Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-30
Correspondence Of the YOfkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM FORT MILL.

FORT MILL June 2S.-lt has Decn sale
that he who laughs last laughs best. Per
haps the exception proves the rule but dc
not you think it well that we laughed first
over the State-line survey? If we had not
laughed then, we would probably have lost
our opportunity. Rumor now says that
this township has been made beautifully
() less, and 'by depression the COM
pass. Our friends in the disputed territory
are specializing as to their allegiance, and
one asks another, "Under which king, Ben:
zonian ?" A provisional governor would
not be much amiss; but then the strife for
such a high place might endanger the peace
of the community.
Whooping cough and dysentery are af:
hicting our people and the doctors are busy
No fatal cases have occurred, but some
have been severe. Some of our knowing
ones say that too much sap in the garden
vegetables used as diet causes a great part
of the sickness.
The crops do not afford a pleasant topic,
Lowlands have been unmanageable on ac'
count of the extremely wet weather. The
streams have so often overlooked, and rains
have come so copiously and in such quick
succession, that crops planted on the bot.
toms were destroyed, and they continue toe
wet for cultivation. Consequently, the pros
pect for a corn supply is gloomy. However,
if corn can be planted within ten days on
bottoms, and have favorable seasons, a lighl
crop can be made on them yet. The cotton
prospect is varied. Some is knee-high-
not a great deal-and some seems to have
Just peeped out of the ground and stood
still-too lazy to grow, or shuddering at the
neglect to treat it at all. Indeed, our far
mers' club talk of letting out for the clean
ing to the lowest bidder. But there is not
so much grass in the crops as might have
been expected. Hard times are only par,
TALLY relieved by the amount of money put
in circulation by day-laborers.
But in spite of three short crops, the town
of Fort Mill has continued to improve
Within the past eighteen months there have
been completed twelve or thirteen residenc'
es. One of them is a Methodist parsonage,
another a Presbyterian parsonage, and both
are creditable buildings. Besides a large
brick warehouse has been erected near the
depot also a framed store house and rail
road offices, and Messrs. White g. Springs
have builta mammoth mill for grinding and
ginning. For a village located in the fork
of the roads this is a very fair record.
The Town Council of Fort Mill have re-
Gently caused to be taken q census OF the
inhabitants which shows the number to be
500. Perhaps this is a lucky combination
of 3's. Among the number are many maid.
ems fair, and numerous widows, both OF Ger
tain and uncertain ages-from among the
twenties to the shady side of maturer years
But this is a tender subject, and 1 forbear'
The railroad force has gone to assist in
changing the gauge of the Columbia and
Greenville road. The uniformity of gauge
is very convenient, and it is hoped will tend
to a reduction of freight charges.
1t is gratifying to this section to know
that one of her prominent citizens is spoken
of for a State office by as many as two
papers in different parts of the State.
would gladly do without it. ANON.