Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-07


reported to have died of "disease of the
heart" we are in the habit of regarding it as
an inevitable event, as something which could
not have been foreseen or prevented, and it is
too much the habit when persons suddenly
fall down dead, to report the cheat" as the
cause this silences an inquiry and investiga.
ton, and saves the trouble and Inconvenience
of repulsive "post mortem." A truer re-
port would have tendency to save many
lives. 1t is through report Of disease of
the heart that many an opium eater is let off
into the grave, which covers at once his folly
and his crime; the brandy drinker, too,
quickly slides round the corner thus, and is
heard of no more; in short, this report of
disease of the heart" is the mantle of charity
which the public coroner and sympathetic
physician throw around the graves Of f"genteel
people"
At a late scientific congress at Strasburg, it
was reported that Of sixty six persons who
had suddenly died, an immediate and faithful
post-mortem showed that only two persons
had any heart affection whatever; one sudden
death only in thirty.three, from disease of the
heart. Nine out of the sixty six died of apo
plexy-one out of every seven-while forty
six-more than two out of every three-died
of lung affections, half of them Of "conges-
tion OF the lungs" that is, the lungs were so
full of blood they could not work there was
not room for air enough to get in to support
life. 1t is, then, of considerable practical in
terest to know some of the common, every
day causes of this congestion of the lungs" "
disease which, the figures above being true,
killing three times as many persons at short
warning rs apoplexy and heart disease to-
gether. Cold feet tight shoes tight clothing
costive bowels; sitting still until chilled
through after having been warmed up by la.
Dor or long, hasty walk; going too sudden
ly from close, heated room, as lounger or
listener or speaker, while the body is weaken
ed by continued application or abstinence, or
heated by the effort of long address; these
are the fruitful causes of sudden death in the
form of congestion of the lungs" but which,
being falsely reported as "disease of the
heart" and regarded as an inevitable event,
throw people off their guard, instead of
pointing them plainly to the true causes, all
of which are ayoidable, and very easily so, as
general rule, when the mind has been once
intelligen y drawn to the ubject.-HaUs
Journal Of Health.
na~ a New York correspondent writes as
follows concerning the aged but sprightly
widow of Americas greatest merchant prince :
"Mrs. A. T. Stewart, now at home again, is
out of mourning and appears to enjoy her
widowhood. She is animated and jovial; is
reported to have very extensive wardrobe,
including more than one hundred gowns OF
the latest mode for morning, evening, walk
ing, driving, breakfast, lucheon, dinner, re-
ception, theatres, opera, party and other en-
tertainments it is necessary to dress for. She
is evidently renewing her youth, for she is
over 80. During her husbands life she was
kept in the back ground and was rarely ever
in society, with or without him. She is a
queerlooking little woman and is represented
as being very kind and benevolent, giving
generously, both publicly and privately. A
worthy person always receives hearing from
her, and she gives without ostentation. She
entertains handsomely when at Saratoga,
where she has splendid suite of apartments.
She drives cut often in neat coupe with two
superb chestnuts, and coachman and footman
in dark green. She is continually troubled
with letters Of inquiry about Stewards body y
YoUTH-There is nothinglke youth. The
sunshine streams upon the flowers. The blood
rushes wildly through the veins. The air is
full of music, and echoes of happy laug ghter are
borne on every breeze All the world seems
wrapped in golden mist, and Hope, white
winged angel, shines in the rosy heaven OF the
future. Fer age, the rustic of the dead leaves
For sorrow, the wall of the autumn wind, the
sad November twilight and the lonesome
splashing Of the rain! What have age and
sorrow to do with life Let them thrust away
their doleful gloom-while for youth and
beauty, and love and mirth, the silver bells
ring, the wine sparkles, and the earth is
strewn with roses William Winter.
A9F- Jesse Grant, third son of Gen. .. S
Grant, and Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter
of w. S. Chapman, of San Francisco, were
married at the Palace Hotel, in San Francis
co, at o'clock on Wednesday night of las1
week.
Hge The report of the Illinois State Board o.
Agriculture indicates that Notwithstanding
the August drought and early September
frosts. the corn crops of that State will moi