Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-11-24

out railroads altogether. No action was
taken at the meeting beyond brief dis.
cussion Of the advantages to Greenville Of
the proposed route. Capt. Ramsaur will
begin at once to survey an experimental
route to Spartanburg from Rutherfordton.
NOT So BAD AFTER ALL.-If the re-
port of the State Agricultural department
be authority, and it is hard to say who
should be better informed, South Carolina
is going to come out in the crop of. 1886
months ago. Taking up the food crop we
see 13, ,725, ,16S bushels of corn 3,O90, 1889 BUSH
els of sweet potatoes, 3,700,756 bushels of
oats; 1,3S2,3I8 bushels of rice; 1,161 ,067
bushels of wheat; 1886 bushels of peas ;
All ,532 bushels of Irish potatoes, with an
aggregate of 25,423 997 against 900
bushels aggregate in 1884, and 1851 ,O44
bushels in the census year. The showing
then, for the year is over million bush
els in excess of 1884, and near six million
bushels in excess of the crop of last census
year. .
The sugar cane and sorghum crop of
1880 tobacco 66,399 pounds, against 1858
in 1880: cotton $50, ,112 bales, against 522, ,54S
in 1880. Taking the season throughout OF
unprecedented floods, followed in several
parts of the State by serious drought, it IS
a triumphant manifestation of the vim and
resourceful character of the farmers and
planters of the State.-COtHm6ia Register.
REVENUE TAN IN SOUTH CAROLINA
The annual report of the commissioner OF
internal revenue shows that the aggregate
collections made in South Carolina, and re-
ported to the commissioner by Collector D.
f. Bradley, during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1886, were 500 Ol4.30. During the
same period thirteen illicit stills were de-
stroyed, three removed, and six persons
were arrested. The value of the property
seized was 1884, There are twenty-three
cigar manufacturers who used 26, 497 pounds
of tobacco, and manufactured $50, 725 cigars.
The persons who paid speciar taxes in
South Carolina were l rectifer, 939 retail
liquor dealers, % wholesale liquor dealers,
19 manufacturers of cigars, dealer in leaf
tobacco, 6,037 dealers in manufactured to-
bacco, manufacturer of tobacco, peddler
of tobacco 2 brewers, II retail dealers in
liuuors. Total, 1858. There were II grain
distilleries registered and Is operated, 81
fruit distilleries registered, all of which
were operated, making total OF 4S regis
tered and 46 operated.
DIRECTORS MEETING.-The last issue of
the Shelby Ne,0 Era, the publication of
which was delayed, says: A meeting of the
directors of the Charleston, Cincinnati and
Chicago Railroad Company was held in
New York on Saturday, November. Hon.
M. G.. Butler, of South Carolina, and Mr..
w. l.. Roddey, of Rock Hill, were elected
directors, and Col. Thos. +. Matson was
elected chief engineer. This position must
not he confounded with that of Major John
F. Jones, chief engineer of the Massachu-
setts and Southern Construction Company.
The purchase of the Chattaroy road was
completed. This road is fifty miles long and
runs from Ashland, KY, towards johnson
City, Tenn. 1t was resolved to push the
road to completion as rapidly as possible:
The track on the Charleston, Cincinnati and
Chicago Railroad was laid to Shelby week
ago. The work will be resumed tomorrow
and will be pushed as fast as possible.
A MERITED COMPLIMENT TO COLONEL
COWARD.-In the address OF President
Winthrop to the Trustees of the Peabody
Fund at their annual meeting in New York
in October, which has just been published
with the proceedings of that body, that dis
tinguished scholar pays the following high
compliment to our State Superintendent Of
Education: "From an intimation contained
in the report of the Hon. A. Coward, | re-
gret to learn that the State is soon to lose
his valuable services as Superintendent of
Education. His labors have won for him
wide reputation and it will be difficult to
fill his place with man so accomplished in
his learning and so jealous in his work.
Columbia Register.