Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-04-25
LOCAL LACONICS.
Growing Weather.

LOCAL LACONICS.
Growing Weather.
Farmers report the unusually rapid
growth of all crops that are up, and
that the grass is coming along with
other things. Generally farm work is
not as forward as it ought to be.
The chaingang. *
There are how 81 convicts on the
chaingang. This is the largest number
at any one time since the establish
ment of that institution, except for
few day during last fall when there
were 35.
Stockholders Meeting.
The meeting of the stockholders of
the Carolina and North Western rail-
road was held in Chester yesterday
but up to the time at which it was nec-
essary for The ENQUIRER to 60 to
press, it was impracticable to get any
information as to what was done.
Never Looked So Well.
Farmers who were in Yorkville from
different sections of the county, say
that wheat is looking as well as they
have ever seen at this season of the
year. Oats that were thought to have
been ruined by the winter freezes are
also looking much better than was
thought possible. I
Knitting Mill at Blacksburg.
Columbia correspondence News and
Courier, Saturday: A commission for
a charter was today issued to the
Blacksburg Spinning and Knitting
mill, of Blacksburg. The capital stock
of the company is to be $4,000. The
corporators names are: A. H. Pollock,
J. G. Black, J. Meier, J. w. Duff, A.
Trip and J. F. Whisouant.
Skipped Out. II
Jim Grant and /others, who were
presented by the grand jury for keep
ing disorderly house in the Bethany
section, have left that part of the
country. They skipped out as soon
as they got wind of the grand jury's
action, and the respectable people of
the neighborhood are in hopes that the
community will not again be called
upon to submit to such a nuisance.
Death of Remarkable Dwarf II
Rock Hill Herald: Mr.. Stella Cogs-
dale, son of Mr.. Z: M. and Mrs. F. E.
Cogsdale, died at his home on Wilson
street, Wednesday, of pneumonia.
The deceased was % years of age and
was about 50 inches in height and
weighed about IS pounds. He was
very digni6ed, manly little. creature,
had fine sense and excellent judgment,
and stood high in the esteem of all
who knew him. His remains were
inferred in Laurelwood cemetery
Thursday. The family came from
Eastern North Carolina. 4
Catawba on the Rampage.
The Catawba river was Is feet above
common water at Wright's Ferry last
Thursday. The reporter gets the in
formation from Supervisor Culp, who
was engaged along the river on that
day. At sutton's Ferry, where the
proposed bridge is to be located, the
river was 13 feet above the ordinary
level. This was within II feet of the
proposed bridge. According to Mr..
Culp's information, 10 feet is the rec
ord at Wright's, and on the same scale
16 feet would be the record at Sutton's.
When Mr.. Culp crossed the river on
Monday, the water had gone down
considerably and was almost within
ordinary limits.
Serious StabbIng ARRAY.
Rock Hill Herald, Saturday: Thurs
day night at Leslie, two young men,
Walter White and John Wherry, be-
came involved in an alteration, in
which young Wherry was very pain
fully cut in the left arm and left side
by a knife in the hands of young
White. DR.. Wideman attended the
sufferer and dressed his wounds. The
difficulty occurred not far from the
new Hopewell church, where the
young men had been attending prayer
meeting. Walter White is son of
Mr.. Joe White, and John Wherry is a
son of Mr.. w. C. Wherry. The trouble
is very much regretted in the COM