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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-07
A-SFAIWART'S BULLET.
Cowardly Attempt to Assassinate the Presi.
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WASHINGTON. July 2.-President Garfield
was shot this morning at the Baltimore and
Potomac depot while on bis way to New
England. He received one ball in the arm
and one between the hip and kidneys Five
physicians are in attendance and have probed
for the ball in the hip without success. He
is dangerously wounded, but may recover.
HOW AND BY WHOM 1T WAS DONE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 2.-The shoot.
ing was done by slender man about feet
7 inches in height. He refuses to give his
name, but it is said BY persons who profess to
know him that his name is Guiteau, and that
he is an ex.consul to Marselles. The man
was arrested Immediately and carried to
police head quarters, and subsequently re-
moved to jail The shooting occurred in the
ladies' room Of the depot Immediately after
the President had entered, walking arm in
arm with Secretary Blaine, on their way to
the limited express train, which was about
ready to leave. Secretary Blaine, on hear:
ing the pistol shots, two in number, rushed
in the direction from which they came, with
view of arresting the assassin. Before
reaching the man he noticed the President
fall and returned to him, and lifted him up
Both shots took effect, the first in the right
arm and the second just about the right
hip and near the kidneys. The physicians
probed for the balls unsuccessfully.
Two companies of regulars were ordered
from the. barracks, sand have been posted
around the executive mansion. Great ex
citement prevails in Washington, and th'
streets are thronged with anxious inquirers
eager to learn the condition of the President
The shooting occurred in the presence O
so or 60 ladies. The President has beer
made asi comfortable as possible and all per
sons have been excluded from the grounds.
The President is conscious and does no
complain of great suffering. 1t is impossible
to say as yet what the result will be, but tn
surgeons are of the opinion that the wounds
are not necessarily fatal.
THE PRESIDENT TO HIS WIFE.
The following dispatch has been sent to tn
Presidents wife:
Mrs. Garfield, Elbernon, Long Branch
New Jersey: The President wishes me to So,
to you from him that he has been seriousl!
hurt How seriously he cannot yet say. H
is himself and hopes you will come to hin
soon. He sends love to you.
A. F. ROCKWELL.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-07
THE FnJTRTH.

The Fourth passed off quietly in Yorkville.
All the stores we're closed, and business was
suspended for the day. There was tolera
bly, large attendance of people in town, some
of whom had been attracted by the sales ad
vertised but it being a legal holiday, nothing
was sold except a.lot of remnants of the stock
of goods of the old firm of Adickes, Byers &
Co.. and the chooses in action appraised doubt.
ful' or desperate" belonging to the estate of
Samuel Rainey, deceased.
Under the auspices of the colored Odd Eel.
lows lodge, an excursion was made to Lin
colnton by the colored people. and we are
told by some who went along that it was the
most quiet and orderly excursion party Of
colored people that has ever been known on
G. &. L. Read.
KINGS MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL.
The second session of the past school.year of
the above institution closed last Thursday, the
week having been devoted to examinations
of the various classes in their respective stud.
les. We learn from the Principal that the
examinations were highly creditable to the
cadets and satisfactory to the faculty. The
graduating class consisted of cadets j. M.
Jenkins and S. B. Latham, in full course of
the studies laid down in the curriculum, and
Cadet A. R. Bratton in partial course, he
having omitted advanced mathematics with
the view of devoting more time to other stud
les of more practical use in the profession
which he proposes to adopt.
On Thursday night complimentary ball
was given by the cadets, which was the most
brilliant and enjoyable affair of the kind we
have ever witnessed at the Garrison. The
youth and beauty of Yorkville were augment
ed by fascinating bellies and gallant beaux
from the surrounding towns, and fine music
by the Italian string band, of Charlotte, gave
additional zest to the occasion.
The first session of the present school.year
opened on Friday, and we are pleased to learn
that the prospects of the School are brighter
than they have been since 1873.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-07

NASHVILLE, July 2.-This community was
shocked at the news Of the attempted assassl-
nation of the President and popular Indignation
and abhorrence at the the act are universal.
General anxiety is felt to hear tidings OF the
wounded Presidents condition, and express
sions of sympathy and hope for his ultimate
recovery are heard everywhere. Crowds are
gathered about newspaper offices and inquiries
for news are dispatched from all parts ot the
State
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

