Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-27

as we are assured, that Tor Cne sum mentloueu,
one hundred teachers could be employed, and
the public schools kept open for at least five
months in the year.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Rev. DR.. Pumer has returned to Colum-
bia.
- ChiefJustice Willard has gone North on
visit.
On last Thursday there were five hundred
and twenty two convicts in the State peniten-
tiary.
Governor Hampton arrived at Columbia
on last Saturday afternoon.
"A farmer in Pickens county has an acre
of land from which he claims he will gather
sixty bushels of corn.
Gen. Connor has given an opinion that
the school claims are not the subject of in
vestigation by the committees appointed to
investigate county Indebtedness.
"A hail and rain storm visited the neigh
borhood of Gowdeysville, Lockhart Shoals
and other places in Union county, on Tues
day the 18th inst. The hail stones were very
large-some seen as large as a goose egg
and did some mischief to corn and cotton.
"A special dispatch to the Charleston Jour.
nal of Commerce from Chattanooga, where
President Hayes was stopping at the time,
says there is "the best authority" for stating
that Judge L. G. Northrop will receive the
appointment of United States District Attor.
ney for South Carolina.
- The Columbia Register has issued sup
plement, embracing the programme and pre-
MUM list of the State Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society. The fair will begin at Co.
lumba, on Tuesday, the 18th day of Novem-
ber, and continue until the following Friday
evening. Since the war, the annual fairs
have been but poorly attended by the people
of the State; but judging from the efforts
being made by the citizens of Columbia, the
inducements will be of such a character as to
largely revive the interest which annually at
tached to the fair years ago.
- The Columbia correspondent of the Ne,os
and Courier, gives the following as the pres
ent status of Associate Justice Wright:
"Mention having been made on several recent
occasions of the supposed fact Of the resigna-
tion of Associate Justice J. J. Wright, I took
occasion, this morning, to investigate the ru.
NOR, with view to determining its truth.
Application at the Offices of the Governor and
Secretary of State resulted in the information
that no such resignation has been filed in
either of these departments, which formality
is necessary to give it effect. But this is not
all. Further investigation in certain quar-
ters developed the fact that Wright will re-
sign, and has declared his intention of doing
so to at least two of his most trusted friends
and advisers His plan, which is simple and
profitable in the extreme is to hold on to his
Office and its salary until just before the Leg
islature reassembles, when he will hand in
his resignation, and save himself the cost and
exposure of formal impeachment and trial,
which he knows full we'll can have but one
result. He is absent from Columbia at pres.
ent, and, as is well known, has not had the
cheek to attempt to sit on the bench for
several months past"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Within the past month, one firm in Hick-
ory has shipped North 100000 pounds Of
dried fruit, and 25OOOO pounds have been
shipped from High Point within the same
time. 1t is thought that the shipment from
Salem will reach nearly 100000 pounds.
Says the Charlotte Observer: "Mr w.
S. Moore, the valedictorian of the last grad.
uating class at Davidson College, has -four
ishing school at Steel Creek township, this
county. Davidson College sends out more
preachers and teachers than any other edu-
cational institution in the land"
Says the Charlotte Democrat: The bo
gus manner in which the "Southern Under
writer's Association" at Raleigh, was conduc-
ted, should be warning to persons engaging
in the Insurance business. The "Southern
Insurance Company" (Which swindled many
of our citizens by the use of respectable bust.
ness names as references) deceived many ofthe
business men of Charlotte and msled them.
We learn that those who are swindled pro-
pose to sue the persons who we're referred to
by the advertisements in the way of referen-
ces. If that is done, people will be more
careful how they permit their names to be
used as references.
Says the Hickory Press The latest and
most original plan for making brandy that
we have heard of, is now being used by one
Mr.. LETTERS, of Lincoln county. Mr.. j. lives
near Beattie's Ford, is tenant on the farm
of Messrs. Goodson and Payne, and his modus
operandi of getting brandy out of apples, is
as follows: The apples are put into wooden
trough and crushed by the use of maui, a
wash.tub is used to hold the pomace, 15
gallon wash-pot takes the place of "still,"
has wooden "cap," has borrowed and uses
Major Graham's long tin bugle horn for a
"worm," he "singles" into stone jar and
"doubles" into a jug. The capacity Of this
distilery is two gallons per day. 1t will take
new system of revenue to reach this manu-.
facturer of the "mountain dew"