Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-14

revive him."
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Work of Nihilists.
-- The Gar is imprisoned in his palace
through dread of his Nihilist subjects. Ger
many is restless and uneasy because of siiui-
lar tendencies there. Recently it has been
discovered that at New York, and perhaps
at other points in the United States, there is
bureau of Nihilists, where measures are di.
rected to be executed abroad A communi.
cation has been received by our government
from abroad calling attention to this fact and
protesting that it was the duty Of the United
States to obstruct their unlawful proceedings
Apparently, our Government could do moth
ing in the matter, yet it is said the subject
was receiving attention by the President
Therefore, it may be that the Nihilists re-
solved to strike blow at the American Gov
ernment by shooting President Garfield The
question would arise, for what purpose? But
the absence of an apparent reason settles
nothing with Nihilist. Their whole policy
is to resolve existing things into nothing-to
annihilate, to destroy. with no thought for the
morrow, with no care for the present. Com
muuism is one thing, Nihilsm another-the
former avows plunder, but the latter aims
only at chaos and destruction.
The American Government should, here.
after, put a strong hand on all Nihilist asso'
Citations and Communists, rioters and the
disturbers of the public peace everywhere.
Let such persons be punished swiftly and
speedily, and don't give them chance to
kill Presidents and other public officers.
Insanity and the Presidency.
- The watchman of the White House has
given reporter some interesting information
respecting the curious characters, denomina-
ted political lunatics, who constantly intest
Washington. From the interview we take
the following:
At the inauguration of Mr.. Garfield four
insane men turned up here who wanted to be
inaugurated, each claiming to have been
elected. Seven were arrested on the day Mr..
Hayes was inaugurated. An equal number
wanted to take General Grants place at the
first and nearly dozen on the occasion of his
second inauguration. Don't you remember
what an excitement the marriage of Nellie
Grant created? Well, five or six "cranks,"
one of whom paid about $50 for his railroad
ticket, ranging in age from thirty to sixty
years, came on here, each claiming to be the
groom. Two of them we're sent to the insane
asylum the same day, in the same ambulance.
and they fought all the way over, as to which
of them was the real groom. During the ex-
ctement that followed the Nathan murder
mystery, sixteen persons in all, in different
parts of the country, confessed to being the
murderer. In the excitement that took place
during the consideration of the initiation bill,
as it was called, we had over dozen financial
"cranks" to come, and over hundred were
already here. They all kept reasonably quiet
except demented New York Congressman,
who rode about the streets increasing the cir
culating medium by throwing green backs out
of his carriage in the streets. In the insane
asylum there are four men who claim to be
Presidents, one or two kings, one queen and
three men who have financial theories that
they claim will save the country"
The President and the South.
The Augusta Chronicle of Thursday
contained the following editorial paragraph:
"If the President recover he must visit his
Southern friends. We of the South have
learned to love him. He would love us if he
knew US better"
Referring to the effect in Augusta of the
above paragraph, the same paper, in its Fri
days issue says:
I'm the Chronicle of yesterday, we very
naturally suggested, in very few lines edi
torially, that if president Garfield should re-
cover, as all of us hope and pray, he ought to
visit his Southern brethren and learn, from
personal contact, to love US, as we have proved,
in his extremity that we have loved him. And
yet these simple lines, the spontaneous out
of most cordial fact, attracted great
er attention than almost anything more elabo.
rately prepared for this paper. We heard
the wish thus expressed echoed on all sides,
from all classes, sexes and conditions. Eyes"
was the universal voice of Augusta, "that is
so he should come to US, when he gets we'll,
and bring with him that good, loyal, faithful
wife. He and she will see for themselves
that the South has nothing but affection for
the President and his family, and that no.
where on this earth is there warmer love
for the Federal Union" We do not see that
anything more need be added, except that
such tour through the South would be an
ovation such as no President has ever before
received, and that nothing the President could
do would be half 50 mighty and effective in
making him the glory of the whole country;
The writer had the misfortune to apprehend
calamity for the President. by some prophet
ic impulse. By the same inspiration, let him
prophesy, if the President should survi i've, that
one of the first resolves of his convalescence
will be tour of loving triumph through the
section that did not vote for him, but turned