Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-08-14
Correspondence of the Yorkyi.le Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
CHESTER, S. c., August 12, 1871

The weather here now is exceedingly fine;
the air is cool, pleasant and bracing, and we
do not feel the necessity of going to the noun
tains. For the past few nights blankets have
been comfortable.
The Sixth Regiment Survivors had pleas
ant reunion at Winnsboro on Thursday last
A number of our citizens went down and re-
port that they had an enjoyable time. Rev.
Mofat Grier, D. D., of Due West, delivered
an admirable address, and a sumptuous din
ner was eaten by the Survivors and their In
vited guests. The next reunion of the Sur
vivors CT the Sixth Regiment will be held at
Blackstocks.
DR.. Grier remained in Winnsb,ro, and
preached in the Associate Reformed Presby-
terian church of that town on Sunday.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, was held
last week at Richburg. The reports Of the
officers were read aud received with satisfac-
ton. The road is represented to be in fine
condition financially and otherwise. The
floating debt has been materially decreased
within the past year, by the sale of county
and mortgage bonds. President Hardin has
displayed considerable ability in the construc-
ton and management OF the road.
The following gentlemen were elected of
6cers of the company for the ensuing year:
Directors II. Hardin, John j. McLure,
Joseph Wylie, o. Barber, Chester John B.
Erwin, VIM. Stevens. DR.. Foster, Lancaster
w. A. Evans, E. N. BEDFORD, = Hardin,
Chesterfield. Mr.. W. Fl. Hardin was elected
President, and David HemPhill, of Chester,
Secretary and Treasurer. The next annual
meeting will be held at Lancaster on the first
Tuesday in August, 1880. 49,.
The new locomotive for this road, the,
"Richburg," arrived last week. It is very
handsome engine, weighs IA tons, with 3f-feet
driving wheels, and will be used on the regu..
lar passenger trains. The engine first bought
will now be used exclusively on the, material
train.
The survivors of the Seventeenth Regiment
will meet here to morrow. Among other fea-
lures of the occasion will be fine dinner.
Senator M. @. Butler has engaged rooms at
the Cotton Hotel, and expects to attend the
meeting Of the Survivors. .@ .s:
Allen Gale, colored, while under the inAu-
ence of mean whisky, last Friday night, made
a rumpus with his wife, and she, with more
vehemence than affection, caressed him over
the eye with frying pan.
Mr. David S. Watson has returned from
the springs very much invigorated, and taken
his position behind the counter, awaiting the
calls of the fair ones of Chester. ~
Mrs. M. J. CASTOR and daughter jamie,
left last week for Catawba Springs. Mrs.
Daisy G. Bacot and Miss Jennie Reynolds,
of Winnsboro, and Miss Dora Klinck of Char.
lesion, are here on q visit to W. T. Robinson,
father of the first named lady.
Our theatrical amateurs are rehearsing
"Pinafore," and we may expect its rendition
on the Chester boards ere long
The "boys" had their annual fishing frolic
at Landsford last week. They returned on
Saturday without any serious accident, and
report having had fine time and plenty of
fish. Your correspondence family recollects
various promises of mess of 6nny game, but
it must be only dream. Camping on the
river mnst be q rough life; for some of the
boys looked as if they had been "drawn
through a knot hole" after their return.
Bill Mcknight, colored, has shown me two
cotton bolls, which are curiosity. Both bolls
are the production of single bloom, yet they
appear to be twin bolls. Onethird of his crop
is distinguished by this popularity.
On Saturday last, Mr.. j. II. Smith, of the
Cotton Hotel, was unexpectedly summoned
TO Kings Mountain, N. c., to attend his wife,
who is quite ill there Mr.. Smith has our
deepest sympathy. He has been sorely af1ict-
ed recently. CHESTER.