Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-05
LOCAL LAcoNlcs

We Will Send The Enquirer
From this date until January 1st,
1907, for SO cents.
Sweet Potato Blossoms.
Mr.. Joseph Plexico of Yorkville No.
5, has sent The Enquirer sweet po-
tato vine with blue blooms on IL. The
potato bloom Is an unusual thing In
this part of the country but is seen
In seasons that are very wet.
sprouted Cotton.
Mr.. S. W. Inman reports cotton
sprouting In the bolls with two leaves.
There Is not a great deal Of this; but
Mr.. Inman says that IL Is no trouble
to find specimens in his field. He also
reports seventy-five acres or cotton
from which up to this time not q
boil has been picked.
The County Commissioners.
The county board Of commissioners
held their regular monthly meeting last
wednesday. There was little busi-
ness, except Of a routine character
The principal item was the considera-
tion Of q petition from Catawba juno
ton people asking for the abolition OF
a grade crossing there and requiring
the railroad to go over or under the
public highway. The supervisor was
instructed to see what he could do In
the way of curing the trouble.
Post Office Receipts.
The auditor of the postoffice depart
ment has completed his report show
ing the postoffice receipts in South
Carolina for the year ending June 30
and has given out a detailed state
ment as to the receipts at the princi-
pal offices. Rock Hill and Yorkvillt
| in York county are included In the list
as follows: Rock. Hill-Postmaster, e
e. Poag; 1905. $11,754.27; 1905, $13,.
1880. Yorkville-Postmas Maggie
M. Moore; 1905. $4,4S455; 1905. So
205.57.
The Government Reports.
A New York dispatch Of Tuesday af'
| ternoon describes the conduct OF thu
market at the publication Of the con-
dition and ginners' report as follows
1t was another sensationally active da!
In the cotton market, with prices scor'
ing big gains after very wide fuctua'
tions and the close strong at net ad'
vance of so to 81 points. Sales wer'
estimated at fully 100000. The marke
opened firm at an advance OF to i
points in response to higher cables
and further reports Of unsettled wealth
er In the belt. There was heavy sell
ing, In fact, sensationally heavy selling
on the advance by recent buyers. Th'
liverpool bulls were evidently reduc
| ing their lines and there was SELLING
by spot people and local professionals
| In all II was estimated that some three
| to four prominent brokers disposed o.
over q hundred thousand bales during
the first hour. And these offerings
were taken up without making AM
special impression on prices. The buy
ers were the southern wire houses ant
New Orleans, together with some O
the Wall street people, and in spit
of all the pressure the advance wa!
not checked until prices showed ne
gain of 35 to 3S points. Then 1t easet
| off Just before the September condition
report was published, and after thu
condition Of 716 per cent was ISSUED
| indicating a deterioration for thu
month of 81 per cent, when the trad.
had looked for per cent, prices solt
off to about the closing figures OF th'
previous day. The census bureau re-
port, published an hour later, showing
2,O44, 900 bales ginned to September 20
against 2,358,000 bales last year, wa!
followed by second advance, how
ever of even more exciting and SEN
sational character which took tn'
market up to a new high level for tht
day and movement, with December a.
1850 and about ITO points above tht
recent low level. The close was 1T
tie off from the best under realizing.