Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-20
Correspondence of the YOrkville Enquirer
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.

of thorough bred horses, jacks, Jersey, Hol-
stein, Ayrshire and native cattle, Berkshire,
Essex, Poland China and Jersey red hogs,
SouthdoWn sheep, and a number Of fancy
chickens. The committee of arrangements
have decided to charge twenty-five cents for
each entry made. The entry book is in
charge of Mr.. F. H. London. Persons de-
string to make ensries will call on him.
Col. G.. J. Pride, U. S. Commissioner, re-
turned from Greenville, where he has been
attending the U. S. Circuit Court, on Sun
day. He informs me that Mr.. d. c. Will
liams of our town, has made very favora-
John Carroll, (whiteO and Henry Potts,
(colored,) pleaded guilty of the charge of
retailing liquor Withouta license END We're
sent to York Jail for four months and fined
s1OO each. Henry Williams and Joseph
Massey pleaded guilty of the same charge,
and were sent to York Jail for one month
and fined S10O each.
Col. Pride has attended every term of the
U. S. Court at Greenville for number OF
years, and he says that there are more per-
sons attending the present term than he
has ever before known.
Our section is needing rain badly. Ii
we do not soon have some rain the crops
will be materially injured. Cotton is she'd
ding badly and the farmers are blue. The
crops, which looked so promising few
weeks ago, wear altogether different ap-
pearance now.
Messrs. Frew. Bros. moved into their new
residence on Monday last. They have one
of the handsomest residences in our town.
Rev. j. S. White preached at EbeneZer
Church Yesterday. The pastor, Rev. j. H.
ThornWell, is still at Cleveland Springs.
The Rock Hill cotton factory will resume
work on Saturday next.
Col. J. NJ. Ivy was expected to return
home last week, but a telegram from him at
Chicago says that he will remain in that
city week or so. We are pleased to know
that his health has been improved. HAL.
THE CONFEDERATE COLONY IN BRAZIL.
Mr.. Beckford Mackey, consul at Rio Grande
do Sui, who has just returned to Washing
ton, brings interesting accounts of the Con-
federate colony in Brazil. Some of these
latter returned home, others are still set
tied in the interior of Brazil, and are get
ting on comfortably. Mr.. Mackey says:
''Mr. Robert Burton, civil engineer, lead
ing member of the colony, called on ME at
my consulate in Rio Grande do Sui in April
of the present year. He says that the col
eny now consists of about 600 souls, the
males preponderating. 1t is located in the
province of San PaulO or St. Paul, about
four hundred miles southwest of Rio de
Janeiro. With the exception ofRio Grande
do Sui and Parana, this is the most south
erly province of Brazil. Its members, who
have lived there now nearly nineteen years,
are nearly all engaged in farming and man
ufacturng-the cultivation of cotton, cof-
fee, corn, tobacco, &C., and the manufacture
of wagons, plows, and other agricultural
implements. It is a fine farming region,
well watered by many navigable streams,
and in the centre of the great coffee section.
1t abounds also in good iron ores, and there
are extensive iron works at st. Paul, the
capital of the province, about thirty miles
north east of Santos, its principal port of en-
try. Mr.. Burton informed me that he has,
with several of his old comrades in arms,
built a house in the wilderness of San Paulo,
and hung sign from it on which they have
inscribed the words, "The Rebels Rest. "
The members of the colony are reputed to
be highly moral, thrifty and prosperous,
empire in which they have made their
homes. They are still thoroughly Ameri-
can in character and sympathies. They
live in a healthy country and among a
brave and hospitable people. The United
States Presbyterian board Of foreign mis-
sions has several missionary stations in the
province of San Paulo, comprising ten OF
twelve clergymen and four or five church
es. There is no religious intolerance in
Brazil"
BEAST BUTLER TELLS THE TRUTH
Of all the memorial addresses on Grant, at
the North, that of Gen. Butler, OF Lowell
Massachusetts, stands conspicuous for its
courage of conviction and impartial analy-
sis.
While preachers and politicians elevated
the deceased to high rank in craftsmanship,
Butler dismisses him with scant praise ana
remorseless logic.
AS military man, Butler regards Grant
as having invented but one thing-the con-
quest of an inferior foe with ruthless waste
of men and material, "to fight and fight
again, without regard to loss of life or treas
ure, or even to immediate military results,
knowing that his own losses could be re.
placed while the enemy's could not, and
that thus in time the war must necessarily
come to an end"
Butler, in this connection, cities the his
toric fact, already suggested in the Chronlcle,
that the exhaustion of the worn out forces
of the South was made more complete and
preciptious by refusal to exchange prison
ers of war. And yet the South was robust
ly cursed for the horrors Of Andersonvi!le,
While Grant escaped all censure! "This
policy,n SAYS General Butler, ''put an end
to the rebellion. Grant held to it until, in
the spring of 1865. Lee had neither men
nor rations to feed them upon, nor could the
Confederates supply him with either, and
then came Appomattox and the conclusion
of the ."-Augusta Chronicle.
THE SMALL GRAIN CRoP.-The State De-
partment of Agriculture makes the follow
ing report on the area and yield of wheat
and oats in the State: :.
The area in wheat in South Carolina IN
1SS3-94 was 197,631 acres, and in lSSi-So,
195. .976. The area in oats was in 1SS3-o4,
33l ,92O, and in 1S94-S5, 339,727 acres: A
drought which prevailed late in the fall OF
1884 prevented the sowing of the usual area
of oats at that time, and much larger area
of spring sown oats was the result. The
Weld of spring soWn oats is rarely ever as
large as the fall sown, and although in some
localities they were better this year, the
difference was not sufficient to make up the
deficiency resulting from other causes. The
seasons were very unfavorable during the
growth and development OF both crops.
The winter was unusually severe, ana tne
crops were winter killed, and seriously
Injured by the drought and cold weather in
the early spring. Owing to these causes the
yield of both crops has been considerably
decreased below an average year.
EFFECTS OF a GRANT STORY.-"NoW,
gentlemen" said a passenger in the smok-
ing car, 81 want to tell you that am one
of the veterans of the late war. l was in
. oood nnany hattleS And now If YOU Will
kinder gather up this way intend to tell
We little story about somethin' that saw
with my own eyes down in Virginny-pll
Ill 49,, . l;++Io Glory, hout Gan,ra1 Grant