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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17

Last year the mortality was appalling. There
were 1900 cases and 5, $50 deaths, the popu-
lation of the city being reduced by flight and
disease, to about 19, 500. - @-.
There is no question that the rapid spread
of the fever in 1878 was due to the foul condl-
tion of the city. 1t is admitted to have been
''disgraceful in the extreme" There was no
organized scavenger system, no means by
which the ashes and garbage could be daily
carted away. The accumulations OF forty
years were decaying upon the surface-a bayou
dividing the city, and which was the main
DRAIN was sluggish and without current, oW-
ing to the want of water and the fact that
there had been scarcely any rain for several
weeks The pools which had formed at the
abutments of the several bridges were covered
with scum of putridity, emitting deadly
effluvia s'The streets were filthy, and every
afliction that could aggravate a disease so
cruel seemed to have been purposely prepared
for it by the criminal neglect Of the city gov
ernment, who turned deaf ear to the per-
sistent appeals of the press. Every interest
that of the health and lives of the people. :"
The first death by fever occurred in the end
of July. On August 18th death by fever
was announced. There was 33 new cases on
the 10th, and the flight of the citizens began:
In less than ten days, by August oath, 25, 600
persons had left the city, and in two weeks
after 5000 others were in camp, leaving less
than 10000 to face the consequences they
could not escape. The horror and suffering,
the brightness and darkness of the months
that followed will never be half told. There
were heroes and heroines, and a glorious army
of martyrs. The last recorded death by fever
in the city was on November 30. -
Disagreeing upon nearly every other point,
the doctors are almost unit as to the neces-
ity for thorough sanitation, in order to ward
off or mitigate the attacks of yellow fever.
They all declare that filth, especially decayin&
animal matter anil excrement, is prime If
not the potent cause Of the severity of the at
tacks of this curse in the Mississippi Valley
The specific poison may be in the air, but its
propagation depends upon conditions, the de-,
struction of which is within the reach of all
classes in the South. Memphis was dirty and
foul beyond measure in 1878. The seeds OF
the disease have never been eradicated, nor was
the city able to make ready for new attack
this wear ......
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
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YORKVILLE, S. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY II, 1879.

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
YELLOW FEVER IN MEMPHIS.

On Thursday last the Memphis Board of
Health issued an order advising the people
of that city to quietly remove their families
to place of safety until they could at least
see whether the few cases Of yellow fever
then reported would assume an epidemic form.
A stampede of the citizens was the result OF
the action of the Board of Health, the trains
being unable to carry away the hundreds
who desired to leave.
On that morning five new cases were re-
ported and one death, an infant of Judge
Ray, who, together with another son, was pros
trated with the disease Saturdays dispatch
es indicate that spread of the disease is
not anticipated Memphis is the only city
in the country in which the scourge has
appeared this season, and it is to be hoped the
pestience may be kept within its present mar
row limits, and may be speedily terminated
even there. New Orleans and other places,
which have been subject to its ravages, are
reported to be in remarkably healthy con-
dition, and the most stringent quarantine
regulations have been established to prevent
the introduction of the disease from the in
fected city.
Dispatches Of the 18th say no new cases of
fever have been reported. Mrs. Tobin died
at 6 o'clock Monday. and was buried at s.
This leaves only one person in the entire
city (Judge Rays SOM sick with the fever,
and he cannot survive. The weather contn-
ues warm.
TIE EPIDEMIC LAST YEAR AND ITS CAUSES.
Yellow fever has visited Memphis several
times. In 1866 there were some sporadic cases.
The next year there were 231 deaths by fever.
In 1873 the fever broke out September IA, and
ended November 8. There were 1000 deaths.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mrs. James Harty, of Charlotte, is here on
a visit to her father, DR.. Ross.
DR.. Miles J. Walker, who is now located in
Union county, made hasty visit to his pa
rents here last Saturday returning next day.
Rev. j. w. Tarboux, Of Union, preached in
the Methodist church last Sunday evening.
Col. w. B. Metts returned home last Thurs
day from Columbia, where he had been under
treatment Of physicians. He is confined to
his room from the effects of his disease and
the surgical operation to which he submitted.
Mrs. Thornwell, widow Of the late J. H.
Thornwell, D. D., Ill. D., and her sister, Mrs.
Wardlaw, of Abbeville, visited Yorkville last
week, the guests of Hon. I. D: Withersroon.
Miss Annie Jefferys, Hon. I. D. Wither-
spoon and Col. w. B. Wilson and wife and
three children are at Cleveland Mineral
Springs, N. c.
Mr.. John A. Metts, of Columbia is visiting
his father.
Mr.. B. B. Owens, who is now living in
Orangeburg, returned on a visit Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Ed. Thomas returned on Tuesday even
ing from Florence.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

