Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-24

around for one and half miles in loop
shape, returns to the same culvert, twenty-five
feet above the lower track, and then stretches
out westward towards Ashevile.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Sewing Machine Patents.
The two patents granted to j. Bachel-
der for sewing machines, on the 9th of May,
1S49, for term of fourteen years, and twice
extended for successive periods of seven years
each, have expired. One of these patents is
for the "fourfeed" invention. These two
patents are said to be the last of the impor-
tant patents hitherto in force and controlled
by what was known as the sewing machine
combination. 1t appears from statistics in
possession of the Patent Office, that during one
year QS74) there were over 100000 sewing
machines manufactured and sold by the five
principal companies engaged in the business
in this country, besides 100000 more which
were manufactured by ten companies.
Since the expiration of the patents, there
has been quite tumble in the prices of the
machines, many of the manufacturers having
reduced their prices near one.half Of the fig
ures at which machines were selling only a
few days ago.
The President and Southern Offices.
- Although the President has knocked
the props from the carpet-bag governments in
Louisiana and South Carolina. yet he is re.
ported to have expressed his determination
that his course in such adjustment of the po-
litical questions in Louisiana, shall not bias
his action in regard to the Federal patronage
in that State. A Washington dispatch says
he has assured Gov. Kellogg and other Re-
publicans in Louisiana, and has given direc-
tions to that effect in the different executive
departments, that all appointments must be
made within the lines of the Republican par
ty. Party leaders are much elated at this de-
termination on the part Of the Executive, and
say that though the withdrawal of the troops
and the interference of the Commission were
a mistake, they have still chance to main
tain the organization of the Republican party.
1t is evident that the fact that politicians are
a necessary evil, is beginning to be apprecia-
ted, and there is no doubt that a modification
of the somewhat decided views on this subject
will hereafter be made. The rule promised
in Louisiana will no doubt be extended to
other sections.
Associate Justice McIver.
- The Neps and Courier prints the follow.
ing sketch of Col. Henry McIver, who was
last week elected an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court:
Col. Henry McIver, of Cheraw, was born
at Society Hill, in Darlington county, and
will be fifty years of age in September next.
When he was boy, his father moved to Che
raw, in Chesterfield county. At Cheraw he
still resides
After being graduated with honor at the
South Carolina College, Col. McIver studied
law with his father, who was distinguished
member of the Bar, and for many years So
lctor of the Peedee Circuit. In 1854, after
his fathers death, Col. McIver, who had soon
attained high position in his profession, was
elected Solicitor of the same Circuit This re-
sponsble position he filled with marked abili-
ty until the political reconstruction of the
State. Col. McIver was in active service
throughout the war. From the rank of Lieu
tenant, in the 4th South Carolina Cavalry, he
was soon promoted to captaincy. At the
battle of Trevilyan's Station, he was severel y
wounded Than he, South Carolina had no
braver soldier or more capable officer.
Since the war he has practiced his profess
sion successfully in the Eastern portion of
the State. He is man of almost unbound
ed popularity in his section of the State, en-
joying that desirable popularity which fol-
lows after dignity, integrity and ability. At
the Bar he has an experience of twenty-eight
or thirty years, winning renown amongst such
men as ChancelIors glis and johnson, Gen.
Harllee and the late Julius A. Dargan. Col.
McIver is a man of fine personal appearance,
courteous and accomplished, and last, if not
least, consistent Conservative Democrat.
Fence Law in North Carolina.
- The question of repeating the fence
law is attracting attention throughout North
Carolina, as we'll as our own State. The
Greensboro State, Republican paper, advo-
Gates the general repeal of the law in that
State, giving the following reasons therefor:
Our farmers complain of their taxes, and
yet, year after year cut down their best tim
ber and expend muscle and money in fencing
up their lands, never seeming to dream that
one-tenth of the labor and less than onetenth
the cost will fence up their stock that it now
requires to fence it out. Some say the land
owners can see the point, but that the nom
property holder will be afraid to vote no
fence because he could not then keep COW
that his little ones may have milk. There is
not one word of truth in the argument. There
is not single landlord, who rents land to a
poor man, but would gladly allow him as
much pasture as he would fence up, and even
in that he would have less fencing to do than