legislature to disqualify Major
Smith from holding Office in the State.
- In case appealed by defendant from
Alexander county, who was convicted of
whipping his wife with a switch, the Supreme
Court affirIs the judgment of the Court be-
low The Co,rt say that the old doctrine
that husband had a right to whip his wife,
provided he used a switch no larger than his
thumb, IS not law in North Carolina.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Governor Moses Extravaganza.
The extravaganza Of Governor Moses is
proverbial, not only in the State at the head
of which he presdes, but in several other
States, as we'll. To convey some idea of his
extravaganza and recklessness in the way of
running in debt, the Columbia correspondent
of the Augusta Constitutionalist writes the fol-
lowing:
II shall begin this 'scrawl' by telling lit
tie anecdote of Tim Hurley, native of the
Hub, and now misrepresentation Of the
good people of Charleston, who, by the way,
is shrewd, and excessively fond of a joke. A
few days since, he accosted a we'll known citi-
zen thus: 4 will wager 1000 finest Havanas
that Moses owes every merchant on Main
street between the State House and the Co.
lumba Hotel Agreed said p; I'VE will
soon test the matter Whereupon they star
ted on their errand ofinquiry. The first house
entered was the large grocery establishment
of Sem & Son. Said Hurley: Mr.. Sem, l
am directed by the Governor to settle the lit
tie claim you hold against him please inform
me of the amount Mr.. S., delighted; rushed
to his ledger, and, in the most atfable manner,
told Tim, that the amount was just $93 for
groceries, and S. which the Governor had
borrowed, soon after his Inauguration. Hur-
ley recollected that he could not pay the
amount until the next day; when the party
went to the next store, and so on, until the
I COrumbiu IF ff4r+>l--~s--Iaached Every mer
chant and haber-dasher along the way
claims against his Excellency, many of them
exhibiting hands full of pay certificates which
Moses had deposited with them over two years
since. One poor German, who owns restau-
| rant and bar, complained that his business
must soon perish, unless the Governor would
pay him for $500 worth OF cigars bought over
a year ago. Hurley won his bet and now,
with his pockets we'll filled with cigars, he re-
lates the little incident and offers Smoke to
all he meets. What Moses does with the large
amounts he handles is not known. Ex-Treas-
urer Parker says he must spend at least $780,
900 a year, and yet he owes everybody, and
never has "a cent upon his honor as
Mason"
The Changers on Cotton Planting.
At the recent session of the National
Grange at Saint Louis, memorial to the Pa.
irons of Husbandry in the cotton States was
presented and adopted unanimously. 1t is
an argument in favor Of mixed husbandry in
the South, instead of expending the energies
of the people in raising single crop. The
following is compend of the memorial:
1t says during the past seven years our cot.
ton fields have added to the wealth of the world
two thousand millions of dollars, and caused
prosperity to smile upon every one who has
| handled our CROP save those who struggled
for its production annually. The energies of
the cotton planter have been exhausted in at
tempting to produce the maximum crop of a
single staple, whilst quite as frequently ne has
reduced his means of supplying his necessary
wants.
A system based upon such policy and pro-
ducinp such results must be radically wrong,
and if persisted in will lead to bankruptcy and
ruin. No people can ever become prosperous
who are not self.sustainng: Our fertile soil,
exhaustless mineral wealth, abundant water
power, and general salubrous climate avail
US nothing, if annually we spend millions for
subsistence. 1t is generally conceded that
homegrown bread is cheaper than purchased
supplies and the observation of every planter
| is that these southern farmers who live within
themselves are more independent and less in
numbered with debt than those who have re-
lied solely upon the cotton crop. Were 1t
otherwise, it is hazardous for any people to re-
| ly upon others for supply of those articles
which are necessary for their consumption.
| It then refers to famine, which more than
once has occurred in India owing to the efforts
of the people to grow cotton to the exclusion
of bread 'stuffs, and adds that during the past
year portions of Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota
have been invaded by grasshoppers, which
destroyed every vestige of vegetation. I'm
aeine YOUR condition should similar invasion
become general in the Northwest. Couple
with this the idea of total failure of the cot
ton crop, either from warm drouth or any
other unavoidable cause.
improbable as such visitations may appear,
have we the power to prevent them, and is it