Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-22

burn. The capital stock of the pro-
posed company is SIS, 900; and the pur-
pose of the company is to manufacture
grain into -four, meal and other pro-
ducts, to deal in lumber, wood, coal,
fertilizers, agricultural implements,
| live stock and agricultural products of
all kinds, and to conduct a general
mercantile business.
Hypnotic Entertainment.
Prof. S. E. Sossaman's hypnotists gave
an entertainment at the opera house
on Monday night and we're booked for
an entertainment last night (Tuesday).
The company consists of five mem
bers-three being hypnotists. There
were about 75 people present at the
entertainment Monday night and the
performance was enjoyed thoroughly.
There was good deal of mystery that
has not been unraveled and lots of fun.
Prof. Sossaman invites the most thor
ough investigation of any and all of his
experiments.
Saw q Greensnake.
Mr.. r. N. Plaxco, of the Bethany
neighborhood, told the reporter last
Saturday that he had seen a green
snake on the Kings Mountain road
while coming to town during the
morning. The reptile was about two
feet long and was lying stretched at
full length. 1t was able to move its
head about. Mr.. Plaxco did not think
that the reptile had been Induced to
venture from Information an account
of any supposed approach of spring /;
but thought that through some acci-
dent the shelter under which it had
taken refuge for the winter had been
destroyed. Mr.. Plaxco is perfectly re-
liable and all who know him will testi-
fy also that the snake was genuine
not an imaginary one.
Explicit.
Among the colored applicants for
certificates to teach in the public
schools of the county, who presented
themselves for examination last Satur-
day, was young fellow who looked
rs if be had not yet reached the age re.
quired by law. Mr.. John A. Barron,
of the board, sought to definitely deter
mine the matter, and he asked
Chow old are you ?"
81 am 1S, sir" replied the young
Negro in respectful tone; but with
an uncertain manner that tended to
increase Mr.. Barron's suspicious.
"Are you sure about that ?" was the
next question.
"Yes, sir !; 1 am sure"
"When were you 1872"
~ was 49," solemnly asserted the
little Negro, con the 18th day of last
fall"
Wellknown Old Negro.
George Hemphill, an old Negro we'll
known about Yorkville, and of uncer-
tain age except that he was generally
supposed to be in the neighborbood of
80 years, died at the County Home on
Tuesday of last week. There was
report among the Negroes that be
froze to death. This is not correct.
He had been at the County Home for
several weeks, and was suffering from
dropsy and other troubles. He receiv-
ed, according toSuperintendent Gauld-
in, the best of care, and was made as
comfortable as possible until he died.
He was buried on Wednesday. DIR.
Miles Walker also says there was no
foundation in fact for the "freezing to
death" story.
After the Commissioners.
Individually and collectively, the
members of the county board of COM
missioners have their hands full. Even
before he received his commission,
Captain Crawford was besieged by
people who wanted him to fix this
road and that, and do various other
things that nobody but county COM
missioner is supposed to be able to do.
1t is likely that Mr.. Wilkerson has
had just as many applications, and
everybody know that Supervisor Culp
receives an average of three requests
to every mile of travel he is able to
make through the country. To every
body who thinks about it, excepting,
of course, the commissioners, who
have to listen to every request or de-
mand without losing their good tenn
per, the situation is funny. 1t all
grows out of an idea that the comper-
atively ridiculous ordinary county
fund is sufficient to meet expenses like
that of road building.
sergeant Deal, of Company b.
,I In the last issue of The Sunday
News, are sketches of the first SER
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