Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-06
Straps and fatts.


as constituting the agricultural
classes, it makes the average wealth OF each
individual $3.50. This compares we'll in the
scale with the other classes.
The first hale of Georgia cotton was re-
ceived at Savannah on the 9th ultimo. 1t
was from the farm of the Hon. Primus
Jones, of Baker county and was rejected.
1t is said that the bolls were picked green
and cracked open by the sun. The cotton
was very hot.
Here is a short sermon for the rising
generation, which is preached by the Nash
Vile american: "Intelligence ennobles
work and work crowns intelligence with
honor. The young man who shirks work
will never rule others; the young man who
selects vocation because it is easy is al
ready effeminate."
"A rumor having been put in circulation
that Gen. j. B. Gordon, of Georgia, had
lost about 100000 in matching his wits
against Gould in Wall street, he hastens to
remark that he never had any business
dealings with Mr.. Gould and consequently
never contributed the aforesaid sum to that
gentleman's cash drawer.
Says the Augusta Chronicle: ''The truly
loyal quarrel over Grants body is very un-
seemly. The reaction from all this fuss
and feathers will be tremendous. Grant
himself may have been supplemented,
but his family are not. They got him to
New York for his ruin and are determined
to plant him there for their vanity.
Several months ago body of masked
men visited the house of Prof. p. j. Slocum,
a school teacher, near Horse Cave, Ky. Slo-
cum fired into the crowd and killed three
of them. Last Friday, Slocum filed suit
for $25, 900 against nineteen of the best cltl-
zens of that county. He also charges them
with conspiracy to drive him out OF the
country.
The Chief of Police of Erie, Pa, has
been publicly charged with brutality tor
denouncing Grant and comparing him with
Jack Shepard. And at Chicago a woman
has been arrested for tearing to shreds the
on it. The South will soon be called upon
to send troops across the line and crush out
the terrible ''rebels."
The mortality among children in New
York is fearful Out of the 1,04 deaths re-
ported in that city last week, 765 were OF
children under five years of age, 342 OF
them from diarrhoeal diseases, of which dis
order only 80 older persons died. Surely
there should be some way to prevent this
slaughter Of the innocents. Excessive heat
and want of proper care and treatment
does deaths work for the little ones.
- Nature ripens swath twelve miles
wide daily in the United States, commenc-
ing early at the Gulf and ending late in the
sparse settlements of the far North. The
cereal harvest sWath commences in May in
Mississippi and ends far into September in
some portions of the Red River of the
North. In this wheat by and by the click
of the reaper will give place to the busy
hum of the thresher.
Sixty criminals who have been sentenced
to exile in Siberia recently, while en- route,
rose against their guards, and although un-
armed, began a desperate fight for liberty.
The battle lasted long time and the SOL
them. Twenty of them were shot dead and
of the other forty thirty succeeded in ma
king good their escape. Two soldiers were
wounded during the fight.
Soon after Gen. Grants body was placed
in its new enclosure on Thursday, Col. Fred
Grant entered the room and placed plain
gold ring upon the generals right hand.
He then took small package out of his
pocket and placed it in the right hand pock
ct of his fathers trousers. This suggestive
package is a compliance with one of the last
private requests made by the general to his
son.
The incoming Leadville train, due at
Denver, Colorado, last Friday evening, eX-
ploded dynamite cartrigde, when about
two and one half miles south Of the city:
The engine and tender were badly wreck
ed by the explosion and one length OF the
gers were injured. The explosion was dis
tinctly heard q distance of 10 miles. 1t is
generally believed that the outrage was the
work of strikers.
Mr.. Atkinson, the economist and sta
tistician, points out that "there is % per
cent profit in making counterfeit half-dol-
lars of full weight and standard purity,
and 20 per cent. profit in counterfeiting
the Bland dollars of equal goodness with
the genuine. "The enterprising American
counterfeiter will not allow the govern
ment to get the benefit of this state of things.
He can buy the bullion from the silver men
and coin it himself. The silver men would
assent, and as long as his dollar is exactly
as good as the governments, the latter
ought not to find fault"
-"Many men of many minds" Richter
said no man can either live piously or die
religiously without a wife. Malesberbes
said the two most beautiful things on earth
were women and roses. Saville considered
there was more strength in women's looks
than in any laws. Victor Hugo didn't be-
lieve that women detested serpents so much
from fear, but more through professional jeal-
ousy. Boucicault wished Adam had died
with all his ribs in his body. The only
thing that consoled Lady Blessington for
being a woman was that she could not be
made to marry one.
A Tombstone, Arizona, dispatch of Thurs
day says: "Parties just arrived from Sonora
state that company of Mexican citizens
led by the prefect of the town of Arizona
discovered a squaw camp in the Pinati
Mountain, the latter part of last week. The
camp was attacked and number of squaWs
and a few old bucks were killed. Many of
the former escaped by taking refuge in the
mountains. They were undoubtedly the
families Of renegades trying to regain the
reservation and were probably left behind
with the intention of being taken by United
States troops, in which case they would
have been returned to the reservation un-
harmed.
"A white man named Hemming, who
lives in Dale county, Arkansas, is turning
black. About six months ago he noticed
that the skin on his breast showed signs of
discoloration in spots. At first the patches
were of pale, brownish yellow color, but
they gradually grew darker and the hue
seemed to spread. Then his arms and back
began to be similarly affected, and subse
quently his legs became discolored. Re-
Gently small spots have made their appear
ance on his cheek, forehead and neck. This
gradual discolorment, it is believed, will
continue until the mans skin becomes who'll
ly black, or rather, very dark brown. The
physicians who have examined the case
pronounce the affection to be one of which
there is no record in medical treatises. A
singular feature about the malady is that
Hemming's general health sin no way inn