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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

In the House, on the 9th, there was a lengthy
debate on the apportionment bill, in which Mr..
Dibble, of South Carolina, criticised the Seaton
method, pointing out what he conceived to be
a great error in the system employed by the
committee in discovering the ratio of repre-
sentation The committee had failed to take
into consideration that the population of Ne
vada and Delaware fell below the modulus
fixed upon, a fact which would have great ef-
feet upon the fractional representation of Va
rious States.
In the Senate, on the 10th, the pension az
rears bill was taken up,after the morning hour
had been consumed in considering bills of a
strictly private interest, and Senator MaXey
spoke in support Of the amendment declaring
in favor of an enlargement Of the Mexican
war pension list. Iealluded to the exceptions
al features of that war aS one III which our
volunteers carried the flag upon foreign soil,
as one whose results in the acquisition of ter
ritOry were of material benefit to the country,
and eulogized the services of our little army
in their successful campaigns.
The House was occupied In the consideration
of private bills. Both Houses adjourned until
Monday.
In the Senate on the 18th, the pension az
rcars resolution came up as unfinished busi-
ness, but was laid aside temporarily, after
which Senators Dawes and Pendleton spoke
in favor of civil service reform, when the sub
ject was disposed of by reference of the bill to
the civil service committee. In executive ses-
sion, the Senate confirmed Thomas B. Johnson
to be collector of customs for Charleston, S. G.
In the House, bill was introduced by Mr..
Warner, of Tennessee. to repeal the law char,
tering National banks, and to abolish Nation
al banks. A Senate amendment to the House
bill for the relief of colored emigrants was
concurred in. The consideration of the ap-
portionment bill was then resumed and de.
bated by several members until 4.30 p. M,
when the House adjourned.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
THE STATE PRINTING.

We are pleased to learn that the contract for
executing the State printing for the next two
sessions of the Legislature has been awarded
to Mr.. G. A. Calvo, Jr., of the Columbia Reg
lister. Not that any fault attaches to the
manner in which the work has been done
heretofore by his immediate predecessor but
besides, as we learn, his bid 'being the most
advantageous to the State, his skill as prn-
ter, his untiring industry, and the effort and
labor expended by him to publish creditable
daily Democratic paper at the capital of the
State, entitle him to some recognition at the
hands of the party. While at the best, there
is but little profit in the work, yet knowing
that it is in competent hands, we are glad that
he will derive from it such benefit as it may af-
ford
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
THE REFORM SIGNAL.

The above is the title of new weekly which
made it's first appearance in Columbia last
Thursday under the auspices of the Farmers
Publishing Company, Mr.. j. Hendrix McLane,
manager. Mr.. McLane will be remembered
by his afiliation with the Greenback party
in the last canvass, he having been candl-
date for Congress in this Congressional Dis
trict on that ticket, and it is understood that
the Signal is the outcome of the Greenback-
ers' efforts in this State during and subsequent
to the last canvass The Signal, according
to the legend it has adopted is anti, too utterly
too too-being anti-ring, anti-bourbon and
anti-monopoly. 1t sees giant monopoly in
nearly every enterprise, public, private, Con-
gressional and Legislative; and though this
monster has already assumed the proportions
of Giant Despair, yet the self-imposed duty
of the Signal will be to fight it until the peo-
pie are freed from their environment.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
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MANUFACTURING NOTES.

