Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-08
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.

ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
Roads Improving Moving Rap
idIy-A Result of the Big Fire-Daugh
ters of the Observation-Disclosures Con
nection With the Outside Worid-The
Charleston Reunion.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
ROCK HILL, March 6.-"IL's an i'll
wind that blows nobody good" Sure
ly the wind, for the past 4S hours, can
not be classed as such, as it was and is
rapidly drying up the mud and will
soon make the roads good again, and
the fields ready for the plow, for the
chilly winds of midwinter are being
rapidly driven east by the western
spring gale which is the heralder OF
balmy spring that makes everything
light and gay.
The fertilizer season is on all at once,
as the weather somewhat detained its
early movement; and now for the next
two or three weeks freight trains, farm
mules, and "wage hands" are going
to have a rushing time in hauling
guano from the railroad station to the
plantations.
Owing to the big fire here last year
destroying, late in the spring, large
majority of the spring goods, nearly
all of our dry goods stores here will
send buyers to the eastern markets to
purchase large stocks of spring goods OF
every description, and when all of these
goods reach here and are displayed
US they will be, it will make Rock Hill
one of the finest shopping cities in the
upper part of the state, rs everything
will be fresh new and of the latest
styles.
The owners of the North Carolina
division of the S. C. & G.. railroad
made tour of inspection of the prop
erty last week and seemed we'll pleased
with their new purchase, and will in
the near future make some needed im-
provements in the way of accommo-
dations here and at other places along
the line. AS soon as spring opens up,
work will begin on the Gatfney exten-
sion toward Clifton and Spantanburg,
and, in all probability, the northern
extension across the mountain will be
pushed through this summer.
Mesdames B. M. Fewell, W. G..
Hutchison and T. l.. johnson returned
from Washington last week, where they
had been attending meeting of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. They had a delightful time
and enjoyed their trip very much.
Mr.. R. Lee Kerr will soon make
some improvements on his residence on
Main street.
The American Bell Telephone COM
pany is putting line from New Or
leans, La, to Boston, Mass, touching
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York and points along the
line. The line passes through this
place and will, therefore, give US u
telephone connection with the outside
world.
The number of northern tourists win
tering at Camden, this season, is great
deal larger than usual. For the past
week large crowds of them have pass
ed through here daily. While they only
stop here for few hours, they usually
take the city in and some times lunch
at the Carolina hotel whenever the
South Carolina and Georgia trains are
late.
A special train, running as Second
Section No. 80, "The Florida Limited'
over the Southern, passed here Satur-
day morning about 8 O'Clock, contain
ing two Wageuer palace cars and one
private coach of the L. S. & M. S.
railway, carrying w. K. Vanderbilt
and party to West Palm Beach, Fla,
to winter.
Mr.. William Knight, a young man
working at the Victoria mill, died yes.
terday from a brain trouble, and the
body was sent to Lancaster today (his
former home), where it will be buried.
The old Confederate. veterans are
beginning to look around seeing about
the reunion, soon to take place at
Charleston. And won't this be grand
time for those who attend, as this
meeting will be one of the most inter
esting ones they have had in long
time, as the place of meeting is the
first scene of the war they so nobly
took part in? The South Carolina
and Georgia railroad will give them
better accommodations for travel than
any other line leading into Charleston,
as this road intends to make the re-
union complete success in every way
if it is their power to do so, as it is a
home road for home people, and will
always do their best to make any en-
terprise or entertainment in their reach
complete success. JOHN.
BLACKSBURG BUDGET.