Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-03
Straps and fatts.

verdict for S,oUU damages dSalusI
George w. Vanderbilt. Several years
ago Hunt was a travelling salesman,
and while at Asheville he got his leg
broken by piece of stone blown out
an excavation that was being made for
Vanderbilt. He brought suit for dam
ages to the amount of $4,000. The
case has Just been concluded with the
result above stated. Mr.. Hunt is we'll
satisfied with the verdict, and only
hopes that the case will not 60 to the
supreme court. Mr.. Hunt now holds
a position as salesman in Columbia.
- Colonel R. R. Hemphill, of Able
Vile, has corrected the abduction story
published in the Charlotte Observer.
In The Observer of Wednesday he
writes as follows: "The story you
published in Sundays Observer about
the abduction of Miss McQuiston, a
student of the Due West Female COL
lege, in Nashville, while on her way
to her home in Ark ansas, is without
foundation. The young lady is my
niece. She expected to meet her faith.
er at the Maxwell house in Nashville
Friday morning. He did not reach the
city. she took the first train for Mem.
phis. and reached home Saturday even
ing at 6 o'clock. She knows nothing
about the story, and the only unusual
incident of her trip home was her dis
appointment at not meeting her faith
er."
A correspondent at Daytonia, Fla,
gives the thrilling experiences of boy
bicycle rider there racing with mad
horse. Joe Brown, living down there,
has a horse that was run into by q
wheelman once and ever since, when
ever he sees a rider, he invariably
pursues him with mad fury. The 9TH
er night this youngster was riding
down the beach, when the horse per-
ceived him, and at once set out in Pur-
suit. The cyclist heard the hoof beats
and knowing the savage temper of the
horse put on his best licks. For half
an hour the race continued on the
smooth beach, the horse gradually
gaining. His savage neighs made
the boy half sick, and he came nigh
dropping from his wheel in exhaustion.
Nearer and nearer the horse came,
and the boy gave himself up for lost.
Perceiving lot of timbers in the beach
ahead of him he drove his wheel to
tree and managed to scramble up as
the furious animal reached the spot.
The boys wheel was wrecked, as the
maddened beast trod on it and beat it
out of shape. For over two hours he
was besieged there, when some people
living near by, attracted by the horses
actions, came along and drove the
animal off.
The next issue of The National
Review, says London cablegram OF
Tuesday, will contain an article an
nouncing an. important bimetallic de-
velopment at the hands of the United
States monetary commission, consist
ing of Senator Edward o. Wolcott,
former Vice President Adlar Steven
son, and General Charles Jackson
Paine, which will arrive here in few
DAYS. The commission, according to
The National Review, will present to
the present British government joint
statement from France and the United
States declaring their desire to termi-
nate the disastrous experiments inau-
gurated in 1878, and claiming our
good will and active concurrence.
The National Review adds: ave are
able to announce that EnglanG's re-
ply will be that the government is
willing to reopen the Indian mints, to
make a further substantial contribu
ton to the rehabilitation of silver by
extending its use in England, by in
creasing the legal tender of silver,
making silver the basis of notes, en-
powering the Bank of England to use
its silver reserve, and that material as
sistance and strong moral support will
be given to the object the United
States and France have in view."
Indications point to decided
falling off in the number of immi-
grants landing upon our shores during
the present fiscal year. Up to this
time only $4,000 immigrants have
entered our ports, whereas for the COR
responding months of the year pre-
ceding, something like 325, 900 immi-
grants landed upon our shores. One
reason for this marked diminution is,
of course, found in the stringency of
our immigration laws. Within the
past few years these immigration laws
have undergone decided modification,
and the result is not only that thou
sands of pauper immigrants are year
ly sent back to Europe, but that thou
sands are deferred from crossing the
water. In view of this explanation it
is evident that while the number of
our foreign immigrants has fallen off
considerably during the past year, the
loss has been restricted almost exclu-
sively to illiterate and pauper immi-
grants. Instead of operating to our
detriment, therefore, the stringency Of
our immigration laws has operated to
nationa! benefit. There is still room
for improvement, however, as the
country is not vet free from the con-