Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-05
Straps and fatts.


Fair, and was accumulated by Fair IN
an attempt to corner the wheat crop
of the country. Fair commenced his
big deal in August, 1898. Then wheat
for May delivery was worth sl.25
bushel. 1t went down slowly and
surely until, finally, it struck the low
est price on record. The sale last
Thursday was for S5 cents bushel,
The storage on the wheat averaged
from $40, 900 to $50, 900 month, and it
is estimated that the total loss on the
deal was something like $4,000, 900.
The price paid for it by the purchasers,
last Thursday, was $3,O49,SO0.
In Wyoming, Gentle made a
complaint to the county attorney of
Uinta county to the effect that Nor
mon was living with two wives. The
county attorney said he knew it, but
refused to prosecute the Mormon.
The Mormons heard of the complaint,
and undertook to scare the Gentle
into leaving the country. Several Of
them told him that they intended to
hang him. He answered that there
were not enough Mormons in the coun-
ty to hang him, whereupon they SET
upon him. He knocked a couple of
them down, and they then began to
stone him. He retreated and got a
gun. When he came out of his house
the Mormons had made themselves
scarce. The Mormons still talk of
lynchiug; but the Gentiles say that in
case they undertake it there will be a
well-flled Mormon graveyard there.
There are $50 men in the county who
have two or more wives, and the coun-
ty officials are aware oft.
The "HundretB Man" has been a
character of fiction, says the New
York World, but it is reserved for So
ber fact and reality, to instance the
man who can celebrate his one hundreth
wedding anniversary. Such a celebra-
tion. actually occurred during the
month of April in a little village of
Hungary, Zsombulga by name, the
still happy bridegroom being ll6 years
of age and named Jean Szathmary,
and the bride about a year his Junior.
These people were peasants, and
among the poorest in the little Hunga-
rian town, but the fact of their having
lived to celebrate so unique an occur
renee as the hundreth anniversary of
their marriage has made them the
most honored citizens of the place.
The little municipality of Zsombulga
has voted them a pension, and so long
as they live they will be taken care of
by the village. The Viennese journals
sent correspondents to describe the
old couple in the fullest detail.
H. H. Bryan, of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts was arrested last Saturday and
held in $500 bond for sending a scurri
lous postal card through the mails.
The card was signed by Bryant ad-
dressed "To the Prostitute Judges Of
the Supreme Bench of the United Sta
tes and read as follows: CATER Judas
had done his dirty job he had enough
manhood left to return his bribe, and
then forever put himself beyond hu-
man right. His example is worthy of
your serious attention. Private in
come from land is unmixed injustice,
as the same springs from public effort
and is beyond the reach of private en-
deavor. No doubt that millionaires
needed to support their lordly estab-
lishments in various parts of the world
and their luxurious harems that float
upon the seas. But millionaires have
always been curse 10 all people in all
times-a deadly and far-reaching rot to
the entire gamut of morals, both public
and private. You illustrate one phase
of that rot" Bryant is said to have
very strong views on the subject of
taxation, and the foregoing communi-
cation is supposed to have heen in
spired by the recent decision on the
income tax question.
Memorial Day in Chicago last
Thursday was an occasion long to
be remembered. The special feature
was the dedication of q monument to
the 5000 Confederate soldiers who
died in the prison of the city during
the war. The exercises were partic-
dated in by members of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and large
number of surviving Confederate vet
Grams. General Wade Hampton was
the orator of the occasion. He made
no apologies for the course of the South
in the matter of secession. He re-
minded his hearers that while the
South had been unsuccessful, that was
no evidence that she was wrong. But
now, all this is neither here nor
there. The war had demonstrated one
thing to certainty, and that is Ameri-
ca in arms, can defy the world. The
monument in Chicago will commence
rate only the valor and prowess of the
American soldier. A beautiful cere-
mony in connection with the exercises
was the spiking of several guns in the
cemetery. The ceremony was SYM
bolic of future peace and good will.
The graves Of the soldiers were deco
rated with carloads Of flowers sent
from Charleston, Atlanta, Savannah,
New Orleans and other Southern cities
for the purpose.
A remarkable controversy is on
between Governor Mitchell, of Florida,
and Judge Gibbons, of the Jacksonville