Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-22
to return from the sea, grown to their full

to return from the sea, grown to their full
size.
The Charlotte Democrat says the prospect
now is that there will be limited crop of
peaches, and q pretty good crop of apples,
cherries, &C., in Mecklenburg county.
The work on cotton factory at Char
lotte, N. c., which is to have capacity of
six thousand spindles, is being pushed rapid
ly forward, and will. be ready for operation
at an early day.
- The Charlotte Observer learns from Cleve'
land county that the fruit in that section is
considerably injured by the recent cold wealth
er, but the wheat is looking unusually fine.
The farmers are making preparation for a
larger cotton crop than they ever planted
before
On Saturday, the 9th instant, work was
commenced miles northwest Of Greensboro,
on the Mount Airy end of the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railroad. The survey Of this
road extends from Fayetteville via Greens.
boro, to Mt. Airy in Surry county. The
road is in operation from Fayetteville to
Egypt in Chatham county, and between that
point and Greensboro the grading is nearly
completed. The track will be narrow gauge.
POLITICAL NEWS.
- The Democratic delegates to Cincinnati
from Louisiana, have been instructed to vote
against any effort to abolish the two.third
rule.
- The Republicans of Missouri have in
structed their delegates to the Chicago Con.
vention, to vote as unit for Gen. Grant as a
candidate for President
- The New York Sun says Never before
was any such sum of money ready to be ex
pended in Presidential election as is now in
readiness to promote the election of Grant" ~
OF 2,27O Alabama Democrats who re-
sponded to an invitation from the Montgome
ry Advertiser to disclose their preferences fol
President, 572 were for Bayard, 377 for Han
cock, $50 for Tlden, 231 for Thurman, 81
for Hendricks, and 1853 for Seymour.
- The resolutions adopted by the Massa
chusetts Republican Convention are noticea
BILE for the absence Of everything of "bloody'
shirt" nature. They "deplors the existence
of sectiona strife and animosry and of par
ties bound by territorial lines" This is 6
new departure.
- The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Bulletin, says that he is inform
ed by prominent Democrat, who has held
high position in the councils Of his party
that Mr.. Tilden has written letter, to be
read at the New York Democratic Conven
ton at Syracuse declining to be a candidate
before the Cincinnati Convention, and with
drawing his name. The reason assigned fol
his course is the condition of his health
This same gentleman says that MIR. Tilder
prepared the letter two months ago with
drawing his name, but that the intercession o.
personal friends prevented it from beiug made
public.
- The Anti -Third-Term Convention, which
is to be held in St. Louis on the 9Th of May, is
looming larger than at first seemed probable
The number of influential men, haiing from
all sections of the country, who have expires
sed hearty sympathy with the movement and
who are expected to be present, is surprisingly
large. Gen. Chamberlain, who rescued Maine
from the Fusionists and handed it over tc
the Republicans, sends word of cordial CO.
operation from Maine Massachusetts, is rep
resented by such men as Judge Hoar, Grants
OK attorney general; Senators Dawes and
Hoar, Ex-Governor Washburn, Thomas w
Higginson, Charles F. Adams, Jr, two OF
three Harvard professors and ex.congressrnen
Connecticut by six Yale professors and Gen
Hawley; New York by Geo. H. Putnam
Horace White, George VIM. Curtis, ex Gov
ernor Fenton, Rev. DR.. Bellows Pennsylva'
MIA by William R. Wister, Wayne Mac
Veagh, j. G. Rosengarten, Henry c. Lea
E. D. Lockwood, Joseph Lapsley, Charles
Wheeler, Wharton Barker and John Me-
Laughlin. Ohio will send ex Secretary j. d.
Cox, Judge Stallo aud Fred. Hassasrek; and
we might 60 on taking few names here and
there from long list that is printed in some
of the Western newspapers.