"A revival is in progress in the Methodist
church at Shelby.
BY order of Gov. Jarvis, permanent
hatchery has been located at Morganton for
the artificial propagation of fish.
Superior Court for Randolph county is
in session this week, with docket of 115
criminal cases for trial.
- The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the N. G. Central Railroad was held in
Charlotte last Thursday.
- The North Carolina Grand Lodge Of
good Templars will meet in Winston on the
18th of August.
- Henry H. Tate, of Greensboro, sowed Is
bushels German Amber" whest and real
lied $40 bushels, heaped measure Five acres
yielded $50 bushels, weighing sc pounds to
the bushel.
- The Fourth of July was celebrated at
Winston with more than usual demonstra.
tions of pleasure and fun. 1t is estimated
that more than 10000 people gathered to-
gether on that occasion.
- Concord Sun: A paper to be- devoted to
the interest of education, religion, temperance
and masonry among the colored people, will
be issued in Concord ABOUT August 1st. 1t
will be semi-monthly, and printed at the
Sun office. A. S. Richardson, editor.
Says the Charlotte Observer Of Friday
One of our leading grocery houses yesterday
shipped twenty-five bushels Of onions to
Charleston, S. G.. They were grown in Lincoln
county, and such shipment at this season of
the year is something new. Wouldn't it pay
better to grow such crops than to cultivate
the whole face of the earth in cotton at starv-
ing prices?
Mr.. Appleton Oaksrnith, of Cartaret, who
had the great misfortune Of seeing four of his
daughters drowned in Pogue Sound on the 4th
instant, and who came near being drowned
himself, is the son of Seba Smith, author of
"Major Jack Downing's Letters" and of
Mrs. Elizabeth Oaks Smith, a woman of gift,
who was very favorably criticised thirty odd
years ago by Edgar A. Poe, in an article of
some ten pages. 1t is to be found in his pub
lished works.
The degeneracy of the Boone family
descendants of Daniels thus mentioned by
the Asbeville Journal: 1t is rather a remark
able coincidence that two young Thomas
Boones are now closely confined in the iron
cells of Burnsville Jail, having both been con-
vcted of murder in the first degree, the older
having been convicted at Yancey county
court year ago, in which case an appeal was
taken and the Supreme Court confirmed the
Judgment of the lower court. So he must
die, and ere long-yes, before the dirt gets
dry on his grave-another Thomas Boone
must follow, as we are reliably informed that
the appeal to the Supreme Court in the case
Just tried at Madison county court, was mere
ly for time, as the evidence was short and
hardly single exception was taken. This
being the case, the Supreme Court will hardly
interfere or order ven$re de nouo. 1t will
be sad day upon tho Boone family in Yam
cey county, and of course they have their
friends who will also weep with those who are
left. Without prejudice, the Boone family
has always, since our recollection, held a
high hand in Yancey county. Even the
feminine Boones are more or less dreaded.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
MERE.MENTION.

