Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-09

cealed weapons. The Negroes were
caught and sentenced before II o'clock
speaking we'll for the vigilance of the
good citizens of Harmony.
Lockhart Developments.
Columbia State, Wednesday,: An
application was made to the secretary
of state yesterday for charter for a
short piece of railroad that will mean
much in the development of one of
the finest water powers in the south
Lockhart shoals, in Union county.
The company, as set forth in the de,
claration filed, proposes to build rail-
road of standard gauge from Lockhart
shoals to point on the Spartanburg,
Union and Columbia division of the
Southern railway, between Jonesville
and Carlisle. On an air line the shoals
are exactly 10 miles distant from the
Southern's track but the route that
will have to be used will make the dis
tance Is miles. The corporators OF
the company are Jno. c. Cary, Jno. H.
Montgomery, Jno. B. Cleveland, A. H.
Foster and W. K. Livingston. The
minimum capital stock is to be $685.
900 with the privilege of increasing to
not more than 100000. The shares
will be 800 each and are payable in
cash only. A big electrical transmit
ting power plant will be constructed
at Lockhart, it is said, to furnish pow
er to cotton mills and electric lights
and power to both Spartanburg and
Union.
The County Commissioners.
The county board of commissioners
held it's regular monthly meeting last
Wednesday. There was not a great
deal of business transacted. The board
granted permission for the opening OF
a road from Mr.. Bennett Adkins's, on
the Chester road, to Mr.. Jasper Thorn.
asson's, on the Charlotte road, and also
for the opening of another road from
the Armstrong Ford road to the Char
lotte road, by way of Mr.. James
Gordon's. The board assumed no
responsibility with regard to rights
of way. The contract to furnish
the supplies that will be required
by the county home during the
ensuing month was let for S21. There
was no requisition for supplies from
the chaingang. There were only two
bids on account of county home sup
plies. The other was S23. The coun-
ty treasury, so far as the ordinary fund
is concerned, is practically empty,
and there was some talk of trying
to borrow $1,000 until next winter
but nothing definite was done. The
board has no specific legal authority
to borrow money but there is nothing
in the way if they can find lender
who will let out the desired sum on
the individual pledge of the members.
he Is Everywhere.
Except that the bugs are not killed
by our electric lights, the following
from the Greenville News, of Wednes-
day, applies to Yorkville as we'll as
Greenville: The black bugs are here
in great numbers. What the little
half.inch pests subsist upon, where
they are going apd where they came
from, are questions for which no salts
factory answers can be found. Green
Vile has never been so pestered by the
visitors before, and she devoutly hopes
she won't be again. The bugs give no
trouble in the daytime, but at night
they are in, on and through every
thing. Great quantities of them are
killed in the electric lamps on the
streets every night. Yesterday from
gallon to peck of them could be seen
dead under each lamp. In the stores
at night they are a great nuisance,
causing customers and the clerks to
jump and slap in dislodging them from
the person and damaging stock by
crawling through it and inhabiting it.
The pleasure of card parties and other
social gatherings is marred by their
presence. The bug now so much in
evidence gives off a peculiarly dis
agreeable odor when crushed, and has
a sharp bite or sting, though the effects
of the latter are not at all lasting OF
serious. One exasperated citizen kill
ed over so of the pests in one small
Office in one night. They do not seem
to be in the country at ALL"