Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-01
Straps and faets.

them have given up and the other half
either curse or cry. Taking it all to-
gether, I never saw such condition
of affairs. At Dyea there are nearly
as many as here, and I am told they
are in the same condition.
- The steamer Portland, due from
St. Michaels, Alaska, says dispatch
of last Friday, has on board the MUIR
dered, William Smith, who was pur-
sued over the continent to Juneau, to
Dyea, and across Chilicott Pass over
lakes and down rivers to the gold fields
of Klondike where he was taken into
custody. Smith was store-keeper in
q town near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. One
night the store was burned and in the
ruins was found the charred body of a
woman, who Smiths relatives believe
was burned to death in the fire. His
mother was insured for $500 and a
demand was made for the money. In
vestigation led to the belief that the
fire was caused by Smith. Pinkerton
men were put on the trail and after
the longest chase on record, they cap
tured Smith at Dawson City on July
23rd.
"A dispatch of last Friday from
Cloudland, n. c., says that George X.
Pritchard, of North Carolina, who is
sheriff of Mitchell county, was fatally
wounded during the day while at
tempting to arrest Monroe Garland, a
noted desperate, near Cloudland.
Sheriff Pritchard had warrant for
Garland and with deputy went after
him. The desperate fired on the sher-
itf, one bullet penetrating the lungs
and another passing through his neck.
Garland, after he had shot Pritchard,
turned on Deputy Blalock and began
firing but Blalock was too quick for
him, and shot him twice, either one OF
which would have been fatal. Gar
land died in few minutes and Pritch-
ard was taken to a nearby house and
surgical aid sought. His wounds are
regarded as necessarily fatal. Pritch-
ard is Al years of age and has large
family. Officer Blalock was slightly
wounded. The affair created great
excitement in the neighborhood of Ba-
kersville, N. c. where Pritchard lived.
- Washington letter to the Pittsburg
Times: The Revolutionary war ended
ia years ago, but there are on the
pension rolls l3 widows and daughters
of Revolutionary soldiers. There are
six widows, the seventh and oldest,
Mrs. Lovey Aldrich, having died at
San Diego, Cal, this week in her 9Sth
year. The next oldest on the list is
Hannah Barrett, a soldiers daughter.
She is 81 years old. The six widows
range in age from 80 to sc years. AT
the close of the last fiscal year there
were ii soldiers and sailors Of the war
of 1912 on the pension rolls. The old
est, Hosea Brown, of Oregon, was lO4
years of age. Four others had passed
the age of 100. The youngest, John
Lumberson, of Maryland, was 80. Mr..
Lumberson must have been young
warrior, as he was only eight years
old when the war of 1912 ended. 1t
is estimated that the last surviving
soldier of the war of the rebellion will
have passed away by l945, or 80 years
after Appomattox. If, however, they
married and begot children as late in
life as did some of the Revolutionary
heroes, their widows and daughters
may be on the pension rolls in 1879.
- The Rev. DR.. S. A. Weber writes
to The Southern Christian Advocate :
"The present is church building
epoch in South Carolina Methodism.
During the early spring the Spartan
burg brethren finished the elaborate
repairs which had been in progress
several months on their comparatively
new church. X 1t was practi-
cally a new transformations, hand
some, well-appointed and well-furnish-
ed. 1t is easily ahead of anything we
have in the state. Handsome churches
are building, or are contracted for, at
Orangeburg, Chester, Rock Hill, Lau'
rens and Manning-all strong and
growing Methodist centres. Newberry
is likely soon to build much needed
church. The popular pastor is strait
ened for room, not in the hearts OF his
people; but in their house of worship.
Greenwood has just finished beauti'
full church under the aggressive pastor
ate of one who bears and honors a
distinguished South Carolina name
Marion Dargan. My list is incomplete.
In our smaller towns and villages, and
in our country places, the noise of the
hammer and saw is heard both in
church and parsonage building and
repair"
- The budget of the Spanish govern
ment for the current financial year
shows an estimated revenue of S176,-
655, $50, and expenditure of STA, ,773,-
IT'S. For last year it stood, revenue
$153, ,25O, expenditure $l52, 1882,
92O. For both years there is surplus
of income over outgo, so far as relates
to the cost of running the government
and fighting its wars. Compare this
with the deficit of $25, 100000 and the
prospect of as much more added before
the end of the year in the domestic
accounts of the United States govern
ment, and our sneers at Spain as a
bankrupt nation seem a little out of
place. But there are other things to
be considered. The resources of Spain
are not to be mentioned in the same
breath with those Of the United States.
1t is true that the loan of $4,000, 600
last November was subscribed by the
Spanish people in a magnificent burst
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