Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-12-06

Doesticks. Everybody, accordingly will be
pleased to know that Artemus Wards name is
Charles F.. Brown; that he is a young man has
become a contributor to Vanity Fair E; and has
recently moved to New York. He used to write
for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The College.
Our programme for last week at the college
WAS not filled. The Orations for Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday evenings were not delivered.
The cause of this was the stampede.
The cause of this was the panic.
The cause of this was the small po1, real or
imaginary; chiefly the latter.
.Monday-The Commencement was rather
slim. There was less maturity Of preparation
than ~usual--a result of the panic. Haskelps
speech and Valedictory were both very good
Several of the speeches were political. This is
q direct violation Of college law, to which we
called attention to on a former occasion. The
audience was not large, but fair.
Monday night-No Commencement Ball.
Small Pox.
1t got newsed about early last week that there
were some cases of small po1 in Columbia.
A panic.
Crescit eundo.
The Board Of Health met promptly and inves-
tigated the complex matter. The greatest vari-
ETY. of opinions was abroad. The Board made
a seasonable report but the thing had the start
of that.
Doctor One thought it was varioloid.
DR.. Two believed it was chicken. pox.
DR.. Three knew it was smallpox.
DR.. Four concluded after due deliberatior
that there were some reasonable grounds for be-
lieving that the cases under consideration were
probaly either yarioloid, or chicken pox, d
smallpox, or something else; unless the ap
parently anomalous symptoms were referable Il
idiosyncratical causes.
DR.. Five had the idea that DR.. Six was
DR.. Six thought DR.. Five was 'snother."
DR.. Seven told some students of the Soutf
Carolina College that there would probably
be two. hundred cases of bona 6de small pox il
Columbia in three days.
A stampede!
The graduating class stood their ground Of
left only as they usually do between examination
and Commencement. The others-the under
graduates-aed with a precipitancy worthy 8
better cause. Their watch. words were o verse
from the Chant Patriotique of our young Gallo
bard
Courons / nos trontieres!
The students of the Theological Seminary Tex
cept those from distant States, and we hope
some others) caught up the refrain and marched
away from a prospective scene of suffering and
disease, singing
Comons d nos fTontieres!
In the city, Vaccination became the special
order of every day.
The Board of Health continued daily reports
still the excitement subsidized but slowly. 1t has
now, however, been past for a week or nearly.
What the facts are We, for one, don't know
Whatever they are, the laugh is at the expense
of those who decamped-or de-campus ed, as
the case may be.
The young ladies of the Columbia Female
College werelprotected bya species of quarantine
law enacted by the authorities thereover, and
stood their ground gall antly; which went large
ly to the seasoning of the joke against those who
had less beauty to spoil and who Notwithstanding
fed like good fellows.
The sum of the whole matter seems to BIZ
something in the style of the old adage-
Great cry and litAe-pox!
COLUMBIA, s. C. j. W. d.