Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-09-11
Correspondence of the YOrkvilie Enquirer.
LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION.

LETTER FhUM bbACh'S SIAilVN.
BLACKS STATION, S. c., Sept. 8, 1879.
The weather is now pleasant, and favorable
to the farmers in gathering their crops of for
age and sowing oats, ofwhich good crop is
being sown in this section. That attention
has not been paid to the turnip crop that
should have been, when its pro6tableness is
considered for table use and for food for stock.
There are no crops, which, at the same out
lay of expense, will give as great profits as
turnips and OATS The corn and cotton crops
are good in this section, and the prospect of
the farmers is at present bright.
The election to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Mr.. Green, passed off
very quietly here. There was no opposition
to j. A. Deal Esq, but strong feeling is
manifest against the course of conventions
taking exclusive control of nominations, when
the same might be submitted to the people
with safety and give Democratic results.
Nominations should never be made only as
necessity. Conventions are dangerous ma
chimes when they intervene the common will,
or interfere when the passions and oppositions
ola people on party lines have subsidized to that
extent that they are able to meet on a broad
and liberal policy. Elections, properly man
aged by the primary system, will give this
result.
York Baptist Association met at this place
last Thursday and adjourned Sunday even
ing. The body was composed of Jealous
workers in the cause of religion. The re.
ports to the Association show the body to be
composed of twelve churches as follows {:
York county, 10, Lancaster county, and
CASTOR county, N. c., /, with a membership
of 90S communicates. In the Association
there are FIVE Sunday.schools. The amount
raised, the past year, for benevolent and re-
ligious purposes was 1870 There are seven
Baptist churches in York county that have
not connected themselves with this body.
Upon examination they are found to contain
the same membership, making 1916 members
of the Baptist faith in York county.
The Baptist ministers present during the
sessions of the Association were Elders D. w.
Thomasson, B. G. Covington, j. M. Garrison,
T. II. Mullinax, L. H. McSwain, P. R. Elan,
J. II. Booth, j. P. Hambrick, licentiate J. F.
Morris and A. W. Lamar, agent for the
Baptist State Mission Board. ..... ... ...
Mr.. Thomas Bowen, late of Rutherford
ton, N. c., and who resides with Dr. William
Anderson, at this place, is dangerouslyill
Elder B. G. Covington, with his wife, left
here this morning for trip to the mountains
On their return, they will stop here for few
days before proceeding to their home at Fort
Mill.
Mrs. Matte Potts, the pedestrienne, reach
ed here last Friday, at IL o'clock, M. By
invitation she took dinner with your cores
pondent She left New Orleans on the 25th
of July. She looks as we'll as when she
passed here last spring, though she now com:
plains of her ankles paining her. She said
that Georgia and Louisiana are the only
States in which the people did not charge her
for meals. She bid US adieu at l o'clock,
plucking flower as she went, which she said
she would preserve, writing the name of her
entertainer upon it, as she had done at every
place where hospitality was shown her.
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