ROBINSON CRusoE's IsLAND.-Robin.
son Crusue's Island is to-day little par
adise. Lord planted there on one Of his
voyages apples, peaches, grapes, straw
berries and several kinds Of vegetables.
The number of the latter WAS increased
by Scotchman, David Douglass, who
landed on the island in 1925. He vas
not little astonished to find hermit
there, who had been on the island Eve
years. On the second day be Was not
little surprised to see man suddenly
emerge from clump of bushes and ap-
proach him. He looked upon him ~
Crusoe's successor, although be did not
occupy the historical cave, having built
himself y hut, ofstone and sods, roofing it
with with straw of wild oats. As cooking
utensils, he possessed only q single
iron pot, the bottom of which one untor.
,unaie day had fallen out. The damage,
however, he had the ingenuity 10
repair with wooden bottom but now
he was compelled to place his pot in the
ground and build a fire around it,
This mans name was William Clark, and
he came from London. He had few
books, and among them there was copy
of Robinson Crusoe's adventures and
Cowper's poems. He called Douglass
attention especially to well-known poem
beginning:
81 am Monarch of all survey,
My rights there Is none to dispute" etc.
Nevertheless, he did not seem to be hap
py. There was one wish, his greatest, he
could not gratify-be could get no roast
beef. At present, this island is in. pos
session ola colony of Germans. Sixty or
seventy of our couutrymen, under the
leadership of an engineer named Robert
Wehrhaha, settled there in 1863. They
describe the island rs being in the high
est degree salubrious and fruitful. On
their arrival they found large hocks of
goats, about thirty half.wild horses and
some sixty asses. They brought with
them cows, farming utensils, small boats
and fishing tackle.-Applet0n's Journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

MANS PHYSICAL CoNsTRUCTIoN.-
The average weight of an adult man is
140 pounds 6 ounces.
The average weight of skeleton is
about fourteen pounds.
Number of bones, 240. ..r
The skeleton measures one inch less
than the height of the living man.
The average weight of the brain of
man is three and half pounds; of a
woman two pounds eleven ounces.
The brain Of a man exceeds twice that
of any other animal.
The average height of an Englishman
is FIVE feet nine inches, Of Frenchman
five feet four inches, aud Of a Belgian
FIVE feet six and three quarter inches.
The average weight of all Euglishman
is $50 pounds; of Frenchman 1886; of
d Belgian l40.
The average number of our teeth is
thirty-two.
A man breaths about eighteen pints Of
air in minute, or upwards OF seven
hogsheads in day.
A man gives of 4 0S per cent. carbonic
S'tS w IuC OH iSoPiISoD iVHPiaGo Aoi
666 cubic feet of carbunic gas in twenty
four hours, equal TO 125 cubic inches
common air.
A man annually contributes to vegeta.
ton 124 pounds of carbon.
The average OF the pulse in infancy is
I20 per minute; in manhood 30; at 60
years 60. The pulse Of females is more
frequent than that of males.
The weight Of the circulating blood is
about % pounds.
The heart beats rs times in minute,
sends nearly ten pounds of blood through
the veins and arteries each stroke, and
makes FIVE beats while we breath once.
Five hundred and forty pound, or one
hogshead one and one quarter pints Of
blood pass through the heart in one
hour.
Twenty thousand pounds, or twenty
four hogsheads and four gallons, or TO-
6S21 pints, pass through the heart in
twenty.four hours.
One thousand ounces of blood pass
through the kidneys in one hour.
One hundred and seventy four holes or
cells are in the lungs which would cover
q surface thirty times greater than the
human body.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

AN UNFORTUNATE MIsTAKE.-A
young man had his girl out riding in a
notop buggy the other afternoon. In
one pocket lie carried u bottle of spirits
Of ammonia for the headache, aud in an.
other he had bottle of cologne, just
purchased. As they were riding along
he asked her 10 take smell of bis new
perlumery, but unfortunately he placed
the wrong bottle to her nose. She touk
wholesale sniff, and remarked, "Gugug
.-ugug-hugh-hugP and went over
out of the buggy backwards, and for an
Instant the air in the rear of the buggy
was filled with striped stockings, high.
heeled shoes, arms, choking girl, aud
so forth. She escaped serious injury, but
she hasn't spoken to the young man
since. Some girls get mad at the leas,
little thing.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

