Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-01
CONTRIBUToRIAL

CONTRIBUToRIAL.
Books.
The book-trade is at a stand-still, and will
probably continue 80 for some weeks-till after
the Presidential election and the concomitant
excitements. We bookish men are sadly in the
back. ground these stirring times; and it is we'll,
no doubt. We know Of no book this week thai
is worth mentioning here.
Preston. Monument.
Let hose of our up-country friends who in
definitely purpose to subscribe something to this
work of art, keep the sam in mind when they
come down to Columbia this year-to the Leg
~islature, to the Fair, to the Commencement
Lists for subscribers are at Glass Book Store,
and in the possession of the several officers OF
the Monument Association, especially Mr.. F.
W. McMaster, the Secretary.
Purse-onal.
The Cresus of the present time probably is
the Marquis of Westminster whose annual in
come is about 81, 900, 900. He is therichest man
in England :; and we are not aware Of any other
individual who owns 80 largely. Aston, our
American Crasus, possesses a fortune Of about
the annual income Of the Marquis Of Westmin-
ster. John Jacob Aston never owned a fourth
Of seven millions a year. The largest cotton
planter in our country, hence in the world, is
said to be Judge Griffin, of Washington county,
Mississippi. His crop is given as 5000 bales q
year.
The international Statistical Congress In
London.
Several weeks ago, when we noticed Judge
Longstreet's withdrawal from this Congress, VIC
promised our readers to return to the subject al
soon as the Judge should return and publish
some statement of the matter to our people,
This we presumed, under the circumstances, en-
tirely probable; but he has now returned, been
with US some weeks, and has published nothing
in America within our knowledge.
The reason, accordingly, why we have not re-
turned to the subject is that there is no subject
to return to. Volta tout.
Female Education.
We have just enjoyed the pleasure OF reading
can Address, delivered on Commencement Day
of the Laureusville Female College, June ~
1860, by Professor Joseph LeConte, of the South
Carolina College," We give the title in full, in
order that our friends may procure for them
selves tho Address itself. We consider it ar
admirable thing, worthy the occasion, the sub
iect, and the learned professor. We have read
nothing in years in this line that pleased US 80
much. We hope to give our readers a few o
the points contained in the Address at some
early day.
Detached Thoughts.
From the little volume Of poems that we no
ticed last week, we select n few separate thoughts
They intimate some beautiful teachings:
"Still l feel a painful wonder
That q spirit, formed as thine,
Had not trod its trials under,
With a potency divine."**
oAud down over many O sacred scene,
Over many q closed and hallowed spot,
Thy guardian angel drops a screen,
And, with gentle tone, says Enter not. "*
ssBut sorrow itself hath a mission high;
And Hopes defeats are not all in vain;
Some ioy is latent in every sigh,
Some pleasure responds to the keenest pain
The past shall serve, as a winding stair,
To action still more noble and true;
And the Calling chains Of an old despair
Hold the golden seal of a promise new.
TeleRraphs.
Somebody wants to know how telegraphl'
messages-telegrams, that is to say-are giver
at the receiving Office.
There pre- two ways. One, the most common
is q succession of dots aud dashes, arrayed tt
represent letters and words and these dots ont
dasbes have TO be translated by the clerk wht
writes the telegram all out, aud the reclpien
gets it in the form of o letter. All our tele
graphs hereabouts, we believe, are Of this kind
A good clerk can write from merely the sound o
the instrument, without seeing the dots an
dashes. The other, known as Houses machine,
prints the letters themselves ; and the reciplen
gets a long slip Of paper with the message print
ed in q single limo of large letters from end t
end. In Philadelphia we received intelligence
from Washington in this latter form.
Diphthcrin.
The recent appearance of this disease, wit
an epidemic tendency, in Columbia, has cause
it to be frequently spoken of by the non-profes
sional as a new disease. 1t has been known I
readers of medical literature twenty or thlrt
years, perhaps more. Several deaths have oc
Cured from it within the last month, some q
them quite suddenly. 1t is confined to tn
young, under puberty. Some recover. 1t
not epids mic q physician assures US; aud it i
hoped that it will not become 80. 1t is a kin
of Group and it's peculiar feature is the forma
ton of a. kind of false membrane or skin las tn
name %implies) inside the laryn1, ~trachea, (winc
pipe) bronchia, and perhaps the air-cells in th
lungs themselves. The effect of this membran
is to gradually close the breathing aperture, an
thus arrest the breathing mechanically o
when in the bronchia and lungs, the memb:ar
prevents the oxidation Of the blood, and deal
is caused by the unarterialized (poisonou'
blood being thrown back upon the system. Tt
! most sudden deaths occur from the latter caus
The Case OF Kitchens.
CLIO, 8. c., October %, 1860.
In view of the excitement and exaggerated RI
ports in circulation consequent upon the ARE:
! of J.. K. Kitchens md his son, F.: G.. Kitchens,
the Vigilance Committee of this place, on th
suspicion of an attempt to excite an Insured
ton in The nighborhood, the undersigned, by r.
81 Nsa.,tnn hnr 1oo.a - ,,hpn