Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-15
atausiae Gatherings.

ston, N. c., is substituting white for
Negro labor.
p@- Six additional regiments of reg
ulars have been ordered to Manila to
reinforce General Otis.
pG- General Brooke will propose the
formation of a colonial militia in Cuba
under direction of American officers.
s@ Near Celina, Ind, Miss Mary
Lloyd is dying of spinal meningitis,
contracted by kissing the lips of a dead
friend.
p9- A chair which Lincoln had used
in his home was sold at auction in New
York for $270 to the Lincoln club, of
Chicago.
p9- Proofs of smuggling on large
scale during the blockade have been
discovered by the American officials at
Havana.
p9- A hundred years ago the Ha-
waiian islands were said to'have had
100000 population; now $4,000 is
high estimate.
p9r The South Park and Blue River
railroads in Colorado have been so
deeply showed in that they may not
be dug out for month,
p6- Cuban newspapers urge the ma
tives to turn banditti because the Unit
ed States is giving the island an eco
nomical government.
p@- William Morrison, an Is year old
printers apprentice in Boston, has
fallen heir to s2O,OO0,OOO by the death
of an uncle in California.
e9- The Chilian army is to be re-
duced by 5000 men, and it is rumored
at Valparaiso that the sale of several
cruisers to the United States is con-
templated.
Sd- The governor of Illinois has sign
ed a bill appropriating $4,000 for a
statue of Frances E. Willard, to be
placed in the rotunda of the Capitol at
Washington.
s4- Congress, on Thursday, passed a
Joint resolution authorizing the secre-
tary of the navy to erect at Havana a
monument commemorative of the vic
tins of the battleship Maine.
p@- General Gomez has reported to
General Brooke that the Cuban army
numbers $4,000 men, which is 10000
less than the number given by the
Cuban assembly.
p6- In a letter to Governor Roose.
velt, of New York, Nelson G. Green
opposes the reading of the Bible in the
public schools of the state as being
sectarian education and illegal.
p9- William F. Richards, of English,
Ind, owns brood SOW which dropped
a litter of IA pigs last Monday; the
fifth litter in three years, altogether
&c pigs, every one of which was
reared.
p6- The house of the Texas legisla-
ture has adopted resolution de-
nouncing the war in the Philippines as
one of brutal conquest, and calling on
Texas congressman to do what they
can to stop it.
p9- Sweat-shop investigations in
New York have found that men, wo-
men and children work as much as
18 hours daily, the men for As cents a
day and women and children for much
less.
B6- There are about 4,S00 army re-
enforcements on the way to Manila,
making as rapid progress as possible,
and there are nearly $500 additional
troops under orders to proceed to the
Philippines.
H@- Young husband-I'm just about
dead from putting down this carpet.
Wife-The carpet is not heavy. "No ;
but have to work in such a cramped
position" "Nonsense; just imagine
you are on your bicycle"
p8- The ramie fibre is tough and
wears we'll. 1t is said that in China,
where it is used for making clothing,
it lasts so we'll that children frequently
wear the clothes which their grand
parents wore when children.
p9~ The dead body of H. E. Eads, a
brother of the famous engineer, James
B. Eads, who built the great St. Louis
steel bridge which bears his name, was
found in a cabin near Mining Gulch,
Mont. He was 70 years old, and lived
alone.
HB- The gunboats Princeton and Cas-
tine are now on their way from the
Red Sea to join Admiral Dewey, and
the Oregon is travelling through the
Pacific to the same destination. These
vessels will add to the naval force at
Manila SO officers, 799 men and "a
marines.
p6 The most expensive thermome-
ter in the world is in use at Johns
Hopkins university. 1t is an absolute
ly correct instrument, with gradua-
tion on the glass so fine that it is neces-
sary to use microscope to read them.
1t is valued at $4,000.
n@ Mother-Jane, you must choose
between the two. Will you marry the
man who loves you, or the man who
can dress you? Mamma, as an up-to-
date girl, must reply that although
love is very desirable thing, clothes
are an absolute necessity"
S6 "Now," said the bird dealer, elf
man came to buy parrot and asked
you if the bird swore, what would you
say? ?" "W'y," said the boy, who want
ed job, "I'd sorter act idiotic like,
and pretend not to understand him.
Then, if he got mad and cussed me,
I'd tell him yes."