Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-03

Ou Lile CIopS, aS tllN SeAoo PioS Sooso, Nv YIN
can tell. Much apprehension is felt through
all Northern Mississippi.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Trial Of the Modocs.
"A military commission has been consti
tuted for the purpose of trying the captured
Modocs Col. Elliott will be the senior officer
and Major Curtis the judge advocate. The
commission will not commence work until af
ter the 4th instant, and it is thought it will
take about six weeks to conclude its labors
The commission will sit at klamath.
The Warm Spring Indians engaged in the
Modoc war will be marched to Dallas, Ore
gon, where they will be paid off and mustered
out of service.
A Hard Old Case.
- The Hickory, N. G., Press gives the fol.
lowing brief sketch of Clem Farr. a noted
character of that region, who was at the re-
cent term of Burke Superior Court with a rat
tlesnake for sale-he making it point to
have one or more of these reptiles for sale ev'
cry court week:
"He is remarkable old man every way
He is the father of 80 children and has lsvins
1O2 grandchildren. His father was soldier
in the Revolutionary war. Glenn is furious
"dimocrat," and believes old Andrew jackson
is still alive. He was hung by Kirk near the
close of the war. His friends supposing him
dead, were in the act of interring his body
when evidences of vitality were discovered
Four years ago when he was 85 years old, he
climbed slick pole here 80 feet high, fastened
a Seymour and Blair flag to the top Of it,
drew bottle, drank health to the Demo
cratic candidates and returned safely to the
ground"
Vagaries of the Law.
AS showing the glorious uncertainties
of the law, as we'll as the low value placed
upon wife, New York paper gives the fol
lowing proceedings of one of the courts of thai
city:
A man whose wife had, as he said, died in
consequence of NAL alpractice, recently brought
an action for damages against the doctor
which on Monday came up for decision in the
General Term of the Superior Court Of this
city. The court held that in such case g
husband could not recover damages for the
death of his wife, although he could recover
for the loss of her services during the illness
which was the cause of her death. This dis
tinction, which is doubtless good law, is ex
ceedingly bad common sense. 1t s based up
on the old theory of the common law that the
wife is merely the servant of the husband
The injury which his affections sustain by he1
death is not consider to be worth estimating
And yet an unmarried woman may recover
damages for breach of promise, on the ground
that her affections have been wounded. Mr.
Bumble once asserted that in given contin
gency he should regard the law as an ass
Evidently, there are other contingencies in
which the same assertion might safely be
made
Cholera Preyentivcs.
- While there exists no reasonable cause
of alarm at the approach Of cholera in oul
section-remarkable for its healthful climate
and pure atmosphere-t is nevertheless vel
enough to be prepared for such emergency, Of
what is better still, to prevent such a scourge
by habits of cleanliness At this season al
outbuildings, whether in crowded cities, towns
or on country premises, should be disnfected
for which purpose the best and cheapest artl
Gle in use is copperas dissolved in water, with
which all accumulations of filth should bt
sprinkled.
One of our town physicians has handed III
the following prescription which is used il
Europe, as a preventive of cholera and sale
to be remedy of great power:
"a teaspoonful of powdered charcoal taker
three or four times week, in cup at coffee
or other liquid, in the morning. When at
tackled with cholera, mixture Of an ounce
of charcoal, an ounce of laudanum, and ar
ounce of brandy, or other spirits, may b'
given as follows after being we'll mixed
teaspoonful every five minutes. In half al
hour this has been known to efectually re