Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-10-02
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Yellow Fever Reports.


Only one case of fever was reported in
Memphis last Saturday, though there were
63 cases during the week-41 whites and %
colored. There were, during the week, 81
deaths-whites, 26; colored, 5. The total
number of deaths to Saturday night are 3S2.
Number of cases to same date, 1879. The
weekly report Of the Howard Association
shows that they have III nurses on duty,
attending to 1O1 white and 27 colored fami-
lies. At meeting Of the Safety Committee,
held Saturday afternoon, resolution was
adopted to dispense with the services Of two
colored companies after the first of October.
Ten days extra rations will be issued to the
men when disbanded.
The Soldiers Reunion at Salisbury.
- On our first page will be found ex.
tracts from letter addressed by Gen: Sher-
man to the committee having in charge the
arrangement for reunion Of ex-Confederate
and Federal soldiers at Salisbury, N. G. OF
the mistake in extending courtesy to Sher-
man, the Charlotte Democrat speaks as fol-
lows:
Ifit was unfortunate or mistake, or in
bad taste, for our Salisbury neighbors to in.
vite Gen. Sherman to join them in soldiers
celebration, the least now said about it the
better. If Gen. Sherman insulte1 them with
his letter in reply, it will afford them very
little comfort to say hard things about Sher-
man-they should not have placed themselves
in position to be insulted.
By the by, it looks like the Salisbury re-
union is going to be productive of little
more bad feeling than good feeling. We
had hoped that such meetings would result in
promoting good and kind feelings between
Southern and Northern men when the soldiers
of both sections were invited to participate,
but now we doubt it, and doubt the propriety
of such meetings either North or South. At
the North, the "Grand Army of the Repub-
lic," soldiers organization, only promotes
hatred towards the South and demand that
all the offices shall be given to Northern
soldiers, while such organizations at the South
result in no material good, but give our ene
mics an excuse for charging that all South.
ern men are untrue to the Federal Govern
ment and disposed to rebel on the first oppor'
tunity.
The Political Situation in New York.
- A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
thus speaks of the present political prospect
in the State of New York:
."Hon. Montgomery Blair, in conversation
with your correspondent, expresses the opln'
ion that if Tilden had "set up" the Kelly bolt
in New York, it could not have resulted more
to that gentleman's advantage than it has
and will. He has no idea that Kelly will
have more than a contemplate following
when the day of election comes round, and
the whole affair, according to his view, will
only tend to help, what he thinks was certain
at any rate, the nomination of Mr.. Tilden by
the next Democratic Convention. In regard
to Judge Blair's views as to the effect of the
Kelly revolt, it is interesting to know that
very shrewd Republican politician, who has
for long time been active in National poll.
tics, and who arrived from New York yester-
day, holds the same opinion. He says there
is nothing more certain in politics than that
the adherents of any leader will fall largely
from him when they know that defeat inevi-
tably awaits them. For this reason, he says,
Mr.. Kelly could not possibly have committed
q more foolish act than to get up and pro:
claim to the host of Tammany that he had
no hopes of his own election, and all that he
could expect was to defeat Robinson. The
Tammany masses take no interest in Mr..
Kelly's personal quarrels with Mr.: Tilden
and Governor Robinson. All that Mr.. Kelly
Is TO them is as the dispenser of crumbs Of