Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-21

A MODEL EsTABLIsHMENT.-We refer to
the new steam engine works just completed
by our enterprising fellow-citiZens, Messrs.
Tozer & Dial. Just one year ago these gen.
tlemen commenced to clear away the debris
of the National Hotel, destroyed by fire
about three years ago, situated directly op-
posite the South Carolina Railroad Depot.
Since then they have built the most commo-
dious establishment of the kind South of
Richmond, Va. Their increasing business
demanded larger workshops and better ship
ping facilities. They are now prepared to
turn out engines from to 2O0-horse power.
The South Carolina Railroad track extends
nearly the whole length Of their premises,
atfording them every facility to bring in
their materials and ship out their finished
machinery. Their shops are all built of
brick, and are of the following dimensions !:
Store room, for finished machinery, 65 feet
by 80 feet. Office and tool room, 40 feet by
80 feet. Machine shop, 1852 feet by 40 feet.
Foundry, 60 feet by 40 feet. Pattern and
woodworking shop, 80 feet by 25 feet, two
stories. Boiler and blacksmith shops, $50
feet by 50 feet. The entire machinery is run
by a. 35-horse power engine of their own
manufacture and design, and is a beautiful
piece of workmanship, displaying degree
of taste and simplicity that is not often met
with in engines of this class. 1t tmoves with
as much ease and as noiselessly as lady's
sewing machine. They are using the wire
rope system for transmitting power across
the yard to their boiler shop, which is being
fitted up with all the modern labor-saving
tools of the day, and will enable them to
compete for any size boiler that may be re-
quired. Their new foundry is also being
fitted I'D with all the odernimprOvements
When fully under way they will be pre-
pared to turn out one of their agricultural
engines every day, which is something new
for this State.
The extensiveness of these works can on
ly be appreciated by visit to them, when
the proprietors will be pleased to show what
can be done by home enterprise and thrift.
Their machinery is not only used extensive
ly in this State, but they are constantly
shipping their engines and saw mills to Ala
bama, Florida, Texas and adjoining States.
They certainly do deserve the patronage of
our own people, for they have an establish
ment that both city and State may we'll be
proud of.-C0iumbia Register, Sh.
The FRANKS OF An IMPosToR.-The adj
vent of a man who calls himself DR.. James
Ellis, accompanied by girl he calls his
daughter, among the people of the Pea
Ridge section of this county, claiming to be
able to heal all diseases by quoting certain
passages of Holy Scripture and the use of a
peculiarly constructed plumb line, which
little instrument directs his thoughts by its
unerring drop, is in some respects alarming.
This vile impostor has dropped down, as it
were and taken up his abode among these
honest sturdy people, and by the practice of
his nefariOus devices has absolutely unset
tied and dethroned the reason of some of
the most credulous and unsuspecting cit
liens, who have allowed their superstitious
natures to control their better Judgment, to
the exclusion of every rational hypothesis,