The canal and water power at Weldon, N.
c., has been bought by Robert PEBBLES, of
Northampton county, for $17, 500. He will
Immediately commence the erection OF cot
ton factory to cost $500, ,OOO.
The fine buildings put up at Corinth, Miss,
before the war for the establishment of cot
ton factory, but never used, have at last been
filled with machinery, which is to be put in
operation very soon by Boston capitalists
The Greenville News says the Piedmont
Mills of that city have recently received one
of the largest orders that has been given to a
factory in South Carolin. The order is for
%, 900 pieces of Edinburgh Cheviots," and
the amount to be paid for them will be S70,-
600.
The Winnsboro Ne,rs says GA movement
is on foot to start cotton factory in Winns-
boro. Several gentlemen Of means have indi-
Gated their willingness to join in the enterprise,
and we have no doubt that sufficient nucleus
of home subscriptions can be procured to in
duce Northern capital to come"
The Greenvile Neacs says it can now state
positively that the capital has been subscribed
and the arrangement made for the building and
equipment of factory that will make cotton
plaids and gingham checks in Greenville. 1t
is to be styled the Huguenot manufacturing
company.
The Gastonia Gazette learns that R. Y.
McAden's huge factory at Lowell, on the Air
Line Railroad, in CASTOR county, N. c., will
start with Il, 900 spindles, and arrangements
will then be made to double that amount.
This building, one of the best on the river, is
300 feet long, and it will be extended 300 feet
more, making it the most attractive and long
est factory building in the State. From 500
to 1000 hands will be employed.
- The factory building of the Worth Manu-
featuring Company, in Randolph county, is
now completed. 1t is said to be one of the
largest and handsomest mill buildings in that
county, The machinery is daily arriving.
Operations will begin about the 1st of next
month. Fifteen tenement houses are about
completed most elegant on the river.
They are neat, commodious and decidedly
well arranged. Many of the hands have al
ready moved into them and are ready for busi-
ness.
The Reporter says the corporators of the
Farmers Manufacturing Company of Chester
are R. S. Hope, DR.. A. H. Davega, r. G.
Thompson, r. A. Love, w. A. Hardin, Alex.
Wise, G. B. Stokes, Peter Walker, John S.
Wilson, J. w. Wilkes, G.. w. Austin, Grandi-
son Williams, w. II. Roseborough, John B.
Cornwell, Robert Douglass, J. Harvey Smith,
and DR.. G.. L. Clawson. The capital stock, in
shares of fifty dollars each, is one hundred
thousand dollars, with privilege OF increasing
to five huYlred thousand. The company is
authorized to begin business when forty thou
sand dollars have been subscribed. Books of
subscription will be opened at an early day.
The last Rock Hill Herald has the follow
ing concerning the Fishing Creek mill The
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
CHURCH NOTICES.

Episcopal-Church of the Good Shepherd
Rev. r. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will
officiate in the Church of our Saviour at Rock
Hill, next Sunday.
On the 22nd instant-it being Ash Wednes-
services will be held in the Church of the
Good Shepherd, at II O'Clock A. NJ.
Baptist Services will be conducted at the
Baptist Church, at 7 P: NJ, next Sunday, by
Methodist Episcopal R. p. Franks,
Pastor. Services at Kings Mountain Chapel
at II A. M. In the Church at Yorkville, at
P. NJ.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian-Re R.
Latham, Pastor. Services at 10! A. NJ. Sun
day-school at g.
Presbyterian T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at II A. M, and 7 P. NJ.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
number of Joint Resolutions all of which

number of Joint Resolutions all of which
were rejected except the following: A Joint
Resolution to amend section s, Article VIII,
of the Constitution of this State respecting
the disqualification of electors. This Joint
Resolution was passed by the requisite two
thirds vote in both Houses, and will be sub
mitted to popular vote at the general elec-
tion in November next. If adopted by the
people, and ratified by the next General AS
sembly, all persons convicted of felony will
be disqualified from voting.
In another column we publish the captions
of such Acts and Joint Resolutions AS will be
of interest to orr readers
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
THE CAROLINA CENTRAL,

