Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28
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two cents per pound for ten bales Of cotton of
the same crop in 1865, and held it with the
expectation of getting fifty cents. One by
one the bales we're sold at prices much lower
than the first offer, until on Monday, the last
one was hauled from the old shed and let 60
at fifteen cents. The staple was beautiful and
time only increased its snowy whiteness. At
forty-two cents the ten bales of cotton would
have brought $4,000.
A fatal duel between two Cinnamon,
which recently occurred in Lincoln county,
Arkansas, has brought to light family his
tory as full of sanguinary romance as the
chronicles of an Italian duchy. Enmity had
for years existed between two families of Can
ton, China, one named Yung and the other
Camm. The Camms took part in rebellion,
which was subdued, and the head of the
Camm family, after Sc ne preliminary tortur.
ing, was stored away for execution. He
made his escape, murdered Yung, and at once
committed suicide. One survivor Of each
family drifted to Lincoln county, Arkansas.
In conversation about home they discovered
each others identity. Revolvers were the
weapons They embraced, and fired. Camm
fell dead, and Yung is awaiting trial in the
Jail at Jefferson.
The proceedings of the military commits
sion, before which the Modoc prisoners were
arraigned, have just been made public. 1t TAP
pears that Captain Jack, schonchin, Black
Jim, Boston Charley, Barncho, alias One-Eyed
Jim, and Stotuck, alias Cook, we're put upon
trial, charged with murder, in violation of
the laws of war, and assault with intent to
kill, in violation of the laws of war. The
prisoners were found guilty on all the charges
and specifications, and sentenced to be hanged
by the neck until they be dead, at such time
and place as the proper authority shall direct,
two.thirds of the members of the commission
agreeing therein. The President has appro.
we'd the sentence and ordered the prisoners
to be executed on the Sd day of October,
1873.
Correspondence of the Norkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM GREENSBORO.
GREENSBORO, N. c., Aug. 25th, 1873.
No inland town in the State of North Caro-
lima has made more rapid progress in material
prosperity, since the close of the war, than has
the beautiful and thriving place from which
I write. From a small and unpretending
village, Greensboro has, within the last few
years, sprung, as if by magic, to almost city
proportions, and contains numerous. buildings
and commands trade of which many towns
in more favored sections of the Union might
pardonably boast.
The cause of this prosperity-the main.
spring of the numerous shops filled with whir-
ring machinery, and the busy merchants dis
posing of their wares to purchasers from far
and near-is due, more than anything else, to
the advantages derived from the possession of
railroad facilities. Here is the junction of
the Richmond and Danville railroad and
new road, completed within the past few weeks,
connecting with the ancient town of Salem, in
addition to the North Carolina Central road,
contribute in no small degree to the advance
ment and prosperity of the place. The facil-
tiles thus presented for communication with
all parts of the country invite capital and in
dustry which are flowing in, venture to say,
more rapidly than to any other town in Wes-
tern Carolina.
Besides the shops and manufacturing estab-
lishments of various kinds now in operation
and contemplated, the agricultural interest is
making the same rapid advancement, this
county having added materially to its farming
population from northern and northwestern
States of the Union, and also from Canada.
These people come hither for more genial
cline than that of the bleak section they leave,
in addition to which important consideration,
they find fertile lands, good water, health
full and pleasant climate and hospitable treat
ment from the native population.
Emigration is not only invited, but thepeo-
pie manifest their appreciation of foreign in
dustrv by the more substantial manner Of Of
fering inducements and making earnest efforts
for procuring it. This is the true course for
all sections of the South to pursue, which is
being verified wherever put in practice. 10
the rejecting mind, under the new order of
things, at least, it is quite useless to present
facts and figures in support Of the assertion:
In the ante.bellum days this was not an ex-
tensive slave-holding section, and to this fact
I am inclined to attribute the faith which the
people here have in white labor on the farm.
1 know the opinion prevails in various sections
of the South that white labor is unsuited to
the farm, and that regiment of blacks is ne
cessary for the production of a small crop;
while many persons are so incredulous as to
believe that white men cannot endure the ia.
tigue and physical exertion incident agricul-
tural pursuits. But the facts prove otherwise.
The doctrine is not only fallacious, but will
prove fatal to all landowners who continue to
be misled and deceived by it. Not that am
objecting to negro labor, or entertain the least
prejudice against such occupation by that
class of our fellow citizens, do present this
view of the case, but simply to show that there
is ample room on the idle and unoccupied
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