Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


NEWS OF THE DAY.
The women sufragsts in Massachusetts
are preparing for grand demonstration on
the 4th of July.
- Thirty ex-members Of the Union and the
Confederate armies have united in Il call to
celebrate the coming 4th of July at Denver.
CLARK Evans, who murdered Mr.. Hubert,
in Illinois, was taken from the Jail in Carroll
ton, Sunday morning, by mob of disguised
men, and hanged.
- The meteorological record Of Friday last
showed that Wilmington, N. c., and Angus
ia, Ga., were the two hottest places in the
United States on that day.
- The wheat crop of Texas has matured,
and the yield will be as high as forty bushels
per acre. The corn, cotton and sugar crops
promise to be excellent.
The river and harbor appropriation bill,
as agreed upon in Congress, gives 100000
for the improvement of Cape Fear river, and
100000 for the improvement of the harbor
Of Charleston.
- The New York Times publishes COM
municaton from Congressman Cain, denying
the charges lately made against him, in let
ter from Charleston, printed in that journal,
and alledging that the party upon whose au'
thority the statements were made was prompt
ed by malice
Fully one-third OF the State of Louisiana
is still under water from one to two feet deep,
and from 10000 to $4,000 people are now in
destitute condition, much sickness already
prevails, and unless the people obtain relief,
suffering during the summer months will be
almost beyond precedent.
1t would seem to be more or less signlh-
cant that the Indianapolis Journal, Mr. Nor
tons home paper, should be found echoing
the suggestion of the New York Times that
Congress may have rather overdone the "re'
construction" business, and that it is about
time perhaps for this interference with South
ern States to stop.
Gen. H. P. Bee, native Of South Caro-
lima, is now a resident of the State of Duran
20, Mexico, where he has fine cotton plan
tation, with prospects Of making this season
good CROP Gen. Bee resided in Texas for
many years before the war. He was broth
er of Gen. Barnard E. Bee, who was killed
at the first Manassas.
- The Pacific Jockey Club of San Francis
co has determined to offer purse of $25, 900
for running race Of four miles, and repeat,
open to all horses in the world. The race is
to come off at the new track, near the Cen
tral Park, Oh November 7, next. The first
horse is to receive $4,000, the second $4,000,
the third $4,000, ard the fourth $4,000.
Three. year-olds 1O4, 6ve-year-olds 100, and
six-year.olds and over ia. All horses from
east of the Rocky mountains are to be allowed
81 900 each, and horses from Europe $1,000
each.
Last year we opened our eyes and mouths
to marvel over the immensity of the Calitor-
mia wheat crop, and this year we are still fur
ther astounded by the information that the
crop Of 1878 will be more than doubled.
The area under cultivation is upward of
1000, 900 acres-3O0, 900 acres more than last
year, and the yield is extraordinarily fine.
The total crop is estimated at minimum
figure of 35,000,000 bushels, leaving 25,OOO,-
900 bushels for export-nearly twice the
greatest amount that California has ever fur
nished for expectation, more than all the rest
of the United States exported last year, and
twice as much as Russia exported from her
great grain districts on the Danube. Calitor-
MAS gold yield is mere trife compared with
this golden shower Of grain.
EDITORIAL INKLINGs.
Tie Bread and Cotton Crops.
- The reported condition of the grain
crop in the Western States is highly encour-
aging. The good harvest Of last year encour-
aged the farmers to plant more extensively
than on any previous occasion and the crops,
already vigorous and far advanced, give prom
ise of rich and abundant harvest. The far.
mers, according to all accounts, are in excel
lent spirits, and the merchants are making
ready for season of prosperity. which it is
expected will be unsurpassed by any former
year. The prospects in many of the Southern
States is also good, both as to the cotton and
grain crops. The yield of wheat in many Sec
tions of the South has been good and the area
planted in this crop this year was much lar
ger than the year previous. Upon an average,
some 10 per cent. less cotton has been planted
this year than last, but generally good stand
has been obtained and the seasons are quite
favorable.
Hydrophoba.
- The death, in New York, last week, of
Mr.. Francis F. Butler, the great dog fancier,
from hydrophobia, is somewhat remarkable,
and serves to confirm the positions heretofore
advanced by the medical fraternity, and add
ing stronger proofin confutation off the theory
that hydrophobia exists only in the imagina-
ton of the person affected. Mr.. Butler was
an author of some celebrity, and had given
special attention to the diseases of dogs
Some six weeks ago he was administering
dose Of salts to dog, when ne was oltten Oh
the thumb. The animal was not supposed to
be mad, and no special attention was paid to
the wound. On Tuesday he was seized with
the usual paroxysms attendant OH hydropho'
bia and died.
Some years ago he wrote letter in which
he announced as the result of his long obser'
vation and experience that "persons who 60
into spasms of terror at sight of water do so,
not from an inocuated disease by the tooth of