CONCERNING WoMEN.-Women love
always; when earth slips from them they
take refuge in heaven.
The whisper of beautiful woman can
be heard farther than the loudest call to
duty.
There is no torture that woman would
not suffer to enhance her beauty.-Mon-
taigne.
Ofall things that man possesses, women
alone take pleasure i'll being possessed.
Malherbe.
Before promisinga woman to love only
her, one should have seen them all or
should see only her.-A. Dupuy.
We censure the Inconsistency of women
when we are the victims; we find it
charming when We are the objects.-L.
Desnoyers.
We meet in society many beautiful and
attractive women whom ne think would
make excellent wives-for our friends.
Women among savages is a beast of
burden in Asia she is piece of furni.
ture; in Europe she is spoiled child
Senac de Meilhan.
The highest mark Of esteem woman
can give lnan is to ask his friendship;
and the most signal proof of her indiffer-
ence is to offer him hers.
1t is not easy to be widow; one must
reassums all the modesty of girlhood
without being allowed to feign its igno.
rance.-Madame de Girardin.
Men areso fearful of wounding womap's
vanity they rarely remember that she
may by some possibility possess n grain
of common sense.-Miss Braddon.
Attwenty man is less lover OF woman
than of women he is more in love with
the sex than with the individual, however
charming she may be.-Retif de Ia Bre.
tonne.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10
IMPORTANCE OF WATERING Stock.

IMPORTANCE OF WATERING Stock.
For the purpose of determining the
capacity of a horse to undergo the pri-
vations incident to a state Of siege. a
series of experiments has been made 10
Paris. The results show that horse
may hold out for twenty-five days with
out any solid nourishment, provided it i,
supplied with good drinking water; that
horse can subsist for barely five days
without water; and thirdly, if horse is
we'll fed for ten days, but insuf6ciently
supplied with water throughout this
period, it will not outlive the eleventh
day. A hnrse which had received no
solid nourishment for twelve days was
nevertheless in a condition to draw load
of six hundred pounds on the twelfth
dty 0t its fast.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10
AsHistairic Whistle.

MI. Norvsl FERGUSON, of Athens, Ga,
owns q whistle which is, he says, the
whistle that the poet Robert burns wrote
a ballad about. Mr.. Ferguson was in
st. Louis last Tuesday and while here he
showed the whistle to few intimate
friends. tits not atall remarkable in ap.
.pearance-iust like the common ebony
whistles sold by nearly all dealers in toys
about two inches long, half an inch
wide, at. the mouth and ornamented with
asli,tle ball the end the fingers clasp
when the whistle is being blown. Its
authentic history is curious, and dates
back to the time when Anne, of Denmark,
went to Scotland with. james the sixth.
In the train of Queen Anne there was a
Danish gentleman Of gigantic statue and
great proves, a matchless champion Of
Baccbus. He challenged the Scottish
courtiers to contest for possession of the
whistle. A number accepted. The con
tests were scenes Of bacchanalian riot.
At the commencement OF the orgies the
Dane laid the whistle on table, and
whoever was able to blow it last, every.
body else being disabled by the potency
of The bottle, to him the whistle was
awarded as trophy of victory. The Dane
produced credentials, Of his victories.
without single defeat, at the courts OF
Warsaw, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Mos
COW and of several petty courts in Ger
many. After many overthrows on the
part of the Scots the Dane was en-
countered by Sir Robert Lawrie.
of Maxwelton, VINO, after three days and
three nights hard contest, left the Scan
diuavian under the table, "And blew on
the whistle his requiem shrill." Sir
Walter, son to Sir Robert Lawrie. after.
wards lost the whistle to Walter Riddle
Of: Glenriddel. 1t continued in posses
sion ofthe Riddles until Friday: October
16, 1890, when it was contenfed for. rs re
lated in Burns ballad, by Sir Robert
aforementioned; Robert Riddle. descend
ant of Walter Riddle, and Alexander
FERGUSON, of Craigdarroch, likewise de-
scendant from Sir R,bert. 1t WAS Fer
pusson's fortune to carry off the hard
won honors of the field. But what ca.
pacity they all must have had for wine
Burns tells how they ate sumptuous
dinner and. then drank claret:
'six bottles apiece had we'll worn out the night
When gallaps Sir Robert to finish the fight,
Turn Ger in one bumper q bottle OF red,
And swore 'twss the;wsy their ancestors did"
Whereupon Riddle cleft the foul bust
ness to folks less divine" hut the others
continued the contest.
1.-THE gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end;
but who can with fate aud quart bumpers con-
tend?
Though fate said, a hero should perish In light;
So up rose bright. PhGbus, and down fell the
Knight"
The victor, Alexander Ferguson.
WAS an ancestor Of the present owner OF
the whistle.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

