Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-09

A GOOD MANY YEARS AGO.-A cashier
took little lad from aneighbOring poOrhouse.
and when the boy had become youth he was
! given responsible position in the bank OF
which his patron was practically the head.
| Later the cashier stole more than $15, 900 from
the bank. Exposure was threatened every
day, and the guilty officer, lin a period of de-
preston confessed to the youth that he pro-
posed to kill himself. Young Ray, the pro-
| tege, was smtten with horror rs he thought
of the terrible turn in affairs but having
weighed the matter the next day he threw him
| self into the breach. He suggested, and the
cashier eagerly accepted the suggestion, that
he should fasten the guilt upon himself and
abscond, thus leaving his patron honest iii the
worlds eyes, though blackened in his own.
What the public heard of the Westport rob-
berry was that bank clerk named Ray had
stolen $4,000. Detectives found several
clues, but not until years afterwards was the
secret disclosed. One of the detectives who
had been employed in the case came up with
Ray under still more romantic circumstances.
The detective, according to his "reminiscences
published last week in Il San Francisco paper,
was called recently to a Western city to ferret
out the person who had robbed a private house
of two hundred gold eagles. The only mali
under arrest was one Henry Martin. AS soon
as the detective saw Martin the former said
"You are Dallas Ray; who robbed the West
port bank" Ray then told the true story Of
the robbery, and the story has been verified
since. Ray claimed that he was innocent OF
the gold eagle burglary and asked the detec-
tive to take Il note to his sweetheart, a Miss
Morse. When the latter heard of her lovers
predicament she threw her whole soul into OBJ
tanning proof of his innocence She went to
the house where the rObberyha been commit
ted. Having asked if the burglar had left
anything in his flight, she was given hand
kerchief that had been dropped by the intru-
der. She put the handkerchief to her nose
and exclaimed "Find the thief who uses this
perfume (naming the peculiar brandy and you
will find your eagles" 1t was found that on
ly one drug store in the city sold that kind of
perfumery and that one bottle only had been
bought within the preceding month. Need it
be added that the purchaser was traced, the
eagles regained, the lovers married :?
A New MEXICO PLANTAT1oN.-Thi great
estate is like the patriarchal plantations that
existed before the war. Here is the mansion
of the owner resembling an old Virginia
homestead, a spacious two-story adobe over
100 feet long and some 25 feet wide, with
broad verandas on each story. Each room is
entered by door from without or from the
adjoining room. There is only one hallway,
that running across the main wing of the
house from the chief door of entrance. The
rooms of remarkable size, indeed my bedroom,
which I entered from the first floor veranda.
must be some forty feet long by 25 wide, and
probably Is feet in height. AS in all adobe
houses, the massive walls two or three feet
in thickness, render the interior delcously
cool in summer and warm in winter. Tie
odd rounded adobe fireplaces are found sutli-
cient for purposes Of heating in cold weather.
In the rear of the house is a carfully irriga-
ted garden of about an acre in size, surround
ed by high adobe wall, and filled with luXu-
RANT beds of vegetable, peach and pear trees
and small fruits. Opposite this mansion,
which stands just at the head of the valley, is
church, built by Don Fincente, Don. }a-
fael's father, whose tomb is within its walls.
Across the road from the garden is store for
supplying Don Rafael's colony with goods.
Below in his large Touring mill, furnished
with water by mill race from the Mora
river. The corral near by is surrounded by
buildings, which include a barn over one hum
dred feet long. storage and warehouses, grana
res, butcher shop and slaughter-hOuse, a
poultry house, a blacksmith shop, and a tool
and repair shops These, as well us the tene
lnents of Don Rafael's eighty employees, who
with their families make up a population of
nearly three hundred are all of adobe.
GEN. BUTLER ON FORT FIsHER.-In a re-
cent speech in Boston Gen. Butler explained
his campaign against Fort Fisher as follows
"Ordered to Fort Fisher and to make al at
tack upon it after a bombardment OF the
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