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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

TAKING CoLD.-A person in good health,
with fair play, easily resists cold. But when
the health flags little, and liberties are
taken with the stomach, or the nervous sys-
tenn, a chill is easily taken, and according
to the weak spot of the individual, assumes
the form of cold, or pneumonia, or, 1T may
be, iaundice. Of all causes Of "cOld," prob
ably fatigue is one of the most efficient. A
iaded man coming home at night from long
days work, a growing youth losing two
hours sleep over evening parties two or
three times a week, ora young lady heavily
'doing the season." young children overfed
and with short allowance OF sleep, are
common instances Of the victims of "cold."
Luxury is favorable to chill-taking; very
hot rooms, soft chairs, and feather beds,
create a sensitiveness that leads to catarrhs.
It is not, after all, the ''cold" that is so much
to be feared as the antecedent conditions
that give the attack chance Of doing harm.
Some of the worst "colds" happen to those
who do not leave their house or even their
bed, and those who are the most invulnera-
BILE are often those who are most exposed to
changes of temperature, and who, by good
sleep, cold bathing, and regular habits, pre-,
serve the tone of their nervous system and
circulation.
Probably many chills are contracted at
night or at the fag end of the day, when
tired people get the equilibrium of their
circulation disturbed by either overheated
sitting-rooms,o or runderheated bedrooms and
beds. This is especially the case with ell
derly people. In such cases the mischief is
not always done instantane0usly, or in
single night; it often takes place insidious.
ly, extending over days or even weeks. 1t
thus appears that "taking cold" is not by
any means a simple result of lower tenn,
perature, but depends largely on personal
conditions and habits, affecting especially
the nervous and muscular energy of the
bOdy.-LOndOn Lancet.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

distance shall be those fixed by the "Stand-
ard Freight Tariff for distance thirty
(3O) miles greater In other classes, namely,
&c, D, F, J, X. L, NJ, N, 0, P, and r, the
maximum rates shall conform to the "Stand-
ard Freight Tariff"
7. Cheraw and Chester Railroad marrow
gauge).
Chester and Lenoir Railroad marrow
gauge).
On these roads, upon Glasses l, ., 3, 4, 5,6,
A, B, C, d, E, F, and H, the maximum
rates for any distance shall be those fixed by
the 'Standard Freight Tariff for distance
QO) miles greater. On Class L, the maxi
mum rates shall be fifty (5O per cent. great,
er than the rates fixed by the ''Standard
Freight Tariff for that class. On Glasses
n, o and P the maximum rates for car
load of 10000 pounds shall be sixty (60 per
cent. of the rates fixedby "Standard Freight
Tariff for a car load of 10000 pounds. In
other classes, namely, G, J, X, NJ, and Il,
the maximum rates shall conform to the
"Standard Freight Tariff"
By order of the Board.
NJ. l.. BoNHAM, Chairman.
NJ, BARTLETT, Secretary.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

s9~ In nature, seen under ordinary day
light, there are for the healthy human eye
about LOO distinguishable colors. For a
hundred and two Of these Roget has names,
but the number of color names in modern
French is said to be not short of five hun
dred. Alma Tadema reproduces his color
impressions of the antique world by "a palette
of twelve colors, while the palette of Vir-
vocabulary contains twenty-seven terms
of high colors, and fifteen more for shades,
due to excess or deficiency of illumination.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