Eight men were killed in New York city
alone on the 4th Of July. In the whole State
of South Carolina there was not one murder
on that day. '..''"There are 10000 guests at
Arkansas Hot Springs. '.'''''"some American
corsets shipped to Mexico were supposed to
be saddles of new kind, and were returned
as not giving satisfaction. .''''''''The trial Of
Thomas Buford, the Kentucky Judge MUIR
derer, has commenced. 1.-THE cotton crop
this year is put down by experts at 5, ESQ, 900
bales. .'.....'.It is found that the coffee tree
will flourish in Florida, and some planters are
going into the business extensively. .''''''"''Mr.
Henry Smart who wrote the hymn "From
Greenlands Icy Mountains" has received a
pension of $500 from the British Govern
ment. '....'.''..A big storm swept through some
portions of Pennsylvania and Maryland last
Friday. Baltimore was struck with consid-
erable violence. .........There were executions
of the death sentence, last Friday, at Con-
cord, N. H., Warrenton, Va, Smithville, N.
c., and Corpus Christi, Texas. They all went
off happy. ........"Three Indians found guilty
of murder and sentenced to be hanged at
Miles City, Montana, have recently commit
ted suicide to avoid that penalty.
The annual crop of tobacco of the United
States is about APO, 100000 pounds, two thirds
of which is exported. .'''''''''The repeal of the
duty on quinine will reduce the cost Of that
medicine from % to 80 per cent. ''''''''The
personal estate of the late Baron de Roths-
child amounts to $65, 900. '''''''''A Cali.
fornia man tunneled under a neighbor's we'll
and stole the bottom and all the water. ''''''A
tombstone with simple cucumber carved up
on it is oftentimes more expressive than one
covered with ten thousand lines of obituary
poetry. .'"Ex.Governor VIM. Allen died
suddenly at his home near Chilicothe. Ohio,
last Friday morning. He was the foremost
Democratic politician of the State. He was
born in North Carolina in 1907. 1.-THE
story telegraphed few days ago about the
finding of Charlie Ross in Canada, was start
ed, it is now learned, by Canadian college
student, for a joke. Cruel fun, indeed. Mot
a single United States marshal resigns. This
is touching devotion to ones country under
the most discouraging circumstances.
The grain and grass crops of England are
reported to be in lamentably poor condi-
ton. '''"Jefferson Davis says positively that
he will not be candidate for U. S. Senator
from Mississippi ''''''''' Kentucky has father
of thirty seven children. He once lived in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
HOT WEATHER.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday last were the
hottest days of the summer, not only in this
section, but throughout the country. The
thermometer in this place indicated. 1929 on
Thursday afternoon. The following tempera-
lures in different parts of the country were
reported on the same day:
Atlanta 80; Augusta 1O1; Baltimore 90;
Cairo 96; Charleston 103; Charlotte "a; Chat
tanooga 9S; Cincinnati go; Corsicana, Texas,
81; Davenport 81; DesMoines "a; Dodge City,
Kansas, 81; Fort Gibson, Indian Territory,
100; Indianapolis 81; Indianola, Texas, 81;
Jacksonville 1O1; Keokuk 81; Knoxville So;
Lacrosse go; Leavenworth SO; Louisville 81;
Lnchburg 81; Madison, Wisconsin, go; Mem
pllis 81; Milwaukee9O; Mobile 96; Montgome-
ry 95; Nashville 80; New Orleans 80; Norfolk
80; North Platte, Neb., SO; Omaha 96; Sacra-
mento go; Savannah 101; Shreveport 95; st.
Louis 81; st Marks, Fla, 95; Vicksburg 96;
Washington 81; Wilmington "a; Yankton, D.
T., g.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
OUR SKETCH OF CAPT. IVY.

Our sketch, last week accompanied with a
portrait, of Capt. J. M. Ivy has been quite IA
vorably received. The Charlotte Southern,
Home, noticing it, says:
The last issue Of the Yorkville ENQUIRER
contains handsome picture and lengthy no
tice of Capt. ]. M. Ivy, of Rock Hill, s. c.
1t is but a just tribute to the public spirit,
patriotism and energy of Capt. J. NJ. Ivy, who
has done more than any one else to build up
the prosperous town of Rock Hill and give it
an enviable name among the business places
of the State.
And the Charlotte Observer, says:
The Yorkville ENQUIRER publishes lengthy
sketch of the life of Capt. J. M. Ivy, of Rock
Hill accompanied by an excellent picture from
photograph by Van Ness, of Charlotte.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
LOCAL AFFAIRS
NEW ADvERTIsEMENTs.

