Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-11
FARMING IN THE STATE.

and heading out rapidly. In some localities
the planters are chopping cotton.
- All sections of Barnwell county have en-
joyed unexceptionable seasons from the begin
ming of the planting season to the present
time. The acreage in oats is far greater than
was ever known before, and the yield will be
an abundant one. The corn plant is quite far
advanced, and it is believed that fully one
fourth more has been planted this year than
was last. Cotton planting is at an end, and
the stands were never better. In many locali-
ties planters are hoeing down to stand. 1t
is safe to say that all farmers have kept up
with their work more successfully than ever
before.
Says the Chester Reporter: From CONVEX
sation with farmers from nearly every neigh
borhood in the county we obtained most en-
couraging reports of the small grain crops;
the best since the war; and more of it than
than they have ever seen is what all of them
say. Slight rust has appeared in the wheat
in few localities, but it is thought no great
injury will result. The late rains have as
sured the full maturity Of the fall sown oats.
The stands Of corn are reported as frstrate :;
in many places the first planting has been
plowed over. Cotton is coming up we'll; it
has been damaged somewhat, on sandy land
by the cool nights and mornings. The fruit
crop gives promise of being most abundant :;
peaches and apples will be more plentiful than
at any time for the last five years.
MORE TROUBLE IN IRELAND.
On Saturday evening last, about 6 O'Clock,
Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secreta-
ry for Ireland, and Under-Secretary Burke,
were shot dead in Phoenix Park, Dublin. The
particulars of the affair are thus given in a
Dublin dispatch to the London press 49,
A boy states that while bird nesting in
Phoenix Park Saturday afternoon he saw,
about two hundred yards from him and close
to the road, group of men who appeared to
him to be wrestling He thought they were
roughs and paid no particular attention. He
saw two of the men fall ard four others jump
in the car and drive rapidly toward Chapel
rood. He is unable to give a description Of
their appearance. The park was crowded
in many places at the time of the tragedy and
many persons were sitting or walking within
a few hundred yards Of where the bodies were
found, but heard nothing of the affair. The
police patroled the park shortly after the oc-
currence and fruitlesSly searched every hole
and corner for the murderers Mr.. Burke was
found with his throat cut almost from ear to
ear, and his hands bore marks indicating that
he had had a fierce and heightened encounter
One of the wounds of Lord Frederick Caven-
dish was dagger thrust which penetrated his
right lung, and his right arm was smashed to
a pulp. Many of the wounds on both bodies
were such as must have been necessarily fatal.
The persons who found the bodies were de-
tanned by the police.
The affair is connected with the Irish Land
League agitation, and has caused greater ex-
citement throughout England and Ireland
than any occurrence since these troubles COM
menced. Parnell, Davitt and other leading
agitators, however, denounce the crime in un-
measured terms, and the Land League has is
sued manifesto condemning the act, and dis
claiming any sympathy whatever with it, Mr..
Davitt is reported to have said: -
s'No language can possibly command can
express the horror with which 1 regard the
murders, or my despair at their consequences
When heard it on Saturday night, could
scarcely credit the news. l grieve to think
that when the Government had just risked
introducing a new policy, when everything
seemed bright and hopeful, and when all
expectel the outrages to cease, that this
terrible event should dash our hopes. 1 wish
to God I had never left Portland. The crime
was without motive. 1t is not only the most
fatal blow that has been struck at the Land
League, but one of the most disastrous blows
which have been sustained by the National
cause during the century. Its concurrence at
this particular juncture seems like terrible
destiny, and my only hope is that the assassins
may be discovered and punished ; as they de-
serve. 1t is wonderful how the outrage could
occur in few hundred yards of the constabu-
larry depot.
THE CHURCH AND THE TURF.-A Louis
vile (Ky.) dispatch says the congregation at
the Christian Church in that city was much
surprised Sunday night when Rev. DR.. Yam
cey, the pastor, introduced General Abe Bu-
ford with tile remark that the old turf1nan
would deliver short address in lieu of the
evening discourse. General Buford had some
thing to say in regard to the church and the
turf. The drift of his argument was that
church members could conscientiously visit
the races. General Buford IS position, as sum-
med up, is just this: The race horse is too i'm
portant a factor in the commercial prosperity
of Kentucky, a State which is world-famous
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