Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-08-14

Cy, were QeSITOyeu Wy al lhCeAuloiy nAo o1A
Tuesday night of last week. Investigation
revealed the fact that the barn was fred by
two negroes, who were arrested aud committed
to Jail.
Mrs Louisa Ridgeway, of Dunklin town.
ship, Greenville county, has calf that is a
great curiosity. The fore legs and body are
perfect in form, and one hind leg is we'll
formed. The other hind leg is divided into
two legs, one of which comes out inside the
thigh and extends to about the knee and has
half formed hoof The main leg divides at
the ankle joint into two legs, each division
having perfect hoof This whole complica-
ton of legs is shorter than the three perfect
legs, and mpedes the locomotion of the calf.
- The Colleton Democrat of the 9th instant,
says: "The rice crops on the Ashepoo river
in this county are better than they have been
for years. The seasons have been rather pro-
pitious for the growth and cultivation Of this
plant the present year, and with harvest sea-
sons equally propitious, there will be no doubt
that the yield of the rice crop on Ashepoo
will be heavier than for many years past
Colleton has no right to complain of the
crops, for to take them generally over the
county, corn, cotton and rice will make some
thing over an average yield"
- The Union Times of last week says: sit
is really refreshing to hear our farmers tell Of
the astonishing change which the late rains
have made in the corn crop throughout this
county. In many fields where it was supposed
the tassels were dead and the crop beyond the
power of rain to recover, we now hear OF the
tassels putting on new bloom, shoots of corr
starting and slking, and bright prospect
opening for an average crop of corn. Men
who told us two weeks ago of fields that
would not make bushel to the acre, now tel
us they expect to make from ten to fifteen
bushels per acre on those fields. This re
markable change, however, is only seen where
the crop had been we'll worked, and was clean
when the rains came"
Under the head of "Something new ii
cotton culture" the Abbeville Medium says
ut has always been claimed that cotton vii
not grow when transplanted, but from the re
salt of an experiment, which we have made
in small way, the old notion will not holo
good, and cotton will grow when transplant
ell. On the 3lst of June, stalk of cottol
was brought to this office from the country
and placed on exhibition for two days, wher
it was topped and planted in little rich
earth near our office, and has now grown into
vigorous stalk. When planted it had two
blooms on it and thirteen shapes. These al
fell off, but others are putting out, and the
stalk will no doubt produce fruit. If trans
planting succeeded in this case, would it moi
be practicable upon much larger scale, ano
could not the whole cotton crop be in this
way improved-the yield increased and the
fibre made finer"
The Columbia Register says that Profess
or Bibikov, of that city, has discovered q
deposit of Ignite or brown coal, in South
Carolina, not far from Augusta, about mile
from the Savannah river and few hundred
yards from the Port Royal Railroad. 1t is
on the plantation of Mr.. Paul F. Hammond
and the same seam extends to the plantation
of his brother, Mr. Harry Hammond. From
the position of the stratas, the professor says
he would not be astonished if the whole area
of at least hundred acres would be found
to be covered by the same seam. The strata
seems to be from two to three feet thick and
to lie at a depth of about twenty-five or thir
ty feet from the surface. He has made as
says or preliminary tests of the coal found
there, and the result has led him to believe
that it can be used for the production of gas
and for fuel. The coal itself and the shales
which overlie it are strongly impregnated
with alum. 1t also contains good many pi
rites or sulphurets of iron. Professor Bib
kov thinks that both alum and copperas car
be extracted from the coal and the shales
His intention is to 60 to the place again and
make use of borer to ascertain the rea
depth of the strata, and how far the seam ex
tends, and then to see if he can find under
that strata other seams of coal, which nc
doubt will be of still better quality.