Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-11
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- The latest statistics of Methodism
the world over have just been tabula
ted as follows: Ministers, 43, 400 lay
preachers, 101, ,643; churches, 76,S21 ;
members and probationers, 7,100,60l ;
Sunday schools, 1887 Sunday school
officers and teachers, $4,000; Sunday
school scholars, 6,lS5,79O. If we mul-
tiply the commitments by three, which
is the usual method of getting an aver
age in such cases, we find the Metho-
dist population of the world to be
2l,3Ol, 1903. +
The entire 1st class af'the Virginia
Military institute, 35 sjf number, have
been dismissed, except Captain Derby
shire, who was officer of the day at the
time of the offence. 1t had been dis.
covered that they intended TO discharge
fireworks from the towers of the in
stitute building on New Years eve,
and they had been forbidden to do so
but persisted in the purpose. The
order states that they were not dis
missed for the act itself; but for their
defiance of the prohibition.
A story was published in the New
York newspapers few days ago that
General Joseph Wheeler was to be
married to Miss Helen Gould. A
Washington dispatch says that the gen.
eral hardly thinks it worth while to
deny the rumor; but he is so somewhaL
annoyed on account of 1t. His close
friends say that he has high admira'
tion for Miss Gould on account of her
noble character and munificence dur
ing the war. A New York dispatch
saws that Miss Gould denies the rumor ;
but at the same time expresses the
opinion that General Wheeler was one
of the brightest and bravest figures in
the war.
- The United Confederate veterans
at Raleigh, N. c., do not take any
stock in Senator Buffers proposition
to put them ON the pension roll. On
last Saturday night they adopted the
following resolution "We, the mem
bers of L. OBJ. Branch Camp of Con-
feGerate veterans, of Raleigh, n. c., in
meeting assembled, having seen in the
papers that Senator Butler has intro
duced a. bill in the United States senate
to pension the Confederate veterans,
we hereby enter our protest against
said bill, as degrading and demoral-
izing in its tendency, and suggest to
the honorable senator that he use his
efforts to purge the pension rolls of the
bummers and bounty jumpers of the
Federal army, and we will thank him
for same"
Germany's inebriates, after one
more year of such careful mitigated
liberty as the dear Kaiser's subjects are
permitted to enjoy, will enter upon q
period of restraint calculated to fill
them with mingled horror and indig-
nation. With the beginning of 1900
there will 20 into effect truly re-
markable lava law which places
every habitual drunkard under an in
terdict involving complete submission
to the will of duly appointed "cura.
tor" This person will be empowered
to put the person whom he regards as
a dipsomaniac anywhere he pleases,
there to undergo treatment for the
malady as long as the "curator" pleases
And the new law formulates fine,
broad definition ip telling what a habi'
tual drunkard is. 1t says that the
term includes everybody "who, in con,
sequence of inebriety, cannot provide
for his affairs, or endangers the safety
of Others" This measure was first
advocated in Germany 35 years ago
but hitherto its enactment has been
prevented by influence not difficult to
understand.
Secretary Hester's analysis of the
cotton movement for the four months
of the season from September l to
December 81, inclusive, shows that,
compared with the crop movement
last year, Texas, including Indian
Territory, has brought into sight this
season, in round figures, CAB, 900 bales
more, while other Gulf states, which
include Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma,
have marketed 10000 less. The
group of Atlantic states, which includes
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia. Florida, Alabama and Virginia,
show a decrease Of l04, 900; in other
words, all of the states outside of
Texas and the Indian Territory, have
decreased 214 900 bales, against an in
crease for Texas and the territory of
900, leaving the net increase in the
total of the crop marketed of 429, 900.
The total crop in sight at the close of
December was 7,725, ,496, an increase
over last year of 42S,963 and over
wear before last of 1927, ,3O4. After
December 81 last, the amount brought
into sight from Texas and the Territory
was 933, SOL; from other Gulf states,
1856, ,494, and from the Atlantic states,
laos, ,466.
Colonel VIM. J. Bryan made anoth.
er great speech in Chicago last Satur-
day night. He had great deal to
saw in addition to what he had already
said on the subject of Imperialism, and
he set at rest the doubts that have
been raised as to whether he has
abandoned his we'll known views on
free coinage. On this subject he said :
"The second point of attack is the
ratio. Why insist upon 16 to l, they
ask :? 1 reply, first, because it is the
best ratio, and, second, because its op-
ponents have no other ratio to offer.