Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-31

rope, stretched high above in the ring, the
rope broke and he dropped to the earth. He
aaSR6st kilieN by the fall, though he sustained
some very painful INJURIES rib and one or
two other bones being broken.
The New Orleans Price Current of August
26th says the crop reports from the Southern
Atlantic States are generally favorable, but
portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and
Alabama complain of too much rain, causing
the shedding of bolls and delaying the picking.
Some worms are also mentioned, supposed to
be the second crop, but it is thought too late
for much damage.
- The law of England recognizes at last the
right of a married woman in her own property.
The old doctrine Of English law was that a
wife was merged in her husband, and except
as part Of him could hold no property of any
kind. Under the Married Women's Property
bill, which was recently enacted by Parlia-
ment, all property belonging or coming to
married woman will be her separate property
rs absolutely as if she were unmarried.
j Little George had been sick, and was con-
sequently placed on a close diet. Feeling some
better he begged for just one piece of cake.
''Does your head ache 20 asked his mother.
''No, mamma" George replied, eagerly, 'not
amite." ''Do you feel bad at your stomach 20
s'No, feel first-rate.'' "Well, then," said
his mother, 81 guess you had better not have
any" Fancy Georges feelings and wonder
what would have been the maternal verdict
had his head ached and stomach felt bad.
- Mayor Grace, of New York, declares that
if every Democrat in that city should ask him
to accept a denomination and promise to vote
for him he would not consent to be candi-
. date. He says the only way in which he
would be willing to continue his work would
20 q pifi1pnc1 at on InhQppn6ppf
platform. Mayor Grace expresses the opinion,
which is worthy of consideration, that the
sooner the municipal officers are separated
from politics the better it will be for the tax
payers as well as labOrers of the city.
BY the prompt occupation of Ismailia and
the Suez Canal General Wolseley has rather
surprised Arab Bey, who did not look for the
British in that direction. Ismailia, the half
way town on the canal between Port Said and
Suez, is almost hundred miles from Cairo,
which appears to be the objective point of the
British campaign. Besides the advantage of
the shorter distance from Ismalia to Cairo,
the malaria of the Nile, which is likely to be
more dangerous to the English soldiers than
to the army of Arabi, will be avoided.
- The stockholders of the Virginia Midland
Railroad Company held meeting in Winston
last Thursday. 1t is stated that as result
of the meeting two million of the bonds of the
company will be issued at once, and that all
the money necessary to complete the road will
be at once available. The Greensboro Patriot
says there is now no barrier in the way Of the
immediate completion of the road, and friends
of the enterprise are sanguine that it will be
done with all the expedition possible. The
outlook is now more assuring than at any
time in the history of the project.
A polygamous son of Brigham Young, the
Mormon chief, is Lieutenant at West Point.
He is married and it is said his mother-in-aw
will keep him out of polygamy. When his
fathers estate was divided, on being applied
to by the trustees, he replied that he did not
care about quarreling over the matter; that
he had profession that would give him a
living, and that he would take what the others
did not want. So a lot Of railroad stock, sup
posed to be nearly worthless, was assigned to
him. He took it, and the development of the
Territory has since made him one of the
richest of the old mans heirs
- Garland, who was tried in Lunenburg
county, Virginia, for the murder of Addison,
in that SO called duel, was acquitted Thursday
afternoon. The jury returned verdict of
''not guilty. in fifteen minutes. The all
nouncement of the verdict was received with
cheers by the crowd present, and the prisoner
was warmly congratulated by his friends. He
was evidently acquitted on general principles,
the jury recognizing the right of man to re-
sent an insult even to the killing of the insult
er. This is the only ground we see upon
which he could have been acquitted. Garland
has bad his revenge, and vindication as far
as the courts of Lunenburg could give it. Adj
olson is dead, and the poor, impulsive, thought
less girl, whose giddy writing sent two men
to mortal combat, lives to think over and re-
gret her hasty folly.
- Under date of last Saturday, Sergeant
General Hamilton, in his weekly review of the
progress of the yellow fever epidemic in Texas
says: Since the last weekly statement the
epidemic at Brownsville has been somewhat
on the increase, though it still appears to lack
the malignancy that usually accompanies this
disease. During the past week an effective
Gordon has been established by the treasury
department around the infected district and
mounted guards patrol both sides Of the Rio
Grande. The disease is now confined within
the triangle bounded by the Rio Grande, the
Gulf and the Gordon extending from Laredo
to Corpus Christi. From telegraphic advices
received to-day it is learned that the Gordon
was established just in time to catch refugees
from the infected districts. Fifty were stop
ped between Corpus Christi and Laredo yes
terday, seven of whom We're from TampicO.
Mexico.
An English humanitarian named Tucker,
who has been visiting jails and lunatic asy-
lums all over the world with credentials to
state officials, publishes letter in the Salt
Lake Tribune describing the condition of the
Utah insane asylum in terms of strong repro
baton: The details he gives are those of hor-
rlble brutality The asylum is under the
charge OF Dr. Seymour Young, nephew of
Brigham young. Some Of the inmates Tuck
er pronounces undoubtedly sane, under con-
finement to gratify private ends. fuckers
visit was made in company with United States
Marshal Ireland and Mr.. Neal, of Louisville,
KY, the father-in-law of Governor Murray.
Tucker closes by saying: 81 have during the
last four months visited four asylums in New
South Wales, three in Victoria, two in Ade-
laide, two in Tasmania, three in New Zealand,
one in Honolulu, three in California, one in
Nevada, and one in Utah, and in no instance
have seen sights so horrible as those of to-
day."
Judge Jas. DeLong, a prominent citizen of
Kansas, now in New York soliciting funds to
aid the colored refugees in Kansas. gives sor-
ry account OF their condition. He estimates
that $1,000 Of these refugees invaded Kansas
in their exodus from the South several years
ago, OF whom |, 1000 returned to their Southern
homes. Of the remaining 5000 at least TO-
OOO are represented as being ''in various stages
OF restitution, some literally starving.' In
one county over two hundred families are liv-
ing in 'dug-outs'' unfit for dogs to inhabit on
forty-acre tracts of government land, but ut
terly destitute OF teams, implements or seeds
for the cultivation of their FARMS Judge DE
Long knows Of at least five persons who died
from eating poisonous weeds in the extremity