Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-11-18
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Our town has been visited of late with an
abundant supply of rain. When the land is
in proper order, farmers will be busy sowing
wheat and other grain. I think there is
disposition among them to SOW greater
quantity of grain this year. The low price
of cotton will be attended with ehe good re.
suit of inclining farmers to plant larger
provision crop in the future. They are, at
the present time, discouraged at the low price
of the feecy staple, but the future may prove
that it was one of those blessings that some.
times appears in disguised form
On Thursday, case was reported to Trial
Justice Sanders, which, as the damages claim.
ed will amount to more than one hundred
dollars, will be carried to the Circuit Court.
The plaintiff in the case is Mr.. w. G. Hill, of
Carmel Hill, who charges Mr. Garland Smith,
of the same neighborhood, with unlawfully
Selling his COWS and refusing to deliver them
into his possession. The defense Of the plain
tiff is that the defendant does not enclose his
plantation with lawful fence, and therefore
has no right to seize his cattle for trespassing
upon his land. He charges Smith with threat
ening him with personal injury in the event
of his attempting to release his cattle from
the confinement in which they we're held. The
defendant claims that the plaintiffs COWS de-
stroyed a considerable amount of his cotton,
and for this reason he had the right to seize
and hold the cows until the plaintiff made
good the damages inflicted by them. The
plaintiff desires to obtain his property, not
only without rendering pecuniary satisfaction
for any damages inflicted by them, but to Sc
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ages inflicted by him. When the case comes
up for trial, the hinging point will be upon
the character of the fence that enclosed MIR.
Smiths place. If he can show, by testimony,
that he had lawful fence at the time of the
breaking in of the plaintiffs cows upon his
grounds, the jury will find in his favor; if not,
verdict will undoubtedly be rendered against
him.
Rev. Mr.. Houston, in very interesting
lecture in the Presbyterian Church on Thurs
day evening" gave his views upon China,
where he has been engaged in the missionary
work for many years. He disabused the
minds of his hearers of the generally received
opinion that the Chinese were people Who'll.
ly destitute of intelligence and refinement.
The lecturer spoke of the great progress made
and still making by the Roman Catholic
Church in China. In the number of CONVEX
sons this Church, he said, was fast outstrip-
ping the Protestant Church. Mr.. Houston
spoke of the immense population of China,
and announced the surprising fact, that if
scattered over the world, every third man
would be Chinaman. At the close of the
lecture, collection-the usual accompani-
ment of meetings of this character taken
up. On Friday afternoon, the returned mis-
sonary entertained the little folks with an
exhibition of curiosties from the heather land.
Messrs. w. H. Hardin & Co., who for some
time have been selling off at cost prices, dis
posed ofsome Of their goods on Friday at auc.
ton. Though the customary red flag was
hung at the door of the establishment, and
the echoes of the streets awakened by the
ringing of bell, still the crowd that assem-
bled was small, and were rather spectators of
the scene, than buyers Of dry goods. The
auction continued for little while, when the
members of the firm concluded, from the
small number of bidders and the extremely
low prices at which the goods were selling, to
close the sale At the present writing money
is not sufficiently abundant in our town to
make an auction sale interesting or exciting.
DR.. A. H. Davega returned ON Friday from
Chattanooga, where he had gone for the pur-
pose of making an arrangement with the
Roane Iron Company, of that city, for securing
iron for the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, Of
which he is the President. He was successful
in making the arrangement, and the iron is to
be delivered between the Goth of December
and the 1st of February, 1876. DR.. Davega
returned home by the way of Richmond,
where he purchased the spikes and fastenings
for the road. An arrangement will be made
with contractors for furnishing cross-ties, and
when the road is in readiness for the iron, it
will be laid at once. Notwithstanding the
many and great obstacles that have been in
the way, DR.. Davega has never despaired of
success, and when Chester and Gastonia are
united by rail, to him must the glory be
ascribed. The completion to the Airline will
doubtless be followed by greater efforts to car
ry the road on to Lenoir.
On Saturday next, meeting of tax.
payers will be held at this place for the pur-
pose of appointing delegates to the State Tax
Union that assemblies at Columbia on Tues
day of the following week. 1t is to be hoped
that the meeting on Saturday will be large
and enthusiastic, showing to our authorities
that the people know and feel the present tax
to be unmeasurably high and oppressive. If
the taxpayers of the State make a powerful
and determined effort, I believe they can COM
pei the Legislature to reduce the rate of tax
alton. To accomplish this desirable result,
they must shake off the apathy that has so
entirely taken possession of them.
Saturday was great day in Trial Justice
Gourdine's court. A cow, belonging to Mr.
Marion Chisholm, that entered the premises
of John Young, colored, and destroyed some
cotton, was the occasion Of the litigation
The attorneys in the case, S. j. Couch, Esq,
and w. A. Sanders, Esq, spoke with all the
energy and earnestness that case of greater
Importance could have elected. The colored
population, whose sympathies were excited in
favor of their injured brother, crowded the
office of the Trial Justice. After patient
hearing of the testimony and the argument,
he decided in favor of the plaintiff
Mr.. T. G.. CASTOR, good lawyer, and one
of our substantial citizens, after brief visit
to Sumter, returned on Friday with fair
bride. The fortunate young lady was Miss
Lee, of that place. An entertainment, in
honor of the happy couple. takes place this
evening, when the congratulations OF friends
will be warmly extended.
Business has been dull in our town to-day.
The amiablity of merchants is not increased
thereby. QUI