Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-27
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Compliment to Senator Butler.

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- The Washington Post says that Sena-
tor Butler has quietly, but successfully, labor.
ed for the advancement of the material inter-
ests of South Carolina during the present
session of Congress. An appropriation of
100000 for the improvement of Charleston
harbor, $4,000 for the erection of light
house on Paris Island, $4,000 for the improve
ment of the navigation Of the Peedee River,
and the restoration to the State of the Charles.
ton citadel-the military college of South
Carolina together with the refunding of
81, 500 import duties on the historic St. Mich
aels's chime of bells, are referred to by bis
friends with pride, as being more than has
been accomplished for that State in the past
fifty years.
The Western Grain Crop.
"A Chicago dispatch of the 23rd says the
news from the corn regions Of the West are
generally more favorable. The growing
weather of the past week has greatly improv-
ed the prospects, owing, however, to the pro-
tracted rains and the overfows of May and
the first half of June, which either rem
dered corn planting impossible, or drowned
much that has been planted. This years
corn crop will fall greatly below fair aver
age The wheat harvest in southern Illinois
is about finished, and the result is very salts
factory. The prospect for good crop Of
wheat, elsewhere throughout the West, is fa-
vorable.
The Omaha Republican, of the same date,
publishes the following "The corn crop from
all the counties on the line of the Union Pa
ci6c and Omaha railroad is not promising
1t is feared that the long season of wet wealth.
er, which prevailed up to week ago, had
rusted the wheat and that the severe storms
had injured all the crops. Such, however, is
not the case, and there is no rust whatever.
Corn is somewhat backward, but the stands
are good and there is an immense acreage
The rye harvest commences one week hence; !;
barley ten days later wheat about July 2O
At fair estimate the wheat yield will be
twenty-five bushels per acre. If there is fa-
vorable weather for the maturing crop, the
yield will be the largest ever known
Impartiality to the Colored Race.
- AS showing the course of justice meted
out to the colored race under Hampton Home
Rule, and illustrating the temper and spirit
of the white people towards the blacks, we
copy the following report of the trial of a
murder case at the June term of the Circuit
Court of Laurens, his Honor Judge Hudson
presiding:
Moses Parks, colored man, was put upon
trial, charged with the murder of Laurens
Cox, q white young man of about seventeen
years of age. The killing took place early in
the year 1876. The defendant was arrested
and tried at the spring term, 1875, but there
was mis.trial, the jury being mixed of
whites and blacks. Upon the mis.trial he
was admitted to bail, and being thus at large,
he went to parts unknown-till arrested some
months since, in the mountains of North Car
olina and brought back here on requisition
from Governor Hampton. The deceased was
a youth of highly respectable and Influential
family connection, and the killing caused in
tense feeling in that portion of the county,
and indeed throughout the county generally.
This feeling even extended to the defendants
counsel, two prominent members of the Lau-
rens bar, and the defendant, doubtless, did
wisely, under the circumstances, to refuge in
flight. This was while Chamberlain and his
gang we're in the zenith of their power, WELD
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