Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-14

q mistake. There is a melancholy want of
trees on the Western plains, but their alb
sence does not entail a perpetual drouth
anywhere. And small though the annual
precipitation of rain may be in some places,
the pioneer has yet to find the spot lex
&epting alkali lands and pure sand patch
where the heavens deny. water for the
Naising of grain and vegetables.
Texas Is a great State to write about
and read about as well as to be in. Its new
capitol, which rises four feet above the
capitol in Washington, will be completed
in May, and did not cost the State q cent.
That is, q syndicate built it for 10000
acres Of land. This small tract was not
missed, we judge, because the State has
10000, 900 of acres left. The State has a
cash balance in its treasury of Sc, 0O0,0 600 in
cash and securities.
Much interest is felt throughout the
country relative to the Rhode Island cleo
ton, which occurs on April 4 next. The
fact that the Democrats elected their Gov
ernor last year by a plurality of nearly
5000 votes makes the Democracy hopeful,
though Blaine carried the State by over
5000 plurality. At all events, this, the
the first election of the presidential year,
will be looked on as a big ''straw" by all
the politicians.
= Thirty-six of the State judges of Iowa
have replied to a circular which Governor
Larabee sent out last summer asking about
the workings of the prohibitory law. Only
four oppose the law, and two of these ad-
vocate high license. Many of the judges
would like to have the present law amend
ed so as to reach the case of illegal sales
by pharmacists. The testimony is quite
general that the law has lessened crime
and consequently the work of the courts.
What looked like the largest, straight
est, soundest, and longest walnut log ever
foated down the Cumberland, reached
Nashville the other day. 1t belonged to
q green-looking countryman who gave
good reasons why he must sell it imme-
diately. It was such a fine log that de.
spite the owners anxiety to sell, it fetched
almost its apparent value. In due course
of time it was taken out of the water, and
proved to be a sycamore log with walnut
bark tackled all over it in the most artistic
manner. The green countryman has not
been seen since.
= The Boston Bulletin announces the
formation of a stock company in that city,
which expects to control the entire sorg-
hum crop of the country through the use
of q new patent process. The company
claims to be able to produce sugar from
sorghum cheaper that cane sugars, even If
the latter should be admitted free of duty.
In addition to the sugar works now at
Fort Scott, Kansas, the company, during
the coming summer, will erect three new
factories, one of them at Topeka. The To-
cation of the other two has not yet been
selected.
The Georgia railroad commission has
reduced local first class fares of the rail
roads of that State from three to two and
q half cents per mile. The railroads &C
cept the reduction without dispute, in the
expectation that the loss by reduction
will be more than made up by increased
travel. But a few years ago local fares in
Georgia were from five to seven cents a
mile, and but few people travelled for
pleasure. Now, under the influence OF
quently visited by the country people on
business and pleasure bent.
Gen. Neal Dow, of Maine, says that
his recent defeat as a candidate for mayor.
of Portland is no sign of the strength of
the prohibition sentiment in that city.
The majority against him was a surprise
to him, as he said that he expected only a
small majority for the regular Republican
ticket. In an interview the day after the
election Gen. Dow said: 1.-THE Republican
party is losing ground in the State and the
nation, while the Prohibition party is
growing and will triumph in the end.
The State of Maine will stand by prohibit
ton and will never accept license"
"A company of capitalists is being form
, ed to drain Okeechobee, the great Florida
peninsula lake. The plan is to run three
canals, one on the west and two on the
north of the lake, which will probably
carry off three-fourths of the water now
spread over the face of the country, and
render available at least 100000 acres of
land now utterly worthless. The canals
will drain into the lake instead of into the
sea, and if the experiment proves a success
the whole face of the country will be al
replaced by the finest rice fields in the
world.
There has been a good deal of spccula-
ton as to the amount OF wealth Samuel j.
Tilden left behind him, and the figures
have been placed all the way from S4,OOO,-
OOO to $40, 0O0, 900. Mr.. Tilden never spoke
of his wealth while alive. The executors,
on Tuesday, stated in court that his assets
footed up 1925, 900 in real and personal
property. 1t was also admitted that after
the legacies provided for in the will are
paid, over four millions will remain for the
erection of three public libraries contem-
plated by Mr.. Tilden in New York city,
Yonkers, and New Lebanon, where he
was born.
In Union county, Indiana, Washing
ton Hannah, a wealthy farmer, buried his
daughter a few months ago, and placed
in her coffin her gold watch and chain and
other valuables priced by her. Above the
metallic casket in the grave he placed two
pounds Of dynamite as a guard against
possible grave robbers. Last week his
wife died and great difficulty was expe-
grave beside that of the daughter for fear
of an accidental explosion, and many
people RETAINED from attending the SER
vices in the church-yard for the same rea-
son. The matter has attracted much at
t~ention, and the effectiveness of the pro-
lection against ordinary robbers is con-
coded.
DIR. William A. Hammond read a pa
per before the Society of Medical Juris-
prudence and State Medicines in New
York on Thursday evening on the "The
superiority of Hanging as a Method of
Execution" Mr.. Hammond believes that
hanging is the best method of execution.
He said: "There is a good deal of popular
deception on the subject of death by stran-
gulatiOn. 1t is no more painful than In
cases when the neck is broken. In fact,
men who have gone through the expert
ence, and have been revived at the last
moment, described the first sensation as
rather pleasing. My son has experiment
ed with himself on this subject, and cor
roborates this assertion.
Most of the Republican members OPP
posed the resolution adopted by the Vir-
ginia legislature in it's closing hours on
Tuesday night providing for the appoint