Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-10

AN Alabama lawyer, defending MUIR
derer, spoke for nineteen consecutive hours,
and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty in
seven minutes. They did it to avenge them
selves for the torture they had endured. Lo-
quacious attorneys should limit their tongues
before they reach the limit of human patience.
Reports from northwestern Iowa state
that the grasshoppers are working serious
damage to the crops in that locality. I'm
mense fields Of wheat and oats that, five days
ago, promised an abundant harvest, are now
utterly destroyed, and the grasshoppers have
commenced on corn.
- There is proposition to right the men,
ory of Columbus by changing the name of so
much Of the North American Continent as is
embraced within the United States to Colum-
ba. The suggestion comes from the West,
whence most all great thoughts now proceed,
and is we'll worthy of consideration.
- The abolition of the franking privilege
will rebound to the benefit of the express
companies, as some Of the departments of the
Government and perhaps all of them, have
decided to send all their heavy packages by
express, it being found much cheaper than to
pay postage thereon.
- Mrs. Avery d. Putnam, the widow Of
the victim of the car-hook murderer in New
York, has recovered in the Superior Court Of
that city $4,000 against the Seventh Avenue
Railroad Company, for negligence of the car
driver and conductor for not putting Foster
off the car when requested by Mr.. Putnam.
'- Mexico is one of the grateful republics
She has voted $4,000 for a monument to the
1,f T,o H. ;e
to be run up every time his birthday comes
round, and each of his daughters has been
voted a pension of $4,000 while single, and
$500 after marriage. The best biographer of
Juarez will be awarded $4,000.
-- The physicians of Selma, Ala, having
agreed not to devote themselves professionally
to any more patients who refuse to pay their
bills, the medical attendance in that town has
decreased almost as much as the general health
has advanced. The local papers declare, if
the doctors would shut up shop altogether,
that Selma would be the most healthful place
in the whole South
- An Iowa man, few days since, dream
cd that he saw his brothers head severed from
his bod without the loss of a drop of blood.
Next day he learned of the removal of that
brother from snug postmastership A negro
IN Columbus, Ga, dreamed that he found five
dollars in certain place in street. He
went to the spot next morning, found one dol.
lar, and is blaming the ghost who told him of
it for taking the other four.
- 1t turns out that Gen. Beauregard, of
Confederate fame, is the leading spirit in the
new departure movement in Louisiana, acce-
ding to the negroes greater privileges than
have yet been bestowed upon them by legis-
lative or congressional enactment TO an en-
quirng friend in Nashville, Tenn, Gen. Beau
regard telegraphed few days ago, explaining
his position: "Our carpet-baggers must be
rooted, bag and baggage, out of the State, or
we shall be utterly ruined. The question is
narrowing down to one of existence"
The War Department will send to West
Point from the Ordinance Bureau, as trophy
of the late war, the first gun fired in the cause
of the rebellion. 1t was fired at the steamer
Nicksburg, bound for New Orleans, and sup
posed to have arms and ammunition on board
belonging to the United States The firing
took place several days before any guns were
fired at the United States troops, either at
Charleston or Pensacola. 1t is small four
pound cannon, formerly the property of the
city of Vicksburg.
- Mortuary statistics show that the pop.
ular notion that negroes are more able than
the whites to resist the attacks of malarious
diseases, is erroneous. In Alabama, the races
are nearly equal, 900 whites to $4,000
there were 4,500 deaths among the whites,
there were 5000 among the negroes. The
measles carried off 2S1 negroes to l22 whites
the typhoid fever, 1877 negroes to POI whites
while remittent and intermittent fevers took
442 negroes to 29S whites. Pneumonia was
especially fatal to the colored race, 9S8 fatal
cases of it having occurred to 49S among the
whites. The same facts are noticeable in re-
gard to the ravages of malarious fevers, con-
sumption, pneumonia and general diseases, in
Mississippi, South Carolina and other South
ern States. Possibly, the neglect of their sick
by the negroes may account for portion of
the disparity of deaths, but the fact is still
established by figures, that in point of health,
the Caucasian is the superior race, even in
the South.
- Among the new rules promulgated by
the treasury department on the subject of the
issue and redemption of United States curren-
cy, to take effect the 1st of July, are the fol-
lowing: Blanks and other parties situated
without the limits of the territory covered by
the contract are permitted to forward curren-
CIV for redemption to the treasurer by express,
at the expense of the department. only in
sums of one thousand dollars, or an even mul
tiple thereof The remittances should be
marked Under the Government Contract with
Adams Express Company; from the point Of
connection with that company the charges
should be prepared to that point, the bill there
for being sent to the treasurer for settlement
through the proper accounting officers, in ia
vor of the consignor. New currency will be
returned in all cases, at the expense Of the de-
partmcnt All remittances ofmoney by mail
must be addressed to the Treasurer Of the
United States, Washington, D. c. and must
be prepaid Such letters may be registered
Returns for FIVE dollars and upwards in frac-
tional currency, and fifty dollars and upwards
of legal tender notes, received by express, are
made at the expense Of the department by ex-
press, and for less of either returns are made
at the expense of the owner"
- The Asiatic cholera is disease Of an
ancient and almost immemorial date, though
it was first observed as an epidemic in Bengal,
in May, 1877 1t next made its appearance
in Calcutta in 1S19 it extended to the Bur-
mese empire; in 1920, it arrived in Bombay,
where 100000 persons lost their lives. In
succeeding years, it visited Persia, Arabia
and Asia Minor; in 1929, it appeared in
Southern Russia, and at Moscow in 1880. In
1901 = ..o,d o,or most of Centra1 Enrone