Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-23
dtausiae Gatherings.

fever have occurred among the Amer
leans in Cuba.
nag In the south within the last five
months SIT 100000 of new capital has
been invested in cotton mills.
s6r Floods swept away 1850 houses
in Woo Chow, China, thousands of
people being rendered homeless.
p9- About 100000 feet of birch
wood will be sent this year from Maine
to England and Scotland for spools.
e@r 1t is said in Michigan that Cen
eral Russell A. Alger has abandoned
his idea of running for the United
States senate.
H6~ An enormous cargo of American
locomotives and bridges left Philadel-
phia for Vladivostock, to be used on
Chinese railways.
bEThe Rockefellers and Rothschilds
are said to be backing proposed cop
per trust that will absorb all the Dig
mines in the world.
n@ By the schedule of the transport
service, it its believed that $4,000 SOL
diers can be be landed in Manila by
the end of November.
s@- A peculiar suit to be tried in
Jersey City involves the claim of d.
yorced wife for pay for her services as
housekeeper.
a6- A strawberry plant set in dry
patch of sand will send out its runners
in the direction to which the best soil
suitable for its growth lies nearest.
sB- "What is meant by realistic
fiction ~ at means the kind of fic-
ton in which the writer gives his char
acters his own virtues and his neighbor's
failipgs."
p8- "Simon Simon! There are bur-
glars in the bouser' "Tbat's all right,
Mary. I made an assignment of every
thing, today, for the benefit of my
creditors"
p1- A Mrs. Taylor, of West Vir-
ginia, who was pronounced dead, has
returned to life, asserting that she saw
the gates of paradise and conversed
with angels.
pG- Nathan Kronman, committed to
the tombs in New York on suspicion
of having killed his wife, was permit
ted to attend the murdered woman's
funeral under police guard.
p8~ A Chicago paper, having kept
record of crime for 10 years, declares
that the saloon business of the United
States is directly chargeable with
total of 3,436 murders during that
time.
nag The regular monthly line of
steamers has been established between
New York and Manila. The voyage
by way of the Suez canal is to be
made in 80 days. On the Pacific it
can be accomplished in half the time.
p6H A watchman employed in a Chi.
cago livery stable cut off the tails of
40 horses one night last week, and
sold the hair for $3.50. 1t is said that
the market value of the horses was de-
creased $1,000 by this reprehensible
deed.
H9H The Eiffel tower is being put in
readiness for the exposition. 1t is to
be given two coats of enamel paint in
five shades, graduated from lemon
chrome on the summit to deep orange
on the pedestal. Nearly so tons of
enamel will be required for the job.
B6- II suppose you two young peo-
pie would as lief I'd retire." said
Scands, facetiously, after Mr.. Kissam
came into the parlor. "Well, papa"
replied Sue, "you know when you
were talking politics awhile ago, you
were opposed to a third party your
SELF"
R@e The estimate is that the wheat
crop of the United States this year is
the third best on record, the oats crop
the second best, and corn the same.
With an aggregate of $500, 600, 600
bushels of wheat, corn and oats the
prosperity of 1899 has a good founda-
ton.
p4- The coolest region in the United
States lies along the northern border
of Minnesota, between the southern
point of the Lake of the Woods and
the Dakota border. The temperature
along that line often falls as low as so
degrees below zero. In 1873 the in
struments at Pembina registered from
Sc to 60 below.
p6~ A gentleman lately dismissed q
clever but dishonest gardener. For
the sake of his wife and family he gave
him a character, and this is how he
worked it: ~ hereby certify that A.
B. has been my gardener for over two
years, and that during that time he
has got more out of my garden than
any man l ever employed"
a@- Japanese auctions are conducted
upon a plan which gives rise to none
of the noise and confusion which COM
monty attend such sales. Each bidder
writes his name and bid upon slip of
paper which he places in a box. When
the bidding is over the box is opened
by the auctioneer, and the goods de-
clared the property of the highest
bidder.
HH While digging trench in front
of the Federal building, Park Row,
New York, the other day, workmen
unearthed a section of the first water
pipe ever laid in that city-part of the
system for which Aaron Burr secured
franchise from the New York legis-
lature. The pipe consisted of hollow
chestnut logs, laid end to end, and
was in excellent condition.