Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-28
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has been introduced in congress to
make the Fourth of July a national
holiday. Most people will be sur
prised to learn that this important an
niversary has never yet been thus des-
ignated; but strictly speaking there
is but one national holiday-Thanks-
giving Day-and that is made such by
the annual proclamation of the presi-
dent. Federal offices are usually clos
ed on Christmas, New Years Day,
Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and
Washington Birthday, but the closing
is simply custom, and is not directed
by law or officially recognized by the
United States government.
- The Grace Street Baptist church,
the largest church building in Rich
mond, which was completed about two
years ago at q cost of $65,000 was
totally destroyed by fire Tuesday after
noon. The fire originated from a de-
fective fue. There was S25, 900 in
surance on the building. The Rev.
William E. Hatcher, D. D., is the pas
tor. The flames communicated to the
Richmond Female seminary, directly
across the street, and that building was
damaged to the extent of some $4,000.
Flying brands set fire to the roofs OF
some half dozen houses in the southern
part of the city, but none OF these
houses suffered materially. Only the
direction of the wind prevented the
burning of some of the most valuable
business property on Broad street, the
chief retail street of the city. Great
excitement prevailed during the pro-
gress of the fire.
Mr.. Frederic R. Coudert, of the
Venezuelan commission, believes that
Mr.. Cleveland will accept another
nomination. He says: $50 far as Mr..
Cleveland, personally, is concerned, |
have no doubt that he would prefer
the peace and quiet of home life to the
exactions and cares of the presidency /;
but at the same time I am convinced
that if patriotic considerations satisfied
him that the path of his duty lay in the
acceptance of candidacy for another
term, he would postpone his personal
preferences, however strong they might
be, in another direction. 1t is my belief
that if in the next few months the
treasury be found to be in healthy
condition and all our foreign relations
amicable, Mr.. Cleveland will positively
refuse to allow his name to 60 before
the nominating convention. In the
event of certain exigencies arising,
however, it may be deemed necessary
that the president accept fourth
nomination at the hands of his party"
-One.of the most remarkable charac-
ters at the Capitol in Washington has
been noticed only this session. He
is a young man, with a full beard,
wearing well-brushed suit of clothes,
who spends weary hours every day
walking up and down the corridors
with hands folded behind his back,
apparently in deep abstraction. He
has three favorite places for his
peregrinations. After he has paced
off the distance of one some 500 or
600 times, he changes his base OF
operations and repeats the perform
ance elsewhere for an hour or so,
when he goes to the third place. He
is seldom noticed to speak to any one
but when he does his face looks bright
and intelligent. When he resumes his
pacing it relapses into an expression of
profound and serious study. No one
seems to know who he is, and those who
have watched his restless actions have
been baffled in their attempts to dis
cover his business.
The case of Miss Elizabeth Flagler,
daughter of General Flagler, has been
disposed of in the district court at
Washington. 1t will be remembered
that last summer Miss Flagler saw
some boys stealing apples from her
fathers orchard. She went out and
fred pistol at them and killed a
small Negro. She was arrested and
released on bond. Upon her arraign-
ment last Tuesday, she plead guilty, of
involuntary manslaughter. This was
by special consent of counsel on both
sides. The judge imposed a fine OF
$500 and Imprisonment in the district
Jail for three hours. Miss Flagler was
driven to the Jail in her fathers car
riage. She remained in the waiting
room of the Jail during the term of
her sentence. Her father and aunt
kept her company. She was then
taken to her home. 1t is said that
since the unfortunate killing, which
Miss Flagler claims was purely &C
cidental, the young lady has suffered a
great deal with nervous prostratlon.
There seems to have been quite an
epidemic of suicides throughout the
country last week. The following
cases are cleaned from a single issue
of the Semi Weekly St. Louis Globe
Democrat, and there are probably
others to be heard from {: Near Cone
mough, Pa, on the Goth, Daniel Roesler
asked his cousin to mrary him. She re-
fused until he gave up the liquor habit.
He shot her and then himself. At To-
ronto, Ont, on the 22d, James Scott
threw himself from bridge into a
ravine $50 feet deep. He had been
disappointed in business. At Middles-
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