Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-06

been lying under his fathers ginhouse
ever since the fall of 1872. John Mills
grew the cotton on his plantation in
Chattooga county during that year,
and in the fall, after it was picked and
ginned, the price went down, and the
old man decided to hold it, feeling
confident that it would 60 to 20 cents
a pound. Instead of that, the price
continued to decline, and during all
these years it has lain there awaiting
the rise in value that never came.
Last winter the old man died, and his
son took charge of his estate, and
among the assets was the old bale OF
cotton, much weather-beaten, with
the bagging very badly frayed and
ties rusted, but the lint as white as on
the day that it was ginned. The son
tried to sell it, and it was purchased
by Bass Bros. & Co. for $50 cents a
pound, q fraction more than one-fourrh
the price for which the old man had
held it so long.
Science has almost gotten to the
point where the blind can be made to
see. 1t has already been published
how, sometime ago, Charles. Broadway
Rouss, the blind New York million
aire, offered round million dollars to
the man who should restore his sight ;
and how John F. Martin; another
blind man, offered to submit to exper-
iments instead of Mr.. Ronss. Martin
has submitted to more than so expert,
ments; but without the faintest shad-
ow of success until last week, when he
was enable to see light. The wonder
was wrought by means of the fuoros-
cope, recently invented by Edison.
The contrivance is on the X-ray Hprin.
ciple. Shortly after it was applied To
Martins eyes, he said he could see
first plimmer he had bad for
YEARS. For reasous best known to the
Experimenting physician, DIR. DaVlo
R Edison, the experiment was no!
,w.,...., ...-the time but laAas'oneu Tor
few days, when it is believed still
more remarkable results will be &C.
complished.
There has been a great deal OF
discussion lately as to when the Twen-
tie,h century begins. There are all
kinds of claims in regard to the mat
ter, and not a few people who dissent
from the apparently selfevident fact
that the date is,January l, 1900. One
school of chronologists is claiming that
the Twentieth century began last Fri
day. They say that there has been a
mistake as to the date Of the birth of
Christ, that event having really oc-
Cured four years earlier than the date
which is now commonly accepted.
The proof, it is claimed, lies in two
main facts. One is the death of Herod
the Great, which is known to have
occurred 81 years after he had been
declared king by the Romans. Now,
this declaration took place in A. U. G..
ia. The initials A. U. G. stand for
ammo urbis condito, the year of the
building of the city (by Romulus),
which was the epoch whence the Ro-
mans computed time. Add 81 to ia,
and you get A. U. c. ISL, which cor
responds with B. C. 4. 1t is obvious
that Herod could not have died four
years before Christ. Further, We
know that there was an eclipse of the
moon on March -, B. c. 4, on which
night Herod ordered some Jewish rab-
bis to be burned for urging their pupils
to destroy his golden eagle, and that
he was dead before the Passover,
which took place on April ~, B. c. 4.
Christ must, therefore, have been born
before February B. c. 4. The 25th of
December, B. c. 5, would fulfill all
historical requirements.
- Edward c. Flanagan tried to kill
whole family near Atlanta, Ga,
last Thursday, because of the oppo-
sition to his marrying 10-year old
Leila Allen. Flanagan had been
boarding with the family of Mr.. G. w.
Allen for some time, and although 80
years of age, by a strange perversion,
developed a strong love for the little
girl. At first nothing was thought of
this, as it was considered perfectly
natural attachment but when the
man proposed to pay the father a
round sum in cash if he would sign an
agreement to allow him to marry the
daughter when she should reach a
proper age, the family became more
watchful. Noticing this, Flanagan
developed strange kind of jealous in
sanity and while the family was at sup
per commenced firing on the different
members with a revolver. Dixon AL
len, the little girls grandfather, was
almost instantly killed, and Mrs. Dixon
Allen was mortally wounded. Miss
Ruth Slack was so badly shot that it
is impossible for her to recover. Mr..
G. w. Allen, the father of the child,
was knocked down, but not seriously
hurt. Flanagan was finally captur-
ed and disarmed by Mr.. and Mrs. G.
w. Allen. The murderer was at once
taken to Fulton county Jail, and there
was considerable talk of a lynching
Jec. but il did not develop for the