Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-01
atjausiae Gatherinas.

s4 Uncle Sam gets something over
$50, 100000 a year in taxes out OF
tobacco.
a6 Winter vegetables were killed
by the cold as far south as Tallahas.
see, Fla.
RG The new Japanese cruiser, Chill
tose built at San Francisco, made 2S3
knots on her trial trip.
n9 The average monthly wages of
male teachers in Illinois in 1898 was
S6O.S7, and of female teachers $51.S4.
p6r All the surviving captains of
Spanish warships destroyed at Santa
90 and Manila will be court martialed.
pg During the recent blizzard nearly
three hundred bodies accumulated in
the New York morgue awaiting burial.
p6 The Memphis Cotton Planters
Journal reports that cotton grower
in Mississippi has trained 200 African
moneys to pick cotton.
s6r Admiral Dewey has number of
autograph letters from Aguinaldo, in
which the admiral is referred as "My
honorable and illustrious friend"
sY Reports from the south indicate
that as a result of the intense cold the
Georgia peach crop and the Florida
orange crop may be a complete loss.
s6- The committee in New Orleans
having in charge the arrangements
for holding the convention of cotton
planters have postponed the call in
definitely.
p6- A bill has been introduced in
the Kansas legislature which provides
that residence of three months in the
state shall give person legal stand
ing to bring suit for divorce.
p4> General Wood has decided that
one regiment is sufficient to garrison
Santiago city. All is quiet in the sur
rounding country, and cane is being
ground on all the sugar estates.
p6r The navy department records
show that at the time of the destruc-
ton of the battleship Maine in Havana
harbor the total number of persons on
board was 355. Of these 26l were lost
and "a survived.
p6- Richmond papers say this has
been the coldest winter that that city
has experienced since 1857, while the
London papers say that February, thus
far, has been the warmest that city has
experienced in half century.
s@ Senator Grady has introduced
and antitrust bill in the senate of the
New York assembly, which makes the
formation of pools or combinations to
control prices a conspiracy, punishable
by heavy fine and long Imprisonment.
p9 According to statistics the immi-
grants who reach this country bring
with them the following amounts OF
cash: Germans $3.50, Englishmen
S52, Frenchmen S47.25, Belgians $54,
Irishmen SIS, Russians $3.50 and
Italians $40.
p@ In commenting on Germany's re-
cent conciliatory attitude toward the
United States, the London Daily News
says: Germany backed the wrong
horse, and, having discovered the mis-
take, is anxious to right herself with
the Americans.
sd- Some of the Indians of the Uni
ted States are among the richest farm
ers in the world. The annual income
of the Usage tribe, which consists OF
only 1929 persons, including children,
is $442,O44 or S256.24 for each man,
woman and child.
p9 Recently gathered figures show
Spartanburg county, S. c., grows an
nually $4,000 bales of cotton. The
% mills of that county not only use all
this up, but have to import 100000
bales from other counties and states to
supply the demand of the factories.
a6- The American Agriculturist es.
Inmates that there are $4,000, 900 horses
in the world. Of these 3s,O00,OOO are
in Europe, 1,7O5,OO in North Ameri-
ca and 5000, 900 in Asia. The mules
and asses in the world are said to
number 100000.
p@ A German doctor who has been
collecting information about the habits
of long-lived persons finds that the
majority of those who attained old
age INDUCED in late hours. Eight out
of 10 persons over 80 never went to
bed till we'll into the small hours, and
did not get up again till late in the
day.
p@ A recent suit brought in Louis
vile to recover a Kentucky coon dog
occupied the attention for an entire
day of judge, six attorneys, the plain
tiff and defendant, the jury (Which in
cluded two Baptist ministers and a
room full of witnesses. During the
hearing of the case the dog slept under
table in the custody of the sheriff.
s@ Wellington, Kan, built new
Jail last year, and the authorities de-
ltermined to name it after the first pris-
oner who might be confined in it. This
prisoner proved to be a woman, Mrs.
Horton, and the institution was
promptly named "Horton Jail" Now
| it has been proven that the woman was
innocent, and she proposes to sue the
Wellington authorities for damages.
e6 Misfortunes follow some men in
rapid succession. The Maryland pa
pers tell of farmer in that state who
three weeks ago lost three children
from diphtheria, the next week bis
barns and stables were burned, and
with them his stock, farming imple-