Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05
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ring the confusion but the jailer had gone
away with the keys, and the plotters were in.
sensible when rescued.
- 1t is reported that Mr.. Chambers, candi-
date for Vice. President of the United States,
on Weaver's ticket, fell from a platform
while speaking in Texas, recently, and was
severely injured.
- Bob Toombs, one of the best farmers in
Georgia, has raised $50 bushels Of white rust
proof wheat on II acres of land this season,
and has given 100 bushels, $40 bushel, to
be distributed among the farmers of the State
for seed next spring.
The Mormons are still pegglng away at
their new temple. 1t is now twenty years
since the building was commenced, $4,000
900 has been expended, it is about one-fourth
completed, and it is said that $4,000, 900
will be required to finish it.
The cotton crops of this country for 1878
aud 1879 were the largest ever raised. The
ten crops from 1852 to 1861, raised by slave
labor. numbered 1885, ,44O bales; the ten
crops from 1870 to 1879, raised by free labor,
numbered Al, ,454,7 ,74S bales.
- Minuesota's wheat crop, it is now claimed,
will exceed 35,000,000 bushels, and perhaps
reach 100000. In the southern counties
the farmers claim an average Of twelve bush
els per acre, in the central the average ls
placed at twenty bushels, whilst in the Red
River Valley. claims rise as high as thirty
FIVE bushels per acre.
A Covington, Ga, young lady, who is
worth $4,000, broke an engagement with
young man during the Commencement because
he paid seven dollars for horse and buggy
to give her ride. She argued that man
who would be so foolish as to pay that much
for few hours pleasure, was not the kind she
wanted for husband.
- Father Farrell, who died the other day
in New York, left, by will, $4,000 ito be
used for the sober and honest poor of the dis
trict, without distinction of race or religion" !"
and $4,000 in the same bonds "for the pur-
pose of aiding in the erection or the purchase
of Catholic church in New York for the
colored Catholics of African descent"
"A New Orleans dispatch says that on
Wednesday, at Donaldsonvlle, Ben. Gibson,
a cousin of Congressman Randall Gibson,
shot and killed Republican Justice of the
Peace named R. j. Green. The trouble grew
out of the dissatisfaction of the former at
Green's method of enforcing the Sunday
liquor law.
"A dispatch of Monday from Danville,
Va. says: "a special grand jury in the
Corporation Court at this place. to day, re-
turnei true bill Of indictment against
James T. DeJarnette, for the murder Of his
sister, Mollie DeJarnette, last month. De-
Jarnette, who is in Jail, OH Saturday attempt.
ell suicide by taking laudnnum, but failed.
The case will be called for trial to morrow"
The forthcoming report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will not only show a
large increase in crops, but it will also
show that the farming Interests have been
greatly benefited in another way. This is
in the increased value of lands. Thisincrease
varies in different sections of the country.
There has been an aggregate increase of about
s per cent.
1t is believed that the planter who mar,
kets his cotton as rapidly as possible, makes
the most money in the long run, and is the
happier for getting rid of the responsibility:
The Columbus Enquirer fears that there will
be prodigous cotton crop this year and
very little corn. This may mean low prices
and dear food. 1t is too early Jet however
to predict for certainty anything good or bad
Of the crop.
Senators Wade Hampton and 4. B. Vance
spoke at the Democratic ratification meeting
in Stanton, Virginia, on Monday, and we
are told by the correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch, that constant roars of ap'
plause were kept up, except when the pathet-
ic appeals of the Senators from the Carolinas
to Virginians not to force the hated Republi-
can rule upon the South, brought solemn
hush upon the vast assembly, and some tears
to the eyes of the Re adjusters."
Andrew Wilson, Of Hillsboro, Mo-, took
no pains to conceal from his wife and neigh
bors his intention to elope with Martha Shultz.
He announced day for his departure, and
the girl as openly made her preparations.
At the appointed time the pair put their
baggage into wagon and started for the
railroad station. In the meantime, however,
Mrs. Wilson's father and brother had decided
what to do. They lay in ambush until the
runaways came along, and fired upon them,
killing both.
Judge Tarbell, deputy first comptroller
Of the Treasury Department, rendered de-
cision lately, in which he holds that existing
law does not make it compulsory upon the
government to pay sub-contrac'ors for carry
ing United States mails the extra month
compensation provided for in the event of
the discontinuance of route, and unless sub
contractors make special provisions in their
contracts with the original contractor to re-
ceive this allowance, it falls to the original con-
tractor when the route is discontinued.
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times says
"a duel was fought near Jacksonboro, Camp
bell county, Tuesday night of last week,
which resulted in the instant death of the
two principals, John w. Bibee and B. F.
Roach. The difficulty originated over po.
ltical discussion, each being champions of
the respective candidates for Sheriff in that
county. They first met in the streets in
Jacksonboro, and heated discussion ensued,
followed by blows, when the combatants were
separated by bystanders. They then agreed
to meet Tuesday night few miles from town,
when they would end their difficulty with
pistols The particulars of the duel are as
vet unknown, it being believed that no one
witnessed the tragedy Bibee was shot through
the neck and Roach through the breast.
Their instant deaths followed. Bibee was
about 19 years fage, the son Of very prom
inent citizen of Jacksonboro. Roach was a
married man and leaves a large family.
An Atlanta dispatch of the 31st says
that Gov. Colquitt went to Jonesboro, on
Friday night, with the Gate City Guards, Of
Atlanta, to prevent any attempt on the part
of friends TO rescue the prisoners who were