Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-25

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perience, ability and the energy Of steam
engine. The day is not far distant when the
Cape Fear & Y. V. R. R., the N. c. Midland
and the Virginia Midland united, will give
North Carolina the relief she needs"
The cotton mill campaign in North Caro-.
lima is thus summed up by the Wilmington
Star "a company of capitalists have pur-
chased site on the Yadkin river, near Idols
Ferry, on or near the N. c. Midland Railroad
Chat is to be) and will begin soon to erect a
cotton factory. The new machinery for the
Charlotte mill has arrived. Concord is
having a large factory erected. A new
mill is in course of erection in Randol ph
county, or has just been completed. Swep.
son is rebuilding his burnt factory. The
Holts are enlarging their already extensive
mill at Haw river. In Alamance county the
factories are running on full time and have
more orders than they can gil. At Company
Shops, cotton mill is being built by Mr..
Peter Holt. In Randolph county, the Ran
dleman Mill has $500 spindles and 500
looms. The same company, being so much
encouraged with what they have done already,
have purchased another site and will erect a
factory with 10000 spindles.
MERE.MENTION.
A genuine Yankee is selling exemptions
from draft for the next war to the negroes of
Coosa county, Alabama. '''''''"The Sunday
law is worked so practically in Waxahachie,
Texas, that they indicted an undertaken who
sold a coffin on Sunday. and he is to be tried
for the ofense '''''''''The Georgia Senate has
defeated the bill "to regulate the sale of in
toxicating liquors in the State. ."''''''"'A ma.
chine operated by four clerks, which tele'
graphs twelve hundred words per minute, is
to be feature of the electrical exhibition at
Paris ''''''"'A dispatch from the Rosebud
Agency states that Spotted Tail was killed
for seducing another Indians squaw, and they
say that this was his one hundred and 6ftieth
offense. '''''''" An Atlanta man is organizing
Mutual Relief Association, which will pay
each of its members $4,000 upon their mar.
rying. 1t is a general assessment af:
fair. Charles Stewart, negro, killed
his wife with hatchet at Bay St. Louis,
Miss, and was taken from Jail and lynched.
His father in.law prayed for him and then
helped to hang him. ''''''Dr. Bliss seems to
entertain the idea that the President can be
cured if a copious flow Of bulletins can be
maintained. THE famous battlefield farm
of Charlottesville will be sold at auction
next week. .'.....""Cadet Whitaker's ears have
cost the government about twenty times as
much as an entire negro used to cost before
the war. According to the August esti-
mates of the Agricultural Department, there
is a serious decrease in the Indian corn crop.
The Department estimates that the yield will
fall 372, 2,72O,OOO bushels below that of 1880
which would give crop of 1,164,7SO,-
900 bushels, against 1887 100000 last
year. "''''''". Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Illinois have each more coal than Eng.
land. .''...""'There has been remarkably
small amount of sickness in the Southern At
lantic cities this summer, and generally the
heat has been less oppressive than in the
Northern cities. 1.-THE cotton crop of Mis-.
sissippi is double what it was in 1860, though
no more land is cultivated than then. The
increase is attributable to the dividing up OF
the plantations, and the better system of cul'
tivation. ''''''"'Guiteau recently tried to es'
cape from his cell by overpowering one OF
the guards. Whereupon the Richmond State
reminds Guiteau that his safest place is in
Jail Just now. Memphis cooks have tried
cotton seed oil as q substitute for lard
in making biscuits and crusts, with sue,
cess. '..'..''It is expected that there will be
thlrty-thousand troops at the IorKto"n Gen.
tennial celebration. .''....'"One thousand and
twenty-eight emigrants arrived at Castle
Garden, New York, on Tuesday of last
week. '...''"There are four hundred men in
New York worth $3,OOO,0O0 each, and over
100000 men who are not worth a plea
yune. '''''''''The crop prospects in India are
gloomy, drought having prevailed there
A famine is feared. ''''''''The number Of
opium eaters in the United States is estimated
at quarter of million, the majority OF
whom are women. ''''A Georgia negro, who
is represented as "staunch Democrat,' has
lust paid $4,000 for farm in Oglethorpe
county.