Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-14
CROPS IN THE STATE.

Good farm labor is difficult to obtain in
Beaufort county.
The oat crop in Edgefeld county is put
down at less than half of an average crop.
Wheat is more promising.
-Pickens Sentinel: The "knowing ones''
are now predicting that there will be two
thirds of good wheat crop. Wheat, oats
and cotton have all suffered for want OF
rain.
Anderson Lntelligencer We learn from
gentleman living in the fork section of
the county that the outlook for the farmers
his section it is not very encouraging
the small grain crop is very short and a
good rain is needed badly. He thinks
there will be plenty of fruit, though the
peaches are nearly all killed. Cut-worms
are doing considerable damage in the vege-
table gardens of the city.
-Keoyee Courier: The peach crop is not a
failure in Oconee county, though it is spot
ted. Numbers of orchards are full and some
have light crop, and in others there ap-
pears to be an entire failure. Theapple crop
promises a bountiful yield, while plums,
pears and cherries are an average. The
seed in the ground in many instances can
not sprOut and grow on account OF the eX-
treme dryness of the soil. Very little cot
ton is up. Corn is doing better and some
are giving it the first working. Small grain
is small for the season, and the prospect
for oats is poor.
BAYARD NOT PoPULAR.-Secretary Bay
ard feels keenly the criticisms that have
been passed upon him since entering the
Cabinet. There is no doubt If his friends
are to be believed, that he regrets leaving
his comfortable surroundings in the Senate
hat sr, int
him by the opportunities Of oftice-sekers.
Mr.. Bayard, since his entry into public life
has always been known as an aristocrat, but
his reputation in this respect never did him
any harm. When he was in the Senate ne
was further away from the people and his
austerity was not felt AS Secretary of
State, however, where it is necessary that
he should give audience to scores Of people
daily, his aristocratic characteristics stand
out boldly and people who feel agrieved at
his icy reserve abuse him roundly the mo-
ment his back is turned.
Placed by the side of the President and
the other members of the Cabinet the con-
trast is startling. The President is agreea-
ed is never austere; Lamar, Whitney, Vi
las, and Endicott are extremely pleasant
men in all the relations of life, while Gar
land, who prides himself on his Jeffersoni-
an simplicity, is one of the most approach
able men in the world.-Philo1elphid 1fn'es
He MURDERED EIGHT PEOPLE.-At Bo-
nito, fifteen miles from Fort Stanton, New
Mexico, about three o'clock on the morn
ing of 9Th instant, Martin Nelson, who was
occupying room in the house of NJ. S:
Maybury with DR.. VIM. H. Finn, late of
Boston, arose from his bed and while COM
mitting robbery in the house, shot and
killed Dr. Finn. The firing having aroused
the family, Nelson then shot and killed Mr..
Maybury, his wife and two sons. He also
wounded fatally little daughter of MIR.
Maybury. A neighbor, being alarmed,
came to the house and he, too, was shot
dead. 1t was supposed that the murderer
had remained in the house and ten citizens
watched it to prevent his escape. At 7
o'clock A. NJ. the guard was surprised by
a shot from the rear, which killed Herman
Beck, one of them. Nelson then came
down the street firing his Winchester, but
he was finally shot dead. Nelson, when
sane, was an orderly citizen. He came to
Bonito from Nebraska four years ago.