Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-27
Correspondence Of the YOrkville Enquirer.

The consideration of the subject was made
the special order for Monday at II o'clock.
Correspondence Of the Yorkrille Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
CHESTER, May 24-An abundance of rain
fell in our town and county last week. 1t
was greatly needed as the small grain was
suffering for the want of it. A great deal
of oats sown in the9fah will not be !'nprov-
ed by the rain as it was too late in its COM
ing. Spring oats, where not killed out by
the last severe freeze, will be immensely inn
proved by the rain. While the outlook for
this crop was very poor a few days ago 1T
now promises an average yield. The wheat
a fair yield may be expected wherever it
was not injured by the freezes of the win.
ter. Farmers complained of bad stands of
cotton before the rain, but complaints of
this character will now cease. Some farm
ers replanted their cotton, as the crust on
the ground caused by the dry weather pre-
vented it from coming up. To sum up the
situation in a few words, the rain will be of
incalculable benefit to everything whether
it be vegetable or farm product and make
in a short time the agricultural outlook
one of encouragement and pleasure to our
farmers.
Chester will send a delegation to the
meeting to be held at Greenwood next
month in the interest of the proposed Alb
beville and Chester Railroad. 1t is hoped
that the influence of our delegates will be
sufficiently powerful to secure the line of
the road by this place. There are those of
our citizens who think that Chester has a
sufficient number of railroads and that any
addition to this number would build up
other places, and hence draw off trade from
our town. However there are those who
hold a different opinion. They believe
that an increase of our railroad facilities
would increase the greatness and prosperity
of our town. The proposed railroad if
built, would traverse Il section of our coun-
ty that is entirely destitute of railroad adj
vantages. The greatness and prosperity
of numberless other places are due to their
railroad facilities, and Chester, if similarly
blessed, would hardly be an exception to the
rule.
Sam Reed, colored, shot himself acct
d~entally on last Thursday afternoon near
Cornwelrs, in this county. He was hunt
ing with several other negroes, when for
some reason or other he struck at a dog
with his gun, which was discharged. The
contents took effect in his stomach, causing
death in about an hour.
Farmers report great damage to crops by
the late heavy rains. Broad River has not
been so high in many years. There was
no train from Lancaster for two days in
%nseuue of injury to the bridge over the
river and the trestle work approaching it.
The damage by the rain, however, is small
in comparison to the good it will do.
Adjutant- General Manigault inspected
The Lee Light infantry on last Tuesday af-
t%ernoon. The company prssed a very cred
liable examination.
One of our county commissioners informs
me that only two of our county bridges were
injured by the late heavy rains-One over
Sandy River, at McAlily's mill the other
over Turkey Creek, known as Parks bridge.
One end Of the latter bridge was moved
about three feet.
Physicians cut a cancer to-day from the
person of Mrs. w. B. Thompson, of this
county. The operation was successfully per-
formed.
Lightning struck Mr.. J. X. Coleman's
brick building on Depot street this after
noon.
In consequence of the damage by the late
freshet to the trestle work of the Catawba
River bridge, there was no train from Lam
caster the greater portion of last week.
The trestle work has not yet been repaired,
and transfer was made to-day of passengers
and mail. NJ.
THE GALLOws.-Louis Willet was hang
ed in the Jail at Kingston, n. Y, last Thurs
day, for the murder of Edward Kellan on
the 18th of January, 1854.
A colored man named Louis Kilgore was
hanged at Hendersonville, n. c., last Fri
day for the murder of Matte Henderson
last fall. He wa respited some weeks ago
by Governor Scales, until last Friday and
the same interest did not seem to be taken
as at the previous hanging day, when the
people assembled by thousands, the county
commissioners having declared that the
hanging should be public. The murderer
eXpiated his crime as a Vindication OF the
law at about y o'clock, NJ. He was brought
out ofiail a little after eleven o'clock, SEEM
ingly Indifferent to his fate, and calmly
smoking a cigar. He took advantage of
the opportunity allowing him to speak, but
refused to confess the killing of the murder
ed woman. He was dead in about twenty
minutes after the drop fell.
Peter Louis Otto, the wife murderer, was
hanged at Buffalo, n. ", on Friday. Otto
was a drunken candy maker who seldom
worked and who robbed his wife of her
earnings at the washtub. He came home
drunk one day, found her at her tub, and
shot her four or five times in the back, With
out previously uttering a word. No pallat-
ing circumstance could be urged in his be-
half.
Lee Barnes was hanged at Dover, Arkan-
sas for the murder of Charles Holman.
John Collins and Russell Watson aided
Barnes in the murder. Collins has been
sentenced to t%wenty-one years imprison-
ment, and Watson will be tried at the
Fall term of Court. The men were all OF
the same stripe-gamblers and cutthroats.
Holmes, however, had Accumulated some
money and property, which his associates
coveted, and Barnes planned the robbery
and murder which Collins and Watson read
lily aided in carrying out. Barnes confessed
after conviction.
TIE TRIAL OF MANwELL.-In the trial
of Maxwell, charged with the st. Louis
trunk murder, a jury has been obtained,
and the case is proceeding. a witness, q.
Warden, of Worcester, Mass, among the
first examined, testified that he met Max
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