Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-12
at'ausiae Gatherings.


a6- A peanut trust has been formed
at Norfolk, Va, with $4,000, 600 capt.
tai.
p~ Prussia has only 1000 persons
who have incomes of more than ST.
500 year.
n8 Russian soldiers are supplied
with handkerchiefs at the expense of
the government.
RE The Mexican government coins
an average of $4,000, 900 a year in
silver, gold and copper.
s8 Two Jews and Chinaman were
recently baptized into the Catholic
faith at Elizabeth, n. J.
a9r Robert Bonner, the founder Of
the New York Ledger, died in that
city on last Thursday night.
s@ General Joseph Wheeler has been
ordered to report to General Otis for
service in the Philippine islands.
s9- Coils P. Huntington has pur-
chased land in Hanover county, Va,
and will erect reformatory for Negro
children.
aar General Greedy, chief of the
United States signal service, says our
troops in the Philippines are not unu-
sually unhealthy.
a6 The government has investigated
the report that graves of Confederate
soldiers in the national cemetery were
neglected and found to be false.
adF Luther said that if man were
not strong at 20, handsome at 80,
learned at 40, and rich at so, he would
never be strong, handsome or rich.
a9- Work of recruiting 10000 men
for service in the Philippines under
General Otis will be begun at once at
70 different stations throughout the
United States.
seE Out of l 200 men comprising the
Twentieth Kansas regiment, only IL
are of foreign birth. Nearly the whole
are of Anglo-Saxon blood, and many
more than half are the sons of farmers.
n9 Admiral Cervera, who has been
tried by q courtmartial at Madrid, on
the charge of losing the Spanish fleet
at Santiago, last July, was acquitted
on last Friday and formally liberated.
e8 Henry Clewes, in talking to some
Young men on the best way to amass
wealth, advised simply adherence to
the Biblical command to do with all
our might whatever our hands find
to do.
any 1t is now stated that the wreck
of the ocean steamer Paris on the coast
of England, recently, was caused by
the captains misreading the logbook
and getting a wrong idea of the loca-
ton of the ship.
s@ Kit Carson's rifle, which was
carried by him more than 40 years,
aud which never failed him, is now
a precious relic in the possession OF the
Montezuma Lodge of Masons, at Santa
Fe, of which he was a member.
nag And now, poor old Spain comes
forward with a demand for slice of
Chinessterritory, on the ground that
China, during the Spanish-Ame erican
war, permitted the shipment of arms
and ammunition to the Philippines by
American steamers.
H9" Ira D. Sankey, who recently
visited the Jordan, said of the historic
stream: awe were disappointed in
the STORMY banks of which / have so
often sung; but still it was worth a
trip half around the world to see its
Swelling food and cross to its farther
shore"
p9~ The cost of the Spanish war, in
cluding the payment for the Philippine
Islands, and the maintenance of garri-
sons in all the dependencies from the
preparations for the war in March,
1898, to the close of the last fiscal
year, on June 80, 1899, has been about
$3.50, 100000.
s9- At Asti, in California, last year,
cistern 1O4 feet long by "a feet wide
and "a feet deep was formed in hill
side for the storage of wine. The i'm
mense tank was lined with concrete
two feet thick and coated inside with
glaze as impermeable as glass. The
capacity of the tank is 500,OOO gallons.
B9~ Cornstalks continue to look up.
They WELD cellulose-worth S400 ton
for stopping holes in battleships, fine
cardboard and paper, the best founda-
ton for dynamite, patent cattle food
and superior glue. But is said that
$50, 100000 tons of cornstalks still 60
go to waste every yearin this country.
p9~ Charles Nelson, a Floyd county
Qowa) farmer, is endeavoring to raise
coffee. His plants, grown from seed
put in the ground last spring, are now
six inches high. Out of an acre he
expects to get five pounds of coffee,
which, making due allowance for the
time and labor expended in the cult
walton of the berries, he calculates will
cost him about $1S q pound.
B9" A woman notary public in Col
orado was recently married and sought
legal advice as to what name she
should use in the future, officially.
The attorney general of the state has
finally given the gratifying opinion
that she must sign all documents as
before her marriage, for he finds no
law compelling, or even authorizing, a
woman to drop her maiden name on
the simple excuse of marriage. In
fact, he says that there is no authority
for change of name at marriage or
at any other time.
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