Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-14
postponed until the spring term, to be held in
Charleston next April. This course was rem

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Charleston next April. This course was rem
dered necessary for the reason that, at the
request of the President, District Attorney
Northrop had resigned, and the term of office
of the United States Marshal had expired.
The appointments of Judge Melton as Dis
trict.Attorney, and Mr.. Blythe as Marshal,
not having been confirmed by the Senate, they
could not act.
- The State shad hatchery, on the Edisto
river, has proved failure, and the work has
been abondoned for the season. The excep-
tionally severe weather of the past six weeks
has nulifed all the efforts of the fish commits
sioner to secure success in its operation.
About half million eggs were obtained,
but where they would ordinarily have hatched
out in less than week, they this year failed
to hatch on account of the coldness of the wa
ter, its temperature at midday, for month,
averaging IS degrees, while from 65 to 80 is
the usual Matching temperature. The failure
this spring was unavoidable, but the Matching
building and paraphernalia will be ready for
an early start next year.
AT meeting of the Board of Agricul-
ture, held in Columbia on Tuesday of last
week, Col. Edward M. Boykin, of Kershaw,
was unanimously elected superintendent of
immigration at a salary of 81 300 year, and
was instructed to submit to the board, at q
called meeting to be held soon, scheme in
detail for the immediate inducement of i'm
migration into the State. He is native Of
Kershaw county, and received classical ed
ucation at Princeton College, N. Y. He
owned lands in Louisiana before the war and
was large sugar planter there. During the
war he was lieutenant. colonel of the Seventh
South Carolina Cavalry. Since the war he
has lived chiefly in Camden, continuing his
planting in Louisiana. During his residence
in Louisiana, he had considerable experience
with imported white labor. In 1870 or 1871
he established an agency in Camden for the
sale of property in Kershaw county,. He is
sued several publications tending to attract
immigration, and was successful in settling
valuable lands with white labor.
- In the United States Court in Charleston,
on Thursday last, Judges Bond and Bryan
were engaged in hearing the cases of Sothern
and Low, assignees of the Blue Ridge Rail
road Company, vs. the Comptroller General
and State Treasurer and others, and of Amos
D. Williams and E. B. Wesley against the
same-a suit brought to test the liability
of the State for the revenue bond scrip issued
to redeem the State guaranteed bonds of the
Blue Ridge Railroad The suit is brought
by Messrs. Wesley and Williams to recover
about 100000, advanced by them to enable
the State to redeem its guarantee on nearly
s4,OOO,OOO of the bonds of the Blue Ridge
Railroad. The bonds were taken up, return.
ed to the State Treasurer, cancelled by
him, and subsequently the bond scrip, which
had been given the complainants as collater-
al security for the money lent, was declared
unconstitutional. The plaintiffs, among other
things, contend that the bond scrip having
been declared unconstitutional. the Court
should order the original bonds, issued under
the Act Of 1868, to be returned to the parties
by the State Treasurer, with the cancellation
removed, or proper certificates Of Indebtedness
issued in their stead After the reading of
the argument of the plaintiffs, the hearing. OF
the case was suspended, the attorney general
being allowed sixty days in which to submit
a printed argument, and the plaintiffs thirty
days after that in which to close the case.
At meeting Of the Penitentiary Board,
held in Columbia, on Thursday last, the
superintendent of the Penitentiary was au-
thorized to enter into contract with A. G.
Dbert of Trenton, N. j., for the employ
ment for FIVE years, by the latter, at shoe.
making within the walls of the Penitentiary,
of the following classes and numbers of con-
victs at the prices stated per day, viz: Fifty
men at fifty cents fifty women at thirty y'seven
cents, if so many can be furnished. If not,
then this last number to be made up from
boy convicts under sixteen years of age at
the same price. The Columbia correspondent
of the Ne,c, and Courier says: "Mr. Dibert
loses no time in beginning his work. He
leaves for Trenton tonight, and expects to
have his machinery here and to begin work
within three weeks. He is now using con.
vict labor in New Jersey for manufacturing
purposes but will move here with his family,
and if, as he hopes, he can hereafter secure
more convicts, will give up his other business
entirely, con6ning himself to this manufacto-
ry. He will use the latest improved machine
nv, and will bring skilled workmen to initiate
the other laborers, all good Democrats, he
says The mandatory will turn out, with a
force of hundred convicts, six hundred pairs
medium and fine boots, and shoes of many
different style, per day. The gross product
of the mandatory, with the force granted,
will be about two hundred thousand dollars
annually. The goods are to be sold in the
Southern markets 1t will be seen that
by this arrangement the State gains immi.
grants, capital and an industry which will in
itiate others of like character"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
In the municipal election at Dallas, last
week, the anti.license ticket was elected.