Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-12

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versity of South Carolina, died in New York
on Monday afternoon last
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Gotten Crop in the State.
- Under date Of last Monday, the report
of the Charleston Exchange gives seventy
two replies from thirty counties in South
Carolina, with the following information as to
the condition of the crop for May: Acreage
increase five per cent. Weather less favora.
BILE from fifty replies, more favorable from
eighteen and the same as last year from four
The stands are reported as good by forty and
bad by twenty-five replies. Five replies re-
port the appearance of worms and three that
replanting is necessary. Four replies report
the crop three weeks later than last year
twenty one as two weeks, thirteen as ten days
twelve as one day later; eleven the same as
last year, and ten as one week earlier. Thir
ty report the condition of the crop as good
thirty as bad and small, fourteen as very
grassy. Labor is good in sixteen cases and
scarce in sixteen. Forty. y.three replies report
an increase in the use of fertilizers and twenty.
nine decrease of the same as last year.
Negro Riot in Georgia.
- A Savannah dispatch Of Monday says
that terrible riot took place on that after
noon at Mcintosh, Liberty county, a station
on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, between
a party of negro excursionists from Bryan
county and those belonging to the place. 1t
began in fight between two negroes, where
upon John Randall, the captain of negro
militia company from Bryan county, which
company made part of the excurslonists
ordered his company to charge, which they
did, bayoneting everybody within reach. The
captain himself killed one man by running
him through with his sword. There was in
tense excitement at this outrage, and the
Liberty county negroes rallied and drove the
military company into the cars, and opened
fire on them killing four and wounding many
more and only stopped shooting when the
train got out of the way, which they tried to
prevent by tearing up the track. All the
parties engaged we're negroes.
Veterans Of the Mexican War.
- The Committee of the House Of Rep
resentatives, on Invalid Pensions, have agreed
to report bill granting pensions to all the
surviving soldiers of this war, and their wild
ows-without distinction as to political prin.
ciples. The bill directs the Secretary of the
Interior to place on the pension roll the names
of surviving officers and enlisted men, in
Guiding militia and volunteers of the military
and naval services of the United States, who
served so days in the war Of 1916 and 1S47
with Mexico. An effort will be made to pass
it at the present session of Congress.
The act allows pension Of So per month,
but does not apply to any person who is re-
ceiving a pension at that rate, but if his pen
sion is less than that he shall receive enough
to make it sS per month. All persons enti.
tied to the pension shall receive it from the
passage of the act during their natural lives.
Before a pension is allowed, proof shall be
submitted of his or her right to it, and any
person making false oath shall be stricken
from the roll. The loss of certificate of dis
charge shall not deprive person of the ben
e6ts of the act, but other evidence shall be
sufficient, and land warrant granted on &C,
count of honorable service shall be taken as
sufficient evidence, unless it can be proven
that the warrant was fraudulently obtained.
Senator Hampton's Speech.
- The Washington correspondent OF the
News and Courier says the event last Thurs
day at the Capitol was Mr.. Hampton's speech
upon the political issues of the session. All
expressions as to the style of the speech have
been of the most complimentary character
the wisdom, moderation and justice of the
views it presented being well calculated to
elicit general and sincere admiration and res
pect. As to the effects of the speech, on the
stalwarts, the correspondent says:
Perhaps no better evidence of its worth and
weight could have been afforded than the un-
willing and rude tribute paid by Conkling,
and protracted by him throughout the short
time that the Governor occupied the floor.
The senator from New York may be classed
as a gentleman under liberal construction
of the term, but that he is not gentleman
he loses no opportunity like that presented TO-
day to assert in the plainest manner. While
Governor Hampton was speaking, and while
every other person in the hall was leaning
forward with eager interest to catch his slight
est word, Conkling affected to be writing a
letter, occasionally varying this very diapha'
nous performance by stopping, to speak to
those around him, or by rising from his seat
and walking about among the desks to con-
verse with his admirers on the Republican
side.
At one time while he was engaged in writ.
ing his endless letter, Governor Hampton said
in the course of his remarks that he did not
think il wise for the Democracy "tO do any