Alluding to the sale of the above road and
the prospect thereby given Of an important
competing line, the Portsmouth Landmark
says:
The recent purchase by Mr.. 'hn NJ. Robin
son, of the Carolina Central Railroad, running
from Wilmington to Charlotte, and from the
great Importance, giving as it does to the
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company,
in connection with it's controlling interest in
the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad and the Au-
gusta Air Line Railroad, an opportunity to
extend it's connection to the South by COM
pleting the gap Of eighteen miles between
Hamlet, N. c., and Darlington, s. c., thus
enabling it to make through connection with
Charleston, Savannah and other Southern
cities. It would then be able to compete at
Weldon for the travel to Florida, which now,
| to great extent takes the Wilmington and
Weldon Road, and to some extent the Rich
mond and Danville Road via Greensboro and
Atlanta, and which is estimated to amount to
forty thousand passengers year, and yearly
increasing. Besides, by the contraction of
narrow gauge road from Wadesboro, on
the Carolina Central, to Chester, S. c., Mr..
Robinson will open up a'large cotton belt that
will add from rs, 600 to 100, 600 bales of cotton
to the already large number of bales that is
now brought over his road to Norfolk.
| Nor is this all that is predicted as the result
of this master move of Mr.. Robinson. He is
placed within easy reach of the great iron belt
of Western North Carolina and Eastern Ten
nessee. From Lincolnton, on the North Car
olina Central, narrow gauge road runs north
to Newton, in Caldwell county, and from this
point to the Cranberry iron works, in Mitchell
county, distance Of thirty miles, a road is
| "a to hn n1afo Huho
completed, the company owning the works in
tend to begin to get out large quantities Of pig
iron which will be shipped to Norfolk. The
Cranberry ore is claimed to be equal to any
iron ore in America, and it is said the supply
| is inexhaustible. .
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

T. M. Dobson-Great Reduction in Price-Enl-
porium of Fashion.
Hunter, Oates & Co.-Unparalleled Bargains.
J. M. Adams-Attention! Housekeepers-NeW
Goods.
H. W. Hope-Good Advice to Farmers.
NJ. Strauss-The proof of the pudding is in the
eating.
J. H. Timme-Come and See Me.
DR.. j. B. Patrick-Dental Surgery.
John R. Ashe-The New Store. .... ...
Sam. M. Grist-No Lady.
H. F. Adckes-We Have in Store-Shoes, Shoes
Shoes.
w. G. Latimer-John Merryman & Co.'s Ammo.
mated Dissolved Bone.
Clark Brothers-Cash Grocery.
Witherspoon Spencer--Dssolution.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- At their last meeting the county commits
sioners of Mecklenburg county refused to
grant license to retail liquor.
- Mrs. Garfield, widow of the murdered
President, will visit Montgomery county this
summer. She owns an interest in gold mine
in that county.
-Charlotte's cotton receipts thus far this
season are only 21, los bales, against 9,2OS up
to the same date last season, a falling off OF
1S, O99 bales, or nearly 80 per cent
- The branch road connecting Chapel Hill
with the North Carolina Central has been
finished, and train makes daily run from
Chapel Hill to Raleigh and return.
- On Thursday last, DR.. Sandford Thomp-
son shot and killed negro named Waldrop,
near Raleigh On the following day an in
quest was held, and the jury found that the
homicide was justi6able.
- Senator Butler, of South Carolina, was in
Greensboro last week as counsel before Judge
Dick in chambers, for Mr.. Carter, who has
brought suit for the recovery of the Western
N. G.. Railroad, which he claims to have pur-
chased at sheriff's sales.
Gen. VIM. MacRae, of Wilmington, died
suddenly at the Globe Hotel, in Augusta, Ga,
last Saturday night. He had been ill for a day
or two, but on Saturday he felt that he
was recovering, and came down from his
room. Shortly afterwards he was seized with
chill, and at twenty minutes to ten died of
congestion of the lungs. Gen. MacRae was
civil engineer of considerable reputation,
any at the time of his death was connected
with the building of the Belt Railroad around
Atlanta.
- The danger and impropriety of permitting
lunatics to roam at large was painfully Illus
trated at Newbern last Thursday, by the muir
der of highly respectable citizen, MIR. F..
NJ. Agostini, ST., by a crazy negro named
Henry Bryan, who committed the deed with
out any apparent reason. From the reports
in the local papers, it appears that while the
murderer was regarded as crazy he was per-
mitted to 60 at large and earn his living, rath-
or than tax the community by placing him
where he could do no harm.
After one of the most bitter and protract-
ed contests for office-lasting for near two
months known in Washington City,
Thomas N. Cooper has been nominated by the
President as collector of internal revenue for
the Sixth Tor Statesville) North Carolina
District. There were three promine' candi-
dates for the place, all backed by powerful in
fluences, and the factions fought for their
particular favOrite with determined bitterness.
1t is alleged that in this district a great deal
of illicit distilling is carried on. AS conse-
quence the collector has perfect army of spies,
informers, detectives, deputy marshals, &c.,
and his contingent expenses are enormous.
This accounts for the struggle to get posses
sion of the Office.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
NEW RITII,DJNES.

