Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07

of United States Senator, to which position
Mr.. VOORHEES, is almost the unanimous choice
Of his party and party leaders.
From the Fever District.
- Reports from the infected district to
the Surgeon.General of the U. S. Marine
Hospital Service, show the following new cases
and deaths for the week ending last Friday /:
New Orleans eighty.three cases and 109
deaths. Twenty-eight old cases reported.
Morgan City eight deaths. Baton Rouge
seyenty.fve cases and sixteen deaths. Mobile
sixty cases and ten deaths. Decatur ten
cases and two deaths. Port Gibson about
ten deaths in the country; none in Port Glib
son. Pass Christian nineteen cases, no deaths.
Chattanooga twenty.eight cases and twelve
deaths.
Bay St. Louis-Total number of cases re-.
ported up to Friday, 535; deaths, 7S. The
health authorities consider the epidemic at an
end.
Grand Junction-Up to October 26th, ia
cases and IA deaths reported.
Milan, Tenn.-For the two weeks ending
Friday, IL cases and 6 deaths reported.
Memphis-For the week ending October
81, % deaths reported. Total deaths 1854.
Meridian-Over 400 cases up to Friday ;
80 Deaths
Gallipolis-For the week ending October
80, case and deaths reported.
Monday nights dispatches report the wealth
er in New Orleans clear and pleasant Nine
deaths and Al new cases reported. In Mem
phis there were deaths for the twenty.four
hours ending at o'clock Monday night. At
jackson, Miss, there have been FIVE new
cases since Sunday noon. At Vicksburg the
weather was clear and warm. Several new
cases are reported and deaths on Monday.
The Chattanooga Board of Health declare
the fever epidemic ended in that city. At
Cairo, where the temperature near the earth 8
surface has reached the freezing point nearly
every night for q week, the fever still lin.
gers-two deaths and three new cases having
occurred there since Sunday morning.
End Of Romantic Career.
| "A picturesque career was that of Rich.
ard Realf, closed by suicide at Oakland, Cali.
fornia, on Tuesday Of last week. Identified
with many desperate encounters in the Kan
sas struggle, named in old John Browns wild
scheme of government as Secretary of State, y
private of the Federal Army, first as a vol.
unteer then as regular, he had poetical &C.
MUS of no ordinary character, refined and
sensitive temperament, had been patronized
by Lady Byron and petted by the highest
literary circles of England twenty five years
ago. 1t was in 1855 that he made bis ap-
pearance in Kansas, having arrived two years
earlier in New York. In the contests with
the "border rufians" he was soon a conspicu-
GUS figure, and bis personal beauty and ex-
ceptional culture, with the air Of mystery and
romance about him, gave rise to the runor
that he was the son of Lord Byron. In fact
he was not; his parents were English farm
folks, at Farm6eld. in Sussex, where Realf,
the fifth in family Of ten, had been, born,
June IA, 1884. He wrote verses at fifteen
and soon attracted attention. At Brighton,
whittier he had been taken by a patron, La.
dy Byron and her daughter Ada came to see
him, and Rodgers, the old poet, too iu6rm to
come, SeuL lOT A4S WINS soOu Luo peI VI q
literary coterie that included these just named,
Mrs Jameson, Miss Milford, Harriet, Marti.
neau and others They thought they had
found new genius of the highest order,
sprung from humble life. He broke away,
however, from all this, after volume of his
verses had been published, and at twenty two
was in Kansas. In 1859. when Brown at.
tackled Harper's Ferry, Realf had not &C.
cnmpanied him, but was in Texas, on his way,
whence he narrowly escaped hanging. Then
he served through the war, going in as pri.
vate, coming out brevet lieutenant colonel,
and writing during the struggle some Of his
best lyrics Next he served two years in the
ranks of the regular army, came to South
Carolina, taught a freedmaD's school in Edge
field county, was at Pittsburg as one of the
editors of the Commercial until 1877, and
then went to California. Troubles had pur.
sued him his domestic life was full of misery !;
all his letters and some of his poems have al
lusions to pursuing fury that made his exis.
tence wretched. To escape this, at last he
took his own life. s@v@