Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-27
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mean man who says that he is no better than
negro, and when he says so tells the truth.'
u. S. Attorney General Brewster has
given an opinion to the Secretary of the Treas
ury that the request of the Transportation
Company to he allowed to take some sixty
thousand Chinese labOrerS through this coun-
try from Cuba to China cannot he granted un-
der the law as it now stands. This affirms
the ruling recently made on this question by
Secretary Folger.
yellow fever is reported to be in Havana,
and fears are entertained that it may obtain
footing on our shores. a man died few days
ago in New Orleans and some of the doctors
pronounced it yellow fever, while others are
equally confident it was jaundce. This is
not the first case reported in New Orleans this
summer. An EngliShman, who contracted
yellow fever in Havana, breathed his last in
New Orleans two weeks ago.
Recruiting for the army and navy is very
brisk in New York at present. Very few OF
the applications for the three thousand va
cancies to be filled come up to the required
standard Among these applicants are men
out of employment, who represent nearly all
the trades and professions. Quite number
of newly arrived immigrants have recently ap-
piled to he admitted into the service OF the
United States.
Rev. De LaMatyr, the greenback ex-con-
gresham from Indiana, has been refused per-
mission to occupy Methodist pulpit in Den
yer, COL The excellent excuse given by the
pastor was that he thought it was rather in
consistent with the purposes to which a
church was consecrated to allow man who
made politics his business a privilege which
could so fagrantly give the appearance OF the
church Endorsement.
Captain John S. WISE son of the Virginia
Governor who signed the death warrant OF
old John Brown, is making vigorous canvass
for Congressman at Large in Virginia. Capt:
Wise is good speaker, clever story teller,
and possesses many of the qualities which dis
tinguished his father, Henry A. Wise. Gen
Malone found in Wise very serviceable Lieu
tenant during the readjuster campaign in Vir-
ginia.
"A recent London letter says: I hear of
warm praise bestowed upon Miss Eleanor Cal
Eoun, of the old Carolina family tree, but
lately of California. She appeared as Ophe-
lia in a large dramatic entertainment at the
Crystal Palace, near London, this week, and
was pronounced the ''Star'' of the troupe
An audience of 700 persons arose at one ln-
slant and enthusiastically applauded her over
and over again.
"A Washington letter says: members OF
the House committee On ways and means say
they have no intention of taking action on the
internal revenue reduction bill this session.
They say that when the bill reaches the House
with the various Senate amendments it will be
referred to the ways and means committee,
where it will be allowed to rest until next
session. In the meantime the report of the
tariff commission will be made, and the action
on both will be concurrent"
- The British are gradually restoring order
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Arab Bey's force consisting of two regiments
which are pillaging and robbing in the country
and threatening to attack Cairo. One detach-
ment raided Alexandria and killed a number
of loyal Egyptian soldiers. People are gradual
ly returning to the city. The American SOL
diers are aiding in restoring order, but one OF
them was cut down by his officer Oh Monday
for robbing.
Sad and pathetic indeed is the story that
comes over the wires from New Orleans, an
nouncing the death ''of paralysis in poverty"
of a grandson of General Daniel Morgan, the
Revolutionary patriot. Hon. Julian Neville
was well known and we'll off in his day, and
the dispatch says was ''for fifty years promi-
nent in Louisiana politics and social life"
And yet he died in poverty, attended only by
his blind and crippled wife" Could anything
be more touching than such picture?
The first wife of Brigham Young died at
Salt Lake last week. She became convert to
Mormonism at Avon, n. Y, in 1881, and
went to the Mormon colony, then in Ohio,
where she married Young 1t is said that,
having accepted the doctrine of polygamy, she
made no opposition when her husband began
to practice it. extensively, though she invari-
ably fell ill from excitement and grief at every
new marriage. She lived separate from the
other wives, and kept her five children as
much us possible from the rest.
"A dispatch of the 23rd from Portland, Ore
gon, says: : An unsuccessful attempt was made
Friday night to burn the town of Seattle,
w. L. The attempt was evidently made by a
brother of Payne, who was lynched last spring
by the citizens Of the place. at the tap of
the bell the vigilance committee assembled
and hastily prepared a list of names of twenty
prominent roughs whom they notified to leave
the place before daylight or abide the conSe-
quences. The order was obeyed and the town
was cleared.
"A wooden box was recently discovered
among the unclaimed baggage at the Palmer
House, Chicago. As it bore no marks indi-
eating it's ownership, it was opened and found
to contain numerous copies of Il pamphlet
called "a Startling Religious Discovery; a
Lecture on Christ's Second Coming, A. d.
70, by CharlesJ. Guiteau, Lawyer and Theolo-
gian." There was also Testament, with the
name of the owner written by himself The
box has been in the hotel for several years,
having been left there when the owner alb
seconded without paying his board bill.
Gen. Beauregard, having been interviewed
in regard to the boast of one George II. But
ler, late American Consul in Egypt, that he
had prevented the appointment of Beauregard
to the command of the Egyptian army, on the
ground that he was an unrepentant rebel, says
that he was offered and declined the command
of the Egyptian army in 1866, but was offered it
again in 1870, with the privilege of taking
ing that this latter stipulation might enable
him to help some Confederate officers, he had
the offer under advisement when it was with
drawn. He heard it rumored that Butler had
busted himself to prevent the appointment,
but he did not know whether it was true or
not.
The Washington Star is authority for the
statement that the process of boiling Guiteau'S
skeleton in the vats of the Medical Museum (at
Washington and the removal of the flesh there
from has been completed, and after the bones
had been scraped they were removed to the roof
of the museum to be bleached in the sun. When
the bleaching process is completed, the skele-
ton will be articulated and placed in the case
which has been prepared for it. 1t is said that
the museum authorities during their culinary
operation took the quadreiceps extenSOr, del
told, and sternocleido mastoid muscles out of
the boiler, and after dividing them in small
pieces placed them in jars of alcohol, and dis
tributed them among medical men in WASH
ington city.
"A dispatch of the 18th from Richmond,
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