Mr.. Ashes store house, near the depot will
be finished this week. 1t is very handsome
structure and admirably adapted to the pur-
pose for which it was built.
Mr.. J. Bolton Smith is preparing to build a
neat and commodious store room on his lot op-
posite Roses hotel. ..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
THE PROTRACTED RAINS.

Seldom has this section been visited with
more protracted or continuous spell of rainy
weather than that which has been upon us all
of this year, excepting only three or four days.
Rain fell nearly all of Monday night, and
Tuesday opened with sunshine ; but the glad
dening rays of lne sun were soon obscured by
threatening clouds, which eliminated in a
thunder shower, accompanied with vivid
lightning.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
JUDGE WITHERSPOON.

Judge Witherspoon left home on Tuesday
morning last for Columbia, whence he will
proceed to Chesterfield, and enter upon his ju-
dcal duties by presiding over the Courts of
the Fourth Circuit, the first of which will be
held at Chesterfield next week. BY the order
of assignment, he will preside at Yorkville at
the October term.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
SINGULAR PHENOMENON.

A singular phenomenon is reported to have
occurred recently on the plantation of T. j.
Bell, Esq, about six miles northwest Of town,
it being the moving of huge stone, which, OF
it's own volition, suddenly sided distance OF
near fifty feet, cutting a slough about three
feet deep and ten feet wide from its original
position to where it lodged. The occurrence
is attributed to the excessive rain and its effect
upon the substratum of the ground in that 10.
cality, which is of an ocherous quality.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
MORMON PROPAGANDIsTs.

We learn that a number-two or three
emmissaries of the Mormon church have been
recently advocating their doctrines in the
western part of the county. Some of the
tracts which they distribute have been sent
to this office by man into whose hands they
fell. We hope they will find no followers of
their iniquitous doctrines in South Carolina.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
FOURTH CONGRE

FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Referring to the next Congressional can
vass in this District, the Lancaster Reuieae
says:
"Colonel w. B. Wilson, of York, is spoken
of as candidate for seat in the National
House of Representatives, from the Fourth
District, at the next election. Col. Wilson is
an able lawyer and would make good Con-
gressman. This side of Broad River polls the
largest part of the vote in the Fourth District,
and it is high time that it has representation
in Congress, the other side having chosen the
Congressman for the last six years."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16

