Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-02-18
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
An Important Industry.

EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
An Important Industry.
- The Lincoln Progress gives the follow
ing interesting facts in regard to the exten-
sive manufacture of paper by the Messrs.
Tiddy:
Very few persons are aware of the extent
to which the manufacture of paper is carried
on by the Tiddy Brothers in Lincoln county.
Their Long Shoal Mills, four miles South of
Lincolnton, is the most complete in the South
ern States, and as large, if not larger, than
any other in the South. 1t is running now
altogether on colored paper, Of which they
turn out $500 pounds per day, at an average
price of 129 cents per pound, or s31250 ag-
gregate. The paper is Of the finest quality
and subjected to the operation of calendar,
or set of rollers, costing $4,000, the most COM
plete machinery of its kind in the world.
The mill makes ten different tints Of paper,
yellow, buff, blue, gray, pink, straw color, &C.,
which is put up in assorted lots, and makes
quite handsome show Much of this paper
is shipped to St. Louis, Philadelphia and
other cities, and used for fine books, pamphlet
covers and ornamental work.
The Lincoln Mill, two miles from Lincoln
ton, also on the South Fork river, runs en-
tirely on newspaper. 1t turns out 500 to 700
pounds daily. The Buffalo Mill, at the head
of the Carolina Central Railway, in Cleve-
land county, is also owned by these enterpri-
sing men. 1t is run exclusively on wrapping
paper, and turns out an immense quantity of
this useful material.
The rags for these mills are purchased in
New York, Charleston and other cities by the
bale. 1t is interesting to see the thousands of
varieties of fabrics thus collected to be worked
into paper. The buttons taken of of the old
clothes are study in that line for their inhn-
ite variety. One girl informed US that they
never needed to buy any buttons, and that on
one occasion she found five dollar gold piece
in the pocket of an old vest. Over two hun
dred persons are indirectly dependent on the
labor at these mills, which run day and night.
The Louisiana Legislature.
- The New Orleans correspondent of the
New York Times, thus describes the Louisi-
ana Legislature now in session at New Or
leans:
The Statehouse is situated in the French
portion of the city, and was once fashiona-
BILE hotel. 1t is low. ambling. tumble-doWn
structure, entirely untitled for the uses to
which it is put, and cost the people Of Louisl-
ana several hundred thousand dollars. A
majority of the members Of the Legislature
now in session are unable to read, and some
Of them never learned to sign their names.
This is particularly true of the lower house.
It is no exaggeration to state that half the
members of that body are unable to read
print. Nearly all of them are negroes who,
a few years ago, were laborers on rice and
sugar plantations. On the day of the cor
respondents visit, all the entrances to the
building were filled with crowd of wrang-
ling negroes. They were Of all ages and
colors, many of them being feld-hands who
had come to town, as they stated, "to see dat
Legislature show" They we're all we'll sup
piled with bacon and corn-bread and we'll
filled whisky bottles. The dirty floor of the
hall was strewn with the ends of halfsmoked
cigars, mouldy bits of meat and bone or two.
All light and air were excluded by the huge
plank barricading the windows. One sickly
gas Jet was burning, but only tended to heigh.
ten the gloom. This did not seem to dampen
the spirits of the Legislators, however. The
scenes in the Legislature were indescribable.
Six or seven black men were on the floor
shouting like maniacs. Twenty different mo-
tions were put and none of them acted upon.
The expressions "liar" and "nigger" were fire.
quently used, and at one time it seemed as if
the meeting would break up in fight. The
speaker was powerless to preserve order, and
finally Kellogg himself came in, bareheaded
and excited, and coaxed them into compare.
tive quiet.
The Presidents Attitude to Arkansas.
- The recent recommendations of Presi-
dent Grant, in his special message, last week,
on Arkansas affairs, seems to have been un-
looked for by all parties, and fell upon Con-
gress so unexpectedly as to provoke unfavor-
able comment, not only from members Of the
Senate, but from the press throughout. the
North and South. Four months ago, the
President declined to interfere with the State
government of Arkansas but now the Presi-
dent intimates to Congress that he believes
Brooks was elected in 1872, and if Congress
does nothing to place Brooks in power, he
will. This is construed as the gist of the
message, and no wonder that the Presidents
action is regarded as inexplicable. 1t is con-
tended by all, and even admitted by the Con-
gressional investigating committee, that the
new constitution of the State was adopted in
proper form and manner, and that the people
had the right to make and adopt constitu-
tion as this one of Arkansas was framed and
adopted. Speaking of this subject, the Balti-
more Sun says:
It is astonishing to hear the President ad-
dressing Congress on this subject as he now
does. He must have fallen into the hands Of
the CLAYTON and Mcclure faction of Arkansas
which has its headquarters in Washington.
How this radical ring has bled Arkansas near.
ly to death, is made manifest in recital of
the financial condition of the State in joint
resolution of the Arkansas Senate. 1t sets
forth that the treasury of the State is empty,
its credit bankrupted, its bonds under protest,
and it's revenues anticipated by the issue of
treasurers certificates and other items OF float
ing debt which are receivable in payment
"for all debts due the State except interest on
the public debt" 1t is stated that examina-
tions of the books show that when Powell
Clayton, present United States Senator, took
possession of the State in 1868, as Governor,
the bonded debt of the State amounted to
s3,252,4O1 So that its floating debt was
nothing-on the contrary, there was $685.
237 35 of United States currency in the
treasury. Further examinations, it is alleged,
show that from 1868 to 1874, the period The
State had been under carpet-bag rule, there
was collected from the people, in taxes, for