Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-11-24

section, to say nothing of lowering municip-
al debts. Beware of temptation. You will
leave your financial bones behind if you
venture into the Wall Street den.
- The business failures occurring through
out the country for the week ending last
Friday, as reported to r. G. Dun & Co.,
number for the United States, POI; Canada,
35, making total of 242 against 231 the
week previous. The casualties reported
Canada are much above the average. In
other sections of the country they are light.
= The Secretary of the lighthouse board,
whose office is in Washington, has instruct
ed Commodore Benham, inspector of the
Third lighthouse district, which embraces
Bedloe's Island within its limits, to take
steps for lighting the Bartholdi Statue of
Liberty as soon as possible. It is estimated
that it will cost about $85 day to maintain
the light, and that it will require several
days to arrange all the preliminaries.
= Prominent labor men in Washington
say that there will be an effort made to in
duce President Cleveland to call an extra
session of the Fiftieth Congress as soon after
the 4th of March as possible. They say
that both the trades unions and the
Knights of Labor are interested in the plan,
and that its object will be the passage of
= The silver mines of Mexico extend from
the Sierra Madre in Sonora, near the north
ern border to the gold deposits in Oaxaca,
in the extreme south. A continuous vein
z traverses no less than seventeen States, and
since the day of its discovery has yielded
more than "a ,0O0, 100000. Yet these great
sources of wealth are estimated to be not
more than one per cent. of the undevelop-
ed and undiscovered whole.
~ Two boys named Flynn and Myer, aged
N16 and Is, went out to gather hickory nuts
near Dexter, Mo-, on Monday of last week.
Not returning, search was made and the
clothing and bones of one were found, the
evidence showing that wolves had killed
lenger counties are Overrun with wolves,
which are becoming very bold and rapa-
cious.
The Chicago Tribune declares that the
greatest foe of the American laborer is IL
quor. It adds: Every head of family
could support his wife and children-giving
the latter good educations-in luxury, as
compared with what the same class must
subsist upon abroad, if he only would let
liquor alone. He could do all this, besides
laying by enough of his surplus to provide
against the inevitable rainy day of sick
ness and old age.
A new factor has been introduced into
the labor problem in Louisiana. It has long
been known that the knights of Labor were
engaged among the field hands organizing
lodges of the Order, but the first effect Of
their work has just been manifested. About
one hundred hands on Fair View planta-
tion, one mile above Berwick, owned by
Capt. Phary, have been on a strike since
Monday. Cutting, hauling and grinding
has entirely ceased. The hands are all cane
Knights of Labor, and the strike was insti-
tuted by order of the local lodge at Berwick.
The men demand an advance of 30 per cent.
in wages.
= In his address before the Colored Fair
Association at Raleigh, North Carolina,
last week, Senator Blair pointed out the
royal road to wealth and influence when he
advised his corored audience to "get edu-
cation; get land; get the best of BOTH"
can ever hope to elevate themselves. The
color of his skin can never make the Negro
an important element in society or State.
The refinement which comes with educa-
tion will make him respectable in his own
estimation, and the responsibility which
always attends the possession of property
will make him good citizen.
Sabine Pass will not be abandoned as
was at first thought. Two hundred and
twenty-six persons are now living in the
few houses that stood the storm. and
plucky men are returning every day to re-
build. The river is full Of fiatboats loaded
with lumber for the erection of new houses.
The new homes are noticeably higher above
the water level than the old ones. Many OF
them are on projecting piling. Thus far
only three women have returned. The
government engineers have made careful
examination of the jetties and say that
they have received no damage at all.
last Sunday morning at his residence in
Boston. He had suffered for some five years
from brain trouble, arising from overtaXing
his brain in literary work. Charles Fran
els Adams was the third son of John Quincy
Adams, and the only child that survived
him.. He was born in Boston, August 18,
1907. Mr.. Adams was one of the founders
of the Republican party. He served two
terms in Congress with distinction and was
minister at the Court of st. James from
1861 to 1868, displaying great ability and dis
tinctlon in that most important and respon-
sible position.
AT the Brewer gold mine, about twelve
miles east of Charlotte, says the Observer,
fatal accident resulting in the death of Mr..
John >MOtz, occurred last Thursday even
ing. Mr.. Motz was at work in the shaft of
the mine, II feet below the surface, when
cave-in occurred, and he was caught be-
meath falling mass of rock and crushed
in frightful manner, being killed almost
instantly. Several miners who were work.
ing near Mr.. Motz at the time of the ac-
cident escaped unhurt. Mr.. Motz was a
native of Pennsylvania, and brother of
the superintendent of the mine.
In the Camera Magazine a very curious
phenomenon in connection with photogra-
ply is recorded by the person who observed
it. He took the photograph of a child appa-
rently in good health and with clear skin.
The negative picture showed the face to be
thickly covered with an eruption. Three
days afterward the child was covered with
spots due to prickly heat. "The camera had
seen and photographed the eruption three
days before it was visible to the eye." An
other case of a somewhat similar kind is
also recorded, where a child showed spots
on his portrait which were invisible on his
face fortnight previous to an attack of
small pox. 1t is suggested that these cases
might point to a new method of medical di-
agnOsis.
II now appears probable that Dr. T. C.
and killed William Sharpe on the 18th
instant, has been lynched. Powell was ar
rested at the time, and it was at first report
ed that while the Sheriff was taking him to
Jail he was met on the road by a number Of
Powell's friends, who compelled his release
Now it is stated that while Officer AIRING
ton was taking Powell to Edgecombe county
Jail in buggy he was met on the road
three miles from Rocky Mount by body
of masked men, who demanded the prison
er, saying they wanted to lynch him. Ar
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