Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-13

evitable, and we see no reason why the Rocl
Hill Herald should not.
And in conclusion, we wish to say that thu
railroad has the eright, and it is not questioned
to bring and unload guano at their depot, il
Rock Hill, at any season of the year, and tht
Town Council will undertake to look after the
guano after the railroad has parted company
with it, and see that it is removed beyond the
limits of the town. We imagine that it is o1
little consequence to,5sthe railroad as to what
becomes of the guaHssbft tersiss safe delivery by
the company and the amount of freight has
been paid. JOHN G. WITHERsPooN,
T. c: BECKHAM,
JNo. W. Jewell,
R. j. HAGINs,
Wardens of Rock He'll, S. c.
| ANOTHER VOICE ON THE SAME SUBJECT
EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER: We notice
with peculiar amusement, an editorial in the
Rock Hill Herald of March 30th. The ques.
tion of which it treats has been the one that
has agitated the minds of the people Of our
little town ever since the last municipal elec.
ton. We are free to say that the course pur.
sued by the guano dealers has been strange
ly inconsistent and very absurd one. The or
dinance passed and published by the newly
elected council, prohibiting the storing II COM
mercial fertilizers within the incorporate linn
it's, after the 1st day of April, 1882, was con-
sidered by the dealers in that article a very
heavy blow to their interests and that of the
farming interest of the surrounding country.
In view of this fact, as urged by the dealers
and their willing victims, who were induced to
take this absurd view of the question, very
lengthy petition was gotten up by one Of the
largest dealers in fertilizers who prides
himself upon his composition as being fault
less and most irresistibly persuasive. The Pc
tition was circulated, handled by one and all
of the dealers thus being able, as they thought,
to secure the signatures of those upon whom
they could exert an influence The petit
ton was numerously signed by men and boys,
white and colored, the result of the combined
efforts of the dealers, and that famous petition
presented to the Council for their consider
alton.
The Council did, after some unsuccessful
efforts, twice in council assembled, at last
agree. by vote, to extend the time for the
removal of ammoniated fertilizers until the
1st day of May; and yet our guano friends
are not happy, and nothing but repeal of the
ordinance will satisfy these lasc-abidimg citi-
zens. 1 learn that member Of the Council,
upon hearing it rumored upon the streets that
such numerously-signed petition would be
presented to that honorable body, asking the
repeal of the petition, concluded to vote for
the repeal of the said obnoxious ordinance
Dut when he heard the petition read in coun-
Gil, he "sickened," because the petition set
forth so many absurdities that he could not
cast his vote for the repeal, based upon that
groundless petition. Now that conclusion on
the part of the councilman hurt the pride Of
our orthodox getter up of such elegant arti-
cles in the interest and for the edifcation OF
the community.
We will now come to the latest efforts made
by the dealers to carry their point, as we no
ticed in the editorial above referred to. First
we were threatened with the removal Of the
depot beyond the limits Of the town down
about Smiths Turnout, or "Robertson's Old
Field,' we suppose. Any how, such an arbi-
trary people couldn't have depot nor any 9TH
er railroad facilities, for the trains would go
dashing by as though there was no town, but
a bowling wilderness, through which they
wanted to pass as rapidly as possible. Sec
ond-that Col. Ivy and A. B. Fewell had
abandoned the idea Of erecting steam mill :;
because, if the depot were taken away the mill
would not pay, as they expected to erect the
mill quite close to the depot, thus to enjoy all
the facilities necessary to its successful opera
tion. Third-that the Rock Hill cotton fac
tory company had intended increasing its Ca
pacity but no use now We would be out in
the woods-no depot. These pretexts-for
they are mere pretexts- strike us as being
characteristic of those used in securing the
passage of the Act of the Legislature prohib-
itng the sale of intoxicating liquors within
the incorporate limits of the town of Rock
Hill.
We now ask, in all candor, are not these
foolish reasons thus advanced p-the most
utterly absurd with which this community
has ever been favored since the town was
incorporated ? We learn that some of these
importunate, persistent advocates of the repeal
of the aforementioned town ordinance have
even gone so far, in their feelings of utter de-
spair that they can't any longer rule or even
control so small town, as to offer to sell their
large and valuable town property, even at a
sacrifice, and retire. 20 tempore O maores !''
Did we ever think to see such times come up
on us, who have enjoyed absolute control, and
the natural, consequential death of our power
is absolutely intolerable. "Shall such things
be and overcome us like summer cloud ?''
SYMPATHIZER.