Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-20

king of domestic birds will be sacrificed
on the culinary altar at Winthrop for a
Thanksgiving feast.
In the Public Schools.
The total number of children enrolled
in the public schools of the state is 25S, ,lS3.
OF these, York county has 10,2l, and
stands eighth highest on the list of coun-
ties. The white children in this county
number 4,6l2, and the colored children
number $500.
Thanksgiving.
Business will be pretty generally sus-
pended in Yorkville next Thursday.
There will be special services in one, or
in all of the churches. A strong demand
has already set in for shotguns, and, as
usual, there will be much noise among
the rabbits and birds. The graded schools
will, of course, suspend their exercises
for the day.
His Home Destroyed.
The home of Mr.. Lee Youngblood,
four miles northeast of Yorkville, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the 9th
instant. The>fire is supposed to have been
of accidental origin. Mr.. Youngblood
was absent from home at the time, being
at the bedside of his mother who was SER
iously sick. His family barely escaped
with their lives. Nothing was saved and
there was no insurance.
Coal at Kings Mountain.
Gastonia Gazette: We saw the other
day specimen of the Kings Mountain
coal. which has been found by Rev. P. r.
Elan. 1t was brought in by Mr.. Albert
Smith, who has been working at Mr..
Press Goforth's, near the battle-ground.
The coal has been analyzed at Washing
ton and found to contain 95 per cent. Of
combustible matter. Mr.. Elam reports
that the vein is a rich one and that he
could have got from it a carload of al as
easily as he got half gallon.
Still at Large.
State Detective Newbold has not sur
rendered yet, and his whereabouts is still
matter of uncertainty. Some are OF
opinion that he is in the neighborhood OF
Winnsboro, others that he is about Col
umbia, and still others are altogether un-
decided. The opinion seems to he still
prevalent around Columbia that he will
surrender within few days. In the
meantime, if anybody is making any
special effort to secure the $3.50 reward
that has been offered for the capture of
the detective, the fact has not become
known.
To Enlarge the Capacity.
The stockholders of the York Cotton
mills are fully agreed upon the desira-
bility of increasing the capacity of their
plant. The earnings are highly satisfac-
tory, and there is every encouragement
for such a step. The only trouble in the
way Just now is the necessary money.
This, it is claimed, can be gotten easily
enough from the outside; but there is no
disposition to go outside for it. Sure that
they have q good thing, the original in
yestors propose to keep 1t for themselves,
and that they will be able to carry out
their plans at an early day, is considered
reasonably certain.
Will Visit the Indians.
The State: Governor Ellerbe yester-
day stated that he proposed, the coming
week, to 20 to Rock Hill, whence would
proceed to the Catawba Indian reservation
not far away, the only reservation in the
state, and 20 among the Indians who are
living there. Governor Ellerbe takes
great interest in these unfortunate red
men, whose name WAS once high and
whose nation was once so strong, and he
proposes to make careful inspection in
person of everything about the reserva-
ton. He stated yesterday that he be-
lieved these people should be thoroughly
educated by the state and he hopes to
settle upon some plan as the result OF his
visit that he can recommend to the gen.
eral assembly looking to the betterment
of their condition. The state now gives
the Indians about $500 year.