Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-19
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Sn.th Carolina Cotton Crop.

Snsth Carolina Cotton Crop.
- Under date of the 9th instant, the
Charleston Cotton Exchange has issued the
following report of the condition of the cotton
crop in South Carolina. The report is based
on rs replies from % counties:
The weather for the month of July is re-.
ported by 55 as favorable to very favorable !;
bv 2 as about the same, and by 18 as unfa.
yorable the weather for the season to 3lst
July is reported by 46 as more favorable, 8
as about the same, and 81 less favorable.
No lands are reported as abandoned except
by one correspondent; the crop is reported
US forming, blooming and boiling from we'll
to splendid by 70, and stands poor and plant
very small by 5. The present condition of
the crop is reported by 55 as good to fine and
from better to much better than last year, 10
about the same and 10 in poor condition, l
small and worse than last year. There are
several reports of lice, but no damage done
nor apparently expected. the plant being too
forward Rust is reported in several sections
and also shedding, and fears are entertained
of damage if we have rather too much drought
during the month of August.
DIR. Tanners Fast.
- On Thursday last the physicians stop.
ped keeping a record of DR.. Tanners condi.
tion since his fast ended.
At 6 o'clock P. NJ, on the 10th, the attend.
ing physicians took some of the Doctors blood,
and the microscope demonstrated the rapid
disappearance of the fungus growth that was
seen in the corpuscles thirty hours after the
end of the fast. "The process Of death"
Prof. Tuttle said, chad already began to eat.
Now the pores had all gone and is making
new flesh and blood of quality that may, as
he contends, lengthen his life. So much
for the medical uses of the fast" CDR.
Gums deductions from the records that were
kept during the fast are that there was an
actual waste from the kidneys of eighty.
eight ounces, and that three hundred and
twenty eight ounces we're thrown off by respi-
ration and perspiration in the forty days, or
little more than eight ounces day lost
through the skin and the lungs" DR.. Tan
ners weight at o'clock this evening was one
hundred and forty.seven pounds.
The "Army of Occupation."
- Recent movements of the so called
"Army of Occupation" furnishes an engross'
ing topic at this time. 1t is crusade Of
Americans, headed by Mr.. Earnest Dalrym-
pie, who, announcing himself as Pennsyl.
vanian and patriot, called upon his coun-
trymen, last winter, to rally to his standard
for the purpose of redeeming Mexico from
the thraldom of the Latin race, and bless
ing it with Anglo.Saxon civilization. TO
further this holy mission, he pointed his fol.
lowers to the mines of Mexico and other temp
ting prizes as rewards, and his preliminary
orders, as issued by his acknowledgement, bade
them form companies in all parts Of the
Union. and wait for his word of command in
the autumn, telling them when and where to
assemble
1t appears that three hundred recruits for
this Grand Army of Occupation, as it is off,
cally STYLED, are now enrolled in the vicinity Of
Austin, and known as the First Regiment of
Texas Cavalry, Col. Armstrong commanding
and that recruiting is still going on briskly.
1t further appears that the department com.
mander of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and
California, is Gen. F. w. James, of the Tex
as militia. What Dalrymple is doing all
this while is not clear; but since he intima'
ted in his circular of last winter that. not
being military man. he might not take the
field in person, he is perhaps ensconced safe
ly in Pennsylvania, arranging for the division
of the Mexican mines after the conquest.
On the Path Of the Indians.
- A dispatch of the 18th from Santa Fe
saws that information from Ell Paso is to the
effect that seventy. five or one hundred Indi-
ans either from Victoria's own band or those
from Mexico who had aided Victoria, and
who have been lowering for the past few
DAYS between old Fort Quitman and Early
Springs crossed the Rio Grande near Quit.
man early this morning and headed south into
the State of chihuahua. Col. Buell. COM
manding the Mexican troops in the field
against these Indians, has been notified by
courier, and will endeavor to cut them of.
A column of Indians, numbering about one
hundred, constituting the main portion of
Victorias force, passed the Rio Grande later