Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-02

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selves not to marry divorced persons
without the most searching and rigid
examination into their antecedents.
This is a good move in the interests of
society and morals; but one wonders
why a clergyman should need asso-
ciated help to do that which is plain
duty presented by his own conscience.
Secretary Hester's statement of the
worlds visible supply of cotton shows
decrease for the week closing last Fri
day of 1887 bales against decrease
of 1888 last year and decrease of
137, ,4O6 in 1895. The total visible sup
ply is 1854, 1856 bales, against 2,677,-
757 last week and 2,053, ,292 last year.
Of this the total of American cotton is
1859, 1856 bales, against 2, 2,462,7 last
week and 1,S10,292 last year; and OF
all other kinds, including Egypt, Bra
zil, India, etc., 2O5,0OO bales, against
215,0OO last week and 243,oOO last
year.
"A Negro who was arraigned before
Justice Walls, of Kansas City, on a
charge of stealing articles of clothing
from his roommate on Sunday, tried to
impress tne judge with his piety. Be-
ing asked what he was doing on the
Sunday when the goods were stolen,
he replied that he vas in his room
reading the Bible. The judge asked
him what part of the Bible he was
reading. The Negro hesitated, then
said: The-the Ten Commandments,
suh." The judge offered to let him 60
if he would repeat the Decalogue; but
as the Negro could not even quote one
commandment, he had to 60 to Jail.
- Cincinnati Enquirer: The deficit
in the United States treasury is great
er than it was when Mckinley ad-
dressed his tremendous wisdom to the
administration of affairs. The extra
ordinary war taxes have more than
provided for the war expenses; but Mr..
Mckinley has run the government be-
hind $90,00O,000 for the year just ex-
pired. The president distinctly de-
clared at the beginning of his admins
tration that there could be no prosperity
in business while the government was
running behind. 1t follows, "as the
night the day." that if we have pros
perity and happiness they are in spite
of Mckinley, and not on account OF
his efforts.
- The secretary of the Dewey home
fund requests the publication of the
following: "There can no longer be
any doubt as to whether home will
be purchased by popular subscription
for Admiral George Dewey. At a
meeting of the national Dewey home
fund committee today it was found
that the aggregate amount of cash act
ually received by Treasurer Roberts is
$16,7OO, from a total of over $4,000
subscribers. One hundred and three
subscribers gave $4,000. The state
ment was made that the $4,000 prom
ised some time since by the New York
Journal would be forthcoming shortly,
bringing the grand aggregate up to
$21, 700. The committee agrees to
close the subscriptions before the ar
rival of Admiral Dewey in New York
in September, and then to proceed, af,
ter consultation with the admiral as to
location, etc., to purchase the home
with whatever funds they may, at that
time, have in hand.
A special of Friday from Jackson,
Ga. to the Atlanta Journal, says that
three Mormon elders who were taken
away from the home of VIM. Cunnard
at Newton factory, in Jasper county,
the previous Wednesday night, escap-
ed from the mob while crossing the
creek in the last named county and
managed to reach place of safety near
Jackson. They are suffering from
many bruises and injuries sustained in
a fight with their captors. They swan
down the creek, hotly pursued by the
mob, finally escaping and making their
way through the country to the home
of friends. From there they sent for
some clothes. They tell thrilling
story of their experience. 1t is not
thought here that the mob intended
to lynch the Mormons but was bent
on escorting them out of the country.
Mrs. Cunnard, a portion of whose
Jaw was shot away in the fight between
the mob and her husband is badly
wounded.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
United States is already the largest of
the Christian nations of the world in
point of population except Russia. 1t
is far ahead of Russia and every other
country, including England, in wealth.
1t is growing faster than Russia in pop
ulation, and will soon overtake that
country. In manufacturing, it has led
England, which previously held the
worlds supremacy in this important re-
spect, for the past 20 years. Its ma
terial resources are greater than are
those of any other country. The
money market of New York has been
more abundantly supplied than that of
London in the past six months, not
withstanding the immense expansion
which has taken place in this country
in general business in that time.
Rates for money have remained stead
ier in New York than in London.
These are a few of the reasons why
some of the great monetary transac-
tions which formerly would have been
negotiated in London now take place
in this country. The star of empire,
which has already carried the centre
of the worlds wealth and moral in
fuence to this side of the Atlantic, is
,u,;pr;pp tho oentre Of the worlds