Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-01

ever been developed in a pure blooded negro. -
The soldiers in Fort Hamilton are ag--
grieved at the menial employment imposed
upon them by the officers. They say they
have to run errands for servant girls, clean
out cellars, cut wood, dig gardens and do all
sorts of dirty work, not for Uncle Sam, but
back at the private residences OF the officers
in the villages near by. There have been
twenty-five desertions in the past two weeks.
Special kilograms of Friday from forty
principal points ranging through the great
grain-producing belt from the Mississippi river
at La Crosse, Wisconsin, through the Mis-
sissippi river at Memphis through Minnesota
to the grain fields of Dakota, are to the effect
that the acreage of wheat is 80 per cent. less
than 1881. The plant is looking healthy and
although somewhat backward gives promise
of good yield.
his headquarters when surveyor in the Valley
of Virginia still stands intact over the spring
at Soldiers Rest, Clarke county. Soldiers
Rest was built by Gen. Daniel Morgan, OF
Revolutionary fame. When bruised and bloody
from the numerous fights with which he was
wont to celebrate court-day in the neighbor
ing town of Berryville, he would retire to the
old spring house, where his wife would battle
his head and bind up his wounds. The ole
cabin is now used as dairy.
Doesn't complain A man who had beer
carried to Philadelphia hospital while suffer
ing from the effects of severe confusion was
asked if he had been treated kindly while there
considering all things" he answered, VI
think have no right to complain. They am
putated both of my feet, removed my collar
bone, cut off my right arm, trepanned me, took
out piece of my under jaw, sawed my lett
hip bone in two, and were about to excavate
five or six ribs when fire broke out in the
establishment and the police got away with
the rest of my body in safety"
1t is reported that District Attorney Cork
hill will have a post mortem examination
made of Guiteau's brain to see whether there
was any ground for the plea of insanity: This
may be mere report without foundation, for
we fail to see what the district attorney has
to do with it, but if it should turn out upon
the examination that the man was really IN.
sane what thenp It will not be pleasant
reflection to think that the government hanged
a crazy man to crafty thirst for vengeance.
If the insanity test is to be applied, would it
be more rational to do it before strangulation
"A Washington dispatch of Friday says it
is understood that Secretary Lincoln has ap-
proved the recommendation of Judge Advo-
cate-General Swain for the mitigation OF the
sentence of Lieut.. Flipper, who was convicted
of Gross violation of army regulations and SEN
fenced to dismissal from the service. The
President will not act upon the case until he
has had time to dispose of important ques-
tions of State now claiming his attention, but
it is learned that he is disposed to grant the
mitigation on the recommendatlon oy the
Judge advocate-general in this case.
The Tombstone (Arizona) Epitaph Of Thurs
day publishes an account OF tight at lgos
Rancho, on the line of the Arizona and New
Mexico Railroad, near the Sonora border.
Much i'll feeling exists between the American
railroad laborers and the MeXicans. A few
evenings ago number of Mexicans, with their
families, encamped near Igos Rancho. The
American laborers, being drunk, attempted to
force the Mexicans to give up their women.
This was resisted, and an affray followed, in
which seven Mexicans were killed and several
wounded. A number of Americans were
wounded, and it is thought three will die.
The only practicable method of enabling
Guiteau to escape the gallows next month
seems to be for his lawyer to get some Justice
of the Supreme Court to give him certificate
that he shows prima facie reasons, based on
the alleged lack of jurisdiction IN the District
Court, for the hearing of an application Tor
a writ of habeas corpus. AS the supreme
Court will be in session until October, such
a statement from one of the Justices might be
used to influence the President to grant the
assassin respite for four or five months.
But it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court
will undertake to interfere in a case that has
been so thoroughly settled.
Intelligence received at Petersburg, Va,
to last Saturday, from various sectlons OF
Virginia and North Carolina represent that
in consequence of the recent wet and cold
weather, the cotton and corn crops have be-
come perfect failure and most farmers are
blowing up their crops with view OF replant-
ing. Owing to the scarcity of seed the cotton
crop will be necessarily short. In some coun-
ties corn cannot be purchased at any price,
and the people are actually suffering for the
necessaries of life. The outlook for good
peanut crop is very discouraging. The wet
weather caused the seed to rot, and farmers
are ploughing them up to put the land in corn
The loss the farmers have sustained is lncal-
culable.
The Southern States seem to be entering
on a period of unexampled prosperity. In
1880 the value of the leading agricultural pro
ductions, as compiled from the statistics OF
the Agricultural Department, were: Cotton,
$3.50, ,266, PAP corn, 1929, ,492 GAS wheat, S5S,-
351 ,2S5: rye, S2,274, ,669; oats, S24, 4,462, l37 :;
potatoes, So, ,603, ,534 ;tobacco, S23 946 762 hay,
S1S, PIP, 7A rice, IS, SOC, ,00O sugar, 81, 5OO,-
COO; molasses, Ss,000,00O. The fisheries of
the South are so valuable that member OF the
United States Fish Commission predicts that
the mullet fisheries of Florida will become as
important as the cod fisheries of New Eng
land. With such resources the South should
soon become the most prosperous section OF
the Union, and second to none as manufac-
turing center.
"A Nashville merchants wife gave him the
following startling letter the other day, with
instructions that it should not be opened until
he got to his place of business II am forced
to tell you something that know will trouble
you, but it is my duty to do so. 1 am de-
termined you shall know it, let the result be
what it may. have known for week that
this trial was coming, but kept it to myself
until to-day, when it has reached crisis and
cannot keep it any longer. You must not
censure me too harshly, for you must reap the
benefits as well as myself. do hope it won't
crush you. The flour is all out. Please send
me some this afternoon. I thought by this
method you would not forget il" The nus
band telephoned forthwith for barrel of the
best -four in the market to be sent to his
home, instanter.
The New York World Of Monday has spe-
cial dispatches from New Orleans, Galveston,
Memphis and Mobile, which it is claimed have
been carefully prepared, showing the present
condition and prospects of the cotton crop.
The reports sums up as follows &: If the season
from the present time until cotton picking be-
gins is an ordinary one the outlook is that
there will be a considerable increase in the
amount of cotton grown in Alabama and Tex
as over last year, and quite as much, notwith-
standing the overflow, in the States of Arkan-
sas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The reports
from the Atlantic coast and Northern belt