Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-07
Straps and fafts.

- William Scott, a man seventy years
old, shot and killed his wife at Rochester,
N. ", on Tuesday. She was siXty-eight
years old, and they had several children
and grand children. They quarrelled about
money.
- The total issue of postage stamps, stamp
ed envelopes and postal cards during April
during the corresponding month in the pre-
ceding year. The number Of stamps issued
showed an increase of 100000, while the
issue of postal cards fell off 100000, and
stamped envelopes 100000.
Mr.. Hazen, third assistant postmaster
general, has given the postmaster-general
detailed statement of the result of the re-
duction from three to two cents in the rate
of postage on domestic letters, which went
into effect October l, 1888. The loss was
estimated the first year at $S,0O0,00O. The
statistics show that it was half million
less than that sum.
Wheat experts in the Northwest esti-
mate that the yield this year will be about
413,0O0,0OO bushels. This with III ,O0Q, 900
bushels left over will make total of 1884,
bushels will be required for home consump-
ton, leaving 219,00O,000 bushels for export.
In case of war they estimate that about
140,OOO,OOO bushels will be exported, leaving
about SO, ,000, 900 bushels on hand as surplus.
The United States grand jury at Topeka,
Kansas, has returned indictments against
sixty-eight of the Oklahoma "boomers"
separately and a general indictment against
the remainder of the Arkansas City colony,
charging them with melting and engaging
in rebellion against the Government in
opposition to the Presidents proclamations.
No steps have yet been taken toward max
ino arraSfs ,1nShr tho Indictment
The business Milures occurring through
out the country during the week ending
on Friday last, as reported to r. G. Dun d
Co.'s mercantile agency, number tor the
United States 189 and Canada 10, making
total of 209 against A0 the preceding week.
There is decrease in every section of the
country, except in the South and in New
York city, where the numbers are some
what in excess of previous weeks.
The acknowledgement of the army puts
the strength of the militia forces of South
Carolina as follows: General officers, g.; gen
eral staff officers, 81 regimental field and
staff officers, "a; company officers, 32S non
commissioned officers and privates, 4,O36.
This is the regular organized troops of the
State. The number Of men available for
duty in the State is placed at 115,0O0. If
called upon we would be able to raise a
right respectable army.
The Supreme Courts of New York and
Massachusetts, have settled the matter as to
who owns medical prescription. The sub
stance of the decision is, that the physician,
in prescribing gives the patient written
order for drugs, and their delivery terml-
mates the operation. The druggist may, on
his own responsibility, renew the drugs, for
drugs in any shape. He is not bound to
give COPY of the prescription, nor even to
Keep it, though he usually retains it as
protection in case of error on the part of
doctors or patients.
"A dispatch of last Friday says: 1.-The .ep-
idemic at Plymouth, Pa, is reported this
morning to be of a much more serious ma
ture than it has been for week past. One
hundred and thirty new cases have been
reported since yesterday, making in all over
six hundred persons now Frustrated with
the disease The majority of the sufferers
are improving, however, which fact is at
tributed to the cool weather. The death
rate is now about three per day. The new
cases are said to be of milder form. AT
Lanticyoke the disease made its appearance
within the last week and two deaths have
taken place since yesterday.
Planters coming in from the Arkansas
Valley to Little Rock, Ark, say that the
destruction to the cotton crop by the over
flow in the river bottoms last week can
hardly be estimated. The devastation ex.
tends over many plantations. Hundreds of
acres already planted in cotton have been
inundated and ruined by water and drift
wood. The cotton seed planted will rot.
Many growers have no seed to replant, and
it would take long time to refence and re-
store the plantations for replanting. In con-
sequence one-half the cotton crop in the
Arkansas Valley is accounted destroyed.
In personal appearance the Cossack is
not heroic. He IS clumsy with the coarse
and common features of the Tartar type,
and his shaRIbling air and manner do not
compensate for his want of fine proportions.
But he has courage, endurance and fidelity.
On service the Cossacks sleep in the open
air and are capital scouts, as their predatory
habits, quick eyesight and familiarity with
wide tracts of country enable them to dis
Germ with great readiness the features of
the ground they are traversing to fall un-
expectedly on small detachments of the en-
emy, and to disappear with rapidity as soon
as the desired mischief has been effected.
A delicate surgical operation was recent
ly performed in Bellevue Hospital, New
York A muscle from dog was transferred
to woman's arm, and the use of her arm
and fingers restored. New interest in the
case is added by reason of the fact that it is
the first time that what is known as muscle
grating has ever been accomplished in the
United States. 1t has been performed by
Prof. Valeria, of Denmark, but it remained
for Bellevue to initiate this important treat
ment in this country. The history of the
case, from a surgical standpoint, is now
being prepared, but although performed sew
eral weeks ago it has not been publicly an
nounced.
The Lincoln Press of last Friday says:
The dwelling house of Mrs. Sarah Beatty,
who lives near Mt. Holly, in CASTOR coun-
ty, N, c., was totally destroyed by fire last
Monday. Mrs. Beatty, who is eighty years
of age, lived alone in the house with the
exception Of young girl. A man who
superintended her farm lived in a house in
the yard. This man was awakened by the
glare of the fire and rushed into the yard as
the gable ends of the house were falling in.
He aroused Mrs. Beatty and her compan-
ion and they barely escaped with their
lives and saved only sum of money. Ev
erything in the house was burned up. AS
Mrs. Beatty was making her escape from
the building a piece of burning timber
fell upon her neck injuring her severe
ly. Included in the property destroyed
were several thousand dollars in stocks,
bonds and prommissOry notes. Mrs. Beat
ty's loss, it is said, is about 500 900. The fire
was evidently incendiary.
The strike of the miners in the vicinity
of Joliet and Lamont, Illinois, eliminated
last Monday in collision with the State mi
litia, ordered out by the Governor, and two
of the miners were killed. The Adjutant
General makes the following official report
of the affair: "COl. Bennett removed his