Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-12


Greenville was selected as the place at which
the Normal Institute will meet. The session
of the institute will be held during the month
of August.
- The Abbeville Medium is responsible for
the following tough story: "A negro boy
who lived on Mr.. j. G. Lites' place, in this
county, while going to his work riding
mule, went into mire. The mule was taken
from the mire with difficulty, his head only
being visible when discovered. No traces of
the boy have as yet been found"
The board of trustees of Due West Fe.
male College met on Monday of last week,
aud directed Professor Kennedy to act as
chairman of the faculty, and to take general
charge of the College for the present. DR..
Lindsay will continue his services in the i'll
stitution, giving special attention to the class
es heard heretofore by DR.. Bonner.
The Kershaw Gazette says that there is a
negro woman living in the Swift Creek section,
in that county, about IS years of age, who
has exhibited rather peculiar phenomenon
recently. Her daughter died, leaving an in.
fant few months old. The old woman took
charge of and began to nurse it, whereupon
milk flowed freely, and she is now nursing
three babies.
Some time ago, Mr. H. c. Brawley, who
resides in the western part of Chester county,
wrote to his relatives in Ireland and recon-.
mended them to come to that county. On
Thursday last nine of them arrived at Ches'
ter-three of them being young ladies, four
young men and two boys. 1t is understood
they all contemplate making Chester county
their future home.
- The Spartanburg Spartan of last week
says 1.-The longest cotton row in the county,
or in the State, perhaps, was laid off by Mr..
E. H. Huff, who works land of John H.
Montgomery, Esq, two miles north Of town.
1t is $3.50 yards long; and the rows being
three and half feet wide, this row contains
fraction over two and one third acres. Its
length is little more than FIVE and hall
miles. 1t would require about six hours to
run round this one row of cotton"
The superintendent of education has en-
gagged Prof. H. P. Montgomery, colored, to
take charge of the Colored Normal Insti
tute this summer. Prof. Montgomery is re-
commended by Gen. Armstrong, of Virginia
and DR.. Ruffner, the superintendent of edu'
cation of that State, as having had large ex'
perience in such instruction. The session ol
the institute will be begun about the middle Of
July, but the location has not yet been de-
cided upon.
The Register is informed by Columbia
cotton buyer, who has just returned from the
western portion of Fairfield county, that the
prospects for the cotton, corn and wheat
crops there are as fine as-he ever saw them
Some of the cotton is up and in some places
the corn has been 1un around once. The
farmers have plenty of hands and their fields
are in fine condition.. He spoke especially
of the plantation of Mr.. A. Williford, two
miles west of Winnsboro, and said it would
do other farmers good to see it.
A Spartanburg dispatch of the 9th, tc
the Columbia Register, says: "The prepara
ton of the stand and about the monument
is about completed. The naval flags used
at the unwilling of the Farragut statue in
Washington arrived here to-day, and will be
used at the unwilling. About five hundred
visitors have arrived and more are coming in
on every train. An immense crowd is expect
ed. Lieutenant Daniel Morgan Taylor, of the
United States Army, is here with his mother
Governor Hagood and number of other dis
tinguished citizens of the State, have also
arrived"
- The Greenville Neps of the 4th instant
says: "Hon. J. H. Evins, our Representa-
tive in Congress, has taken quite promi.
nent part in the Midland railroad extension
movement. We regret that his convictions
of his duty, by which he was doubtless govern.
ed, have placed him in the position he has
occupied on that question. Entertaining
the kindest feelings for him personally, and
generally approving his public course, the
people of Greenville will not again give their
aid in eecting him to Congress, should he
desire reelection. 1t is folly for them to add
the strength of official position to gentle
man so directly opposed to their interest"
Mr.. G. A. NeuAer, of Columbia, has been
employed by the Commissioner of Immigra-
ton as interpreter, in connection with the du-
ty of taking charge of immigrants until places
can be procured for them. The Commission
er is constantly receiving orders for farm Ia
borers and mechanics, and in nearly every in.
stance the immigrants are giving satisfac-
ton to the persons who have employed
them. The Register, in this connection, says
"Mr. R. w. Shelor, of Tugaloo, Oconee
county, who took five families of immigrants,
writes that so far he is we'll pleased with
them, and he judges of their satisfaction
by their willingness to do and learn. While
they cannot speak the English language, they
aptly understand by signs and objects, and
proprietor and employees are learning 'the
language from each other. Mr.. Shelor writes
they do promptly and we'll whateveri is shown
them"
Judge Thomas Thomson, after an illness