Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-31
Scraps and facts.

see ana CarOllna rallrOdu mas oeeh
completed, says a Knoxville, Tenn,
dispatch of Saturday. This proposed
road is better known as the Black
Diamond; but was recently chartered
under the above name. 1t is the Boone
scheme to build a road from Columbus,
O., to Port Royal, S. c. A deal Is
pending to secure sufficient funds to
build the roads.
The Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, who
is to run the Topeka, Kan, Capital on
Christian principles through the week
of March 13, has already made num-
ber of rules which he will put in force
in order TO show that paper can be
made prosperous without printing all
the news. No sporting news will be
printed, nor will any police reports
get into the paper. Every news item
and advertisement will pass under his
personal supervision, so that he eau
make sure that nothing morally ipjur-
ious will get into print. Every one of
the employees will have to attend
prayers at the beginning of the days
work.
In employing Senator John NJ.
Thurston to defend its interests in the
litigation started against it by Attor-
ney General Smyth, to compel 1t
to suspend business in Nebraska, the
Standard Oil company gives notice
that it will test the antitrust law
thoroughly. Senator Thulston will
be the western partner in big
legal firm of which ex.Speaker Reid
is part. AS attorney for the Un-
ion Pacific railroad in its best days,
and later as the legal mind which
drew the articles of receivership, Mr..
Thurston won distinction among law
yers. He is a good example OF the
possibilities of the west. When
young lawyer, it is said of him that ne
used to sleep in his office for the rea'
son that ready money was too scarce
to pay for bed.
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce, last Friday, re-
considered the Nicaragua canal bill,
which had been reported with an ap-
preparation section, SO as to make SlO,
100000 available with authority 10
contract for the entire excavation,
construction, defense, and completion
of the canal at a total cost not exceed
S14O,OOO,OOO. Mr.. Fletcher, of Min
nesota asked "Wben you get the canal
half built for $140,000,000, what will
YOU do for the other half?" Mr.. Cor
liss, of Michigan answered that the
highest estimate of the cost was $133,
100000. Mr.. Hepburn added that in
its amended form the bill simply ap-
plied to the contract system and linn
tied the aggregate to $4,000, 900.
In its amended form the bill was or
dered reported.
London dispatch, January % {:
Winston Churchill, in three columns
of correspondence in The Morning
Post, supplements his cable narrative
of his escape from Pretoria. Two
other officers had planned to escape
with him but they thought they had
been discovered by the Beers and re-
turned to prison. On the second day
out Mr.. Churchill, realizing with aw-
full force that no exercise of feeble wit
and strength could save me from my
enemies, and that without the assist
ance of that higher power which inter-
feres oftener than we are prone TO ad-
NIT in the eternal sequence Of cause
and effect, l could not succeed" pray
ed long and earnestly for help and
guidance. "My prayers, as it seems
to me-" said he, "were swiftly and
wonderfully answered. l cannot now
relate the strange circumstances which
followed and which changed my nearly
hopeless position TO one of superior ad-
vantage" After the war, he asserts,
he will tell in what manner this change
was effected.
- St. Louis Globe Democrat: The
prospects that the bank of England rate
of discount will 60 down to 4 per cent.
soon, although it was up to the 6 per
cent. line recently, is having brac-
ing effect on business throughout Eu-
rope and is helping matters in the
United States. The scare in London,
which began with the British reverses,
disturbed the money market in this
country and was the chief cause of the
gold expectations from the United
States. A few British victories now
would send down the rates of money
so far that a gold inflow to the United
States might occur Immediately. The
money market Oh this side of the At
lanlic has eased up to considerable
extent in the past week or two; but,
of course, the disbursements through
the heavy payments of interest and
dividends on bonds and stocks had
much TO do with this change. Lower
rates for money are likely to prevail
in New York and London for time
now.
- The ceremony of blessing the East
River, New York, this month, was per-
formed by priests of the Orthodox
Russian church, with a procession as
accompaniment, and all the pomp and
circumstances that usually attend i'm
portaut Russian church celebrations.
The ceremony was taken from the
custom of blessing the River Neva, in
token of respect to the Jordan, which
figures so largely in Biblical history.
1t is solemn proceeding and there is
always IL general attendance of the
congregations of churches when it
takes place. So, the dingy East.Side
of New York, when the bishop, in full
canonicals, with a cross held before
him, and all the kinds of vessels in
precious metals displayed, marched at