Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-03

Kentucky, was sold as vagrant few weeks
ago, and purchased for fifty cents.
The dying request of Col. j. Lawrence
Jones, a Kentucky lawyer of considerable
eminence, was that no funeral sermon be
preached over his remains, and no resolutions
passed by the bar.
- 1t is the decided opinion of the Hon.
Fernando Wood, of New York, that we are
on the verge of tremendous reaction in
trade, and that the greatest prosperity the
American people have ever known, awaits
them. We trust the mantle of true proph-
ct has fallen upon Fernando this time. ..s..
Last year the potato-bug invaded Prus-
sa, but the authorities of Schildau and Mul.
helm built fences around the fields, covered
them with sawdust and tanbark, soaked this
with kerosene and set fire to the mass. This
heroic treatment has been completely success
full, as not one of the dreaded insects has
been seen this year.
The Post Office Department have deter
mined that on the 1st of October, the registry
system shall be applied to third class mail
matter. This matter comprises all articles OF
merchandise weighing less than four pounds.
The fee for registration is fixed at ten cents
additional to the postage now charged, which
is one cent per ounce.
- Before the plague, Memphis had popu-
lation of $4,000, but of the people who now
remain, only 1000 are in health. The fever
prevails in various parts of the country inclu-
ded within radius of ten miles of the city.
Fifteen volunteer physicians have died in
Memphis, and twenty others are sick. Eight
Catholic priests and FIVE Protestant ministers
have also perished. ....
= Mr.. Herman was arraigned in police
court in Springfield, Illinois, on charge of
disorderly conduct. The complaining wit
ness was the officer who had arrested him,
and who said: "He vas standing right under
gas-light in the street with one arm around
girls waist and the other around her neck,
hugging her like everything" Mr.. Herman
put the girl on the stand, and she blushingly
testified that he was her accepted lover. and
that he was kissing her goodnight, with her
full consent. He was discharged. ...
- Ben Butler was in New York on Monday,
and expressed himself as being sanguine of
his election as Governor of Massachusetts.
He says be has not broken away from the Re-
publican party, but that the Republican party
has broken away from him. He believes that
the greenback question is the chief issue in the
country, and the labor issue chief in cities.
On the contrary New York Tribune cores
pondent, who has visited various sections of
Massachusetts, declares that the Republican
organization is intact in that State, and pre-
diets Buffers defeat.
The doctors who survive their exposures
and labors amid the yellow fever, will have at
their command closer and more useful ob.
servatons of the disease than have previously
been made. Pathological examinations have
shown important LESSONS at the base of the
brain a lockwood" or completely tight liv'
er degenerated kidneys and an enormously
enlarged spleen, as characteristic of the dis.
ease in every instance. The doctors engaged
in this special work have prepared elaborate
reports, both technical and general, and it is
to be hoped have furnished broad basis Of
facts for the study of explanations.
We find the following in the New York
Tribune: Ex-senator Robertson, of South
Carolina, expects to see a solid Democratic
Congressional delegation elected from that
State this fall. He says the Republicans will
make no fight except in the First and Second
Districts, and he does not think that they can
succeed there, as the colored vote can no
longer be held for them. He is sure Hamp-
ton will be elected to the United States Sen
ate, and hopes to see him candidate for
Vice. President in 1880. All of which shows
that the Democrats have the upper hand in
the State and are bound to keepit."
The earliest notice of yellow fever is that
of Ligon, in his History of Barbados" He
there states that it broke out early in Septem-
Der, 1647, and that before the expiration of
a month "the living were scarcely able to
bury the dead" Thereafter it did not attain
any very remarkable severity until 1893,
when it destroyed not less than 5000 men of
the garrison of Port Royal in the course of a
few months In 1904 it was brought to the
south of Spain, and visited Cadiz, Malaga,
and Carthagena. But its greatest force fell
upon Gibraltar, where out Of the civil popu-
lation of the town, amounting to nearly
$4,000 persons, only twenty eight escaped at
tack.
OF the eight hundred persons suddenly
submerged in the river Thames by the Pran-
cess Alice disaster, scarcely dozen saved their
lives by swimming. The reason, is at that
place the river is little better than mass of
sewage. 1t regularly carries away the liquid
refuse of the City of London, and at the in
stant of the collision there was being poured
into it near the fatal spot the contents of two
great cesspools. The immediate effect of i'm
mersing person in sewage say the chemists,
is asphyxia, and the eight hundred excursion
lists, must have become numb, and incapable
of any effort The bodies, when recovered,
had undergone strange changes. Identified.
tion was difficult. Clothing had changed col
or, and decomposition had been swift. Every
thing pointed to the action of some powerful
chemical substance.
- Speaking of the alleged insanity of Orvill
Grant, correspondent Of the Atchison Patri-
OF says: This morning I fell in company
with New York man, and among other
questions asked him, "Is Orvill Grant re-
ally insane" "Oh, no; he is as sane as
he ever was or as I am now. He never
had any political sagacity. He has been
talking very recklessly about his brothers
influence and candidacy for President recent
ly, and to counteract his statements the only
thing to do is to publicly pronounce him in.
sane The friends of Grant-his political
friends advised it. Orvill has no serious
objections if it serves his family interest,
though he asserts that the newspapers have
lied as to what he said. He will not be con-
fined in any asylum for insanity. 1 have
seen him since this week, and he cunningly
smiled at the report of his insanity"
A novel suit is reported from Wayne
county, N. G. 1t seems that some time ago