Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-05
Scraps and facts.

came up in the house last Monday and
was killed, after debate of five hours
by vote of 1S2 to 132. Only three
Democrats voted against the resolution
and one of these was Elliott, of South
Carolina.
- The legislatures of Georgia and
Mississippi have taken a step in the
right direction in the passage of laws
providing for the establishment of tex.
tile schools in their state, and they
will shortly have u great advantage
over the southern states that have
none. Without such schools North
and South Carolina will, in few
years, find it very difficult matter to
keep their places in competitive man
ufacturing. The Importance of the
textile school is not over estimated by
the Philadelphia Record when it says
that "with a supply of skilled labor
in these manufacturing operations
from which our southern states have
advantageous natural facilities, they
will be able to defy the world"
- The London Globe says that a
number of comets will appear in the
skies during the year 1898. "The
Pons Winnecke comet should open the
list by appearing in April, after an
absence of about five and one-huf
years. In May the celebrated Encke
comet is due. This comet has a peri
cd of only three and one-fourth years,
and its frequent temperance has been
the means of astronomers discovering
a great deal about comets and their
wanderings through space. In June
we should have two of these cosmical
visitors-Swift's and Wolfe's comets
the former after an absence of six years,
years, and latter trifle longer. Tenn
ple's comet completes the visitors list
by arriving in September. These com
cts are all regular visitors, whose pc
riods are so we'll known that their
arrival may be timed almost to the
hour.
- Charlotte Observer The colored
preachers are not at all alarmed about
the visits of the Mormon elders, for
their focks are safe. 1t has been
noted that the Mormons will have
nothing to do with the Negroes. This
is explained in an interview with a
Mormon elder in the Danyille Regis
ter. He says "there is not single
Negro in Utah, that there is an un-
written law that Negroes shall not
live in Utah, and that Mormons have
a belief that Negroes are doomed to
all eternity and have no part in the
Kingdom This makes it quite GER
tain that the colored people are safe
from molestation here by the Nor
mons, and also in the hereafter, for
Mormons will be scarce where the
good darkies 60. 1t is quite relief
that for once, while endeavoring to
shield our own people from danger,
we need not concern ourselves about
the welfare Of the colored brother.
- The most terrific storm and bliz-
zard that has been known in that Sec
ton during the past 25 years, swept
the northeast on Monday and Tues
day. In Boston all branches of busi-
ness was completely paralyzed, rail-
road travel was suspended and for sew
eral hours the city was cut off from
communication with the outside world.
All the through trains from New York
and the west were from four to five
hours late. The city and suburbs
were covered with broken poles and
tangled wires, and numbers of horses
were killed by stepping on telephone
wires that had fallen across trolley
wires. 1t became necessary for the
mayor to order the turning off of all
electric lights except in districts where
the wires run underground. Resi-
dents of New York had to battle their
way to their businesses against gales
of wind that swept along at the rate
Of 10 miles all hour. Portions Of Long
Island were blvckatled with drifting
snow, and most Of the large cities
within 100 miles of New York, aud,
including that city, it will probably be
weeks DclOIe llc ScuS'di Shuotiob iH
restored TO the condition which pre-.
vailed previous u Monday.
- The Erie, New York, Dispatch,
publishes the following wonderful sto-
ry which it alleges is straight from
Klondke. 1t sounds like the dream
of a hungry klondiker, and is no
doubt greatly colored by an imagina-
tion that was at work on an empty
stomach: An Indian has discovered
cave filled with solid ice and this
ice actually packed full of frozen buf
faloes. An Investigating committee
asserts that the buffalo meat is as fresh
today as when the animals were over
whelmed, perhaps 1000 years ago.
They certainly belonged to the buffalo
family, although only about half the
size of the American buffalo, and are
covered by mixture of hair and wool.
The horns of the male resemble those
of the goat somewhat. The flesh is
very palatable and not at all tough.
Thus far but three of the animals have
been cut out of the ice, but consera-
tive estimate of the herd places its
number at least 800 animals safely
packed away for mans use in natures