James Scoggins W. W. White and A. F. Lind
say, County Commissioners-Fence Law
Election.
Clark Brothers-We want to Sell, sc.
and Observation-Disclosures Stock
Headquarters s-Shoes-Millinery.
Jos. f. Wallace, Observation-Disclosures to the
Creditors OF Rufus J. Dunlap, deceased.
Col. A. Coward, Principal-King's Mountain Mil
itary School. -.
G. G. Parish & Co.-All Over Town-King's
Mountain Hotel. --Cofee-Black'
smith Tools--Apple Vinegar--Sugar in
Abundance-CannedG Goods.
T. w. Clawson. Deputy Messenger-In Bank.
ruptcy-Appication for Discharge-1n the
Matter of r. B. Withers, Bankrupt.
r. 81. Glenn 8. Y. C.-Sheriff's Sales.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
THE CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY.

Services will be held in the churches next
Sunday as follows:
Associate Reformed Presbyterian-Rev.
Robert Latham, Pastor. Services at 1O3 A.
M, and 4t P. M.
Presbyterian Church-Rev. L. H. Wilson,
Pastor. Services at 10t A. M, and 8 2. M.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday evenings at .
o'clock.
Church of the Good Shepherd.-Rev R. P.
Johnson, Rector. The Rector will fill his ap-
pointment at Rock Hill next Sunday, and con-
sequently there will be no services in this
church. Sunday-school at the usual hour.
Services Wednesdays at 81 O'Clock P. M.
Pastor. Services at 10t A. M, and P. M.
conducted by Rev. Prof. J. Walter Dickson,
of Columbia. Sunday-school in the afternoon.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 8
O'Clock '....
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
STOCKHOLDERS, MEETING.
Large Legacy to JEFF. Davis.

At q meeting Of the stockholders of the
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad,
held in Dallas, N. c., July 10th, 1879-lt
On motion of Maj. 8. M. Finger, Col L.
A. Mason, of Dallas, N. c., was called to the
chair .'1t"tf
On motion Of Mr.. John s. Wilson, G. W..
s. Hart, Esq, of Yorkville, S. c., was chosen
as secretary.
On motion of DR.. A. II. Davega, Mr.. JAS.
Mason, the secretary of the company, was also
made secretary of the meeting
Maj Finger moved that committee Of
three be appointed by the chair to verify
proxies. Adopted.
The chair appointed Maj. s. M. Finger, of
Newton, N. c., John s. Wilson, of Chester,
S. c., and j. F. Wallace, of Yorkville, s. G.
Cold A. Mclean moved that the roll be
called by the secretary as the committee YER
ify the proxies. Adopted. ra.-,--s'~ Ed
Calling the roll and verifying the proxies
was then proceeded with, and at the conclu-
sion thereof the committee reported that
large majority of the stock was represented
in person and by proxy.
On motion, the report was adopted where
upon the chair declared the meeting organ
lied.
On motion of Col. G. A. Ci!ley, the reports
of the president, the committee to examine
the vouchers of the treasurer, and Of the
treasurer, were read.
On motion of John s. Wilson, the reports
were received as information.
On motion of Maj. J. F. Hart. it was
Resolved, That the recommendation of the
president, as to the filling Of certain trestles,
be adopted, and the work be authorized to be
done.
COL Mclean moved that a committee, con-
sisting of one stakeholder from each county
through which the railroad passes, be appoin-
ted by the chair to nominate candidates for
president and directors. Adopted.
The chair appointed Col. j. A. Mclean, of
York; W. T. D. Cousar, of Chester; j.
Froneberger, of CASTOR; w. H. Motz, of
Lincoln j. R. Gather, of Catawba; and
Col. C. A. Cilley, of Caldwell.
The committee retired, and after an ab-
sence of thirty minutes returned with the fol-
lowing reports, viz:
MAJORITY REPORT.
For President.-COl. William Johnston, of
Charlotte, N. c., he having received four
votes.
For Directors Caldwell county, G. W. F:
Harper, 6 votes; Catawba, S. NJ. Finger, 6
votes; CASTOR, j. D. Moore, 8 votes, L. A.
Mason, votes; York, B. T. Wheeler, votes,
J. S. Bratton, votes Lincoln, V. A. McBee,
votes; Chester, A. H. Davega, votes, J. II.
Smith, 6votes.
MINORITY REPORT.
For President-W. Holmes Hardin, Of Ches-
ter, S. C..
For Directors-Chester county, John L.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17

Rhode Island, but had to move to larger
State. .........The traffic in eggs in the United
States is estimated to equal $2oO, 900, 600 per
annum 100000 dozen are exported from
the country every year. '''''''''The Prince I'M
perial of France, was buried in England last
Saturday with imposing ceremonies. '''"'Neil
Winbush, colored, who attempted rape on
young lady in Clayton county, Ca. last week,
was taken from the guard last Friday night
and hung to q tree.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
ALARM OF FIRE.

