Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-12

A REMARK ABLE SUMMER.-The summer
which has just ended has been almost as re-
markable as the spring which preceded 1t. The
cold and rain of the vernal season were extra
ordinary, and gave rise tofears that summer
of extreme heat and dryness would follow.
But there has been no serious drought, Long
Island probably having suffered more from
lack of rain during August than any other
part of the country, and there has been moth
ing like the heat of 1881 in any OF the sum-
mer months of 1882. The hottest day of the
season was July 2Sth, when the mercury rose
to 99J degrees at the end of very hot week,
but the highest temperature in 1881 was 10l
degrees, and there was that year, in all, more
than a month Of such heat as that OF the hot
week of last July. Were it a fact that every
year brings about so much heat and SO much
cold we might eXpecta hotter September than
we had last year. The past summer has been
remarkable in that it brought none OF the dis
asters to crops which had been predicted and
all the great crops but corn and potatoes have
matured in abundance Unless early froStS
occur the potato harvest will be abundant and
the corn harvest fair. Prophet DeVoe has
heard the katydids sing for nearly Il month
and therefore he predicts the first frost Will
come about two weeks hence. But, be TIE
frosts early or late, there can be no blight for
the brisk trade into which the country IS gill
ding as it passes from summer to autumn.
A WoMAN's HAIR.--The Countess of Suf-
folk had married Mr.. Howard, and they were
both so poor that they took resolution of go
ing to Hanover, before the death of Queen
Anne. in order to pay their court to the future
royal family. Such was their poverty that,
having some friends to dinner, and being dis
appointed of full remittance. the Countess
was forced to sell her hair to furnish the ell
tertainment. Long wigs were then IN fasll-
ion, and the Countess hair being long, line.
and fair produced her .e2O. The Countess,
hair however, appears to have been exceeded
in value by that of an OXfordshire lass, Of
whom we find the following story recorded in
the Protestant Mercury for July 10, 100: An
Oxfordshire lass was recently cOurted by IL
Young man of that county, who was not Will
ling to marry her unless her friends could ad-
vance $50 for her proportion, which they be-
inc incapable of doing, the lass came to this
city to try her fortune, where she met with
gsod chapman in the Strand, who made pur-
chase of her hair, which was delicate long and
light, and gave her ESQ, being twenty ounces
at g an ounce, with which money She joyful
" returned into the country and bought her
husband" Even the hair of this Oxfordshire
lass is rivaled by that of an old lady who died
in 1720, whose long gray tresses are said in
the journals of that period to have been sold
to periwig maker for ESQ.
e9r A woman was bitten by a dog in Paris.
She went at once and had the wound cauter-
lied at the Hotel Dieu. She continued per-
fectly well until one day, when she was passing
the hospital, she was recognized by one OF the
students, who called out to her: 'Heiloa
YOU are not dead yet then The dog which bit
YOU was downright mad, as they found ont
afterward.n The woman was seized lmmehl-
ately with violent spasm, and III few hours
died with symptoms Of hydrophobla.