Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-03
THE NEWS IN CHEROKEE.
The Flat at HowelI's s-FinIey's Seed-Seareity
of Pigs-Reminiscenc of Gaines's Mill.

ETA JANE, March 29.-Last Mon
day and Monday night, we had tne
heaviest rainfall that has visited this
section in four years. Immense DAM
age was done to plowed lands, gardens.
potato patches, terraces, etc. Many
farmers had their guano in the ground;
It is nova great part of it-in Broad
and Pacolet rivers.
Wheat and oats are looking we'll
Most of the wheat has been guanoeo
heavily.
Last April the wire at Howell's ferry
fell in the river, when the fiat got
away. An effort has been made lately
to raise it; but the sand has buried 1t
so deep it can't be moved. The fiat
will be pushed with poles until the wire
can be replaced.
The list of casualties at Gaines's
mill, republished in THE ENQUIRER re-
Gently, has recalled several incidents
connected with the battle. Lew Lam
ier, of Co. B, 18th regiment, recalls
finding a barrel Of whisky among suit
Ter or medical stores, near the mill
that morning. With the butt Of his
gun he knocked in the head Of the bar
rel, and filing his canteen, went on and
overlook the command. AS soon as
he had reported the capture, others
gave him their canteens and he re-
turned and filled them, too. 1t wasn't
long until it was all gone. Other troops
found it and did likewise.
We hear nothing Of smallpox now
Nearly everybody has been vaccinated.
The citizens of this community are
grateful to Congressman Finley for
garden seeds sent here from the agri-
cultural department.
Some of our neighbors just across
the river in York county, are raising
some rich gold ores and shipping 1t
north. No section of the Piedmont
belt abounds in finer specimens Of
ern Cherokee.
Rev. ]. P. Marion, Of Hickory Grove,
breaches twice a month at Hickory
Grove and Salem. He will conduct
the communion services at Salem on
the first Sabbath in April.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Mcdaniel, Of
Hickory Grove, call their youngest
girl baby, Winnie Davis.
Cholera has made it's appearance
among the fowls on this side of the
river.
J. L. Strain, ST., has been quite sick
for a few days, but is much better
now.
Mrs. Wilson Brown, of Hopewell, has
been very unwell lately.
The citizens along and near Broad
river, have been unable to get any fish
for several years. If we mistake not
the promise was made last summer to
remove the dams, wires and other OBJ
structions in the low country, to al
low shad and other fish to come up
stream.
The presbytery of Enoree will meet
at Lockhart the 10Th of next month
April.
Since the rain last Monday and Mon
day night, our farmers have been re-
pairing terraces and watergaps and
filling up washes.
Pigs are very scare in this county.
One of our neighbors sold ten this week
at 81 apiece, and they were only three
weeks old. Had he kept them a little
longer, until the scarcity had been
little better known, he could have got
ten 81 head, just as easy.
From an old Charleston paper, we
copy the following: 1.-THE YoRKvILLE
comes to us in mourning for
the death Of w. w. East, the editor of
that paper. He died from the effects
of wounds received in one Of the bat
ties of the Chickahominy."
Several Of the veterans are speaking
of going to Chicamauga on the 9th of
May, and a good many will go on to
Memphis to attend the reunion there.