Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-08-21

with something like cramp collie, and
although he appeared better for awhile,
on Thursday he again took worse.
His physician, DR.. Bigger, did all that
medical skill could under the circum-
stances; but he died. His family
have the sympathy of the whole
community in this their deep affiiction.
His funeral was preached at the resi-
dence of his father by his pastor, Rev.
McClain. He was buried at Bethel on
Saturday, Rev. McAllister pronounc-
ing the benediction at the grave in
the presence of a large number of
friends.
With the exception of chills along
the creeks, the health Of this commu-
nifty is, at present, good.
Corn crops in this section are very
fine, and the abundant rains that have
lately fallen insures large corn crop
in this neighborhood. Cotton is late !;
but with a late fall the crop will be a
fairly good one. The rains, so far as
we have been able to learn, have done
no serious damage on the river or
creeks.
Some of the ladies have been little
frightened lest the rain would contin-
ue long enough to damage the fruit
crop; but the sunshine of yesterday
and today has restored confidence, and
now, with smiling faces and busy
hands, the good ladies are cutting and
drying, canning and preserving, and
making jelly and apple butter and
jam. God bless the ladies. If it were
not for their handiwork, we would 60
without almost all the good things
that make life worth living. We can
put up with the gold standard, and
take it out in stamping and threaten
ing when the supreme court decides
that the millionaire shan't pay taxes
on his millions, and even smile bland
ly when we receive four cents for
cotton but when there amt any pie
or jelly, or canned fruit, or preserves,
then the man becomes sour and makes
things disagreeable for himself and all
around him. I have been around q
goodeal lately, and from what I see,
the ladies Of this community do not
intend that their husbands shall be-
come snappish or their friends grow
cold because they have no nice things
to eat. Many of them have already
put up quantities of fruit, and are still
canning, drying and preserving it.
The fruit crop is abundant and wa
termelons and cantaloupes are so
abundant in many places that they
are fed to the hogs. Mr.. James
Campbell has the finest watermelons
we have ever seen. They are of the
Duke Jones variety. Mr.. Cook also
has an abundance of fine melons of
the Bradford kind. Every one, in
fact, seems to have plenty of them.
DR.. Campbell has the best vineyard
we know of in this section. His vari-
cites have been carefully selected, and
the grapes are of superior quality and
flavor. The doctor is a model farmer
as we'll as skilled physician, and his
crop shows that intelligence has direct
ed the labor that worked it. The
doctor made about 333 bushels of
wheat and 1000 bushels of oats this
year. He threshes his own crop with
a horsepower that works like a tread
mill. This power is not straining on
the horse like the old horsepower,
and two good mules, without over
exertion, can thresh out several hun
dred bushels in day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Ferguson have
just returned from a short pleasure
trip. Mr.. Ferguson went to Rich
burg to the reunion of his old COM
pany-Company A, Sixth regiment
and Mrs. Ferguson accompanied him
part of the way, stopping on the road
to visit friends. Mr.. Ferguson says
that all of the officers who were in
command of the company at the
surrender were present. Captain W.
It. D. Cousar 1st Lieutenant J. S.
Drennen; 2nd Lieutenant John c.
McFadden; 3rd Lieutenant Newton
CASTOR, and Lieutenant G. w. McFad-
den, who lost his leg at Sharpsburg.
The last named was made chairman
of the meeting. The reunion was
most enjoyable one, and the 25 old
Scared and grizzly rebels, who are
now most all of the company that is
left, shook hands and fought over
again many of the desperate battles
that they were engaged in during the
war. Mr.. Ferguson says he went for
q good time and that he had it; but
that the time was too short to get
half through, although many deeds of
daring and funny episodes of camp
life were recalled to his memory. The
chief pleasure, however, was meeting
once again comrades with whom he
had marched though snow and mud,
with whom he had been lulled to sleep
by the din of musketry, and with
whom he had stood shoulder to shoul-
der on many a bloody battlefield. The
command was handsomely entertained
by the good people of Richburg and
vicinity.
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