Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-05

$4,000, was captured last Saturday
near Savannah. having walked the
entire distance from Brunswick, some
thing like 100 miles, through the
woods. He had all the money on his
person except about 50, which he had
spent along the road for food. AS to
the whereabouts of the SIC, 900 which
recently disappeared from the office
of the express company in Columbia,
the officials are still without any
knowledge.
- Although there is plenty of reason
to fear that the senatorial contest in
Ohio will end in the election of Mark
Hanna, there is no question of the fact
that the big boss is going to have a
bard tussel of it before he is safely es-
tablished in his coveted seat. About
ten anti.Hanna Republicans have COM
bned with the Democrats to defeat
Hanna, aud the combination has sue.
ceeded in organizing both houses
against him. The big boss is very
uneasy. If the opposition succeeds
in its designs, it will finally select For
aker as Hanna's successor.
- Insurgent tribesmen on the north
ern frontier of India are far from con-
stituting the only peril which the
English are called on to face in con-
nection with their great Oriental de-
pendency. The Russians have just
extended their navigations of the In
dian waterways of Central Asia by
directing that the f1otilla of steamers
now plying on the river Amu-Daria
should henceforth make Faizabad The
eastern terminus of their trips. Faiza-
bad is barely 10 miles, as the crow
flies from Peshawur, the British head
quarters in Northern India, and it is
in the mountainous districts lying be-
tween Peshawur and Faizabad that
the British conflict with the insurgent
tribesmen is in progress.
- Secretary Hester's statement OF
the worlds visible supply of cotton
shows an increase during the week
Just closed of 125, 1867 bales, against an
increase in same time last year IS, ,758,
and an increase year before last of IL
COG. The total visible supply is A.
271,662, against 4,l46,4 last week,
and 4,244,7 last year. Of this the
total of American cotton is 4,059, ,662,
against 1927, ,455 last week, and 1921, J.
533 last year, and all other kinds, in
Guiding Egyptian, Brazilian. Indian,
etc, 212, 900: against 219, 900 last week,
and 1900 last year. The total
worlds visible supply of cotton shows
an increase, compared with last week,
of 125, ,2O7 bales, and an increase COM
pared with last year of 26,929.
A whipping post for the correction
of bad boys has been set up in Evans
Vile, Ind. The judge of the local po-
lice court is responsible for the inno-
walton. He was puzzled what to do
with boys Indifferent to parental con-
troll, and hesitated to inflict the penal
ty of a fine, which was really pun
ishment on the parent. He discover
ed that an old statute permitting the
flogging of law-breakers had not been
repealed, and at once set up the whip
ping post. Now, when boy is found
guilty of misdemeanor, his father is
sent for and given his choice of paying
a fine, seeing his boy 60 to Jail, or
giving him a sound fogging with a
strap in the presence of an officer,
whose duty it is to see that there is
no sham about the punishment. There
is seldom need of the mentors inter-
ference, the angry parent welding the
strap to good purpose. The humane
society felt impelled to interfere; but
the Judge stood upon the law, and
there has been marked decrease in
the number of boys brought before the
court.
- New York Tribune Last week
witnessed the abolition in Hungary of
those public and private lotteries
which for nigh unto 300 years have
been the curse of the eastern half of the
dual empire, as of so many other
countries of the old world, carrying
riot, murder and ruin in its train.
England did away with the system in
1926, France followed four years later,
while in Germany strong movement
now in progress has the object of put
ting a stop thereto. But in Austria,
Spain, Portugal, and especially in
Italy, the people will not hear of the
abolition of their favorite and nation
al form Of gambling, which finds
many defenders on the ground that a
portion of the proceeds are devoted to
charity and that many philanthropic
institutions would be compelled to
close their doors were the lotteries to
be discontinued. The Hungarian gov
ernment, however, has turned deaf
ear to all these specious arguments,
and the lottery system has now been
finally and definitely laid in the grave
as far as the Magyar kingdom is con-
cerncd.
- William Jennings Bryan arrived
here this afternoon from tour of
Mexico, and left here tonight for Aus
tin, where he will be the guest Of Gov
ernor Culberson tomorrow, says San
Antonio special of December 81. He
was silent on the subject of his impress
sions of Mexico. 1t was announced