Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

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EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Area Of Texas.
- The Rev. DR.. Burrows, of Louisville
KY, recently made a visit to Texas, anc
gives the following as his idea of the area O.
that State:
"The first impression one gains in travelling
through Texas is one of bigness Figure
give but an indefinite idea of its immense ex
tent The six New England States, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
Maryland and Virginia, would not cover it:
area by 5000 square miles, The great State:
of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky anc
Tennessee might lie upon its bosom, and ye
have an unoccupied border of 10000 square
miles skirting them. Locomotives must rur
thousand miles from its northern to reach
its southern boundary, and thousand miles
from its eastern to its western lines"
Sale Of the 5. C. Railroad.
- This valuable property was sold al
auction in Charleston, on Thursday last un
der decree of the Circuit Court of the Uni
ted States 1t was bid off by VIM. II. Braw
ley, Esq, who represented the purchasing
committee of a syndicate, composed largely Of
New York capitalists, for Sl,275,0OO. In
addition to this bid, the syndicate will have
to pay the first mortgage debt amounting te
s3,OOO,OOO, or an aggregate of S4,275,OOO
The purchasing committee Of the syndicate il
composed of j. S. Barnes, Samuel Sloan, j. j
Higginson, F. A. Stout and w. H. Brawley
The syndicate which purchased the road
controlled the bulk of the indebtedness junior
to the first mortgage, and about seven.eighth:
of livestock of the company. 1t is understood
that so soon as the sale is confirmed by Judge
Bond, which will probably not be before next
November, the company will be reorganized
and the road equipped in first class manner
In the meantime the road will remain in the
hands of Receiver Fisher, who has had con-
troll OF 1t Tor the past TWO years.
The Assassin Guiteau.
"A singular turn has been given to the
case against the assassin Guiteau by the Dis
trict Attorney for the District of Columbia
Under the local statute, if the victim of an as
sault shall die within year and day from
the time of the infction of the injury, the as
sailant is held to be guilty of murder. The
District Attorney, feeling compelled to take
action against Guiteau or to provide for his
further detention, has procured a special
opinion to the effect that the President is not
finally and safely beyond danger of death,
from the bullet of the assassin, and the man
is accordingly remanded indefinitely to i'm
prisonment, and his case cannot in any event
come before the grand jury until next Sep
tember. As man with wound through his
liver and large bullet lodged somewhere in
his frame, cannot be said to be in perfect
health, the chances of Guiteau for speedy
trial are not good. Great and general dis
satisfaction with the adequacy of the punish
ment which can be awarded to the assassin
has been expressed District Attorney Cork
hill, it appears, will do his best to add to his
term of Imprisonment all the law allows.
The Farmers in Council.
- The joint summer meeting of the State
Agricultural and Mechanical Society and
the State Grange, was held in Greenville
last week. The meeting was called to order
by Col. Crayton, of Anderson, the President
of the State Agricultural Society. About one
hundred and fifty delegates were present,
almost every county in the State being rep
resented. Governor Hagood, Col. A. P.
Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture DR.. E.
NJ. Boykin, Superintendent of immigration
and number Of other prominent persons
were present, as also a delegation from the
Georgia Agricultural Society.
The address of welcome was deliverd by
NJ. L. Donaldson, Esq, President of the Green
Vile county Agricultural Society, and was
responded to by Hon. James N. Lipscomb,
Master of the State Grange. President Cray
ton then delivered the opening address. Col
onel Wallace, of Columbia, in few terse re.
marks, introduced the Georgia delegation
and their chairman, Mr.. Livingston, briefly
responded, introducing the Rev. David E.
Butler, who addressed the meeting in behalf
of the Georgisns in most happy and felici-
tous manner.
Essays were read on a variety of subjects,
including among others "The Cultivation of
Upland Cotton" by G. R. McIver, Esq, of
Darlington Tmmigration," by DR.. James
Mcintosh, of Newberry 1.-THE Labor Ques-
ton Of the South" by G.. H. Noise, of Sum-
ter "The Lien Law" by Col. A. P. Butler !;
hillside Drainage and otherwise Preserving
Cultivated Lands" by Col. E. M. Rucker, of
Anderson "The Stock Law" by j. c. Cham
bers, of York Transportation" by Col. W.
L. Trenholm, of Charleston and "The Ben.
e6ts and Necessity of an Agricultural Jour-
nal in South Carolina" by Col. James A.
Hoyt, Of Greenville. Each essay that was
read provoked more or less discussion. All
the essays are to be printed in pamphlet form
and distributed in connection with report
of the proceedings Of the meeting.
Resolutions were adopted looking to the
Improvement of the Fair Grounds at Colum.
bia and to enlarging some of the buildings.
A liberal appropriation was made for this pur-
pose and Colonel A. P. Butler, Colonel vii.