Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-11

gan TO reallZe CnaC ne meant JUST Wnat
he said. He would take no solid food
whatever. He grew thinner and thin
ner day by day, until last Thursday he
died, after fasting Al days. The doctor
was 80 years of age. His reason for
voluntarily starving himself to death
has not been known.
A movement was put on foot in
New York city on the 5th instant, for
q big reunion of the Blue and the
Gray, to be held there on July 4,
1896. The movement originated with
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, and is backed by Mayor
Strong, Chauncey NJ. Depew, G. B.
Rouss, and so or more other prom
inent New Yorkers. 1t is the first
thing of the kind that has ever been
attempted on such a large scale, and
is intended to be the end of the
war. Editor Dana has been elected
permanent chairman of the movement,
and Colonel John J. Garnett, who was
brave Union soldier, has been made
associate chairman.
1t will be remembered that in his
recent message, President Cleveland
said that this country could not allow
q foreign government to secure an in
crease of territory on the American
continent by force, referred to the dis
pute between Great Britain and Vene-
zuela, and said the matter ought to be
settled by arbitration. He also said
that these suggestions had been SUBJ
mitted to Great Britain but as yet
that country had not made any reply.
The reply was received by Secretary
Olney last week. 1t has not yet been
made public; but the newspapers have
it that it says that the territory in dis
pute with Venezuela undoubtedly be-
longs to Great Britain, and the matter
is not subject for arbitration. Ordi-
narily, this might look little like war !;
butthe papers 60 on to say further, that
Great Britain, has suggested that the
pending negotiations are not yet at an
end, and the inference is that she is
not exactly anxious to push the mat
ter to an extreme without very mature
consideration.
During brief session of the house
last Friday, says the Washington cor
respondent of The News and Courier,
Representative Latimer introduced a
bill of particular interest to Georgia,
South Carolina and all of the 13 original
States. 1t provides for an equal dis
tribution of public lands among the 13
original States who have not heretofore
received their just proportion for school
purposes. Under the proposed act,
South Carolina will receive the equiv
alent of 1,250,000 acres in land scrip.
The plan is for each State to pay the
expenses of locating its quota of terri
tory out of the public domain, and the
treasury of the United States issues to
each State certain land scrip, which
may be invested at not less than per
cent.-Tke interest thus derived to be
applied to the public school fund. Mr..
Latimer says he has made thorough
investigation of this subject, and he
proposes to press it for early consid-
Grafton. He has consulted many of
his associates who are interested, and
he is confident that his efforts will be
successful. Under the act, South Caro-
lima will have sufficient funds to main
tain her public school 10 months each
year. Several of the States who now
enjoy the benefits of this fund are will
ino IN assist Mr.. Latimer.
- Said Pasha, former grand vizier to
the sultan of Turkey, is more popular
with the Mohammedans than any other
official in the empire. He has been at
variance with the Sultan in regard to
the latter's Armenian policy, and it was
for this reason that he not long ago
resigned his position as grand vizier.
Immediately after his resignation, he
retired from public life. Two or three
weeks ago the sultan asked him to
again undertake the duties ofhis form
er position. He refused. His real rea-
son was the fear that the sultan would
cut his head off at the first favorable
opportunity but he gave as an excuse,
i'll health. The sultan was not salts
fed, and sent to him a peremptory
order 10 come to the palace. The
messengers who went after him had
instructions to bring him by force. He
pretended that he was going to obey
the order; but, instead, got in car
riage and drove with breakneck speed
to the British embassy, and put him
self under British projections. This
was last week. The sultan was very
angry and has been making numerous
attempts to persuade Suid Pasha to
come to the palace. The ex-grand
vizier is firmly convinced that the
palace is not near so healthy as the
British embassy, and persistently re-
fuses to change his quarters. The un-
derstanding is that he will 60 to a
British war ship under the protection
of squad of marines. There is some
serious talk of the deposition of the
sultan by the powers, and if this is
done, Said Pasha is likely to become
grand vizier to the new ruler.
- News of an elopement with rather
remarkable, to say nothing OF uneX-
pected, results, comes from Boston.
Mr.. Higginson is an aged and wealthy
banker. He had a young and good
looking wife. Not long ago the young
wife disappeared, and about the same
time a Mr.. Wheatland Smith, who has
a wife and children, and who had been
looked upon as an intimate friend OF
the Higginsons's, failed to turn up.
Both disappeared about the time of
the departure of a steamer for Genoa,