ADVICE TO YOUNG HusBANDs.-The
Rev. C. C. Co.'s, during lecture in New
York on "The Honeymoon, and How to
Perpetuate It," said: Look out for your
habits, young man. Don't get into the
habit Of neglecting the little courtesies
of life in your home. Just see the yonng
men in bobtail horse-car sit forward on
the edge Of the seat, and when pretty
young woman enters the car they watch
for the first chance to put her fare in the
box. Why don't you watch Just as eager.
ly to wait on your wife? Again, my
young husband, you and your wife must
cultivate mutual confidence. Dirtrust
ofeach other ia the bane of human society
everywhere. Of course, you and your
wife ought to hold different opinions. l
WAS forty years old before I married my
wife, and l knew thing or two before I
knew her. When We were married we
did not empty out our bzains anl become
fools. When she comes to vote l
want her to vote on the side oppo.
site to me, because if she votes Just Us
do, what's the use of her voting? She
might have just as well voted through me
as we do now. But don't fight. Hus.
bands and wives do fight and bite aud
claw each others hair, and all about a
little thing that they would be ashamed
of if they hadn't got heated. Gull
tivate the habit Of cooling down.
Finally, be honest and upright with
your wife, young husband. You ought
to be honest in courtship, butif you have
had an Outside for your girl to look at,
aud you have all the time kept bit and
bride on your passions only to be a brute
after marriage, then you have dereivetl
her. Be as innocent to your wife az
though she was a little baby. You
wouldn't hurt n baby. Stand up for
your wife-if any one says anything
against her, knock him duwn. Wen,
T'll take that back-you can knock him
down in your own estimation.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

- Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen:
eral r. E. Lee, is said to be beautiful
and oueenIy woman. She has been in
Washington this winter, and has received
many attentions. No daughter OF Cen
eraI Lee has married, and Curtis Lee,
President of the Washington and Lee
Uniyepisy. is q bachelor long past the
rerftdlsa Of life.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

- The National Banks of New York
city, feeling sggrieved at the action Of
Congress in regard to the Funding Bill.
sought to create panic in the money
market last week, hut were not successful,
although for while there was much ex.
element ia Wall Street.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

- The Dummett orange grove of Jack.
sonville, Florida, was sold in 1876 Tor
$4,000. in 1878 for $4,000, and In 1881
for $4,000.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

- Tue State deOt of Tennessee is s2O,'
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10

- A special dispatch from New York,
which lacks confirmation, says that Jay
Gould has offered the management Of the
World to Henry Watterson. editor and
proprietor of the Louisville Churier-
Journal. He is to provide sufficient
financial backing for the World to enable
Mr. Watterson to launch out sufficiently
to entirely renovate the paper and to
spend as much money as is needed to gel
the news. Mr.. Watterson has not yet
accepted.
There are now in attendance at the
University of Georgia l75 students.
The finest of the University buildings is
the Moore building, which was erected
and donned to the State for the univer.
sity by the city OF Athens, at a cost of
5000. The physical department on
the second flour contains an amphithea-
ter capable Of seating 200 students. The
room can easily be darkened when re-
quired for experiments necessitating the
exclusion of light.
speaking of the proposed reclama-
ton of Lake Okeechobee, in Florida, by
drainage. q process which is expected to
add 100000 acres of sugar lands to the
States arabic wealth, the Macon Ga.)
Telegraph and Messenger says the soil
"wi!I be simply the residumn from the
crops of successive ages of decomposed
grasses" wanting density and possessing
inaammability. If it will burn to the
limestone substratum, it ought To be pos
sible to utilize it for fuel.
= The surviving citizen soldiers of the
Mexican war number 6,000; widows,
1000; surviving soldiers of the regular
army, who fought in Mexico. 2,700; sur.
viving soldiers and widows of the Black
Hawk war, 200; surviving soldiers and
widows of the Creek and Florida wars,
S,4OO; making total Of 1890. The
proposed pensioning of these survivors
! Will not cost to exceed 81, ,2s5 90. q yes,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-14
A Snow-Buried Village.

