Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-06-21
Scraps and faets.

dest Baptist preacher in the State,
died at his home near Packsville,
Clarendon county, last Tuesday aged
81 years. He was in charge OF Cal
vary church for 60 years.
DIR. ]. P. Stelle says, in the Fort
Worth Gazette, that he has always
been able to drive moles away from
his garden by very simple method,
now to be described. Open small
holes in the tunnels here and there
and pour in little molasses. The
molasses gums the fur of the animal,
engenders disgust, and causes it to
transfer its operations to more cleanly
localities. Coal tar would probably
be better than molasses, though more
expensive and less convenient. One
good application of the molasses has
usually driven the moles away for the
season.
- Oklahoma is experiencing one of
the most exciting gold crazes that has
been known in the West for years.
Unusually rich veins have been dis
covered, and investigation has shown
that they extend for a distance of 40
or so miles. Thousands of people who
have taken up lands have left them
and FASTENED to the gold sections.
The excitement extends to other
States, and there is reason to believe
that within few months at most, un-
less it should develop that there is less
gold than was expected, Oklahoma
will be thickly settled. But after all,
not many of the emigrants are likely
to strike bonanzas. They are more
apt to find themselves working for
syndicates that will soon gobble up all
the best claims.
- Secretary Olney has written let
ter to the cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants National Bank, of Waco,
Texas, in which he has clearly laid
down the duty of citizens ofthe United
States in the observance Of strict neu-
trality as between the Spanish govern
ment and the Cuban insurgents touch
ing armed assistance; but also as to
rendering aid and encouragement in
a financial way. The cashier wrote
the secretary asking him if his bank
would be permitted to act as deposi-
tory for contributions from Cuban
sympathizers in the United States, and
the secretary, in his reply, quotes from
the supreme court to show that such
action on the part of the bank would
be in violation of the duty ofits officers
to the government and in contraven-
ton of the neutrality laws.
William R. Laidlow, of New York,
has secured a verdict of $40, 900 against
Russell Sage, the well-known million
aire, for damages sustained by Laid
low in the dynamite explosion in
Sage's office in 1891. 1t will be re-
membered that while Sage and Laid
low were in the office, a crank named
Morcross came in with dynamite
bomb in his hand and demanded big
sum of money from Sage. Sage re-
fused the demand and Morcross threw
his bomb. In his efforts to escape the
effects of the explosion, Sage seized
Laidlow and held him between HIM
self and Morcross. Laidlow was in
iured for life, and Sage escaped with
but little injury. Laidlow brought
suit for $4,000: and the jury returned
a verdict as above. Sage's counsel
gave notice of appeal.
Reports from the cotton sections to
the department Of agriculture at Wash
ington, show surprising falling off in
the use of commercial fertilizers. De-
partment officials say this is the most
noticeable feature Of recent advices.
For instance, the reports run like the
following: Alabama, Barbour county,
decrease in fertilizer about 25 per
cent; Chambers county, decrease in
fertilizer so per cent. Cherokee coun-
ty, decrease in fertilizer so per cent;
These counties are taken at random
but others show the same relative re-
duction. The officials believe it to be
due in part to the fact that the govern
ment experimental stations have
sought to show cotton planters that
waste could best serve as fertilizer.
But it is said that the change is so
great that it can be accounted for
only by the fact that the planters are
turning their cotton lands into use for
other kinds Of crops.
"A dispatch of Wednesday night
from Atlanta describes the condition
of Governor Atkinson as follows: At
one time today it was not believed
possible for Governor Atkinson to live
three hours longer. At $50 p. m., the
seven physicians who are attending
him stated that his case was hopeless.
His eyes were then glazed as in the
last stage of dissolution. AT 6 O'Clock
he began to rally, and at s O'Clock he
said to DR.. Holmes "Doctor, / know
you have desperate case, but / am
going to do my part and help you all
| can" TO Attorney General Joe
Terrell, the governor said: "Tell the
boys that l am going to win this fight
if possible. This is not the first hard
one / have been in." Governor At
kinson's grit is all that is keeping him
alive. If nerve and will power can
possibly save his life, he will pull
through His determination to battle
the disease is the wonder and admira-
ton of his physicians. They say that