Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-23
MERE.MENTION.

The Republican State convention of Vir-
ginia met in Richmond on the 18th and
nominated John S. Wise for Govern
or. 1.-The business failures throughout the
country last week numbered 255 against l55
the week previous. ''''''A small pox epidem-
icprevails at Cromwell, Iowa, and the peo-
pie are so panic stricken that the dead are
left unburied.; ...;;....The Free Masons OF 3, a
lodge in Canada have turned an "agnostic,"
or one who neither afirms nor denies God,
out of the lodge, and the grand lodge of
Canada has confirmed the sentence. '''''''Mr
Blaine's second volume is not in demand.
Had he been elected its sale would have
been immense. .'..''""Hundreds of acres of
the crops were destroyed by a hailstorm at
Saybrook, ILL.,, on Tuesday An 1ndi-
an scare last week extended through three
counties of Western Kansas, but official
investigation proved it to be unfound-
ed......:"Five families of immigrants, COM
prising eighteen persons, from Germany,
Russia and Austria, were returned from
New York to Europe yesterday as paupers.
Neither family had over four dollars in
money. .'.'''..'' John Roach, the ship-builder,
whose dispatch boat Dolphin the Govern
ment refused to accept because it did not
come up to the requirements of the contract,
has smade an assignment for liabilities reach
ing $4,000, besides wages and salaries OF
his oluplOyGGS. TOlCy-GNO AA4uSoso
were held in New York last Sunday on the
bodies of persons who, directly or lndi-
rectly, died from the heat of the two pre-
vious days. 1.-THE Madison, La, Times
gives both advice and warning to the alleg-:
ed "reformers' of that State in one brief
sentence: "When Judas Iscariot reformed
he Immediately went out and hanged him
self" s ....
ARTIFICIAL LIMBs.-The Columbia cor
respondent of the Charleston Ne,rS and Cou-
rier writes under date of Friday: At the
comptroller-general's office to-day l made
inqniry rs to the disposition Of the appro-
priation of $4,000 made by the Legislature
at it's last session for giving the "value" of
the appropriate artificial limbs to soldiers
of the State who had lost legs or arms in the
war. It will be remembered that this was
the last of a series of appropriations toward
bought and supplied by the State, but they
proved worthless. Subsequently the terms
of the annual appropriations were so chang
ed that the ralue of the limbs was given to
those who proved their claims to them, and
those who had received worthless applianc-
es were allowed to draw their proportion of
the money as if they had not been originally
supplied. The scale on which the fragments
are made is this: For the loss of an arm be-
low elbow, $40; above the elbow, $50. For
the loss of a leg below the knee, S75; above
the knee, 800. The amount paid varies
with the extent of the injury as certified by
surgeon. No instance is recollected where
more than $100 has been paid for the loss
of one limb. The appropriation of $4,000
was exhausted several months ago, and
there are now about one hundred unpaid
claims on file.
WITHOUT A PRESIDENT AGAIN.-The
efforts to secure the services of new pres
ident for Davidson College are certainly
meeting with disappointments. The first
president elected, since DR.. Hepburn's res
ignation, refused to accept, and after waiting
for while the trustees met again and elect
ed DR.. Lefevre, of Baltimore, to the presl-
dency. DR.. Lefevre paid the college visit
a few weeks since, and on returning to his
home in Baltimore, wrote to DR.. Rumple
that he would accept the presidency. Ar
rangements were at once commenced Tor
the early reception of the new president,
pie announcement came that the Presbytery
of MARYLAND has refused to allow DIR. Lefev-
re to resign his pastoral charge in Baltimore.
AS he cannot be president of Davidson COL
lege and pastor of church in Baltimore at
the same time, it appears that the college
is once more without president. we sup
pose that the trustees will call an early meet
ing and try it again. The date of the COM
mencement of the next session is rapidly
approaching and there is not much time to
lose: Probably if the trustees would select
a man native and to the manor born they
would find one who would take the place
and do about as we'll as any man away from
home.-C Charlotte Observer, 18th.