Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-29
Seraps and faets.

- Chicago Record: Senator Daniel
has announced that be will not sup
port President Cleveland for third
term, even if he should be nominated.
The Hon. Pitchfork Tillman will be
pretty numerous in the next campaign
whether be is nominated for president
or not. He now holds more officers
than any other man in public life. He
is senator from South Carolina, men,
ber of the Democratic congressional
committee, chairman of the Democra-
tic State committee of South Carolina,
delegate at large to the Democratic
national convention, and has been se-
lected as the South Carolina member
of the national Democratic committee.
- There was an interesting spat in
the senate Wednesday between Messrs.
Elkins and Butler over the right of the
president to issue bonds. Mr.. Elkins
defended the exercise of this right by
the president. eff there should be a
Populist president" said Mr.. Elkins,
t'it would not be right to tie his hands
against q treasury crisis" There will
be Populist president next time" +"
said Mr.. Butler. "Who will he be-"
asked Mr.. Elkins. "I am not nomi-
mating convention, )" replied Mr.. Butler,
"but you will know his name after the
Populist convention speaks at St.
Louis" There was considerable laugh.
ter at his prophecy; but Mr.. Butler
appeared to believe what he was say
ing.
IT. A. Fawcett, we'll known bus
iness man of Wichita, Kansas has
caused the arrest of Miss Eta Ash
kraft, an 18-year-old girl, and her
mother, Mrs. Mary Ashkraft, widow.
His grievance is that they had dis
turbed his peace by throwing kisses
at him and calling him sweet names.
The offence was particularly odious to
him because his wife was with him
when these attentions were shown.
Mrs. Ashkraft denied having thrown
the kisses, and as the evidence against
her was meagre she was dischared by
the court. Miss Ashkraft, however,
confessed that she had tossed saluta-
tions at Mr.. Fawcett and called him
pet names. Her defence was that she
didn't like his wife, and took that
means of annoying her. The judge
fined Miss Ashkraft SIS and ordered
her sent to Jail until the fine was paid.
The girl made personal appeal for a
suspension of the fine during good
behavior, and her prayer was granted.
- Some of the features of the ap-
preaching Confederate reunion will be
the reception to be given at the Con-
federate museum in honor of Mrs. JEFF
ferson Davis and her two daughters,
Miss Winnie Davis and Mrs. Hayes.
The idea that this entertainment should
be more select, and that limited
number of invitations should be issued,
has been exploded. The affair will be
public, and through the columns of the
press, the thousands who will be in
Richmond on the night of June 80,
1896, will be extended a cordial invi-
tation to attend. Mrs. Davis and her
daughters will receive in the Georgia
room, which was Mrs. Davis drawing
room, while she presided over the do
mestic affairs of the "White House of
the Confederacy." Other ladies who
will be in the room with Mrs. Davis
will be the sponsors representing the
several States, the officers of the Con-
federate Memorial Literary society and
the regent and the vice regents of the
museum.
- Comptroller of the Treasury Echols
has been in Illinois for some time past
endeavoring to stem the free silver
tide. He went to his own, La Sale,
county but there, as elsewhere, was
whipped out. His opponent at the La
Salle convention was Attorney -Gener-
al Moloney, an Irishman, who in his
Irish brogue told story illustrating
the financial ability of Echols. Here is
the story as repeated by the Atlanta
Constitution "Is it an expert on
foinance that he claims to be? Sure
its nothing he knows about it, as I can
prove. One day Jimmy Echols comes
up to me and says: 'Mr. Moloney p
'Phat is it you want, Jimmy?' Sure
it's a note I have, Mr.. Moloney, an
me name is stuck to it; but the man in
the bank won't pay it until get
another name on it. That's what /
wants you to do AN will ye pay
when it's due ?" / asks. That I WILL
says he, and 1 signed it. Sure, when
it come due he left me to pay it, he
knew so little about foinance." Loud
laughter greeted this story, as it illus
trated how even great government
officials get short sometimes.
1t is said that King Menelik, of
Abyssinia, proposes as soon as he gets
peace established with Italy, to open up
to a company of scientists the temple
Axum and the island of Debra Sinan.
In the temple are preserved the bodies
of all the Abyssinian kings for more
than 1000 years, and on the island, it
is claimed, are the Ark of the Cove
nant, the tables of stone containing the
Ten Commandments, and the seven
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