assert that they will shoot down any one who
attempts to molest their stock for going into
a field that has no fence around it,
AT the meeting of the board OF trustees
of the State University at Columbia last week,
it was determined to fill the following chairs !:
Ancient languages, mental and moral philoso-
ply and logic, history, political economy and
constitutional law, agriculture, mechanics and
physics, and tutor of modern languages The
superintendent of farm and foreman of shop
were abolished. The trustees resolved to fill
the above named chairs at their regular meet
ing in May.
Mrs. Mary G. Harley, we'll known through
out the State as lady of great usefulness
and Christian devotion, died suddenly at Barn-
well, last Friday. She was one of the editorial
staff of the Baptist Courier, and conducted en-
tirely the fourth page of that paper. Gifted
and accomplished generous and pious, she
won her way to the hearts of all with whom
she came in contact, and as her circle OF
friends and acquaintances was very large there
will be thousands throughout the South who
will mourn her early death.
Gen. D. F. Bradley writes to the Pickens
Sentinel: Mr.. Smythe showed ME to-day chal-
lenge he received from Mr.. FiShburne 1t i'll
vited Mr.. Smythe to meet him in '"Toronto,
Canada, a province Of Great Britain, " to settle
their difficulty. Mr. Smythe very properly re-
piled that he unhesitatingly informed him (Mr.
Fishburne) that lie declined to meet him in
Toronto or anywhere else if he meant hostile
moati tinp hatwpen thpm Mr. FiShburne sent
similar notes to Col. MeCrady and Gen. Izlar.
Of course they will either not notice them, OF
treat them as did Mr.. Smythe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
COTTON AND FERTILIZERS.

The shipments Of cotton from this place for
the week ending Monday last, were 80 bales ;
for the season to same date, 5,175 bales.
The total receipts of fertilizers to same date
were 67S tons.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-25
A Choral Sunrise.

Critics say that much of the power of
humor is due to the surprise it creates.
If this is correct, some church choirs
must be ranked as eminent humorists-
They both surprise and shock:
Rev. E. P. Tenney, the genial and
witty President of Colorado College,
was at one time the beloved pastor of a
Congregational church in sea-eoast
town in Massachusetts. To exc out his
salary, his people gave him a donation
party, among the presents being fine
new dress-coat for the pastor, and a
tasteful bonnet for his better-half.
On the following Sunday, as they
walked up the aisle in their new habiii-
ments, the choir inadvertently struck
out with the voluntary, much to the
discontinue of the sensitive clergyman
and his wife, "Who are these in bright
array?7
At the same church, few weeks ago,
the funeral of a prominent and highly
respected citizen of Che town, by the
name of Knight, occurred, on which
occasion, by a singular contretemps, the
choir sang as their first selection the
usually fitting hymn, There viii be no
night there
The effect, as soprano, alto and tenor
successfully took up the refrain, was
well calculated to excite the risibilities
of those who had gathered in any but a
humorous spirit. -Harpes.'s Magazine.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-25
When, Where and How to Secure Western
Farm Homes.

Do not go West with family, unless
you have money enough to make a fair
start
Do not borrow money to go West.
| The majority of those we have met in
| their Western homes, who have failed,
| have been those who came on borrowed
money, or without enough funds to en-
| sure a send-off.
After reading this article, select such
region as you think you will like best.
| People generally prefer to keep in the
same latitude they have lived in.
Go in the Spring and get acelimated.
Take as little baggage and. as few
| heirlooms as possible. They cost mon
ey for freight, and in addition are apt
to be an incumbrance in new home.
If you are able to do so, you better
first go out and explore before taking
your family with you.
Do not attempt to explore too much.
We have met people beyond the Mis-
souri, river who had visited nearly all
the land grants, and the more they had
travelled, the more unsettled they were
as to where they should locate.
Decide upon your climate and local
ity, and then select your land. If you
wait too long, you are apt to become
very much unsettled.
Do not go West if you have sick
family. Change of climate may benefit
them, but it is not worth while to take
the chances.
Do not go West expecting not to be
homesick for your mountain scenery,
your forests and your streams, which
present such contrast to the monotony
of endless prairies. 1t may be very
lonely at first, but you will soon plant
your own trees, have pleasant surround
ings and.near neighbors.
Do not go expecting to become rich
Immediately. Several years of good
crops may be required to place you in
easy circumstances.
If you are a clerk on small salary in
the city, and have few hundred dollars
ahead, give up your clerkship and
strike out for the Western lands. There
is no very great amount of experience
required in cultivating these prairies.
If you have abundance of money, set
tie on the lands in the near West. If
your funds are comparatively limited,
go on still further, where as good lands
can be purchased at lower figures
american AgricalturiSt.