Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-21

anxious friends. The seat of his disease was
at the base of the brain and from o'clock /
a. M to p. H., he suffered exaggerated nau-
sea accompanied by terrible vomiting. About
this hour morphine caused him to sink into
q sleep, and from this time, to his death at
midnight, he remained in semi.unconsclous
state. The best medical skill at home, and
from Augusta and Columbia, was summoned
to his beside, but the most powerful stimu:
lants and remedies failed of effect, for God
had summoned the brave spirit hence. And
there was solemn and sacred sorrow in Edge
fields SOUL And the stiffness of death was
on Edge6eld's face.
More Railroad Projects.
. A dispatch dated last Saturday, from
Spartanburg, to the Augusta Chronicle, gives
some information relative to an important
railroad meeting held in spartanburg on Fri
day. The dispatch says:
An important meeting of leading citizens
was held to day in the interest of three new
lines of railroad, viz: The projected exten-
sion of the Virginia Midland Railroad from
Danville, Va, via Statesville, Lincolnton
and Shelbyville, N. c., to Spartanburg; the
extension Of the Augusta and Knoxville
Road from Greenwood, S. c., via Laurens.
vile to Spartanburg, and the proposed road
from Spartanburg, via Rutherfordton and
Marion, N. c., to Cranberry Iron Works to
connect with road already built from that
point to johnson City, on the east Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad. The first
mentioned line would give direct connection
through the Virginia Midland Road with the
Baltimore and Ohio Road. The second line
would connect at Augusta with the Wadley
Syndcates of South Carolina and Georgia
Railroads, and the third line would secure
another direct connection with the railroads
of the Northwest, thus making Spartanburg
the railroad centre of Upper Carolina, and
giving two competing lines of railroad in
every direction south, east and west.
Enthusiastic speeches were made and resolu-
tions were passed favoring the building of all
those roads. Delegates were appointed to at
tend a railroad meeting at Statesville, N. c.,
on the 10th instant in the interest of the Vir-
ginia Midland Railroad. Delegates were also
appointed to attend a railroad meeting at
Rutherfordton, N c., on the 18th of May, in
the interest Of the road from Spartanburg to
Rutherfordton, Marion and Cranberry Iron
Works.
Evils Of Intemperance.
- A writer in the Charlotte Observer COL
lates the following facts on the evils of intem-
perance, which may be read with profit in any
locality where Intoxicating liquors are sold
Sir Matthew Hale, the great light of the
English bench, said many years ago: "If all
the murders, manslaughters and crimes, which
have been committed during the twenty years
have been on the bench, were divided into
five parts, four Of them would be found to
have resulted from intemperance."
A distinguished French lawyer said, of
eleven hundred and twenty murders commit
ted in France during four years, four hundred
and fifty were the consequences Of quarrels
in bar rooms and tippling houses.
A coroner of the city of London said, ~
think intoxication is the cause of onehalf Of
the inquests that we hold in the metropolis" 1"
Chief Justice Parson said, II have been so
long in the habit of hearing criminals of all
grades refer allrheir miseries to intemperance,
that have ceased to ask them the cause Of
| their ruin"
S. Chapman, who visited all the penitentia-
ries, jails and work. houses in the State of New
York, in search Of facts, stated that ''in his
opinion more than 6ve-sxths of the persons
committed on criminal charges were intem-
perate."
Hugh Maxwell, EssSof New York City,
has stated that of the 20 cases of murder tried
by him while prosecuting attorney, every one
was "caused by intemperance."
The celebrated DR.. Rush says: "Spirtuous
liquors destroy more lives than the sword.
War has its intervals of destruction, but
spirits operate at all times and seasons upon
human life."
The grand jury of the city of Boston sta
ted in their report, some time since, that
"three-fourths of the cases that came before
them originated in the dram shops Of the
CITY,"
The British and Foreign Temperance Soci-
ETY., held meeting in Exeter Hall, May l7th,
1885, A committee reported the signatures
of 700 medical gentlemen in London, includ-
ing the most eminent practitioners in the hos
pitfalls to the following declarations, viz 1--we,
the undersigned, declare our conviction, that
distilled spirits is not only unnecessary, but
injurious to persons in health; that it contains
no nutritive quality, that its daily use is q
strong temptation to drunkenness, occasioning
many severe diseases, and rendering others
difficult to cure, leading to poverty, misery
and death, and that its entire disuse, except
for purposes strictly medicinal. would power
fully contribute to the health, morality and
comfort Of the community"
The Wheat aud Cotton Crops.
Reports to April 1st received at the De-.
partment of Agriculture in Washington, show
an increase Of nearly four per cent. in the area
sown in Winter wheat Kansas and Missouri
show the largest increase. Ohio and Illinois
show but slight increase, and New York and
Pennsylvania remain the same as last year.
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia
each report some decrease, owing to the pre-
valence of snow at the date of the returns
The condition of the crop was not given in
large portions of the principal wheat growing
States, but wherever it was, it is stated to be
below the average of last year. Alternate
freezing and thawing during the month of
March was the most detrimental of any
weather during the winter.
The live stock of the country, notwithstand-
ing the scarcity of food and provender, came
out in fair health, though reported very low
in flesh. No malignant prevailing disease is
reported over any large extent Of country.