Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-09-15

plentiful on the market and sell for 30 cents
per bushel. Chickens are selling for 10 to
II! cents. Peaches bring from Is cents to
81 per bushel.
The Gazette says: "The residence of Jane
Shiers, white woman living in Cherryvile
township, CASTOR county, was blown to atoms
Sunday night while she was from home. Dy-
Mantle was used, and the destruction of dishes,
trunks, furniture and other things was enor'
nous. 1t was supposed to be the work of her
paramour.
Says the Shelby Aurora: eve are in
formed that the guano companies have mott
fed their agents in this place that they
will expect them to settle promptly, whether
the farmers pay up or not. This being the
case, there is no chance for the farmer but to
be pressed, or make the men from whom ne
bought his fertilizers secure for another year.
A storm swept over Wilmington last Fri
day morning, damaging property to the
amount of $4,000 to $4,000. The wind
blew at the rate of fifty miles an hour and
swept through the streets with fearful VIC
lence, sweeping away all loose objects, blow
ing down fences, trees, unroofng houses, and
injuring several people. The storm was also
very severe in Raleigh, breaking up the CIR
Gus which was exhibiting there at the time
- Says the Charlotte Observer "Mr. Fred
Muller has in small pond on his place on
the outskirts of the city three German carp
which he calculates will average one and
three quarter pounds. In the same pond
we're placed last November quite number
of trout. The latter fish have entirely dis
appeared, having all gone to fatten the CARP
which we're so small when they were put in
that Mr.. Munzler never dreamed the three
would clean up the immense majority of the
trout"
The Newton Enterprise says there was
conference of some of the officials of the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad at Liucolnton
on the night of the 9Th instant. Major Fin
ger, on his return, reported the road as boom.
ing. The company will put force to work,
with the gravel train, on the unfinished part
of the road through the town of Lincclnton, in
about ten days, and will be ready to begin
laying the track of the first FIVE mile section
from that place in about four weeks. They
will push on to this place as rapidly as posi-
BILE. The earnings Of the road have been
much greater this summer than they were
during the three corresponding months of last
year.
- The drought is general throughout North
Carolina. A well.informed correspondent
of the Raleigh News, whose business has car
ried him from one end of the state to the
other every year for the last ten years, says
that in his opinion the crop will be the poor,
est made in the State since 1S45. In Hyde,
Beaufort, Tyrell and Onslow counties, the
usual heavy corn crops will be made. A
Hyde farmer told the correspondent that he
would contract to put on the cars at New
bern, of this years crop, 10000 bushels OF
corn at 10 cents bushel, and if allowed
to the first of January to complete the deliv'
cry, he will make the contract at 65 cents
per bushel. Both cotton and corn in Hyde
county are better than they have been for the
last ten years.
- The Charlotte Observer of Sunday gives
the following as specimen of the troubles en-
vironing the renters in Mecklenburg county:
"a renter came to the city yesterday and in
his desperate straits sought legal advice for
relief from $500 rent which his crop would
not pay, not to speak of bread for his family.
Of course the law could do nothing for him,
but here is the way the crop panned out, and
it will serve as an occasion to suggest to land
owners, who are themselves seeking relief
from the burdensone fertilizer bills, to be
lenient with their tenants. On ter acres Of
bottom land he will get one hundred bushels
of corn-about a fourth of crop. On forty
acres in cotton he will make three bales, and
on FIVE acres in watermelons he got not
melon. Even turnips, the last hope, have
failed him, the seed not coming up. He
would have made twenty-five balesof cotton
with season.