Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-15
Scraps and facts.

1897 will see another State-Oklaho-
ma--added to the list.
The J. Pierpont Morgan syndicate is
still on deck, and confidently expects
to secure the whole S100,000,000 worth
ofbonds for which bids are now being
advertised. Just what the bid of the
syndicate will be is not known but it
is thought that it will be in the neigh
borhood of 1O6, which will put the
bonds on 8 per cent. basis.
Zadkiel and Raphael, two noted
astrologists, declare that 1896 will be
a year of progress and strife" There
will be an unusual number of blizzards
in the North during the winter, and
cyclones and earthquakes in the South
in the spring. The presidents health
will suffer and be will be in disfavor
and, trouble. Strikes, murders, sui
cides, mining disasters and violent cpl
denies will occur in these United
States; but prosperity will be general.
They seem to have seen nothing in the
stars to indicate war between the
United States and England but pre-
dict revolution in Europe and that
Russia and Turkey will be the scene OF
the most exciting events.
According to the new Congression-
al Directory, which has just made its
appearance, the house of representa-
tives of the 54th congress is composed
of 223 lawyers, "a farmers, IS news
paper men, 16 merchants, Is manufac-
turers, 9 physicians, 6 bankers, 5
lumbermen, 8 brokers, 4 railroad men,
8 college professors, 2 clergymen, 2
shipowners, 2 miners, 2 builders, l
printer, l architect, l druggist, l
theatrical manager, school teacher, l
music teacher, and 16 who have
followed no other business or profess
sion than politics. The senate Of the
54th congress contains 60 lawyers, 6
merchants, 8 newspaper men, 8 farm
ers, 8 railroad men, 2 clergymen, 2
miners, l physician, MANUFACTURER, l
banker, 1 shipowner, and 5 men who
have followed politics only. In other
words, about. 63 per cent. of our
representatives and about 68 per cent.
of our senators in the national legisla-
ture are lawyers.
Quite a number of the newspapers,
most notably the New York World,
have been so close after Mr.. Cleveland
in regards to his manner of selling
bonds with which to keep up the gold
reserve, that he has found it necessary
to write a letter of denials. The letter
is addressed to Senator Caffrey, and is
dated January 5; but it did not appear
in the papers until January 8. The
letter starts out by denouncing the
attacks of The World as malicious and
mendacious. He does not refer to the
paper by name but there is no doubt
as to his meaning. He says that no
banker, financier or other human being
has been invited to Washington in re-
CARDS to the bond issue, and says that
no arrangement has been made with
any syndicate for the disposition ofthe
bonds. In conclusion, he says that it
was the intention of the secretary of
the treasury to make the loan popu-
lar one from the very first moment it
was foreseen that another loan would
be necessary. The letter shows that
the president is evidently very much
ANNOYED at the violent criticisms Of his
record that the newspapers have been
indulging in.
-Froude's Lectures on South Afri-
ca" contains as good and succinct a
statement ofthe character and habits OF
the Beers as can be referred to. "The
Transvaal," says Froude, (writing in
1SS0) "is being gradually filled up, in
a patriarchal fashion, by people who
know nothing of the world and care
nothing for it; who never read news
paper; whose one idea beyond their
own concerns is hatred of the English,
but who are civil and hospitable to
English travellers and sportsmen.
They are proud, stubborn race, free,
ard resolute to remain free; made OF
the same stuff as their ancestors, who
drove the Spaniards out of Holland !.
I stayed with more than one of them.
The beds were scrupulously clean the
food plain and abundant. Before and
after meals there is long grace. The
day begins with Psalm sung by
girls. They are strict Calvinists, igno-
rant, obstinate and bigoted. But even
Calvanism has its merits. They are,
l suppose, not unlike the Scotch farm
ers were 200 years ago."
Columbia State: 1t is said that
Texas, despite the warning experience
of the last two years, is going to
increase its acreage in cotton this
year. That is so much the greater
reason why the South Atlantic States
should sharply decrease their acreage
Why did we have losing prices for
cotton in 1884? Because Texas
planted an immense acreage and
gathered an immense crop. Why have
we had paying prices in 1s94-5
Because, although Texas planted
perhaps as largely as before, its crop
was cut down nearly one-half, while
the Atlantic States lost only about
one-fourth of their crop. What is the
conclusion to be drawn from these
c,ote 9 That tho Tayos nron pontrols