Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-23
Straps aud fafts.

- a writer of experience and reputation has
stated that the cost of fences to the farmers
in the State of New York is three and half
times greater per acre than the State, county
and township taxes on the land.
- The failures throughout the country for
the week ending last Friday are reported by
R. G. Dun & Co., at 1873, as follows: Eastern
States II, Western 3S, Middle 20, Southern
35, Pacific 13, and New York city 6. The
failures in New York have little significance.
In caucus of Republican Representatives,
a resolution was adopted that any legislation
ut present looking to reduction of the inter-
nal revenue taxes on whisky, tobacco and ci-
gars is unwise and ineXpedient, but that some
relief should be accorded by extending the
time during which whisky may remain in bond
without payment of the tax.
1t is announced that Il herd of 1000
sheep has just arrived at Lincoln, Nebraska,
from Washington Territory. The journey
occupied two years. The trail from Washing
ton Territory to the Missouri river is said to
he the longest and hardest known to stock
men. Three years is often consumed III
drive over this distance.
The Mississippi levees continue to break,
and the crevaSseS are extending to within 70
miles of New Orleans There is great distress
and destitution, and reports of death from
drowning are constantly coming in. Many
people are living on drowned cattle. Steamers
are taking all the human beings and live stock
they can accommodate.
Statistics show that Mormonism gains
about 1000 annually by immigration. For the
first fifteen years, from 1S40 to 1854, 2l,9ll
crossed the sea and the mountains. From
1854 to 1860, 6,S29were added in the same way,
and from 1860 to 1870 %, 900 more took ship
ping from Europe to Salt Lake. The last de-
cade shows similar results, and aggregates the
number of immigrants since 1910 at about
S5,0OO'
Miss Sallie Moose. the lady assaulted by
Ben Withers, in Mecklenburg county, n. o.,
on Sunday of last week, died on the following
day The Charlotte Observer says: She was
conscious up to the time of her d. lth and
when told by DR.. Wilder that she could not
live, she replied that she knew it. She was
asked by several parties who assaulted her,
and replied that it was Ben Withers and he
had attempted to rape her, failing in which, he
knocked her down and cut her throat.
In an interview with Chicago reporter
Mr.. Scoville, Guiteau'S counsel and brother
in-law, said "the best thing for the country
and public opinion is to let Guiteau hang on
the day appointed next June" He believes
if the assassin is hung ''the hanging will pro
duce such reaction of public opinion that
the laws governing such cases will be very
much modified and in this result Guiteau will
have done more for his country than he could
by living"
The President has pardoned John L. Dick
son formerly postmaster at Grassy Greek POST
office, North Carolina, who was sentenced to
one years imprisonment in Auburn IN. J
State prison on charge of embezzelment.
The pardon was granted OH the recommends
tiOn of the Governor and the District Attorney
of his State. Dickson pleaded guilty to the
charge of embeZzeling ten dollars from letter.
1t has since become evident that he pleaded
guilty to shield his wife, who was acting tor
him, he being absent at the time. He had al
ready served four months.
The statement that there are 1000 Semi
mole Indians in the Everglades of Florida is
contradicted by the Americus, Ga, Republican.
That paper learns from trustworthy source
that only fifty or sixty warriors are to be
found-the whole population only amounting
to two hundred and fifty or three hundred
persons They live in huts constructed en-
tirely of palmetto trees, living mostly upon the
chase; and they drink great deal OF whisky
and speak our language with difficulty. That
the Seminole Indian of to-day is the same in
costume and manner as he was 1886, when he
detied the government of the United States.
No doubt that one of the most potent
shorteners of life is anxiety. Some men lead
life of constant care in providing for bare
subsistence, others in protecting the abun-
dance they have. In either case the habit is
an Improbable one. In adversely there is
nothing gained by fretting, and the man OF
w alth need not borrow trouble. But the
habit is one readily acquired, and grows rapid
l., hocf fn
overcome it is to look on the cheerful side OF
anything. Act your part well be thrifty, in
dustrious courageous, remembering that 'suf-
fcient unto the day is the evil thereof" and
corroding care will seek other companionship.
"A Washington dispatch of Tuesday to the
Philadelphia Times says: ''Senator Hill Of
Georgia. remarked to-day to a friend who
called to see him, that his life was all behind
him. He was simply sitting there and wait
ing for the end. He was easier than for some
days, but without hope of permanent allevla-
tion of his symptoms. He has had four Surgl-
cal operations performed, without permanent
relief. The last operation was the removal OF
one of the parotid glands, which became so
inflamed as to necessitate this severe treat
ment. This ncision now refuses to heal and
it is diScharging puS constantly into the mouth.
1t now appears that Mr.. Hill himself has in
dulged no hope of cure from the first, as he
lost sister and brother from cancer, and 1t
is hereditary in the family. The physicians
are contemplating the necessity of fifth ope-
ration to prolong the Senator's life"
of Judge Blatchford the New York Times
says The nomination by the President of
Judge Blatchford to the vacant seat Oh the Su-
preme Court bench is one which will be entire
ly and universally approved Judge Blatcll-
ford is not only learned and acute lawyer,
but he is an experienced Judge of eminent and
established reputation. lie has already been
for fifteen years in the Federal judiciary -elev-
en- as Judge of the Southern District and four
as Circuit Judge. Besides the general qualifi-
cations which he possesses he is especially
skillful in the patent laws, and has probably
no superior in this peculiarly difficult branch
Jurisprudence. His appointment will, there
fore, not only complete the number of the Su-
preme Court and strengthen it generally, but
add to its force in a direction particularly
desirable. 1t will also have the effect of in
creasing the respect felt for the Court in that
large circle in which Judge Bfatchford is we'll
known and highly honored.
"A Philadelphia dispatch says that semi
official statement from South Bethlehem, Pa,
last Thursday, protested that the reports of
the prevalence of smallpox there had greatly
exaggerated the facts. But Fridays dispatch
eS report $50 cases in eighty-four houses. Dis
infectants are being used by wholesale. All
the barberShOps are closed. Five pudding
furnaces and the rolling mill have stopped for
want of men, not that so many of their men
are sick, but because many men living IN in
fected houses are quarantined. Quarantine is
enforced by Bethlehem on the opposite side of
Lehigh river. Citizens not already quaran-
tined in houses are leaving town or sending
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