CURIOsITIEs OF STATISTIC s.-Let us OBJ
serve what our farms and farmers are annu-
ally producing for every man, woman and
child of the country's population. The year
1880 produced for each person thirty bushels
of corn, nine bushels of wheat, eight bushels
of oats, one bushel of barley, tWo-tifths OF
bushel of rye, one tenth of a bale of cotton,
three pounds of wool, two-thirds of ton OF
hay, half pound of hops, two pounds OF
rice, ten pounds of tobacco, three and hal1
bushels of Irish potatoes, and half bushel
of sweet potatoes.
Of animals there was one hog for every
person, one horse.for every five persons, one
mule for every twenty-eight persons, one
mich cow for every four persons, and two
sheep for every three persons. There were
fifteen and half pounds of butter and a
half pound of cheese made for each person,
and the COWS averaged siXty-tWo and half
pounds of butter each for the year. Al
though our farm products seem immense in
amount it is an astonishing fact that If every
acre in Illinois was devoted to wheat tor
one year, and the average yield should be
the moderate amount Of fifteen bushels to
the acre, the crop would exceed in amount
the entire wheat crop of the country for the
last year. If the State of Missouri was
wholly planted with corn, and should give
a moderate yield of forty bushels to the
acre, the aggregate would equal the entire II;
crop of the country for the year 1850. The
State of Kansas alone can raise beef enough
to feed the present population of the coun-
try. When we have ten times the present
population, and when all our lands are as
we'll cultivated as the valley of the Nile,
the aggregates of the farm products will be
expressed in figures difficult to comprehend.
Agriculture is becoming chemistry, and hus-
bandry is becoming mechanics, so that one
good man to day can doas muchWork upon
a farm as four men did fifty years ago.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

INDIAN ROMANCE AND REALITY.-lt
was on Wednesday that we took our outfit
from the baggage car at Grayling, lumber
settlement on one of the northern spurs OF
the Michigan Central road, which runs far
up to the end of the Michigan peninsula,
relying for traffic chiefly on the lumber
camps, writes correspondent of the Detroit
Free Press. From the Saginaw River north
ward the rails ascend by heavy grades for
800 feet through monotony of forest only
broken here and there by the clumps OF
rough houses grouped around the unpainted
stations. The slow journey had, however,
it's touches of variety. At one point close
by station magnificent spring, with water
as clear as glass, boils out from the white
sand, filling a stone walled reservoir ten
feet deep and of equal diameter. Now and
then, too, group of Indians boarded the
cars, grotesque in the ragged garb of civil
ization. One of these coppery brethren was
a sight which incarnated in one spectacle
the decline and fall of the red man. The
crested plumes of the Indian of romance
were superseded by torn soft hat, the
castaway relic of some backwoods camp,
hanging in picturesque tatters athwart his
coarse hair and projecting cheek bones.
The war paint of tradition had been sup
planted by a coarse shirt and faint memen-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06
ROB1Ns0N CRUsOE,s ISLAND.

A correspondent of the Rochester Demo-
crat writes The sun was bathing the beau
tiful island with flood of golden light
as we neared its picturesque harbor. In
little boats we went ashore and landed IN
the primitive manner of running the boat
aground and pulling the boat up on the
shore. It was difficult to realize that we
we're. indeed, on this historical, mysterious
island that Imagination had pictured from
childhood's early hours in SO many fanciful
forms. The books tell you that it was on
this lovely island that, in 17O4, the celebra-
ted English navigator, Dampier, landed his
coxswain, Alexander Selkirk, with whom
he had quarreled, and left him alone on this
uninhabited spot with a small quantity OF
provisions and tools. Here he lived four
wears, till he was picked up by a passing
Ship and brought back to Europe. 1t was
from the notes he made during his solitary
residence, that Daniel Defoe composed his
incompatible work of Robinson Crusoe." -"
No book, doubtless, ever held the childish
interest with greater fascination than that
which describes his wanderings on this mys-
terious and enchanted island. That which
had always seemed but dreamy romance
was now before you. The scenes where all
the wild and WondrOus experiences were
described are just at hand, and you wander
on, as it were, but just aroused from fan
ciful dream. Perchance it was on this sandy
beach along which you wander that Crusoe
first discovered the footprints OF his good
man Friday.
The island is about seven Spanish leagues
in circumference, or a trltie over twenty
English miles. It belongs to Chill, and for
number of years the Government used it
as place for transporting convicts, till one
night all the prisoners arose in power, killed
their keepers, and taking the only boats on
the island sailed away and were never heard
of more. OF late years the government has
leased the island to one man who pays
something like $1,000 year for it's use.
This man has a small colony of wOrkmen
whom he employs in cutting timber, drying
fish and goat skins and sending them every
few months, in large quantities to the mar
kets at Valparaiso. There are to be found
in the waters about the island, Holsters of a
peculiar kind and enormous size. Some of
these measure from two to four feet in
length. Every variety of fish in the great
est abundance seems to swarm about this
lone island. 1t is a great resort for Whalers,
who put in here for a few days to supply
themselves with fresh water and with fish,
poultry and game, which they obtain at
marvelously low prices from the sovereign
ruler of the island. Many years ago, two
lone, lorn goats were brought to the island
and their families and children have in
creasd so rapidly that to-day, thousands and
tens of thousands of these now are to be
found in every part of the island. Large
numbers of them are shot each year, and
their dried skins sold in Valparaiso are
source of large income to the lessee OF the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

