Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-23
Straps and faets.

- The report of President Rich, of
the Mormon society, shows that 400
elders are laboring in the southern
field and during last week they walked
$3.50 miles, visited $500 families, and
held $50 meetings. The report says
in the Georgia conference 81 elders are
at work, and during the week they
walked 900 miles and visited 169 fam
lilies. There were refused entertain
ment 81 times.
- The Salt Lake (Utah) Herald says
that the Mormon church revenue from
tithes alone were 100000 in the year
ending December l, last, one.third of
the amount being cash and two-thirds
produce, which was distributed to the
poor or paid as salaries to church en-
ployees. For the present year it ex-
poets large increase, its estimates be-
ing 100000 cash and $500, 900 in pro-
duce. Two years ago President Snow
could not borrow any money from To-
cal or eastern banks, and an issue of
$1,OOO,OOO 2O.year bonds was made.
Every bond being taken and the in
terest duly paid, President Snow now
predicts that the bonds will be redeem
ed within five years.
- Prof. w. H. Council, the colored
president of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college for Negroes, at Nor
NAL, Ala, gave the northern Negroes
something to think about in an address
which he delivered recently at Bis
marck, Kansas. He said !: "Colored
men of the north make a great mis-
take in abusing the south. They for
get that the south was an ante-room in
which their fathers exchanged the
clout of the barbarian for the dress Of
ciyilization-the blessed ante-room in
which 100000 industrious beings-a
great missionary tent in which 4,000,-
600 of fetch worshippers were trans
formed into 100000 of Christian cit
izens of one of the most powerful gov
ernments of this age. Let the south
alone and look to your own neglected
opportunities and correct your own
wrongs. We Of the south thank you
for your strong sympathy but, my
friends, do not forget yourselves"
The siege of NJ. Guerin in his house
in Paris, continues. The crime with
which he is charged is political one
and it is for that reason that the gov
ernment is not willing to resort to
bloodshed. The place is still surround
ed by police, and the effort to starve
M. Guerin out continues. The only
food that he and his associates are able
to get is such as is thrown by sympa-
thizers from the roofs of adjoining
houses. On Sunday last NJ. Guerin's
sympathizers tried to throw him leg
of mutton. The mutton fell to the
street below, and the police took charge
of it. NJ. Guerin was very much en-
ragged. He shouted to the police that
at the first complaint of hunger by one
of his men, he would shoot the chief
of police on sight. Then he begged
the police to send up what his friends
had thrown him, or to fire at once.
He said that it was only savages who
would try and starve him to death.
- New York special of August Is:
There is sorrow in camp of Red
Men here, and there is likely to be
still more before one of the recently
initiated members gets through with
it. John Mohl, a bartender, who lives
at 80 East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street, has brought suit against
Anawanda Tribe for SIS, 900 damages.
Great Sachenl Church, of Birmingham,
and Andrew Murphy, treasurer of the
tribe, are also made defendants. In
his complaint Mohl says he was taken
to the tribes rooms, at One Hundred
and Nineteenth street and Third aven-
ue, and, after being sworn to secrecy,
was tied to the back of goat, which
careened about the room. Then he
was chased about over chairs and other
bunkers and hazards until he was tired
and sore. Finally he was tied to a
pole and pistols were fired by the
members. Some powder made a
wound in his leg, and he was confined
to his room several weeks. That is
why he sues.
Atlanta Constitution: Will Broad
max is the most notorious chicken
thief Atlanta has ever had. He has
been caught time and time again with
chickens which he candidly confessed
were stolen; but the officers had to
content themselves with having him
sent to the stockade for few days and
could not take him to a higher court.
The reason of this immunity on the
part of Will is the fact that he never
steals chicken without at once sitting
down and picking it and throwing its
head into sewer. He has learned
the trick of totally destroying the
identity of the fowl, for unless the
owner of the chicken can go into court
and swear to the stolen property there
can be no conviction for larceny.
Where or when Will learned this legal
point he does not say; but he knows
it and is always careful to carry out
his programme so as to be without
the pale of legal punishment. 1t is
said by the police that Will has been
caught at least twenty-five times with
a picked hen under his shirt.
- Says Blencoe, Ia, dispatch of
August IA, to the St. Paul Pioneer
Press: For more than week there
has been an army of small toads going
directly north past this point, follow
ing the gravel roadbed of the Sioux
City and Pacific railway. They move
night and day and stay right on the
roadbed, are from the size of the end