Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-27
LOCAL LACONICS.

Charter GRAINED.
The secretary of state has issued char
ter to the York Cotton mill. The capital
stock is $4,000.
Over a Thousand Bales.
The Morrow ginnery has ginned over
1000 bales of cotton during the season
ow drawing to a close. Much Of the
cotton has come from a distance Of seven
or eight miles.
Machinery Arriving.
The machinery for the York cotton
mills is now arriving over the o. r. q c.
railroad by almost every freight. The
mill building is not yet quite finished ;
but its completion is matter of only u
few more days actual work.
And He's About Right.
A wellknown citizen of Yorkville, who
had been laid up for several weeks, was
asked, after his recovery, as to his expe-
rience. "Well, Pll just tell you," was
his droll reply, "this here thing they, call
grip is not fit for white man to have"
In the Supreme Court.
The supreme court filed an order OH
Monday to teinstate the case of Tilman
r.. Gaines, respondent, vs.. ]. s. Drake
ford, appellant. In the case of w. j..
Cherry appellant, VS.. J. w. Fewell, may
or ct al, respondents, it was ordered that
printed arguments be submitted within
three days.
Took the Oath.
John A. McMackin was sworn into Of
flee yesterday as trial justice for Kings
Mountain township, vice j. @. Howe,
term expired. The other new magistrates
are A. NJ. Bridges of Cherokee and w. s.
Plexico of Bullock's Creek. Neither OF
these have been sworn in yet. The name
of the magistrate for Broad. River has not
yet been announced.
Contemplated improvements.
The reporter has heen informed that
Mr.. G. L. Riddle Of Zeno, is contempla-
ton the extension of his ginning plant
by putting in another gin and adding, at
considerable expense, an absolutely fire.
proof elevator. Mr.. Riddle is one of
those men who believes that anything
that is worth doing at all, is worth doing
right.
New School District.
County Superintendent of Education
Shurley has laid out from portion OF
Bullock's Creek township, a new school
district to be known as Hopewell. The
new district is bounded by Bullock's
creek on one side and Broad river OH the
other. Messrs. w. f. Good, S. w. Mitch
ell and E. S. Wylie have been appointed
trustees.
Campaign.
Messrs. Beauchampe and Demoree, the
noted lecturers of the Good Templar Or
der in the United States, are to be in Co.
lumbia this week. They will probably
also visit other parts of the State. 1t will
he remembered that these two gentlemen
made canvass of South Carolina few
years ago, and they drew crowded houses
wherever they went.
Earnings.
The railroad commission has issued its
report Of the earnings of the railroads OF
the State for the month of September,
1896, as compared with the same month
i'm 1895. The Chester & Lenoir shows up
earl ings Of s., ,Sl6,45 against 2,922.93, all
increase of Sl93.51, or 7.34 per cent. Phe
earnings of the o. r. Il c. were SIS, ,l75.0S
against $l4, ,715.l2, an increase Of S459.96, or
BIZ per cent, The aggregate earnings of
all the roads in the state amounted to
S744, ,337. As, an increase of 24.S3 per cent.
Engineer Shiver Dead.
Mr.. u. b. Shiver, one of the wellknown
engineers on the o. R. & c., died at his
home in Blacksburg on the night of the
24th instant, Of complication of bowel
troubles. Mr.. S. was a native of Cheraw,