Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-07-10

Mrs. Cleveland, at Gray Naoles, !asC
Sunday. At last accounts both mother
and child were doing we'll.
Mrs. Catharine O'Leary, the owner
of the famous cow which, in October,
1871, kicked over the lamp that start
ed the fire that burned the city of
Chicago, died last Thursday. Up to
the time of her death, Mrs. O'Leary
always denied that the fire originated
as alleged. Whether she was indirect
ly responsible for the memorable Incl
dent, the fact that the public believed
her to be, embittered her life. She
died of pneumonia.
- The report of Bradstreet's Com
mercial agency for last week is encour-
aging. 1t shows an upward tendency
in prices, and says that numerous
corporations have granted voluntary
increases in wages. These increases
average 10 per cent. and affect over
100000 people. The price of cotton
goods and woolens is either standing
firm or going up, steel rails, billets and
iron bars are in good demand at ad-
vancing prices, and altogether the
indications are that the country is in
fair way to speedy recovery from the
long season of depression.
-Ex-President Harrison is down on
bicycle riding and gum chewing women.
A dispatch says that when he was at
Dana, Ind, last week on hunting
expedition, the subject of bicycling
came up for discussion, and he express
ed himself most emphatically upon it,
taking the ground that it was ungrace-
full in ladies to ride bicycles. He is
reported to have said that he did not
believe there could ever be any love
matches made on wheels, and the
time of late when he most whished
that he had his gun, was when ne saw
a woman riding a wheel and chewing
gum.
- Wednesday morning, last, G. W..
Bowman left Denver in a buggy pro-
PEELED by gas, and will attempt to reach
Chicago in three days at cost not to
exceed S5.1O. If he succeeds he will
receive from a capitalist in Chicago,
the sum of $4,000 for the right to sell
the machine in half the State of Illinois.
The gas engine weighs 275 pounds and
the supply of gasoline may be put un-
der the seat, where it may be drawn
upon when occasion demands. He es-
Inmates that a gallon per horse power
is sufficient for 10 hours run. The
machine complete is designed to cost
Just what good horse and harness is
worth, and the expense of running the
vehicle is less than the cost of feeding
and shoeing horse.
The wind and rain played havoc
throughout the Mississippi Valley last
week from the source to the mouth of
the river. At Winona, Miss, 80 hous-
es were washed away and 10 people
were drowned by a cloudburst. At
Salina, Kansas, Smoky river filled the
valley from bluff to bluff and reached
a width of two miles. A large number
of people had a close call for their
lives. At Baxter Springs, Kansas,
five people were killed, 20 were injur-
ed and 100000 worth of property
was destroyed by cyclone. On Sun
day there were terrible rains from
Nebraska to Texas. Forty-three lives
were lost and millions of dollars worth
of crops and other property was de-
stroyed, and the loss of life runs up
into the hundreds. A fearful storm
on the great lakes occurred on the same
day and destroyed large number of
vessels.
- Edgefeld, Union, Abbeville and
Florence counties, have aopted resolu-
tions that declare for the election OF
delegates to the constitutional conven-
tion regardless of factional affiilation.
Aiken, Hampton, York, Marion, Ches-
ter and Horny have agreed upon an
equal division between the factions.
Oconee and Lexington have reached
quasi agreement for division, but
have not sealed the compact by a
formal resolution. In Greenville there
is talk of compromise ticket, on
which the Conservatives will probably
have two representatives, Williams
burg county does not appear to be es-
pecially interested; hut from all &C
counts, equal division seems to be
reasonably certain in Newberry, Marl-
boro and Fairfield, and though there
are still quite number of counties to
act, there is good reason to believe
that throughout the State generally,
the delegates are going to be chosen
without great deal of friction.
- In 1850 the people of the United
States consumed liquor to the amount
of 4.0S gallons per capita. In 1892
they were consuming more than four
times as much. We turn to the statis-
tical abstract, issued by the secretary
of the treasury, and find that while in
1876 the American people were using
S.67 gallons of liquor of all kinds per
head, in 1892 they were consuming
1904 gallons per head, part of which,
however, is used in the arts. Yet it
cannot be said that we have been be-
hind our British cousins in earnest
though apparently unsuccessful at
tempts to stem the rising flood of in
temperance. Rather, indeed we should
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