Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-08
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The cornerstone of a new Odd Fellows
Hall is to be laid in Chester next Tuesday.
A cotton seed oil mil will soon be added
to the other manufacturing enterprises OF
Greenville.
Mr.. R. B. Wilson, who has a peach Or
chard near Ridge Springs, in Edgefield county,
realized s., 500 from his peach crop last year,
and expects to do better this year.
Wilson Jones, colored, who rents farm
in Chester county, will make this year 3,oOo
bushels of oats, from seventy-five acres, and
800 bushels of wheat from thirty acres.
There is complaint in Pickens county OF
bad stand of cotton. Some have replanted
and few others have ploughed mp their cotton
and planted their land in corn.
"A rattlesnake forty-four inches long, with
seven rattles, was killed last Wednesday by
Isaac Bull, a colOred man on the farm OF
Captain W. X. Bachman, about three miles
from Columbia.
In an affray between Green jackson, and
Frank Lynn, at the Halle Gold mine in Lan-
caster county, on the 22nd ultimo, Jackson
received wound from which he subsequently
died. Lynn was arrested and will be tried at
the June term Of Court.
, Col. G. B. HamnAstt has disposed of his
gold mine, located near Pacolet Springs, to
company Of Northern capitalists, who con-
template working it to its full capacity as
soon as the necessary arrangements can be
made The price pail was S27, 800.
Colonel Thompson, State Superintendent
of Education, has effected an arrangement
with all the railroads in the State by which
teachers visiting Columbiat to attend the Teach
ers' Institute in July will pay two cents per
mile each way. He has issued circular OF
instruction and information on the subject.
The Columbia Yeomon says: A gentleman
of a mechanical turn residing in Lexington
county has completed the invention Of cot
ton picking machine which is said to be
success. 1t has been tested to some extent,
and found to answer the desired purpose. A
model is being made in Columbia, and a
patent will be applied for.
The entire assessment of 1881 on the rail-
roads of the State for the expenses of support
ing the Office Of railroad commissioner has
been paid. Five OF the roads have paid the
assessments for 1892 The Ashley River Road
has paid $3.50, the Charleston and Savannah
SPOT so, the Cheraw and Chester $23.20, the
Northeastern S375.55, and the South Carolina
S1,O12.25. The Charleston and Savannah and
the South Carolina railways paid their assess
ments under protest.
Says the Edgefeld Chronicle: The recent
cold weather injured the cotton crop in many
parts of this county very seriously but the
fruit crop remains uninjured, and the pros
pect is that there will be more fruit this
summer than for many years past, and this
together with the enormous grain crop OF this
season will offset the short crops OF last year,
and it is hoped will lead our farmers to give
more attention in future to grain and fruit
crops and less to the cultivation of cotton.
- Says the Greenyille Ne,cs: "Our fore
bodngs regarding the extra session are already
fulfilled. The changing of the counties, (which
will increase taxes and create infinite dissatis-
faction) and the repeal of the registration law
(which would be square back down. are al
ready broached as subjects to be considered
beyond the redistricting. The fence law will
probably be reopened. Candidates for re-elec-
tion will be loaded to the muzzle with means
of obtaining local popularity. A long session
is inevitable a disastrous session is probable. "
The Kershaw Gazette says: The summer
meeting of the State Grange and South Caro-
lima Agricultural Society, which will be held
in Anderson in August next, will be one OF
great interest. 1t will be an excellent oppor-
tunity for our farmers to exhibit to their
brother farmers from all parts of the State
specimens of the small grain crops. Let them
select small sheaves Of wheat, oats, barley,
etc., and put them away for exhibition on
that occasion, and show to those who come
how we'll suited our soil and climate are to
the production of small grains.