Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-21
Tho nota which lillian sent to Tom, tell.


The note which Lillian sent to Tom, tell
ing him "I will be there" &C., never reach
ed him. The colored boy returned and said
he could not find him. He left the note at
the American House, and it was kept in the
hotel office for some days, and then torn up
and thrown in the waste basket. After 1t
was ascertained that Miss Merton and Miss
Madison were probably the same, it was
found and pasted together
HER DEAD BODY FOUND.
Stranded on one fthe sl0ping sides OF the
reservoir basin, what appeared to be the
body Of German woman was taken out and
laid upon the ground. 1t twas the dead BODY
of Fannie Lillian Madison. On March i3th
the water in this reservoir had been allowed
| to fall four feet, which exposed the BODY 10
view in the morning. There was no no 81 sign n; OF
hat or shawl, and as at first no mark OF Vlo-
lence could be seen, tho hasty conclusion
was reached by some that it was a case OF
suicide. Later in the day, and particularly
the following two days, there could be seen
the mark of heavy blow over the rlght
eve, lips slightly bruised. and on the fore
head some little, trihing specks. The blow
on the forehead-the most serious hurt-had
not fractured the skull, or even broken the
skin; but it had caused an effuslon OF olood
on the brain, and it's effect was seen on the
opposite (back) side of the brain, in what
was taken to be ''counter-stroke." LII
MIGHT have been the counter-stroke, or a
second blow given her. The skin on the
lips was not broken, but in a few days the
under lip was darkened greatly. The au-
topsy also revealed the fact that deceased
would have become Il mother in from four
to six weeks. The conclusion of the doctors
was that death occurred in the water, (there
was mud clenched in her hands y that 1T
was impossible to tell whether the blows
were given before or after death, but that if
before death they, were sufficient to render la9
deceased insensible, and might possibly
have resulted in death.
HER STRUGGLE FOR.LIFE.
Evidences Of severe struggle were all
around the spot. There were probably ten
or fifteen tracks. A glove and a shoe string
were found. Her veil was picked up out
side the reservoir grounds. Close by it was
found an old-fashioned watch key. Fur
ther on, in the small pox hospital grounds
close by, another glove was found. Her
hat had been thrown through the broken
window of the dead house. Down in a
brier thcket was found terra Gotta silk
handkerchief, so far unidentified. On the
front fence of Mr.. Dunstan's residence, a
half mile away, was found her crochet
shawl. Some three or four miles away, in
the flames river, opposite the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway wharves, was found her
clothes bag, while at no accessible point
does the river flow nearer to the reservoir
than from one half to three-quarters of a
mile.
There had been "spittings" of snow that
day, the ground was damp, the weather
cold and the place one of the most undesira'
BILE for man or woman in Richmond. 1t
was lonely spot, difficult Of access, with
the cemetery of the small pox hospital, with
its one hundred and fifty white head-boards,
near by.
..... CLUVERICS ARRESTED.
Cleverius was arrested at his Aunt Tun.
stalls on Wednesday evening following
He declared he had never seen Fannie
while in Richmond,
ART OF TALK1NG.-There is not by any
means alack of talk, this is abundant. Cos
sip and scandal and slang we have an over
abundance of, but Of conversation, sensible
talk, there is sad want of that. The Amer
lean people have been dubbed nation
of takers or rather of twaddlers, and there
is much truth in the assertion, but the same
may be said of almost every other nation
under the sun. There are few really good
takers, men from whom, in ordinary con-
versation, you can gather a fund OF knoWl-
edge, and who are entertaining as well.
You need not long be in the company
Of a man until you are aware Of his weak
points. If his general demeanor does not
betray him his tongue will. But all men
are not of the classes spoken of. There are
many who have wonderful powers of con-
versation. Men who do not talk about
themselves, or discuss common places of
life, but who talk calmly of religion, poe
try, philosophy, the economy OF human
file, the cultivation of the intellect, and
the affairs of the nation. The art of talk
ing should be study. Attention should
be given to it in the home and school.
There is very much in the training men
receive as to whether they will become use
full takers. With very little care almost
any one can become a good conversational
ist.-Lnterior Monthly.
THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FORCE.-Says
the Horoiogical NeUs: Everything on the
earth and in the air above is permeated
with earth's magnetic force-it goes through
your clothes, it penetrates your bodies, It
saturates your brains, it is part Of life itself.
Gaus, the illustrious German astronomer,
has omputed-taking as a unit of his meas
urement, magnet fourteen inches long,
one inch wide, One-fourth inch thick, weigh
ing one pound, made of the hardest steel
and of the strongest magnetic force posi-
ble-the earth's magnetic force as equal to
s, ,4G5 ,00O, ,O00, ,000, 900 100000, such magnets.
The attracting or lifting power of such a
magnet is about 10 pounds, which would
make the attracting power of the earth,
42,31O, ,0OO, 900, 100000 900 tons. If this mag
netism were equally distributed through
out the mass of the earth, the magnetic in
tensity of each cubic yard would be equal
to six of these magnets or about sixty
pounds attractive force. Professor May
err has shown that this magnetic influence,
this invisible force, is a power filling space
to an unknown distance, and radiating in
the lines of magnetic force very much as
the rays of the sunlight, the lines OF the
earth's magnetic force being from south to
north, as indicated by the compass needle.
FACTS ABOUT CANCERS.-Nearly every
case of cancer can be traced to some exciting
cause, such as an injury to the part, a local
disease in some of the glands or a neglected
warty growth. High living with insufti-
cient exercise or the neglect of the general
health conduce to it. The most generally
accepted idea of the nature of the disease is
that it is the result of the morbid growth or
development of white blood c0rpuscles, as
the cells usually found in cancer resemble
these more than any other. These cells do
not increase and develop like the cells found
in mis- and other morbid conditions, but