nag There is beautiful clock with an in
teresting history in the White House. 1t
is an albaster clock, surmounted by statu-
cite of the Muse of History, and it has tick
ed in the White House time out of mind,
for it was present from Banaparte to La
Fayette, who gave it in turn to Washing.
ton, who decreed that it should be handed
down to his successors in the presidential
office. And 50, while the presidents come
and 20, the clock ticks on, and tells its tale
of time to all alike impartially.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

A Fox STOEY.-The following singular
fox story comes from Chatham county, n.
c., and is the better as being vouched for as
true:
A chasing party was out, and early in the
day the dogs started fox. After long
circuitous run the scent led into one end ola
large hollow log, out at the other end, and
thence around tiresome circuit, in and out
of the log again. At this point of the, pro-
ceedings in the hope of catching the long
winded fox in his trap, the exit end Of the
log was stopped with sticks. Sure enough,
after another hard run, in which some Of
the men and dogs were beaten out, the trail
was traced for the third time into the log.
The; log was opened with axes, and three
foxes, all showing evidences OF recent run
ming, were captured. Then it dawned on
the weary party that fresh fox had led on
each grand round, the second runner going
out pom the entrance of the first in the log,
and the third upon the return of the second.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-06

CosTs MoNEY.-People with high ap-
probation of their beloved dead will pay
the undertaken we'll for the coffin and the
use of his hearse; they will pay the sexton
for digging the grave, and generally the
minister for preaching the sermon-and
then will come to country editor with
long piece rehearsing the many virtues of
the deceased, which they expect to have
published free. This is what they call the
fitness of things. We find it absolutely i'm
possible to make some people believe that it
costs money to publish even country jour-
nal.-Pullnyra (N " Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01
TERRIBLh RAILROAD ACCIDENT.


TWO Cars with Their Loads OF Human Re
1nss Overturned and Dragged Along the
track OF the Louisville s Nashville Air
Line Road Near st. LOuis-Upwards OF
Thirty Persons Seriously Injured.
ST. LOUIS, No., Oct. %.
The morning through train on the Air
Line from Louisville to this city met with
serious accident. The train had passed
Belleville, and was within Ave or six miles
OF East st. Louis, when a broken rail on
the track threw the two last coaches. that
IS the passenger coach and the sleeper.
Louisville, from the track. The train was
running at the rate of thirty-five miles an
hour, and the two coaches were upset and
dragged some distance on the ground, when
the coupling parted and they were de-
tached from the forward part of the train.
Both coaches were full Of passengers, and
the scenes presented immediately af-
ter the accident were terrible in
the extreme. The passengers were
thrown violently forward and to the
side OF the coaches, and were massed in a
confused heap of mangled, bruised and
bleeding men, women and children, The
interior fixtures of the coaches were broken
and torn to pieces by the violence of the
TALL and served only to wound the unfor-
tunate people in the cars. The toward part
of the train was backed to the spot as soon
as the accident was discovered, and the
work of extricating the wounded was
promptly and efficiently undertaken by the
railroad employees and the uninjured passen-
gers. Scarcely an occupant of either one of
the coaches escaped without cuts
and bruises, but the number of IA
talities was SO small as to be al
most miraculous, The cars were literally
covered with blood, which was flowing pro-
fusely from cuts, and it was at first thought
that the loss Of life was very great. So far
as learned, only one person, a gentleman
from Providence named Anthony, was
thought to be fatally injured. His
skull was crushed and cut so badly as
TO make his recovery almost impossible.
The wounded were brought at once to
this city and medical aid was summoned.
a brakeman had his leg broken, several
passengers were injured internally and
many others were cut and bruised in a
terrible manner.
At least thirty people suffered injuries
OF various kinds and more or less severe in
the wrecking of the coaches. One woman,
whose name could not be learned, had her
scalp torn almost entirely from her head.
Fortunately most of the children were
taken from the debris with only slight in
juries. AS one passenger remarked, it was
simply wonderful that so many escaped
immediate death.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
a Mystery UnraveIed.
LEAvENwoRTH, KAN, Oct.

