Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-26
name of the "Plurner Memorial" in honor
of the late Rev. w. S. Plumer, D. D.

OF Tue laLe hef. w -. luluel, -. -.
Col. j. M. johnson, of Marion, writes to
the Commissioner Of Immigration that the
immigrants who have been sent to that county
are doing extremely we'll, and that the negroes
are working better in selfdefence.
Ex-Governor Perry has written letter
to the Greenville Enterprise and Mouataineer,
forcibly setting forth the evils of liquor SELL
ing and drinking, and urging that if it is
wise and good to prohibit it in the country, it
is equally so to stop it in towns and villages.
The next meeting of the Southern Bap-
tist Convention will be held at Greenville,
S. c., aud will commence on the Wednesday
before the second Sunday. in May, 1882. The
Introductory sermon will be preached by DR..
T. T. Eaton, of Kentucky, or DR.. G. A. Lof:
ton, of Missouri.
The Batesville Factory, in Greenville
county, which was destroyed by fire some
time ago, is to be rebuilt. The owner has
just procured new and improved machinery,
and will run the same number of spindles as
before. 1t is expected that the new factory
will be in full operation by the end of August.
The Chester Bulletin says that Mr.. j. H.
Stroud of that county, is the owner of a year.
ling Ayrshire beifer that has never had a
calf, but which gives gallon of milk a day.
She comes up regularly, morning and evening
to be MIXED, and gives halfgallon of milk
at each milking.
The following persons-one from each
Congressional Distrct-have been appointed
to represent South Carolina at the Atlanta
Cotton Exposition: D. Wyatt Aiken, Alb
beville; H. P. HanlIett, Greenville; w. G
Hinson, Charleston; C. S. Mccall, Mari
boro'; Paul F. Hammond, Aiken.
Judge Mackey's term of Office expires
this year, and quite number of names have
been mentioned in connection with the posi-
ton. Among others, Judge T. j. Mackey
and Hon. j. j. Hemphill, of Chester Hon
I. D. Witherspoon, and Col. w. B. Wilson
of York Hon. H. A. Gaillard, of Fairfield
and Hon. j. D. Wylie, of Lancaster.
Mr.. A. B. Williams, the editor of tht
Greenville Daily Ne~s, has recently purchased
the interests of his co.partners in that paper
and is now sole editor and proprietor. Mr.
Williams has had considerable newspaper ex
perience and will make the Ns,ps as good s
paper as the patronage he receives will war
rant.
1t has been decided by the Superinten
dent of Education TO hold the institute fol
colored teachers j. Columbia during tht
month of July. 1t will be open at as early s
day in that month as possible. The exac
date will be determined upon as soon as the
Superintendent of Education is informed BY
Professor Montgomery, the principal, as tt
what date will suit him.
- Judge Aldrich, on Thursday last, flee
his decree in the case of David T. Copeland
and A. H. White and others vs.. the Piedmont
and Arlington Life Insurance Company, re
fusing to vacate tha attachments levied by
various policy.holders upon the lands Of sale
company in the Counties of Aiken, Barnwel
and Edge6eld, principally for death claims
and amounting to fifteen or twenty Thousand
dollars.
- The firm of James Adger & Co., O.
Charleston, S. c., failed in 1879, owing SlS,
900 to the Columbia Theological Seminary
Last year they paid forty per cent. of this
in January twenty per cent. more and have
now notified the Board of their readiness t.
pay the remaining forty per cent. This is al
honorable meeting of obligations such a
newspapers are not often called upon to chron
icle.
- Commissioner Butler is endeavoring K
make fine collection of minerals, woods ant
agricultural products of this State, for exhi
bition at the Atlanta Exposition in October
He requests persons who feel an interest il
making this exhibition a creditable one, tt
send him specimens of wheat, corn, oats, peas
rye, barley, rice, buckwheat, fax, peanuts
tobacco, cotton, millet, clover and grasses
dried fruit, chufas, molasses, wines, woods
minerals, stone, marble, &C., and particularly
of fruits. The last named should be not quit'
ripe, so that they may be preserved in al
cohol.
- Mr.. James M. Stewart has completed hi
maps and charts of the Landsford Water
Power on the Catawba River, Chester county
S. c., recently surveyed by him. They arr
not mere surveyors plats, but are COTTON W
in the best engineering style. The Catawbs
River at that point is about FIVE or six hun
dred yards wide, but by means of an island 6
dam can be made much shorter than that
The existing canal is 1895 feet in length and
fourteen feet wide, with two locks, giving g
total fall of thirty feet. The projected cana
is to be fifty feet wide, giving fall of 6fteer
and half feet at five thousand feet from its
head, twenty four feet at seven thousand feet
and thirty feet at the end. The supply ot
water is practically unlimited.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
A liquor dealers State convention is to
be held in Raleigh on the first of June.
In Forsythe Superior Court there are
about fifty cases against residents of Winston