Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-04

produced by tobacco is gained by the de-
struction of vital force, and that it contains
absolutely nothing which can be of use to
the tissues of the body. Tobacco adds no
potential strength to the frame. 1t may
spur a weary brain or feeble arm to undue
exertion for a short time, but its work IS
destructive, not constructive. 1t Itcannotadd
one molecule to the plasm out OF which our
bodies are daily built up. On the contrary,
it exerts upon it a most deletreous intiu-
ence. 1t does not supply, but dlmlnlshes
vital force. That tobacco causes functional
disturbances, no one need deny, and it
would be very remarkable if continued
functional arrangement did not lead to
chronic diseases of the organs. Indeed, a
tremor of the nerves is chronic nicotism."
"MAJOR JONES'"
One of the persOnages about Washington
during the war was Annie Jones, who orlgl-
nally professed to have ran away from
boarding-school in Boston to "follow the
drum" and who attached herself to the
headquarters of General Stahel, the COM
mander of a German brigade. A tiippant
talker, she ingratiated herself into the favor
of the General, and received an honorary
appointment as member OF his staff, and
as "Major JONES'" became an institution in
the army. She ate with the General, drank
with the General, rode with the General on
all his hazardous forays, chatted with the
General, nursed the General when he was
sick, fought the Generals battles when she
heard him aspersed by jealous undertsrap-
pers, and when night drew the starry flag
over the heavens, she slept with her beloved
colored maid in the next little tent, which
the General had assigned her. She thus
lived and f1ourished.
Her orders were wont to be obeyed, be-
cause she was recognized as staff officer
She always had the countersign, and could
pass the picket at pleasure. She was said
to be a girl of great dash and daring, and
would frequently venture out beyond the
outposts, and for days watch the movements
of the enemy, and bring in whole budgets
of information from the rebel camps, as
proofs of her stewardship and shrewdness.
Every one knew Major Jones; officers
would doff their hats, and privates would
military feminine dignity. The visiting
officers from other commands were intro
duced to Annie, and admired her, and she
reigned supreme as the ''she-major of cav
airy"
When General Hooker marched into Ma
ryland and Stahel was relieved, Miss Major
Annie shared her fortunes with the young
and gallant Custer, with whom she remain
ed, retaining her rank and title until gen.
eral order from army headquarters render
ed it necessary for him to dispense with
her valuable services, and the Major was
compelled to search for field of usefulness
elsewhere For few days she wandered
about the camp, having no particular abid.
ing place or continuing city, until Colonel
Sharpe, then acting observation-disclosures
al, thought the interests of the service re-
quired that she should be removed to Wash
ington. Accordingly pass was granted her
to travel as far as the military railroad
would carry her and sergeant OF the
Ninety-Third New York was detailed to
accompany her. to guard against any ac-
cident on the way. Arriving at Washing
ington she stopped at the Kirkwood House,
where she sometimes appeared in staff uni
form and then in fashionable female attire.
1t was believed that she was Confederate
SPY in the Union secret service.-B0stOn
Budget.
YOUTH OF FERDINAND WARD.-The
Caledonia, New York, ADVERTISER says ):
"Strange things happen in this world, but
one of the strangest in this century was the
manner of Gen. Grants ruin and by such
an instrument as Ferdinand Ward. During
the lapse of time between 1861 and 1876,
while Grant was winning worldwide fame
as soldier in the field and as President OF
the United States, the person that was des-
tined to drag him in sorrow and misery to
the grave was an unpromising Geneseo
stripIing, youth without honor at home
and unknown outside of the village limits
in short, a good-for-nothing young hummer,
apparently without a single qualification
that would mark him as one likely to win
in future life so much as a nod OF recognl-
tion even from the mightiest soldier and
most illustrious citizens of the United States
of his day. Andye if this young scallawag
had been shot in one of his ribald sprees or
struck by lightning, Gen. Grant would in
all human probability have been rich and
enjoying moderately good health to-day,
for however obscure Ferd. Ward was as a
boy, there was certain devilish, latent
talent there for cunning and wild specula-
ton possessed, perhaps, by no other human
being, and, as it happened, those peculiar
qualifications were SO directed as not only
to hoodwink, deceive and ruin the unsus-
pecting Grant, but men Of ripe experience
in financial affairs. Had a soothsayer ap-
peared in Geneseo twenty years ago and
predicted such future for the lad Ward,
he would have been sent to a lunatic asy-
lum as dangerous character to be at large.
Such are the mysterious ways OF Providence
in shaping our ends here below.
CoLoRADo's Toy FARM.-An amusing
incident occurred recently to rutfle the
placid surface of Exposition life in New
Orleans. It was the destruction of the chief
part of the Colorado State exhibit in the
Government building. The exhibit, except
a lot of minerals and photographs OF scenery,
consisted almost entirely of number OF
rude paintings on cotton osnaburgs, repre-
senting mountain views and disposed IN the
manner of cheap theatrical stage scenery.
In front of it was miniature farm with
toy houses, toy men and women and two
mammoth ears of corn standing like monu-
ments, each nearly yard high, the whole
bearing the legend, "Behold the results of
irrigation" The ears of corn were fabrica-
ted for the purpose, but they helped to set
off the cheap scenery and the toy plantation,
and attracted much attention from ladies
and children. This scenic arrangement had
been put up by one D. S. Grimes, who fig
ured as artist and decorator to the State
exhibit. Grimes complained that the State
or the Commissioners owed him some
81 500 for his work, but he had not been
paid, and about 10 o'clock, when the build
ings were deserted by all save the watch.
man on duty, Grimes took hatchet and
chopped down the frail scenery and demol,
ished the toy farm and the monumental
ears of corn. The watchman on duty at the
place saw the work of demolition in prog
ress, but recognizing in the perpetrator one
of the officials, did not interfere.
CUTTING THINGS UNDER WATER
When science was in it's infancy, much of
its fact was mixed with nonsense, and
some of the nonsense shows a wonderful
vitality. A case in point is the recent
republication of a bit of nonsense that
was current at least forty years ago. 1t