About half-past O'Clock Saturday morning
the alarm of fire was sounded, the cause being
the burning of an out-building in the rear Of
DR.. Kuykendals residence and drug store.
The burning building was situated near the
main house, and in, close proximity to the
apartment of the drug store containing oils
and other combustible materials; but fortu-
nately there was no wind, and by the united
exertions of the firemen of both white and
colored companies, aided by the citizens, the
flames were prevented from spreading. The
fire was accidental.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
FENCE ELECTION.

AS will be seen by their notice published else
where, the County Commissioners, on the Pc
tition of the requisite number Of voters, have
ordered an election to be held in Cherokee
township, on Monday the 2Sth Of August, on
the question of fence or no fence
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Mr.. II. G. Burris, worthy and highly es-
teemed citizen, died at his residence near Nc
Connellsville, on the 5th instant, in the 77th
year of his age.
A good rain fell on Sunday afternoon, and
fine shower Monday morning, reviving the
growing crops, which were beginning to suffer
from drought. The rain also brought the
mercury down several degrees.
One of the stay-at-homes gives as the reason
he did not take his family to the springs this
season, that his wife is enjawing herself very
much at home.
Mr. William Bradford, Of Bullock's Creek
township, owned horse which died last week
at the age of thirty-one years. The horse had
been in the family for all that period OF time,
and was faithful animal.
A fight occurred Saturday night between
Paul Romery and Alex. Johnson, both color
ed, in which Paul Intellectually fired his pistol
at Alec. Both parties were arraigned before
the Mayor on Monday morning, and Paul was
fined SIS and Alec. So.
A few watermelons have made their appear
ance, though they are not coming in plenti-
fully. =
The picnic at Union church, last Saturday,
is spoken of by those who were present as hav-
ing been a delightful and enjoyable affair."
The festivities consisted of fine dinner, dane
ing and other amusements and were enjoyed
by large number of both sexes.
Virgil Walker and Lawson Goode, both COL
ored, were the first to break into jail since the
yacating of that institution by it's former in
mates at the close of Conrt. Virgil stops
over for twenty days on conviction OF petit
larceny, and Lawson went in on Tuesday, to
remain three days for assault and battery.
JOURNALISTIC.
By the recent sale of the Raleigh IN. g.
Observer, that paper passes into the hands OF
Samuel A. Ashe, ESQ.,, as editor and proprle-
tor. Mr.. Ashe is member of the law firm OF
Merrimon, Fuller & Ashe, of Raleigh, and has
been for two or three years past, chairman OF
the State Democratic executive committee.
He is gentleman of high character, and under
his control the Observer will maintain, If it
does not surpass, the high standard of excel
lence which has marked the paper from the
date of it's establishment.
The Asheboro, N. c. Regulator has recently
changed hands, Messrs. Bradshaw Il Hack
ney becoming editors and proprietors. With
the change of proprietorshipis also change OF
name-.the paper taking the title of the Co"-
rier. An enlargement is promised at All ear
ly day.
Cap. r. A. Shotwell has begun in his paper,
the Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic, the publl-
cation of series of articles, partially personal
in their character, entitled "Three Years in
Battle, and Three Years in Prison." The
first chapter appears in the Farmer md Me-
chanic of last week. These articles, which
will run through several numbers of the paper,
will doubtless command widespread attention.
Mr.. McSweeny, of the Ninety-six Guardian,
gives notice that after this date the publica-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17

alone" and as each division Of expenses has
its peculiar appropriation, the accounts there
for of each appropriation must be kept dis
tinct and separate from the accounts of an
other appropriation, and further requiring
them to keep their books so they will show
how much has been advanced to them from
each appropriation and how much is to its
daily credit.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
CLEVELAND MINERAL SPRINGS

We are pleased to learn that the above pop
ular place of summer resort is we'll patronized
this season. The proprietor announces re-
duction in the price of board. See advertise
ment.