LEAvENWORTH, KAN, Oct. q.
Last February quite sensation was Gre
ated here by the discovery of the body of
John Heigle, grocer in North Leaveil-
worth, in pool of blood in the rear part Of
the store, his head terribly beaten and his
throat cut from ear to ear. Several arrests
were made at the time, but the crime could
be fastened on no one, and the unraveliRg
of the mystery was almost given up. At
late hour last night, however, it became
known that prisoner who had been con-
fined in the County Jail had confessed to
another prisoner that he was Heigle's muir
derer. The man who committed the crime
was colored, named Davis, and the man to
whom he confessed, and who gave it away,
was also colored, named Hunt. The former
was sentenced to ten years in the Peniten-
tiary some time ago for burglary, and the
latter was sentenced Friday in the United
States Court to one year in the Penitentiary
for robbing Colonel Otis, Post commander
at Fort Leavenworth. Hunt did not give
Davis confession away until after he him
self had been sentenced. He said that Da-
Wis went into Heigle's store just as the lat
ter was closing up; that he struck him
twice with a piece of lead pipe, and that
Heigle looked up and said, 81 know you"
Davis then drew out long knife and cut
Heigle's throat, afterward robbing the
store of about eighty-five dollars. Hunt
says that Davis described to him the instru-
ments used in the murder, and his descrip-
ton of them tallies exactly with piece of
lead and two knives found in Davis house
when he was arrested for burglary. The
knife is covered with blood stains, and the
lead pipe also has two blood spots on it.
Davis is now serving a ten-year's sentence
for another crime, but as he undoubtedly
had an acconlplice, the above clew will
probably lead to the arrest and punishment
of the latter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

DAVID STEINBACH, of Germina, Mimi,
was murdered the night of the oath, sup
possibly as the result of neighborhood
quarrel
JOHN TAYLOR and Joseph Bird es-
capped from the Penitentiary at Salt Lake
City on the 25th, snatching a rifle from the
guard as they ran.
STEPHEN JONES, in the employ of
Gaskill, Greenlie & CO., New York, fed on
the 25th with the box containing the weekly
wages of employees.
Mrs. LANGTRY started on the 25th on
her professional tour through the country.
Her first engagement is in Montreal, and
from the United States she will probably
go to Australia.
NINE more deaths from cholera were
reported at Alexandria, Egypt, on the 18th.
a DISASTROUS fire occurred on the
25th in the lumber district at Pittsburgh,
Pa.
MICHAEL WATERS, one of the Irish
murder conspirators, died in prison on the
18th.
THE Naval Advisory Board recon-
mends the construction of seven new war
ships.
MEXICAN troops are reported to have
routed the Apaches in a recent fight with
great slaughter.
A CABLEGRAI brings news that Rus
STA in her foreign policy is entirely devoted
to peace.
REV. Jos. LESSON has been elected
Provincial of the franciscan Order of the
United States.
| THE contract for turret armor for the
United States Monitor Miantonomah has
been awarded to an English firm.
| THE Marquis of Lansdowne has de-
cided not to receive addresses from Irish
Scotch or English societies.
/ THE saw-mill of Bliss, Brown & Co.
ana some other buildings burned at East
Saginaw. Loss, So, 900.
THE Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria hopes that the army of occupation in
Bosnia and Herzegovina may soon be re-
duced.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland reelected the old officers on
the 18th, and decided to meet next year at
Rochester, n. Y.
HENRI RocHEFoRr charges the
French Ministry with having an under
standing with the Due d'Aumale to restore
the Orleans dynasty.
RICHTER, Secession deputy In the
German Reichstag, has been sentenced to
six months Imprisonment for insulting the
royal family.
The United States survey steamer
Hassier, Just returned from Alaska. reports
the discovery OF fine harbor at the south.
ern end Of Nichol Pass.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
An Explosion in Pennsylvania Squib Fac
tory Causes the Instant Death of Three
Operatives and the Fatal Tnjuring of Sew.
eraI Others.

