Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-12-24
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see, on TUESDAY, introduced oiil "
reward the patriotism of volunteers by
granting them extra pay on discharge:
These enlisted men who have served
only in the United States shall receive
two months additional pay, and each
officer one month additional pay );
those men and officers who have served
or shall serve abroad, are to receive
four and two months pay respectively.
Those already mustered out are TO re-
ceiye one half of the amounts named.
-Ex.Queen Liliuokalani has sent to
the United States senate protest
against the appropriation of the crown
lands of Hawaii by the United States.
In it she says: ~ earnestly and re-
spectfuIly protest against the assertion
of the ownership of the United States
of America of the so-called Hawaiian
crown lands, amounting to about
100000 acres, and which are my
property, and I especially protest
against such assertion of ownership
as taking of the property without
due process of law and without just
or other compensation.
AT a meeting of the Women's
Board of Foreign Missions of the
Presbyterian church, in New York
city, few days ago, Eugene Young,
a grandson of Brigham Young, made
speech in which he urged that every
effort be made to prevent the seating
in congress of B. H. Roberts, recently
elected from Utah, and who, according
to Young, is three or four-piy Nor
mon. Young said that polygamy is
not dead in Utah, or even sleeping.
1t is growing every day, and congress
should turn Roberts out as an earnest
that it does not propose to tolerate any
violation of the covenant Utah entered
into as a condition precedent to her
admission to the Union.
- Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
on last Monday, gave notice of an
amendment he will introduce to the
pension appropriation bill, pensioning
ex.Confederate soldiers. The amend
ment is as follows: "That from and
after the passage of this bill every pen
sion law now on the statute books
shall apply to every invalid soldier,
widow, minor child, dependent rela'
tive, the army nurses and all other
pensioners who may be able to prove
their claim under the present pension
laws, without regard to whether said
soldier was enlisted in the Federal or
Confederate service of the Civil war
of 1S61.65, provided that those enlisted
in the Confederate service shall not
draw any back pensions prior to the
passage Of this bill but their claim un-
der existing laws shall begin and be-
come operative with the passage OF
this BILL"
- Grip is epidemic in New York,
and the New York board Of health,
on the theory that the disease is con-
tagious one, has taken steps to prevent
it's spread. The board of health, on
last Monday, issued the following i'm
portant bulletin in regard to the ma
ture of the disease: "Induenza is an
infectious and contagious disease due
to the Influenza bacillus. In cases Of
influenza or grip this organism is pres
ent in all the secretions of the nose,
throat and bronchial tubes. The dis
ease is transmitted from person to per-
son through the taking in of these or
ganisms, either from direct contact or
after the secretions have been dried
and pulverized and inhaled in the form
of dust. The disease cannot be pro-
duced by any other cause than the in
fuenza bacillus. There are many
catarrhal affections of the respiratory
tract which are improperly called grip,
and the distinction between these and
true grip is extremely difficult and Of
ten impossible in the milder forms.
Grip, however, is a much more serious
affection, produces much greater de-
preston, and is followed by much more
tedious convalescence."
In a speech made recently by the
governor of Texas, he said: "In con-
versatiou with the governor of Georgia,
a few years ago, illustrating the pro-
gress which his own state had made in
manufactures, he spoke to me of his
own little town of not exceeding $500
inhabitants. There was not a single
man within its limits, not citizen,
whose estate reached the sum Of
$4,000. They were getting poorer,
while other cities in the state were
becoming richer and more densely
populated. The people of this little
city got together and determined to
build a factory. They didn't want to
build an expensive one. They didn't
propose to put up buildings three or
four stories high; but plain, simple
one-story building. Stock was issued
only to those who lived within that
community and to none other. No
man was permitted to take more than
$1,000 worth of stock. They began in
this small way, and in less than five
years they were exporting from their
village more than 81, ,0O0,O worth of
cotton fabrics every year, and now
there isn't single idle boy or girl
within that community, my friends.
Young men are not studying law nor
medicine; but they are earning a
living"
- General Shafter appeared before
the war investigating committee last
Tuesday afternoon and told his story
of Santiago. He said his first orders
were to organize strong reconnoi-
sance force of about 5000 to 5000 to
to Snata Glnra mr. q nd .rat int u