Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-05

places, but under kind treatment becoming
quite tame. Many instances are cited OF pet
toads remaining several years in family, and
doing valuable services with no other compell-
sation than immunity from persecution. AL
that is necessary to secure their cooperation,
indoor or out, is to provide them cool and safe
retreats by day, convenient access to water,
and they will 20 forth to the performance OF
their nocturnal duties ''without money and
without price" In Europe toads are carried
to the cities to market, and are purchased by
the horticulturists, who by their aid are ena-
bled to keep in check the multiplication OF the
insect tribes which prey upon their fruits, etc.
THE MORGAN STATUE.
The famous Masonic mystery is recalled by
the unveling at Batavia, N. Y, of monu-
ment to William Morgan, the man whose name
was for many years in everyDody's mouth.
The monument is nearly 40 feet high, SUR
mounted by statue of the man, and has been
built by subscriptions collected in all parts of
the country. The principal inscription smacks
decidedly Of the excitement which followed
his disappearance, thus: "Sacred to the MEM
ory of William Morgan, a native OF Virginia,
captain in the war of 1872, a respectable Cit
izen Of Batavia and martyr to writing, print
ing and speaking the truth He was abducted
from near this spot in the year 1926 by Free
mason, and murdered for revealing the secrets
of their order" Morgan was a blacksmith in
Batavia, a Mason, and seems not to have
borne the best possible character, in spite OF
this inscription. He began the work by pub
fishing the secrets of the order, and it was
while engaged in getting out the book that ne
was abducted. He was arrested upon charge
of theft, September II, 1926, and taken to Ca
nandiagua. Four days later, he was released
both arrest and release were Strange-and i'm
mediately taken in carriage, by Masons, and
conveyed to Fort Niagara. There he was con-
fined for a few days, and then all trace of him
disappears. A body was found in Niagara
river sometime after, believed by many to
have been Morgan's, but the fact as to that
was never established. Masons claimed that
the only object in abducting Morgan was to
prevent him from communicating with Miller,
the man who was publishing his book, and, of
course, could suggest many ways in which ne
might have disappeared; but the outside belief
was that the man who told secrets had been
murdered by members of the order, and there
was the widest excitement. Eli Bruce, sheriff
of the county, and several others were tried
for murder, but there were no convictions, al
though Bruce narrowly escaped. Then anti
Masonic associations were formed, the thing
got into politics, feeling on the question ran so
high that regular party lines were, for time,
completely lost sight of, and even here in New
England, some of the masonic Campaigns"
about the year 1880, are remembered as the
hottest ever known. Through itall the Nor
gan mystery'' remained unsolved, and SO 1t re-
mains to-day. A man named Robert Morris,
of Kentucky, has been busy for 30 years try
ing to get at the facts of the case, however,
and it is said that he will soon publish the re-
suits of his labors. Springfield Republican.