Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-23
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.


ment that will be likely to make some stir in
the religious world nameI y that we are to have
still another version of the New Testament, to
be known as "The American Version" and
what's more, it is to be copyrighted under that
designation. As to the particular reasons for
this publication the Churchman says: The
fact that the readings and renderings pro
posed by the American Committee of Revis.
ion have been published in separate list
such of them, at least, as were not adopted
by the English revisers-has vexed the minds
of some people who cannot bear that anything
American should be made to take a back
seat, and certain others who are not willing tc
acknowledge that there can be any appeal
from the judgment of the American commit
tee. x This thing will probably 60 or
until every one who is dissatisfied with any
portion of the so.called revision shall pu
forth new revision of his own"
ssThe Full Extent of the Law"
- Judge Bond, one of the presiding
Judges Of the U. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh
N. G., week before last, passed sentence on {
colored man who had been convicted o
selling liquor without license at religious
and other gatherings Of colored people. II
passing sentence, the Judge said:
"You have been convicted of carrying OF
the business of retail liquor dealer withou
having paid the special tax. 1fyou had beer
storekeeper, engaged in the sale Of various
articles ordinarily purchased by the people
and had surreptitiously sold liquor to Gus
toner, your conduct would not have beer
so base as it now is. But You have, for th'
sake of the gain to be acquired by it, taken {
stock of spirituous liquors to the church as
semblies, picnics and little gatherings of you
own people, who assemble from time to tim
in your county, to debauch. them with liquor
From such people as you represent, come al
the disturbances of public worship, and al
the breaches of the peace among the quie
people who assemble in neighborly. way II
enjoy each others society. The judgmen
in your case is that you pay fine of Sl,0O(
and be imprisoned for six months"
Progress in New Orleans.
"A New Orleans correspondent of th
Chicago Tribune, writing under recent date
says:
"In the way of railway building there is al
activity in this region that is positively start
ling. The Texas Pacific has absorbed th'
New Orleans Pacific, and the line made con
tinuous from New Orleans to somewhere away
out West. The only delay in the matter o
construction is in the lack of laborers. l
sufficient laborers could be had the lines henc'
to Shreveport, by both the Morgan route ant
Baton Rouge line, would be finished and il
operation for the fall trade. At this hou
there is more shipping in this harbor than il
usual in the heavy exporting season. Th'
tonnage is used for transporting an immense
quantity of iron and steel rails for the track
of the roads now being built in Texas anc
Louisiana. All this activity has lively ef
feet on the population here, and the conse
quence is there are more enterprising ant
wakeful people at work than ever were seer
here before. The travel from Texas, through
this city, is far beyond all comparison t
previous years. Every train brings full
loads of people, who, by stopping over day
or more, fill the hotels, enliven the streets ant
stores and crowd the outgoing trains to thei
fullest capacity. All of this makes the rail
way men very happy, and keeps them busy
beyond all precedent"
The Gotten and Wheat Crops.
-- Under date of the 18th instant, th'
Agricultural Department publishes the fol
lowing report of the cotton and wheat crop
for the month of May:
Cotton returns to this department show th'
total increase of area planted in cotton tt
be less than l per cent. more than last year
The reports were as follows: Forty-one coun
ties in North Carolina report an average in
crease of 4 per cent; sixteen counties II
South Carolina report the acreage the same
as last year; seventy counties in Georgls
give an increase of per cent; fifteen In
Florida give decrease of per cent. thirty
four in Alabama give a decrease of 2 pei
cent. forty.one in Mississippi give the same
average acreage; fourteen in Louisiana
give an increase of per cent. F.; sixty
nine in Texas give an increase of 2 per
cent. thirty two in Arkansas give an increase
of per cent. The condition is much lower,
being SO this year against SO last year at
same time, and SO in 1879 The weather is
reported too wet and cold, and the
crop consequently is very backward.
Spring Wheat-The acreage of this crop
shows large decline since last year. The
area reported to this department is only 06
per cent. of that sown in 1880. The condl-
ton is, however, fully equal to that of last
year at the same time.
Winter Wheat-The condition of this crop
is reported at an average for the whole country
of only 76. The principal complaints are
from Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, where,
added to the most unfavorable weather, there
is great damage from chincb bugs and the
Hessian fly. California reports very low
condition caused by cold weather and
drought.
The Ohio River Flooded.
- While some sections of the country are
suffering from want of rain, it appears that
here is an overabundance in other sections.
In some of the Northern States, notably New
York. there has been an abundance of rain,
Is also in the Western States, in some of
which it has been 80 constant as to infiict Sc.
'ious damage 1t is claimed that never, in
he history of the Ohio river, since 1910. has
here occurred such flood in the month Of
June as the one of last week. A dispatch
rom Steubenvile says:
Almost six days of constant rain through
'ut this section, extending to the head waters
# the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers,
brought food that carried with it destruc-
ion on every hand from Pittsburg to Wheel
ng, distance of ninety miles. The excite
nent has been intense in this city as we'll as
t other points. The river at this point com:
nenced to rise on Thursday evening, and
rom three foot river the increasing waters