Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-16
Southern States that have been able to find"
"Would Mcdonald be strong candidate


"Would Mcdonald be a strong candidate
with you ?"
"Our people like Mr.. Mcdonald very
we'll. He has many friends in the South
and his position upon many national ques-
tions suits our people, but he shy no means
our strongest candidate"
"WhO is hep"
"Senator Bayard of Delaware. He has
strong hold upon the affections of our peO-
pie and would be the strongest candidate
with us that could be nominated. He de-
Tended the South with great power when
she needed friends, and, besides that, he is
sound upon all national questions that are
the foundation Of our prosperity. | believe
he would be the strongest candidate for the
Democracy, North as well as South. lie
has ever been consistent and true upon fl
nancial questions, and he represents con-
servative idea upon the tariff issue. He is
a broad-gauge man throughout, and would
bring brains, dignity and the highest char
acter to the Presidential office. fbelieve he
could poll a larger vote than any man we
could nominate"
"Would Governor Butler of Massachu-
sets have any standing as presidential
candidate in the South ?"
81 think not Our people do not consider
him as a possibility. They are looking for
ward to the nomination of clean conserva-
tive statesman. / have no doubt but that
he could poll many Republican votes, but
he could not command the full Democratic
support" , ,oo,. eo ;n+oros+inr sossior Of
Congress when you shall meet in Decem-
ber?''
"No doubt we will have very interest
ing session. There are many important
questions to be passed upon. There is the
reciprocity treaty of Mexico to be disposed
of. That is an important matter. l met
the commissioners, General Grant, Mr..
Trescot and the Mexican minister, and
had an interesting talk upon this question.
l was quite impressed with it. l have
heard no expression OF OpiOnion for or
against it in the South, and, OF course, can
not indicate the probable action of the Sen
ate thereon"
"Was this the first time you had ever
met General Grant?"
II never met him until about year or
more ago, when / came over here to dine
with Mr.. George w. Childs. l must say I
was very much surprised at the conversa-
tional powers he displayed He is splen-
did talker, and was very much interested
in his account Of his travels abroad. l con-
fess found none of that reticence and want
of ability to express himself that I had
heard so much about during the past tif
teen years. I had found him much broad
er and ADLER man than 1 expected. He dis
cussed the Mexican question, as he did
every other upon which l heard him talk,
with a great deal of ability"
"YOu never tested his fighting powers
during the ware"
"No, my operations were in a different
section of the country, and against another
wing of the Federal armyD
1t was hardly to be expected that the
Senator from South Carolina would speak
extendedly of his military operations in a
chat that was principally based upon eco
nOmic and political questions. The allusion
to General Grant was simply an incident of
the talk upon them. 1t was so hearty and
good natured that note it as part of the
chat because it came from an eminent SOL
dier and a hard hitter.
THE CURSE OF DRINK.-The late DR..
Holland speaks these forcibe words through
,Scribner's MonthIy:
'The appetite for strong drink in man has
spoiled the life of more wOmen-ruined
more hopes for them, scattered more for
tunes for Them. brought to them more sor-
rows, shame and hardships-tha any other
evil that lives. The country numbers ten,
nay hundreds of thousands, of women who
are widows to-day, and sit in the hopeless
weeds, because their husbands have been
slain by strong drink. There are hundreds
of thousands of homes scattered over the
land in which they live lives of torture, 60
ing through all the changes of suffering that
lie between the extremes of fear and dis
pair, because those whom they love, like
wine better than they do the women they
have sworn to love. There are women by
thousands who dread to hear at the door the
steps that once thrilled them with pleasure,
because that step has learned to reel under
the influence Of the seductive poison. There
are women groaning with pain while we
write these words, from bruises and brutali-
ties inflicted by husbands made mad by
drink There can be no eXaggeration in
any statement in regard to this matter, be-
cause no human Imagination can create
worse than the truth, and no pen
is capable of portraying the truth. The sor-
rows and horrors OF a wife with a drunken
are as near the realization of hell as can be
reached in this world at least. The shame,
the indignation, the sorrow and the sense
of disgrace for herself and her children, the
poverty, and not unfrequently the beggary,
the fear and the fact of violence, the linger-
ing, lifelong struggle and despair of count
less women with drunken husbands, are
enough to make all women curse wine and
engage unitedly to oppose it everywhere as
the worst enemy Of their SEX"
ANCIENT BALLOON IDEAs.-The flying
wooden pigeon of Achytas of Tarentum was
only toy, but its invention set people
(B c 400 thinking of the time when men
should emulate its example. Simon Mag
nus, according to Suetonious, met his death
in Rome during the reign of Nero in an at
tempt to fly from one house to another.
Roger Bacon had some idea of flying ma
chine worked by wings, and in the latter
part of the fifteenth century Dante, a mathe-
matician of Perugi, is said to have risen
above Lake Thrasimena by means Of artif-
cial wings attached to his body. The
"Homo Volans," described and illustrated