Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-23
The Aurkrille Gnqnirer,
YORK VILE. s. C.. /:
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE %, 1881.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Greenville county as in promising condition.
Mrs. Albert Means, of Spartanburg, died
q week ago last Saturday.
A steam cotton factory, with 1882 spin
dies, will be put in operation at Sumter by
the 1st of November.
As a result of the recent Circuit Court
at Lancaster, the Penitentiary received an
accession of ten convicts.
At the recent commencement of Reidvllle
Female College, W. B. Wilson, Esq, of York,
Vile, delivered the literary address.
- Henry Miller, white, recently died in
Lexington county, having attained the age
of one hundred and ten years, less three days.
Mr.. Henry Hill, of Edge6eld county, has
recently gathered fifty bushels of oats from
one acre.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. M.
Sims, died in Columbia on Tuesday of last
week, aged twelve days.
A correspondent of the Greenville Ne'rs
suggests Mr.. F. A. Connor, of Rock Hill, as
eminently qualified for the position Of Gov
ernor of this State.
ALI the iron necessary for the Augusta
and Knoxville Railroad, between Augusta
and Greenwood, has been purchased and paid
for in cash.
- The degree of Doctor of Divinity has
been conferred upon Rev. O. A. Darby, the
recently elected President of the Columbia
Female College, by Trinity College, N. c.
Mr.. E. w. Cannon has resigned as a
member of the lower House of the General
Assembly, for Darlington county, and Mr..
Jerome P. Chase, of Florence, has been nomi-
mated as candidate to supply the vacancy
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, D. D., of New Or
leans, who has been invited to assume the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church OF
Columbia, and who has been elected pro.
fessor of the Theological Seminary, has writ
ten letter declining the positions offered.
- Mr.. D. B. Haseton, of Charleston, has
invented horse power cotton picking ma
chine which is pronounced success. Up to
this time about seventy machines have been
invented for this purpose, but none Of them
found practical.
Reports come to the Commissioner OF
Agriculture that large shipments of damaged
corn have been made from the West into
South Carolina, and that its use is killing or
injuring stock. 1t is believed that the cause
is the kiln drying and sale of wet and rosted
grain.
- Rev. w. j. Mckay preached the Bacca.
laureate sermon at Adger College, at Walhal'
la. and Rev. E. H. Buist made the address
before the Literary Societies. At the junior
exhibition, Mr.. J. L. Davies, of York county,
spoke on "Patriotism." Prof. Legare has
gone North to increase the endowment of the
College, and Prof H. Strong has been called
to the Chair of English Literature in the
Normal School st Franklin, N. c., during
the summer.
The Anderson Intelligencer says: "Major
Thomas B. Lee received from the Fish Com
missioner last February fifteen German carp,
of the previous Spring Matching, which he
placed in the mill pond, some five miles above
Anderson. A mill boy was fishing in the
pond about three weeks ago, and caught one
of these fish without knowing the nature Of
his prize. He kept the fish out Of water until
he went to the mill to take his grist home,
when Mr.. w. S. Lee recognized the carp,
and, being surprised at its size, ascertained its
weight to be one and half pounds. This
is a remarkable growth, and proves the carp to
be well adapted both for stocking our streams
and private ponds"
Says the Anderson Journal: "Prof. Ch.
Fromm opened plumbago mine of the very
finest quality last week on the Wilson Ash
ley place, in Martin township, from which he
cut block weighing 140 pounds, and he is
of the opinion that he can get out blocks
weighing from 1000 to 5000 pounds, or per-
haps 10000 pounds. At the request of Col.
A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture,
Prof. Fromm has undertaken to get up fine
collection of Anderson county minerals, to be
placed on exhibition at Atlanta during the
International Cotton Exposition. Professor
Fromm has already discovered quite varie.
ty of valuable minerals within our borders,
such as gold, galena ore, copper, corundum,
beryl, amethyst, garnet, epidote, tourmaliue,
rutile, manganese, kaolin, serpentine, chalce.
dony, jasper. agate, chrysolite, mica, asbestos,
magnetic iron ore and plumbago."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Concord Register reports The wheat
crop of that section as a fair average. The