Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-03-13
Scraps aud fatts.

q bench warrant, charging him with
grand larceny in the second degree in
connection with the Lloyds Fire In
surance company. He was committed
to the city prison by Judge Newberger.
There are two indictments against Nc
Adam, charging him with selling bogus
charters. Assistant District Attorney
Battle, speaking of the case of Mr..
McAdam said: "The premiums in
these fraudulent companies exceeds
$4,000, 1000 a year. McAdam has been
connected with Is or 20 of these COM
panies and there have been 120 of them
organized since 1892"
The United States department of
agriculture report on distribution and
quality of the corn and wheat crops
of 1895, returns from the township,
county and State correspondents of
departments indicate as to the amount
of corn yet held by farmers 1913 per
cent. of the total crop or 1,072, 900 900
bushels. The tobacco crop of 1895 is
found after special investigation. to
have been 491 ,544, 900 pounds, an av.
erage yield of IT'S pounds per acre Of
633, 800 acres, value of crops $35, ,574,-
600. The report on the cotton crop of
1895, based on railway and steamship
movement, mill consumption and the
farm stocks, February /, will be made
at noon the 18th instant.
Recent reports in regard to the
acquisition of property by Negroes
are surprising to many who have not
carefully watched the march of events.
The Negroes in the Is Southern States,
including Missouri and leaving out
Maryland and Delaware, pay taxes on
$136, 100000 worth of property, the
largest amount being owned in Louis
ana, to the value of $4,000, 900, and
the smallest in Virginia, to the amount
of $4,90O,O0O. Texas shows SIS, ,000,-
600; Mississippi, $13, ,400,0 900; South
Carolina, $12, 500, 900; North Carolina,
$11, 100000; Georgia and Tennessee,
each, $40, 100000; Alabama, $9,2O0,-
600; Arkansas, $S,O00,000; Florida,
$780, 900; Missouri, 1900, 900; Ken
lucky, s5,sOO,OOo.
With the approval of the presi-
dent, publicity was given Saturday to
the design agreed on between Secreta-
ry Lamont and Secretary Herbert for
the arrangement of the IS stars in the
national flag made necessary by the
admission of Utah to Statehood. The
new arrangement will be officially in
augurated in the army and the navy
on July 4, next. Under the present
arrangement, the stars are in six rows,
the upper and lower rows of eight
stars each aud the other rows of seven
stars each. The design agreed on by
Secretaries Lamont and Herbert also
arranged the stars in six rows, the first,
third and fifth of eight stars each.
The secondi fourth and sixth of seven
stars each. No new arrangement will
be necessary through the addition of
new States, as additional stars can be
added to second, fourth and sixth rows
without disturbing the uniformity of
the design.
New York Sun: Committed, as the
administration is, in theory, to the re-
tirement of the United States legal
tender notes, it exhibits singular hes
itation in putting its theory into prac-
tice. The reports of the national banks
now publishing, show that the treasu-
ry has on deposit, secured by United
States bonds, in the National City
bank $6,S05, ,022, in the First National
bank S2,215, ,726, and in the Hanover
National bank SO, ,669, 1856, making alto
gether SIS, 1854, ,604. The same banks
report holdings oflegal tender notes to
the amount of S14,357, 1913, the whole
of which could be swept into the treas
ury by the simple process of drawing
checks for it. The excuse given for
leaving the legal tenders where they
are is that their withdrawal would
create stringency in money and dis
turb business in Wall street. But if
this evil effect would follow the tenn
porary retirement of S14, ,357 1887, what
would be the effect of retiring perma-
nently s500,000,000, as the president
and his financial officers recommend on
paper?
- The father of the late "Bill" Nye
still lives on bis old Vermont farm.
He and Bill corresponded now and
then, and not long ago the old farmer
wrote his boy that he believed he
would sell the farm. He said that it
was heavily mortgaged, and it was all
he could do to pay the interest. He
had written to Bill Nye's brothers in
Minneapolis; but they didn't seem
to be able to do anything. He still
owed $4,000 and he was an old man,
this was too much for him to carry,
and he thought he would sell. As
Bill read this his eyes began to fill.
He was, you know, mighty sensitive
fellow, with all his fun. He happened
to have some money on deposit in the
bank, and he took out his checkbook
and filled out check for $4,000. He
signed it in such big letters that it
almost covered the face of the check,
and wrote his name in full, Edgar
Wilson Nye. This he sent to his
father, and as he did so, away down in
his soul 7 venture he said to himself