Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-12
Scraps and facts.

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= Rev. A. C. Dixon has declined the
call of the First Baptist church of At
lanta, and the church has extended a
call to Rev. DR.. Charles A. Stakely,
now of Washington; but formerly of
the Citadel Square Baptist church,
Charleston.
To help arouse enthusiasm at St.
Louis, Kansas Republicans not long
ago conceived the idea of sending a
train load of corn, consisting of 40
cars, a car for each county. The train
was gotten up all right and was held
near Wichita in readiness to start
until last Monday night, when it was
struck by lightning and set on fire.
Three cars containing $4,000 bushels
of corn, were destroyed before the
flames could be sudbued. The remain.
ing 81 cars got through all right. After
lot of speech making, in glorifcation
of Mckinley, it is intended to give the
corn to the cyclone sufferers.
The consolidated returns of reports
to the statistical division of the de-
partment of agriculture for the month
of June shows the State percentage as
compared with last year to be as fol-
lows. Virginia, 1O7; North Carolina,
LII; South Carolina, Ill; Georgia,
11S; Alabama, 112; Mississippi, ia
Louisiana, 109; Texas, 116; Arkansas,
100; Tennessee, 1928; Indian Territory,
161; Missouri, 1863; Oklahoma, 1874.
The general average is 1852, being
1.3 per cent. increase over the May
statement. The average condition Of
the crop for June l, was: Virginia, 81
North Carolina, 90; South Carolina,
81; Georgia, 95; Florida, IS; Alaba-
ma, 1903; Mississippi, 104; Louisiana,
a.; Texas, 90; Arkansas, 102; Ten.
nessee, 11s; Missouri, 90. The gener'
al average is 97.2.
There has been some talk of nomi-
mating Senator Teller, Republican, as
the Democratic candidate for president
on a free silver platform. Ex-Gov-
ernor Boies, in a letter to a friend in
Washington, expresses his opinion in
regard to the matter as follows :
"Dear Sir: If. the silver delegates
control the convention at Chicago, a
Democrat will certainly be nominated
by that convention. 1t is not vastly
important as to who he shall be, if he
is a thoroughly tried and true friend of
the free coinage of silver and is capa-
bic and honest. 1t would, in my
opinion, be absolutely impossible to
unite any considerable number of the
delegates to that convention in favor
of nominating any one outside of the
party for the head of the ticket at
least"
"A Philadelphia paper, few days
ago, wired Governor Altgeld, of Hi
nois, as follows: "E. G. Benedict,
President Cleveland's friend, writes
that, in his opinion, no Democrat can
consistently vote for a candinate on a
free silver platform. Will you kindly
wire us your opinion of his view ?'
The governor sent this reply: Gao
cording to reports, there are number
of Wall street spectators who boast
that they 'are taking care of Grover.
Let them 60 on in this benevolent
work, and for once give the people a
chance to take care of themselves.
A little less Wall street and little
more patriotism will work wonders in
the country. Tell Mr.. Benedict to
borrow gun and 60 duck hunting
with bis friend. The American peo-
pie are selfsacriicing and will endeav-
or to get along"
Twenty-Five years ago, says the
New York Recorder, Edison's friends
urged him to marry, hoping that do
mestic life would compel him to eat at
least one meal day and sleep with
some regard to regularity. Edison
said he had no time to court, but il
some decent girl wanted to marry him
he had no objections. One day, while
watching a young woman who was
working one of his instruments and to
whom he had never before spoken, he
asked her, somewhat anxiously, if she
would be his wife. She said yes, and
in three days they were married,
though he came near forgetting the
hour of the ceremony, being busy on a
complex machine. Walter P. Phillips
has been quoted as telling this story oi
Edison: One night friend of the in
yentor found him in his Newark labora,
tory and went in, saying: "Aren't you
going home, Tom? It's late" "How
late?" said Edison yawning. "Abou'
l O'clock" returned his friend. SIS
that 500" exclaimed Edison. "By
George! I must 90 home; was mar
ried this morning"
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle
has made public his reply to the in
auiries of the sub committee on finance
of the senate, charged with the investi
CATION of the sale of bonds OF the
United States in the years 1S94-95 and
1896. He traces the beginning of the
trouble back to the closing year of the
Harrison administration, and speaking
generally of the various issues, says
"Owing to the discouraging condition
of ANN Epo,oial offairc opA tho oonSa