An Explosion in "A Pennsylvania SQuib Fac
tory Causes the Instant Death OF Three
Operatives and the Fatal Tnjuring of Sew.
eraI Others.
WILKEsBARRE, PA, Oct. %, 1888.
At one o'clock to-day the inhabitants at
Kingstonborough, about a mile and half
from this city, were startled by terrific
report, followed shortly after by another.
People ran out of their houses to ascertain
the cause, when to their horror they discov-
cred that laage quantity of powder in
factory where squibs used by miners in
blasting coal are made had exploded, and
not only torn low wooden building it
occupied to pieces and fired it, but had
blown eight Of the employees, children rang
ing from the age of eleven to sixteen years,
many yards away from the site of the fac
tory. The latter stood on the banks of a
small creek, and about fifty yards from
main road. People near by at the time of
the accident hurried to the spot to be greet
ed by the agonized means of the children,
who lay scattered about in every direction,
some of them with every stitch of clothing
torn literally off their backs, and
the exposed bodies bIackened, bleed
ing and disfgured. One girl had
nothing on but her corsets and shoes.
As all the injured lived near by they were
conveyed as tenderIy and rapidly as posi-
bic to their homes, around which great
crowds of women surged in every stage of
excitement. Medical aid was summoned
at once and several doctors responded. In
the meantime news OF the disaster spread
abroad, and the miners in the vicinity and
all manner of woFkmen stopped their eIn.
ployment and joined the anxious crowds
who gathered about the burning debris of
the factory. The following is list of the
killed and injured:
Matte james: body burned to complete
crisp and filed with powder.
Hattie Norris; flesh scarified into mass
of cinders.
John Evans; burned to crisp.
Lizzie Edwards; seriously burned, but
may live.
James Steel; terribly burned, and death
thought 80 be positive.
Albert James; terribly burned, but may
recover.
Mary Moss, feet burned. She was blown
into the creek. VIII recover.
Lizzie Quin. burned to crisp, and viii
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01

SEDALIA, Mo-, Oct. q.
A man giving his name as Frank w.
Hanson made his appearance in this vicin-
fly few days ago, ostensibly to buy cattle
for his ranch, near Dodge City, Kas. He
bought lot of the Greens Of Lafayette
County, and then came to Pettis. Yester-
day he bought 8, GOO worth Of Judge o. 81.
Harris, giving his check on an Independ-
ence, Mo-, bank. To-day he bought from
Major VIM. Gentry over 5000 worth OF
stock, giving his check on the same bank.
The stock was all for future delivery. To-
day it was learned that the checks vera
bogus, Hanson having no account with the
Independence bank. This evening he came
10 Sedalia with Major Gentry, and later
disappeared.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01
A Shocking Fate.

ST.. PAUL, MTNS.. Oct, "a.
Near Lake Washington, LIE Sueur County,
L. Chapman, of the firm Of Hammel &
Chapman, Lake Washington Saw-mill, was
this afternoon engaged in the mill as head
sawyer, and in going about his work in
some manner lost his footing and fell on
the saw while it was in motion, and he was
horribly mutilated. His right arm was
badly sawed in number OF places, and his
skull was sawed clear through, and q part
of the brain was found on a log near bv.
Chapman was still living at five D. m, but
his death was expected every minute. He
has been operating saw-nlilis for many
years, and is widely and favorably known