Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-20
Straps and fatts.

- Captain John n. Mafitt died at his
home in Wilmington, n. G., last Saturday
morning, after a prolonged sickness, aged
sixty-seven years. He was an officer of the
United States Navy up to the breaking out
of the war, when he resigned to unite his
fortunes with the South, serving through
out in the Confederate Navy with great dis
tinction.
- The Chicago Police Department has
Just made its official report of the bomb
throwing affair, and gives a completed list
ofthe policemen who were killedand wound
shows that &c were wounded, 5 of whom
died and 10 have returned to their beats,
leaving 81 who are still laid up with their
wounds.
Robert Yates, a little %schoolboy from
Aiken, S. c., was run over and horribly
mangled by a freight car in the South Caro-
lima Railway yard at Augusta, Ga, last
Thursday afternoon, and died on Friday
morning. He was waiting for the passen-
ger train, on which he expected to return
home, when the accident occurred. The
car had to be lifted from his legs by means
of a jack-screw.
The paid base ball players throughout
the country, the Washington Star states,
number over 900, and draw annually sala-
ries aggregating about 100000 If to this
sum were added the expense of sustaining
grounds, the salaries of managers, gate
keepers, ticket-sellers and others, the total
would probably reach more than 81 ,0OO,O OO,
to say nothing of the time of thousands of
persons wasted in attending the games.
Twelve convicts underwent the punish
ment of the pillory and the whipping post
a. Naryoocflo no1o VIC ro 1oSt SQt1rHaV
Ten were negroes and two white. Six ne
gro burglars stood one hour in the pillory
and took twenty lashes each. Only one of
the number manifested any physical suffer-
ing by the s'cat." Three negro convicts of
petty ~larcenies received twenty lashes and
two whites for similar offenses ten lashes
each.
Brilliant BARLEY Campbell, the we'll
known playwright, is now a mental wreck.
Sudden prosperity, hard work, late hours,
speculation and dissipation have smashed
him. For a long time he has been scatter
ing his money, making absurd contracts,
fooling with s~piritualism and acting like a
lunatic. At last his friends have decided
that something must be done with him and
his remaining property cared for. He IS
said to be suffering from the same disease
that killed John Mccullough.
4 pICSCuIS ny lCoSOh VI q lllS iStii III
the market price of silver, one hundred
gold dollars will buy enough silver to coin
$l2S.50 of standard silver dollars. TO state
the same fact in another way, the so-called
standard" dollar is to-day worth T.7S
cents. This dollar is kept in circulation on
a par with the gold dollar, which is worth
1922 cents more, by the credit of the Gov
eminent and the good management of Sec
rotary Manning. In other words, the
standard "dollar" is TITS cents substance
and 22.22 cents faith.
j. Draugoot lille, of Augusta, Ga, a
meat dealer, who had a family and was in
comfortable circumstances, committed sui
eide on Thursday by jumping into the
around his waist before taking the fatal
plunge, in order that his friends might
have no trouble in finding the body. He
also stuck his walking cane in the ground
and hung his hat on it to attract attention.
He was an inveterate smoker, and from
this habit a cancer had developed, greatly
disfguring his face. The pain and horror
of the disease is held to be the cause of the
suicide.
1t has been ascertained that of the Pol
ish and Bohemian rioters who drank of
liquids found in a drug store that they sack
ed during the recent rioting in Chicago,
eight have died and at least four more are
beyond the hope of recovery. A physician
who attended some Of the poisoned MEN
says the stuff taken was mostly wine of
cOlchcium, which resembles sherry wine
and has q strong smell of alcohol. The
physician says it is a virulent poison, and
almost certain death ensues if taken into
the stomach in any quantity over a tea
spoonful. 1t was swallowed by the rioters
under the supposition that it was liquor of
some kind.
A gentleman, whose relations with Pres
ident Cleveland are very intimate, recently
said that the President would not only be
married in June, but that the wedding
trip had been partially arranged. The
trip would embrace Buffalo, Canada, and
the White Mountains, and might be even
more extensive. While the bridal party
were away several changes would be made
Cleveland. The gentleman said the Pres
ident had been decidedly annoyed when
the report of his coming marriage was first
published, but now he takes the matter
more philosophically, and even enjoys
some of the paragraphs afioat respecting
the matter.
"A dog belonging to A. J. Hall, a farm
er living near Cabot, Arkansas, went mad
several days ago. and among the animals
which it wounded in its %wanderings about
the farm was a mich COW. The COW show
ed no signs of being affected by the wound
and it was thought that ~hydrophobia would
not result. A few days later, however,
the animal showed the dreaded symptoms,
and at the same time the farmers two little
children, who had been nourished with the
cows milk, exhibited similar symptoms
and are in a critical condition, suffering
most fprrih1n opnnipS Gthpr rpnnoharS of
the family are also ill, but their symptoms
are not so alarming as those of the chill
dren and some hope is expressed that they
may recover
Norway, whose animal revenue is bare
ly about So OO, 900, spends yearly 500, 900
in fighting leprosy. A visitor to one of the
national aSylums, in describing what she
saw thus concludes a long letter on the SUBJ
,iect: "Sadder to US than all the awful con-
tortions and deformities we saw, was to
behold in one of the wOmen'S rooms, knit
ting with the others, a lovely girl. For
years she may live on-some do for thirty
or forty years after their admission, though
mercifully II. per cent. die between 90 and
80 years of age, and 40 per cent. between 30
and so years. Yet some live to an old age.
If any are ever cured they are, as DIR. Han
sen observed sorrowfully, ruins of human
beings"
fare you going to hit?" asked Marshal
R. L. Jones of Frank P. Gray, who stood
before him with a stone in his hand. An
almost simultaneous shot pierced Gray
through the left breast, and he fell dying.
This took place in West End, an aristocratic
suburb of Atlanta, at one O'Clock last Sun
day while the people were dispensing from
church. An old feud existed between the
men over an attempt of Jones to arrest
Gray, in which he was foiled. On Sunday,