Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-28

South is a remarkably clear and unbiased
one, coming from northern man, and we
thank him for publishing it. The work
may be of great service in correcting the
unlovely impression of the Southern people
which still prevails largely at the North,
and of course the sooner and the better the
different sections of the country understand
each other the happier the whole people
will become. The danger pointed out in
the last paragraph we quote is real and is
recognized by all the thoughtful men of the
South. With the difficulty, when it comes,
however, we have no doubt there will be
abundant strength to cope.
A SENSATIONAL DAMAGE SUIT.-The
most sensational damage suit of the day has
lust come to an end in the United States
court at Little Rock, Ark. 1t seems that
year ago. one Nose Harris, who was run
ming newspaper at Hot Springs, made
himself and his journal SO obnoxious to the
good people of the town that they organl-
zed mob. The newspaper business was
summarly broken up, and Harris was es-
corted out of town by an armed posse, with
an emphatic warning not to return. Har-
ris, when he had reached safe place, sat
down and cogitated. The result was that
he brought suit in the federal court for
100000 damages, against nearly all the re-
spectacle citizens of Hot Springs. The
case excited tremendous interest through
out the Southwest. Eminent lawyers were
retained on both sides, and the trial lasted
several days. The jury returned verdict
awarding damages to Harris to the amount
of 81 ,25O, which covers property destroyed
by the mob and actual loss of business.
Harris will now institute against each men,
covery of sentimental and punitive dam
ages. It seems that.a petition was gotten
up and signed by l47 citizens for the ex-
pulsion of Harris from Hot Springs. Each
signer of this petition under the ruling of
the court, is liable to the victim of mob
I law. 1t is believed that the ill-used editor
will bring suit against all of these parties,
and the prospect is that he will keep the Y.
S. courts full of business for some years to
come. Since the days of Mrs. Myra Clarke
Gaines, no one person has ever brought
such an avalanche of suits.
WoMAN's INFLUENCE.-The correspon-
dents are saying that certain women played
the most important part in bringing about
the peaceful result of the Anglo-Russian
difficulty. These fair and noble creatures
were the Czarina and her sister, the Princess
of Wales, whom the Crown Princess Ger.
The crown princess herself did not interfere,
it is reported. She is English born and is
represented as being in the highest degree
dissatisfied with the present condition OF
things. Of course she did not wish war but
she regards the course of Gladstone as haV-
| ing brought humiliation upon his country.
The Baron Won Stockmar, son OF the late
Baron Won Stockmar, who was the most
| intimate friend and adviser of the prince
consort, the crown princess father, earnest
| ly requested the queen in a letter, it is said,
| to put all her influence in the scales against
war, as he could not believe, by reason of
circumstances we'll known to him, in Eng
lands ability te achieve victory. He re-
called the fact that the prince consort in
his political bequest denoted Russia as the
greatest enemy of Europe and especially OF
England. Baron Won Stockmar lives in
Berlin and enjoys the friendship of the
crown princess and queen Victoria as dld
his father. If this pretty story with which
land, and for Russia also, that feminine in
fuence has been so successful.
WILL-PoWERA YOUNG MANS FORTUNE.
President Gates, of Rutgers College, says:
"Every young man has a fortune In the TACT
of his youth. The energy of youth is un-
blunted by defeat or worn by hope deferred.
With age one becomes more conservative
and looks at as impossible what a younger
person would attempt to accomplish, in
many cases with success. The effort even
if there be a failure, is a grand success.
Self-confidence, or self-conceit, if you wish
to call it so, is great thing. A young mans
fortune is not to be found in inherited wealth
or social position. Every man is the arbiter
of his own fortune. Gracious manners and
habits are good things to cultivate, but are
not ALL Will-power is the young mans
fortune. 1t is the essence of the man. A
Young man with only little wil-power is a
foregone failure. 1t should be cultivated.
Genius is gift of God and should not cause
pride, but an honest pursuit of duties IS an
exhibition of will-poWer and is something
to be proud Of Well-directed, educated
will-poWer is what young man needs"
CLAY's DEGENERATE DESCENDANTS
All the grandsons of Henry Clay were dis
sipated. The brightest of them was Henry,
who was shot dead in barroom not long
ago. 1t is recalled that flames, the eldest,
was at one time engaged to Miss Maggie,
daughter of Senator Beck. His habits COM
pellled her to break Oft the engagement.
When her marriage with young Mr.. Corco-
ran, nephew of the banker, was arranged,
Clay sent him word that the ceremony
should never occur. So fearful was Miss
Beck of some tragedy at the church that
when she arrived at the door she did not
want to have her wraps thrown around her,
but nervously threw open the carriage door
and ran into the vestibule. 1t was cold,
raw day, and she caught a cold, which re-
suited in her death before the honeymoon
was over. The young mans threat did end
in tragedy.
A BIT OF ScIENCE.-Wood, when sub
iected to heat of from 400 to 800 degrees, is
resolved into three distinct products-char-
coal, pyroligneous acid and gases. The
process is thus described: A cord of fairly
seasoned wood weighs, say 1000 pounds.
This cord of wood, placed in charring re-
ceptacle and subjected to a proper tempera'
ture for, say FIVE days, entirely disappears.
In its place we have 1000 pounds of char,
coal, 1000 pounds of pyroligenous acid an and
1000 bounds of uncondensed gases. Inc
aggregate weight of these products is equal
exactly to the original weight of the wood:
BY the agency of heat the constituents OF
the wood have been disassociated, and the
immediate reconciliation of these constitu-
ents result in the charcoal, the acid and the
fixed gases
Nor A PLEASANT STORY.-A Washing
ton dicna toh sayc the United States Senate,