Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17
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| The terms OF twenty-five united STATES
Senators expire on the Sd of March next,
fourteen of them being being Democrats and
eleven Republicans. The successors to four
of them have been elected, and Allison is
the only one who has received another
term. Williams of Kentucky has been sue
ceeded by Congressman Blackburn, Jonas
of Louisiana by ex-senator Eustis, and Pen
dIeton of Ohio by Payne. Pugh of Ala
bama, Walker of Arkansas, Call of Florida,
! Brown of Georgia, Vest of Missouri, Vance
of North Carolina and Hampton of South
Carolina are certain to be succeeded by
Democrats. Hill of Colorado, Logan of
Illinois, Ingalls, of Kansas, Blair of New
HamI hire, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Cam
eron of Wisconsin, Morrill, of Vermont
and Slater of Oregon will no doubt have
Republican successors. The seats of Platt
of Connecticut, VOORHEES, of Indiana, Jones
of Nevada and Lapham of New York will
be filled by Legislatures to be elected this
fall, and the result will depend largely up
on the Presidential election. 1t is under
stood that as the result of the support Civ
en- to Blaine by Conkling, Platt and their
faction in New York, the half-breed ele-
Senate. Collector Robertson is quoted as
authority for such statement. John w.
Mackey will endeavor to succeed Jones as
Senator from Nevada.
Says the New York Times: AS q ma
iority of the medical men who have exam
ined the pestience in Toulon have decided
that it is Asiatic cholera we can no longer
have any doubt of its true character. 1t
now appears that the disease was brought to
France by an army transport coming from
Tonquin. Thus the war Of conquest wick
edly waged in the East by the French Re-
public has been quickly punished by a pes
thence, and were we living in Homeric
days weshould find no difficulty in believ-
ing that Phebus was on the side of the con-
quered Orientals and had shot his arrows
into Toulon. The cholera may spread
to Marseilles and other French cities, but if
we enforce wise quarantine provisions it
need not cross the Atlantic. We kept it out
the last time it appeared in Europe, al
though an infected ship came into this port.
Quarantine is much more effective nova
days than it was twenty-five or thirty years
ago, and within the last five years two cpl
demics-the "black death" in the Black Sea
Provinces of Russia, and the cholera in
Egypt-have been kept from spreading to
other countries by the vigilance of quaran-
tine authorities.
Saws the anderson Mtelligencer: We
have been informed by a first-rate miller of
this county that in all probability there
would be quantity of damaged wheat in
consequence of the continued wet weather.
Even after it is threshed there will be a
great danger of loss in being put up too
damp. He suggests that small quantity
of lime be sprinkled through the wheat as
it is being put up permanently. tie says
several of his customers have tried 1t with
beneficial results for some years. In going
through the shutter before being, made into
flour it is entirely cleaned from the wheat,
leaving it sound and dry. Lime is cheap,
and we think the above worthy Of a trial,
especially this year.
- A storm, which partook of the nature OF
a cyclone, swept through the southern por-
ton ofSioux City, La, last Friday afternoon.
A funnel-shaped cloud moving with great
rapdity and giving out roaring sound was
one of the distinguishing phenomena. The
Catholic bell tower was blown down and
the new Episcopal mission school was wreck
ed. An immense oil tank at the oil works
was blown to the ground, while huge pile
of empty barrels directly in front OF the OIL
tank was undisturbed. Large numbers OF
trees were leveled to the ground. No cas-
ualties have as yet been reported. The bus
mess portion of the town was sheltered by
bluffs and was saved.
- When the fact is remembered that
walnut planted in the ground will, in four
teen years, under ordinary circumstances,
produce tree as many inches in diameter,
is it not surprising that so few people will
take the trouble to plant walnuts every
year, and care for the young trees until
they are large enough to need no further
attention? Walnut wood has always been
valuable. It is more valuable to-day than
ever before, and is likely to become still
more so. Fifty years hence walnut tree
two or three feet in diameter will be worth
more than an acre of ground. Plant wal
| nuts.
A dispatch from Fort Smith, Arkansas,
says: Under Choctaw law every white man
in the nation or his employer, is required
to pay a heavy permit tax. Milo Hoyt, a
wealthy Choctaw, having several white
men in his employ, refused to pay the per-
nit tax, and the authorities attached his
stock. The district courthouse was burned
and Hoyt is supposed to have been the in
cendiary. The Choctaw authorities pursu-
ed him and his party into the Cherokee
Nation. Both parties are under arms and
serious trouble is apprehended.
A man named Vanderburg, of Cecia
county, Michigan, went off last fall with Os-
carScott butreturned home and could giveno
account of Vanderburg. Mrs. Vanderburg,
removed to Montcalm county, where it was
discovered last week she has been living
with Scott. Suspicion of murder caused
search in a half-flled we'll, and while this
was going on Scott killed himself. Shortly
afterwards Vanderburg's body was discov-
cred with marks of violence upon it, Mrs.
Vanderburg confesses that she knew of the
murder.
A curious fragment, which will be of
interest to ladies, has been recently unearth-
ed and published in France. 1t appears
that in ITO the following parliamentary
decree was solemnly passed and duly reg
istered under King Louis XIV: "Whoever
by means of red or white paint, perfumes,
essences; artificial teeth, false hair, cotton,
wool, iron corsets, hoops, shoes with high
heels, or false tips, shall seek to entice into
the bands of marriage any male subject of
His Majesty, shall be prosecuted for witch
craft, and declared incapable Of matrimo-
n.y."
A kentucky lady has theory of her own
on the Adam and Eve question. She says:
"Whatever we may consider the relative
weakness or sin Of Adam and Eve, if the
storv of Eden be true, we inherit life i'm
mortal through Eve and death through
Adam. The promise of redemption was
given to the woman. The curse of death
was put upon the man. This is Gods esti-
mate of their guilt"
- Inquiries are frequently made as to
what the unit rule is. 1t means that if a
majority of the delegates to a National
Convention agree upon candidate the
delegation votes as unit or whole for him,
the minority of the delegation yielding
their views and preferences to the majority.
Gen. A. M. West of Holly Springs,
Miss, declined the Nomination OF Vice Pres
ident on the Greenback ticket with Ben
| Butler on the ground that the race issue has