Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-14
Straps and faets.

at large, spent yesterday in the city.
Mr.. Orr returned last week from Mis-
sissippi, and leaves tomorrow for Cor
sicana, Tex, where he will remain
for three months. He will have no
regular charge, but will devote his
time to the building up of a mission in
the city. Corsicana is town of l2,-
900 people, and Mr.. Orr will find plen-
ty Of work to do.
- AT the recent national meeting of
the Farmers Alliance, held in Wash
ington, the famous demand for the
sub-treasury was eliminated and so
also was the demand for an increase of
the circulation of the country to $50 per
capita. The land plank and the rail-
road plank were readopted as before.
The understanding is that the changes
were made in order that there will be
nothing in the way to prevent the Al
lance from championing the cause of
free silver.
Representative Gillett, of Massa-
chusetts, has introduced in congress
bill providing that any person who is
a party to the Transmission by tele-
graph, telephone, mail, express or
otherwise, from one State or territory
to another, of any gambling bet or
report of such bet, on any race, prize
fight or other event, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor punishable
for the first offense by fine or impris-
onment, and for the second offense by
Imprisonment only. The bill is far
reaching in its effects, and could be
made to apply even to the publication
of the market reports in newspapers
that are sent from one State into
arother. 1t is not likely that such
a bill as this will receive much con-
sideration. There are probably some
good features about it but in carrying
them out, it would bring everything
else to standstill.
The king of Corea has issued a
"Johnny get your hair cut" proclama-
ton, and an armed rebellion is the re-
suit. Of late the Coreans have been
greatly impressed with the superiority
of Western civilization. The people of
the country wear cues like the Chinese.
Thinking the matter of dress very
good thing to start on, the king set the
example by cutting off his own cue,
and then issued a proclamation to the
effect that his subjects must do like
wise. He stationed at the gates of his
capital BARRIERS armed with shears and
with instructions not to allow anybody
to come in except they first submitted
to the amputation of their cues. Hun
dreds of thousands of Coreans seem to
think more of their cues than they do
of anything else. Many high officials
have resigned and fled to the country,
rather than obey the kings order, and
the country people have taken up arms
against what for some reason seems to
them to be worse than death.
One of the new senators from a
State where there are few if any
Negroes, proposes to extend the pen
sion system beyond any point hereto
fore conceived by the most fertile
demagogue. 1t is Mr.. Thurston, of
Nebraska, General Manderson's sue
cessor, and he wants in his little bill
to pay to every Negro now living who
was in slavery, from 81 month, if less
than so years old, up to SIS a month,
if 70 years old. The government is to
give the septuagenarian Senegambian
ct id omne genus, besides, the sum of
$500 out of it's sovereign grace and
commisseration for the condition out of
which the septuagenarian Senegam-
bian ct i'd omne genus has emerged by
force of the arms of the United States
and the ratification of the constitutional
amendment abolshing slavery. Forty
acres and a mule, indeed Mr.. Thurs
ton will have a lively time from now
on honoring the drafts on him for that
pension from the blacks of the old
regime, or what is nearly as bad,
replying to the questions of old Sambo.
- The St. Louis Republic calls atten-
ton to the peculiarities of this Febru-
ary, with some interesting information.
The month of February in leap year
has some peculiarities of which not
many people are aware. This year for
example, February has five Saturdays.
This has occurred just once in every %
years for the last 124 years. Febru-
ary will have FIVE Saturdays again in
1908, - years from now, because at the
turn of the century there comes break
in the 2Sth year period, which is
reduced to 12 years % years later, in
1886, we will again have five Saturdays
IN the month of February. This same
rule holds good for every day in the
week, each recurring five times in the
leap year month of February, every 2S
years, with the exception of Monday
and Wednesday. During the last 200
years the two days have come five
times in February at an interval of II
years, while the rest Of the days have
been 40 years apart once during the
same period of 200 years.
- The power of song and prayer saw
ed Frank Wells from suicide, according
to his own statement, says Vandalia,
Ill.,, dispatch of a few days ago. Wells
is the owner of a bakery and restau-