Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-01
Saturday, December |, 1900

The cat lives and with the exception OF
lameness appears none the worse for
the experience" This story reminds us
of the cat which sometime ago jumped
into the big fly wheel of the YORK
Cotton Mills engine. But there was
something of a difference in the result.
When the wheel was stopped the cat
was sticking to the rim dead-and very
fiat, There is evidently difference in
cats, or maybe the difference is in fly
wheels.
What Mr.. Finley Thinks.
Congressman Finley does not believe
that there is much probability of Mic
aragua canal legislation during the
session of congress which opens next
Monday. He believes in the canal. he
said to the reporter. day or two ago,
that If this government is going to
adopt a policy of commercial1sm, there
is no other one Thing under considera-
ton which will result so advantageously
to the South The connection of the At
lantic with the Pacific by means OF a
canal, will place our South Atlantic
and Gulf ports in direct communication
with the Pacific coast and the Orient,
and will build up the South in remark
able strides. The course Of cotton, coal
and iron will change from the North
eastern ports to the South, and there
will be an almost complete commercial
revolution. But he does not think the
canal will be dug soon. the great
transcontinental railways and powerful
Eastern interests are opposed to 1t, anu
he fears that they will succeed In stay
ing action for sometime to come. He Is
not looking for important legislation OF
any kind during the approaching snort
session of congress.
funeral of Ernes. Adams.
The funeral Of Ernest Adams, an &C
count of whose tragic death appeared
in THE ENQUIRER of Wednesday, was
conducted in Rock Hill last Sunday by
Rev. Alexander Sprunt, at the F1rst
Presbyterian church. The remains hao
been brought from the scene OF the ac-
cident by a special train on Saturday
evening and left at the undertaking
establishment of S. T. Frew, who, with
his assistants, did all that skill could
do to prepare the dead for the last
gaze of loved ones. So complete
though, says our Rock Hill correspond
ent, had been the terrible work or the
engine which passed over him, that
this was impossible. The deceased was
a sergeant of company G, First South
Carolina volunteers, and the burial was
with military honorS. At 1 O'CLOCK on
Sunday afternoon the casket, draped
in the beautiful silk flag presented to
company G, while encamped at Colum-
bia in '9S, was placed in the hearse ana
escorted by 20 comrades In UNIFORM
under command Of Lieutenant Herbert
Dunlap, proceeded to the residence OF
the dead soldiers mother, halting only
for the family to join the procession be-
fore going to the church. The pecuilar-
ly sad circumstances and the popular
ity of the dead, combined to make the
funeral unusually large. After the ser
vices at the church the procession
moved to Laurelwood cemetery, where
the interment took place and taps
was sounded by Musician r. H. Hope,
q comrade also. The floral tributes
were beautiful-Co. G sending an I'M
mense anchor, and the South Carolina
and Georgia Extension beautiful let
tered wreath. A NUMBER Of railroad
men with their families, from Blacks
burg, came down for the funeral and
the pail was borne by employees OF the
South Carolina and Georgia Extension.
They were Conductors Graham, Box
telle, Mcguire, Albergoti, Guntharp and
Abrams; Brakemen Moore, Davis, and
Oliphant, and Engineers Hammersly'
Suits and Metcalf.