Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-07
GENERAL MAGRUDER.

GENERAL MAGRUDER.
The st. Louis Republican says of the
noted General Magruder who lies buried in
an obscure spot in the graveyard at Houston,
Texas:
Magruder was wonderful man. He
stood six feet four inches in height, and had
form which the men envied and the Wo-
men adored His nerves were all iron.
Foreign travel and comprehensive culture
had given to his vita Zest that was always
crisp and sparkling. He never lacerated.
TO the sting of the repartee he added the
honey of the clover. He could fight all day
and dance all night. In the morning glass
of brandy and good cigar renewed his
strength, and caused the cup of his youth to
run over with the precious wine OF health
and high spirits.
He loved magnificent uniforms, nlagnifi-
cent horses, magnificent riders and mag
nificent women.
Gifted and graceful in conversation, he
was a pet in the boudoir and a logician
in the barracks. He had studied French
in Paris, italian in Rome and Spanish in
the halls of the Montezumas. His horse
manship was of the English kind, that is
to say, not graceful, but impossible to be
surpassed for firm riding and endurance. e.
He wrote little love songs that were set to
music; one of them, "Imogene," had in
it the plaintive repinings OF soldler-loYe
and the sad rhythm of burial bugles.
In the Crimea he astonished the French
officers by sleeping at the front with the
chasseurs under fire. In Mexico he sent
back to the archbishop lady's perfumed
glove he had found in his palace when the
city was won, and in it a note which read:
''It is pretty enough to have belonged to a
queen. Would she have pardoned me II L
had appropriated it?" AS the archbishop
sent him next day a basket of wine, 1t is
supposed that the fair owner OF the glove
must have looked leniently upon the hand
some American soldier.
Later, and he was riding with General
Scott down the long street OF !turblde.
General Garnett joined them and Magruder
drew little back for his superiors to con-
suit. A white puff of smoke curled out from
an open window, a sudden report follow
ed speedily and Garnett and horse went
down together. An ounce ball intended for
Scott, had broken Garnett's thigh and kill
ed the charger. Fearing another fire, Ma,
gruder galloped to the side of his chief and
covered his body with his own. The ola
mans eyes never dropped nor his voice
changed an intonatiOn.
"HOW long will it take you to batter
down that house ?"
He spoke curtly to Lieutenant Magruder,
pointing with sweep of his finger to the
nearest and from which the bullet came.
can hour by the watch, general"
"Then open fire at point blank range, and
leave not one stone upon another"
"It was done, and we'll done; and those
who saw Magruder soonest atterWard no.
ticed that he had another bar on his epau-
lettes, and had been made a captain. war
was his element, the bivouac his delight,
and the battlefield his perfect inspiration.
A DRUNKARD DEFENDS HIMsELF.-A
late issue of the Gilroy AdcOcdte says that
man who was fined for drum kenness, in Lew
iston, Illinois, appealed to the Circuit Court,
proved that the authorities OF Lewiston
had licensed these men to sell liquor and
thereby make drunkards; that his client
was one of the victims of the traffic, and
that now they sought to injure him still
more by tining him for falling into the trap.
The Jury very correctly decided that such a
conspiracy to make men drunk, and then
punish them for being drunk, was incon-
sistent and unjust. The above sets forth,
in clear light, the absurdity and infamous
character Of the license system. First open
the door into the dram hole and induce
men, with morbid appetites for strong
drink, to come in, and then turn around
and punish them, by fine or imprisonment
for going in and getting drunk, and while
under the influence of the demon, doing
something that amounts to a violation Of
a town ordinance or State law, and present
ly hauling him up before the authorities
and iining or imprisoning him.
A CURIOUS CALCULATIoN.-What is
billion? The reply is very simple--a mil
lion times million. This is quickly writ
ten, and quicker still pronounced but no
man is able to count it. You may count 160
or 10 in minute; but let us even suppose
that you may 60 as far as two hundred;
then an hour will produce $1,000, day 2sO,-
0O0 and year, or 365 days, 105, ,120, 900. Let
us suppose now that Adam, at the first be-
ginning ofhis existence, had begun to count,
and had continued to do so, and was count
ing still, he would not, even now, according
to the usual supposed age of our globe, have
counted near enough. For to count mil
lion times million would require 9,512
years, "a days. ) hours and 80 minutes.