Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-08
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friends of VIM. J. Bryan have ar
ranged for him a fusion nomination
for congress from his old district, and
the understanding is that if he ac-
cepts, he can be returned to congress
without the slightest difficulty. Some
of his local political friends want him
to 20 back to congress, and others do
not; but all feel confident that wheth-
er he goes or does not 20 to congress,
be will be the Democratic nominee for
president in 1900.
- A Kings Mountain dispatch OF
Wednesday to the Charlotte Observer
says "Our people are somewhat az.
itated over the recent discovery of coal
near this place, and unless experts are
very much mistaken, We will be inde-
pendent of the coal mines of other
states. An analysis of samples sent to
q government expert shows 50 per
cent carbon. He pronounces it fine
sample of anthracite coal. From in
vestigations already made it seems
that it crops out in number Of places,
which would indicate that it would be
found in quantities.
- A fruit farm in Missouri, recently
described at length in horticultural pa
pers, is said to be the largest fruit farm
in the world. 1t contains $3.50 acres,
on which are 100000 peach trees, Co..
900 apple trees, 1000 pear trees, and
40 acres of blackberries, besides a large
variety of other fruits. There is
large warehouse, a cannery, with a
capacity of 10000 cans day, stor-
age building, which will hold $4,000
barrels of apples a hotel, saw mill
and number of houses for the use of
managers and tenants. This fruit farm
is valued at $25O,000 to $300,OOO.
This is horticulture on grand scale.
p. H. Mabry, the embezzling ex-
press agent of Brunswick, Georgia,
who was captured near Savannah a
few days ago, attempted to commit
suicide shortly after having been placed
in Jail. He opened an artery in his
wrist, and when discovered was lying
in a pool of blood. He was uncon-
scious and at first it was thought that
he was dead. 1t seems also that be-
fore he became too weak to move, he
smeared his bloody hand on the wall,
and underneath the impression wrote
with his finger, in blood: Southern
Express company, December 20, 1897"
At last accounts, though still very
weak, it was thought that he would
survive.
- Mr.. Shepperson says: "Unless
prices advance materially by January
Is there will, of necessity, be very
large reduction in the acreage of the
next cotton crop. AS soon as such an
intended curtailment of acreage is per-
fectly evident, the spinners will un-
doubtedly buy so freely as to speedily
absorb the 675,000 bales of indicated
surplus and to advance prices to a
much higher plane. In the meantime,
whether prices advance or not between
now and the time for making prepara-
tions for. the new crop, the expert
ence of this fall should make it per-
fectly clear to southern farmers that
they should next year give less acre
age to cotton and more to food and
forage crops" Therefore, there is
money to be made this very winter by
the very resolution to reform. Good
intentions will bring two dividends in
1898 if firmly held.
- Senator Teller, on Wednesday, in
troduced a concurrent resolution de-
claring the bonds of the United States
to be payable in silver dollars and as
serted that "to restore to their coinage
such silver coins as legal tender in
payment of said bonds, principal and
interest, is not in violation of the pub
lie faith nor in derogation of the rights
of the public creditor" The resolu-
ton is in the language of the resolu-
ton introduced by Hon. Stanley Mat
thews in the Ash congress, and which
passed both houses. Senator Teller's
purpose is 10 secure vote upon the
resolution, which received an almost
two-thirds majority when previously
considered. The resolution was re-
ferred to the finance committee but
as a majority Of the members of the
com mittee are friendly to silver, Mr..
Teller anticipates that it will be favor
ably reported.
- In the latest publication of The
American Jewish Historical Society,
David Sulberger, of Philadelphia, has
an article on 1.-The Growth of the
Jewish Population In the United
States" in which he presents some in
teresting statistics on that subject.
Twenty years ago the first systematic
attempt to obtain definite statistical
information was made by the board Of
delegates Of American Israelites: with
the assistance of the Union of Amer
ican Hebrew congregations. Incom-
plete reports secured showed Jewish
population of 1878 By 1880 these
figures had increased to 230,257. The
total population of the country in that
year was 5O,155, ,7S3. 1t is calculated
that since 1880 something over 4S5, 900
Jews have immigrated to the United
States. This addition, together with
the increase through births, gives at a
conservative estimate present Jewish