BERRYvILLE, VA, Jan. 9.-Roger IT, Cooper,
resident OF the little village Of Paris, Clarke
county, situated on the side of Blue Ridge
mountain, near the boundary line between
LoudOun aud Clarke counties, brings news of
a terrible calamity in his native village. lie
states that when he left Paris the entire COM
muuity OF 500 men, women and children wer,
suffering terribly from intense cold, while no
less than Eve persons had been literally frozen
10 death. The snow commenced falling De-
cember 20, aud continued with undated fury
until Christmas, when the thermometer regis
tered 80 below zero. Nearly every house in
the village, owing TO It's peculiar situation on
the mountain side, was buried 10 the roof in
mammoth snow-driiis, compelling residents to
cut tunnels, In many instances fifteen to
twenty feet long, TO make exits. So COM
pelely was the country overwhelmed with
snow that II was impossible 10 make any
Roadway In IL with The most powerful horses
All communication being thus inlerdlcled. Il
became apparent that residents would soon
DO Ia imminent danger for want Of food and
fuel
During Christmas day the able-bodled men
who had succeeded in cutting their way out
OF their houses were busily engaged Ia assist
ing many OF their neighbors TO cot tunnels
through the snow, which completely en-
yelOped many OF the smaller cottages The
safety OF fifty or seycnty-live VI The villagers
could not be placed beyond doub, until late
In the afternoon, When they emerged from the
snow-bound dwellings,, many suffering terri
bly, FROM frosted hands aud feet, brought on
by want Of fuel with which to Keep The fires
going. Que co1lage, occupied by a widow,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-14

these appointments And it is to be hoped
our Judges will have fortitude enough to see
that their appointees shall use every legal
means (if they have any to occupy and pro-
tect the property which they claim.
In conclusion, we say to this Board Of
County School Commissioners, if you are
right, assert your rights and the law will
remedy the wrongs of which you complain
if you are wrong, let the law determine.
You may traduce, yilify and SANDER your
fellow-man to the end of time, that deter.
mines nothing, unless it shows the depravity
Of your own hearts. 1.-THE courts say thi;
law is constitutional when you raise the
question, as You can do at will, the people
will sustain you; if the courts decide other
wise, then 1t is your duty to have the law
changed, and to step down and out
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-14

One of the saddest events that has oc
CURED in Howard county for years was the
suicide, ON Monday morning last, of VIM
A. Powell, aged nineteen years, at the house
of his uncle, DIR. I. p Temple, about tive
miles from Ellicott city. Young Powell
arrived there from Baltimore the day preyi
Gus, seemingly in the best of spirits, and in
the evening went out with party sleigh.
riding. The next morning, after breakfast
he musingly smoked u cigarette, and seemed
all at once to grow melancholy. lie went
up stairs and, standing before a looking.
glass, blew out his brains with Derringer
pistol. lie left in the room a scrap of paper
on which he had hastily written the sen.
tence: ii am tired Of life, and nobody Is to
blam' A letter was found on his person
addressed to young lady, written in a sen.
timcntal vein, in which he babe her last
farewell. The unfortunate young man was
a clerk in u dry goods house in Baltimore,
and was remarkably handsome, highly edu.
Gated, and distinguished for his genial and
amiablc manners.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-14
DEATH or JUSTICE BRENT

Chief Justice Brent of the Seventh Judi.
cial District of Maryland, died at his private
residence, near Port Tobacco, Charles colin.
ty, on Thursday Of last week. Judge Brent
was in bad health for several years, but the
symptoms did not become alarming until
September last, when all hopes of his recoy.
cry were abandoned.
Judge Brent was au accomplished and
polished gentleman,a ripe scholar, and a
profound jnrist In all the relations of life.
he was strictly conventional, but at the same
time pleasant and agreeable But few men
have lived TO command greater respect in
their respective communities than Judge
Brent, and but few whose death has awak.
ened more universal and heartfelt sorrow.
Since hi elevation Ia the iudgcship he was
close and hard student. and his dccis.
ions on the bench have been characterized
by marked ability and legal knowledge and
acumen. Us private character was males.
W. besausc " iis purity.