Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-09
at)ausiae Gatherings.

VIZ lnTee leAduS llNo q uOi uiV iiio,
having vowed never to look upon the
face of a woman.
tag Mamie King, a New York girl,
has lost her reason through excessive
cigarette smoking.
B4- In the vicinity of Norfolk, Va,
about 500 acres are devoted to the
culture of radishes.
p4- The productive area of the Klon-
dixie gold field covers from 1000 to
300 square miles.
s9 Brigadier General Woods prompt
measures have checked the yellow
fever outbreak at Santiago.
p4- In Boston there is one church to
every 1,7S6 of the population, against
one to every 1855 of the population
in 1910.
p9- In Chicago $4,000 dog licenses
have been issued for this year, and
1000 or 5000 more are expected to be
taken out.
s6- Kansas has two head of cattle,
one hog, one-third of horse and one
fifth of a sheep for every man, woman
and child in the state.
p@- While drilling an artesian well
at Birmingham, Ala, strong How OF
natural gas was struck at depth OF
more than 1000 feet.
a6- An insect is playing havoc with
wheat crops in South Dakota. One
farmer lost a crop of ITO acres and
others report similar losses.
sd- The war department intimates
that late news from the Philippines
indicates that the situation is much
better than has been generally be-
lieved.
BdS In Chicago a woman has sued
for divorce, setting forth that her hus-
band treated her with as much arro-
gance as man would woman part
ner in a game of whist.
paS Citizens of Cleburne county,
Ark, have declared war on moon.
sinners, and have posted notices on all
the illicit distilleries, warning the own
ers to stop the manufacture and traffic.
s@ "No education for Negroes" is
the chief plank in the platform on
which Major James K. Vardaman is
making an active canvass for the Dem
ocratic nomination for governor of Mis-
sissippi.
p6 A woman without arms has been
married at Christchurch, New Zea-
land. The ring was placed upon the
fourth toe of her left foot. A similar
marriage to this was performed at St.
James Church, Bury st. Edmunds, in
1882.
p9r Joseph Jefferson is to plant an
English Elm in Tower Park, st. Louis,
near the Shakespeare statue, where
Adelaide Nelson, Olga Nethersole,
Booth and Barrett have in years past
planted trees from Shakespeare's birth
place.
p@- The Salvation Army has decided
to organize several colored corps in
the principal southern cities, with
view of establishing colored branches
of the army throughout the southern
states, if the idea seems to be practi-
cable.
s9 1t has been estimated that 2,OOO,.
900 sheep have died in New South
Wales because of the drouth this year.
The number of sheep in that colony is
100000 less than 10 years ago.
Other Australian colonies have had al
most equally disastrous experiences.
s@ In a lecture delivered at San
Francisco recently, DR.. Hartland Law
declared that women ought to propose
marriage as we'll as men. He said
that this would result in 30 per cent.
more marriages; and the women who
heard him hardly knew whether to be
pleased or angry at his views.
ad- A Maine farmer who raises fine
strawberries, came to Wells village re-
Gently and commenced peddling them
at Is cents box. He sold quite a
portion of his load at that price, when
he found he must sell at two boxes for
a quarter. Then he retraced his route
and refunded the difference to all those
who paid the Is cents box.
a9~ Eighteen months ago a party of
13 took ship from Boston to Alaska.
They had ajourney around Horn OF the
165 days, encountered a succession of
frightful tropical storms, and lost one
man overheard. Arrived in Alaska,
they found no gold to speak of, had
the scurvy, lost their ship on a sandbar
on Resurrection bay, and the survivors
are now coming home broke.
s9H The Southern Industrial League
was organized at Atlanta, Ga, with j.
K. Orr, of Atlanta, as president. The
object of the league will be to encour.
age payment and collection of all
debts, wipe from the statute books
laws intended to hinder the collection
of debts; protection of all forms of in
vested capital; to prevent the dis
counting of debts and to further the
completion of the Nicaraguan canal.
s9~ The Kansas City Star tells of a
Kansas girl who sent 81 to a New
York "specialist" for "sure cure for
freckles." This is the recipe which she
received: "Remove the freckles care
fully with q pocketknife; soak them
over night in salt water then hang
up in the smokehouse in a good, strong
smoke made Of sawdust and slippery
elm bark for a week. Freckles thus
treated never fail to be thoroughly
cured"
aSyn New ENGLAND school teacher