Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-14
Straps aud fafts.

the Star-rOute thieves stole 50, ,0OO, ,OOO instead
of 81, 500, 600, as commonly reported. This
stealage was accomplished during the last
four years of star-route ring operations. The
aggregate stealage of ten years is not known.
Diphtheria is on the increase in Philadel-
phia and is of very malignant type. This
disease seems to be coming general in this
country and spreads from ocean to ocean. 1t
seems to be growing more deadly, too, and To
battle the skill of the most able physicians.
- A relative of Morgan, who is said to have
been killed by the Masons, denies Thurlow
Weeds story, and says that Morgan was re-
lished paper until the time of his death, and
has son still living in that country.
II. II. Jones, the president of the Nash
vile "Royal Benefit' marriage association, IS
not only in trouble, but is Tor was few days
ago) in Jail, charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses. These marriage asso-
Citations were amongst the most transparent
bubbles that ever foated for day and bursted.
- DR.. Frank Hamilton, one Of the consult
ing physicians in Garield's case, now asserts
that the unfortunate President was dosed to
death with morphine by directions of DR.. Bliss,
after the use of the drug had been prohibited
ty council of the medical attendants. 1t is
probable that Bliss will sue Hamilton for libel,
and then the evidence will be produced.
= A family of immigrants reached New
York few days since on their way to visit
the residence of a sister who had written to
them that she was now rich and living in lux
ury, and who begged them to come to Amerl-
ca. When the eager group reached the town
to which they were directed it was found that
the sister was patient in the asylum, and de-
luded with the idea that she was wealthy be-
yond estimate.
- The Philadelphia Press publishes the de-
tails of an organized system Of grave robbery
which has been going on for long time. 1t
is said that thousand bodies have been sto-
len from the graves of Lebanon cemetery,
leaving it almost empty. Three of the rob-
bers were arrested at their CHASTITY work on
Monday night of last week, and are now in
custody. They were employed by the Jeffer-
son Medical College.
After experiments which have run through
many years, the problem of making sugar
from sorghum syrup has been solved at the
Rio Grande sugar factory in New Jersey. Be
tween September and November 10, l,OOO
barrels of sugar and as many of molasses were
made from 1000 tons of sorghum stalks. Sor-
ghum will grow wherever corn will. There is
a good prospect, therefore, that the Louisiana
sugar growers will find an active competition
springing up in nearly every State OF the I'm
ion.
A Washington dispatch says the Southern
Republicans voted with the Democrats on
Wednesday to assist in passing the bill to re-
fund S35, 900 to the State of Georgia for sup
plies furnished during the Revolutionary war,
and among. the former were Mackey and
Smalls, of South Carolina. Both stated that
it was their intention to support any measure
that would have tendency to benefit their
section, regardless of party affiliation, and
whenever money was to be sent South they
could be relied upon to vote for it.
- Arab Pasha, the Egyptian nsurgent, who
brought about the late hOStilitieS- in that
country, has been courtmartialed. The testl-
mony against him was overwhelming that ne
caused the connagration of Alexandria. The
charges against him, however, were insubordl-
nation, mutiny and desertion, to which he
pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to death,
but the Khedive subsequently commuted the
sentence to exile for life, to be amenable to the
sentence Of death if he re-enters Egypt or its
defendence. 1t is believed Arab will retire to
some part of the British dominions.
- Gen. Raleigh E. Colston, who served as a
maior-general in the Confederate army, and
afterwards as an officer of high rank in the
Egyptian army, delivered lecture on 'EX-
ploration in Egypt before large audience
in the large hall of Cooper Union, New York,
on Saturday evening. In closing his lecture
Gen. Colston said Il have roamed in many
strange lands. l have seen the beauties of
other lands and dwelt among other people.
But 1 come back to my native land with a
firm conviction that this is the best country
on earth, and I thank God that it is one ma
tion."
"A Western paper expresses the opinion
that we shall never see meat as cheap again as
it has been. One reason given for this opinion
is that it will take years to replace the cattle
that starved in the far West during the severe
winter of 1S90-S1 and then the large accessions
to the meat consuming population keep prices
up. The cattle supply, however, is increasing
in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and more
attention is being given to stock raising in the
grass regions in the Southern States. The
profits of shipping dressed beef in refrigerator
cars are turning many people into this bust
ness.
- The general passenger agent of the Louis
vile, Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
says he never saw such rush South as at
present. More people, he says, have emigra-
ted to the Southern States, and especially to
Florida, in the past few months than for a
year previously. A number of them are East
ern people, though the majority come from
country is gradually drawing the emigrants
away from the West, as they are beginning to
realize the fact that they can get better and
more profitable land in the South for less mon
ey.
- The fugitive lyric, "Stonewall Jackson's
Way" has been esteemed by many the best
poem of it's character produced by the South
during the late war, and there have been fire.
uuent inquiries as to it's probable author
Doubt on this point seemsto have been at last
removed, for in the New York World DR.. John
Williamson Palmer, a distinguished scholar
and writer, avows his authorship of the poem
in question, correct version of which he fur
nishes the World DR.. Palmer says he 'made
the song at Oakland, Allegheny county, Nd,
to the tune of the guns of Antietam, which he
could hear as he wrote.'' DR.. Palmer is ma
tive of Baltimore.
"A Denver dispatch of Wednesday says
that details have been received there of the
slaughter Of thirty Mexicans and five Ameri-
cans by Juhs band Of Indians in Chihuahua.
The Politico of Calfano had raised party of
thirty, with whom he started to punish the
Juhs for stealing stock. The Juhs ambushed
this party and cOralled them in an arroyo.
After the butchering was completed the In
dians escaped. The MeXicans who sought the
remains of their friends found near by the
bodies of five Americans, two of whom were
recognized as James Beggs and William Nc
Dowell of Grant county, New Mexico, who
had been in Chihuahua raising cattle.
Items in regard to the growing scarcity of
timber and the increased value of timber lands
are becoming more and more common in the
newspapers in all sections of the country, ex-
cept the South. In Michigan, which, within
the memory of living men, was mostly an I'M