Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-03

partner,) and Brown, the general manager.
Having preserved this veiled character so
many years, it follows him after death. His
corpse is carried no one knows whittier. the
business is discontinued, the Stewart disap-
pears from the record Of trade, leaving moth
ing to perpetuate his name. This is certainly
very strange history for man who made
$50, 900, 600 in Broadway traffic.
TIE DEATH OF Mrs. L1NcoLN.-Mrs. Lin
coin, widow of the late President, who died
in Springfield, Ill.,, on Sunday, had been i'll for
a long time. A few days ago she grew worse.
On Saturday evening she suffered a shock of
paralysis and from that time lay in comatOse
state till she died.
Mrs. Lincoln was the daughter of the Hon.
Robert S. Todd, of Lexington Kentucky, and
in 1889 lived with her sister, Mrs. Ninian w.
Edwards, at Springfield, Illinois, not agreeing
with stepmother at home. She had been ed
ucated under the care of a French lady, and
was gifted with rare talents, and a most fiery
and ungovernable temper. Her tongue and
her pen were equally sharp. For time she
was courted by Stephen A. Douglas as we'll as
by Abraham Lincoln, but is said to have re-
jected Douglas, her reason being his bad morals.
She decided in favor Of Lincoln, believing he
had the best chance of becoming President OF
the United States. Her sharp and witty pen
involved Mr.. Lincoln in Il controversy with
James Shields, tliem auditor OF Illinois, before
the marriage cane off. Mr. Shields supposed
Mr.. Lincoln to be the author OF several jocular
communications published in the Sangamon
.Jomnal holding Mr. Shields up to ridicule,
which really were the productions OF Miss
Mary Todd. Mr.. Lincoln was challenged t0a
duel, and broadswords were named as the
weapons but the matter was compromised by
friends, and no meeting took place. The mar
riage occurred on tile 4th of November 1872,
and they went to board at the Globe Tavern,
in Springfield, paying ut the rate Of 81 per week.
Mr.. Lincoln was not happy in his domestic
relations, and his friends always considered
this marriage great mistake. She was the
mother Of four children, one of whom died
when four years old, and a second, so well
known by the pet name Of "Tad," died Of
scarlet fever after the family had settled in
the White House. She was seated by the side
of her husband in Ford's Theatre, in Wash
ington, when the bullet cut short the career
of the President. Her mind lost its balance,
and she passed some time in private asylums,
and subsequently went to Europe for her
health. While at Pace, in the Pyrenees, she
met with an accidental fall, injuring her spine,
which left her an invalid, requiring the con-
slant care of a physician
THE RAzoR-BACK HoG.-To the traveller
| through Texas, one of the strangest and most
peculiar features of landscape is the razor-back
hog. lie is of Swiss cottage style of archi-
| lecture. His physical outline is angular to
degree unknown outside OF a textbook on the
science of geometry. His ears, or the rags and
tatters of them that the dogs have left, are
curled back with Il knowing, vagabondish air
| His tail has no curl in it--but it hangs aft,
| limp as a wet dish-rag hung out of back VIM
dow to dry. The highest peak of his corruga-
ted back is six inches above the level with the
root of his tail. He does not walk with the
slow and stately step of the patrician Berk
SHIRE but usually goes in a lively trot. He
leaves the impression that he was late starting
i'm the morning, and is making up for lost
| time, or that he is in no doubt about the pay
ment of that check, and is hurrying to get it
cashed before the bank closes.
The country razOr-back prowls around in the
woods and lives on acorns, pecan nuts and
roots; when he can spare time he climbs under
his owners fence and assists in harvesting the
corn crop. In this respect he is neighborly to
a fault, and, when his duty to his owners crop
will allow, he willreadily turn in and assist
| the neighborS, even work at night rather than
see his crop spoil for want of attention. He
does not know the luxury of sty. He never
|
two years roll into eternity before he is big
enough to kill.
Crossing the razOr-back with the blue-blood-
ed stock makes but little Improvement. The
only effective way to improve him is to cross
him with a railroad train. He then becomes
an imported Berkshire, or POland-China hog,
and if he does not knock the train off the
| track, the railway company pays for him at the
rate of one dollar a pound for which they are
allowed the mournful privilege of shoveling
the remains off the track. The ham of the
country razor-back is more juicy than the hind
leg of an iron firedog, but not quite so fat as
pine knot Western Plowman.
THE Poison IN TOBACCO SMoKE.-A series
of experiments has been recently conductedby
Herr Kissling, of Bremen, with the view OF
ascertaining the proportions of nicotine and
other poisonous substances in the smoke of
cigars. His paper, in Dingler's sPoPtechaisches
Journal, gives useful resume Of the work of
previous observers He specifies as strongly
poisonous constituents, carbonic oxide, sui
phurated hydrogen, prussic acid, picoline bases,
and nicotine The first three OCCUR however,
in such small proportion and their volatility is
so great that their share in the action OF to-
baccO smoke on the system may be neglected.
The picoline bases, too, are present in compar-
atively small quantity; so that the poisonous
character of the smoke may be almost exclu-
sively attributed to the large proportion OF
nicotine present. Only small part OF the
nicotine in a cigar is destroyed by the process
of smoking, and a relatively large proportion
passes off with the smoke The proportion of
nicotine in the smoke depends, of course, es-
Sentaly on the kind of tobacco; but the rela-
tive amount of nicotine which passes from
cigar into smoke depends chiefly on how the
cigar has been smoked, as the nicotine content
of the unsmoked part of a cigar is in inverse
ratio to the size of this part. e., more nico-
tine the shorter the part. Evidently, in
burning cigar, the slowly advancing zone Of
glow drives beforeit the distillable matters, so
Chat in the yet unburned portion a constant
accumulation of these takes place. 1t would
appear that in the case of cigars that are poor
in nicotine more of the substance relatively
passes into smoke than in the case of cigars
with much nicotine also that nicotine, not
withstanding it's high boiling point, has re-
markable volatility Times.
TIE POLKA DoT.-IIow many ladies who
wear dresses covered with polka dotshaye any
knowledge of their classic origin The polka
dot we are told by learned correspondent, is
a copy of the ancient chrysoclavus, or golden
nail head, which, in early Church time, was of
the emblematic ornaments embroidered in &C.
clesiastical vestments and robes, and later a
purple patch, like broad nail head, was worn
upon the outer garments by the old Roman
dignitares. At first, it was observed as a
mark of dignity, and ''clavi'' of gold on rich
silken textiles Of Tyrian dye could be worn
ONLY by the mobiles. Imbued by spirit of en-
ulation, the wealthy then demanded silken
stuffs sprinkled all over with large round spots