Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-03
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Hampton, Marlboro and Marion.
- The Anderson farmers speak of the crops
as the best they have ever had.
49, Edgefield county produced 100000 BUSH
els of red oats this season.
- Col. VIM. Y. Fair, of Newberry, has
threshed this season 10000 bushels Of grain.
The crops in Union county are drying up
for want of rain.
Oats are selling in Chester for three BUSH
els for dollar, and wheat at seventy-fve cents
a bushel
- The crops in Georgetown county are said
to he in better condition than they have been
since the war
- Nearly every county in the State will
make nominations for county offices by the
primary system.
- During the last scholastic year there were
100 public schools open in Lexington county
73 for white and 27 for colored children.
- South Carolina gets, by the river and har-
Dor appropriation bill 1915, 400 for the improve
ment of her rivers and harbors.
The institute for white teachers assembled
in Columbia last Tuesday, under the provis-
ions of an Act of the Legislature authorizing
the State Superintendent to provide for such
annual gatherings of the teachers of the State.
- In the Fourth Congressional District there
is no dearth of candidates. if reports be true.
The following Colonels will be in the field j.
H. Evins, Spartan6urg B. w. Hall, Laurens
1. G. McKissick, Union T. W. Woodward.
Fairfield L. F. Youmans, Richland W. II.
Perry, Greenville.
- The Lancaster Ledger of last week says
"Since our last issue we have been favored
with fine rains, which were general through
out the county. Cotton and corn is much
revived, and with continued seasons an aver
age crop of both is calculated upon by oul
planters.
- The Rock Hill Herald of July 9th says
Mr.. John Ratterree owns a farm a short dis
tance from town and on last Monday he dis
covered that millions of grasshoppers had at
tackled patch of corn, and were literally
tearing it to pieces. When they strike a
row of corn, they strip every blade, leaving
the stem; but they do not trouble either the
stalks or the ears. They are of various sizes,
from an inch and half in length down to the
size of a bee. Most of them are of deep
green color, but some are marked with a
dark red stripe. We have not heard of these
insects appearing in any other locality, and it
is rather singular that this one field should be
infested with them. They are perfectly wild,
and by going ahead of them and making a
noise they can readily be driven back. Ad-
-, ~ Sc a al 1vb oh
the grain has been harvested recently, and
there they can be found clustered together by
thousands.
Says the Keowee Courier The crops con-
tinue to improve, as the seasons have been
such as to tax the highest productive power of
the soil. We do not know a place in the coun-
ty where the corn has twisted even during the
heat Of the day, except for a few days in Wal
halla. Last week we had slow rain for two
days, and at this writing, Tuesday morning, a
real season is falling and one can almost see
the corn growing. Early corn is in the milk
and would make an average crop without more
rain and late corn is not apt to suffer, as Au-
gust is almost universally wet month. The
crop here is estimated above an average, Opin-
ions varying from 10 to 120 per cent. With
a good wheat and an almost unprecedented
crop of oats, breadstuffs will be easy next year.
The cotton crop is hardly an average, the cold
Spring dwarfng the plant and reducing the
stand. The plant looks healthy and may yet
so take on the August crop as to give the far
mers an average yield. If so, the year for
fruit and growing crops will hardly have a
parallel in this county.
THE Rock HILL GUANO ORDINANCE.-As
is we'll known to our people, the guano Ordi-
nance, as amended, went into effect on the
first day of May. On that day, after the local
freight train had passed this place, Mr.. ]. R.
London, put four sacks of guano in the depot,
consigning it to purchaser at Smiths Turn
Out, and obtained the Railroad Agents re-
ceipt therefor. At that time the local freight
trains then made only tri-weekly trips, conse-
quently the guano had to remain in the depot
until the next local freight train would carry
it off, which was on Wednesday morning, May
Sd. In the interim the Town Marshal discov
cred the guano in the depot, in violation of
the ordinance, which required that ''all ammo
mated fertilizers be removed beyond the cor
porate limits of said town on or before the
first day of May" and which constituted each
and every day or fractional part thereof that
fertilizers should be allowed to- so remain,
new offence, imposing fine of not less than
twenty dollars for each and every such viola
tion. Mr.. London was ordered to appear be-
fore the Town Council and show cause why
the penalties of the ordinance should not be
enforced against him but on the 18th of May
the counsel for Mr. London obtained writ of
prohibition from Judge Witherspoon, which
was made returnable at the June term of
Court. The motion was argued before Judge
Wallace, who refused the writ, Oh the ground
that the petition did not show on it's face that
the Town Council had exceeded it's authority
in passing the ordinance. Under this ruling,
Mr.. London was ordered to appear before the
Counsel last Monday night and show cause
why he should not be fined. There were two
cases against him-one charging violation OF
the ordinance on the I'd Of May and the other
Oh the 81. The evidence of Mr.. Hayward, the
Railroads Agent, showed that Mr.. London
had put the guano in the depot after the de-
parture of the local freight train, knowing
that it could not be removed until the morn
ng of the Sd, his object being to test the va
dity of the ordinance. Messrs. w. B. Will
son, Jr., and j. p. Gage appeared as counsel
'or the Town and Messrs. II. K. Jenkins and
J. J. Waters for Mr.. London. The counsel
'or the defense held that if there had been any
violation of the ordinance, it was by the Rail
'oad and not by Mr.. London, who held the
Railroads receipt, dated May 1st, and in
whose possession the guano was when the Or
finance was violated. Mr.. Wilson, for the
prosecution, argued that the question as to
whether OF not the Railroad had violated the
ordinance was not before the Council that it
lad been violated by Mr.. London in his not
laving it removed as required by the ordi-
lance, and in taking steps which he knew be-
orehand would necessarily result in keeping
he guano here until the third day of May.
The Town Council decided that Mr.. London
lad violated the ordinance in both cases, and