Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-12
M'ausiae Gatherings.
3T The Indian famine relief fund at
Jew York has reached $212,O79.54.

INC" 1W .llo iSoSASo p@A"bo'o'of'
fs The Chicago and Alton road is ap-
plying oil sprinkling as a dust layer.
fg 1t was said in Chicago that David
B. Hill would speak in the South for
Bryan.
ss' The department Of agriculture has
Issued bulletin treating the subject OF
mosquitoes.
fa The assessed value of all property
lin California Is $1,21S, 22S,5SS. The value
Of railroad property is $47, Ill, 1855.
ss' A man at Coldwater, Mich, has
wagered that If Bryan Is elected he will
Isupport his contestants mother-in-law
for life.
tg' The British admiralty, according
to the London Daily Mail, is buying
large quantities of American coal for
1.-The use of the fleet in home waters and
in the Mediterranean.
fE The Chinese admit having lost 5000
lin the various attacks upon the lega-
tions at Pekin. The foreigners rations
dwindled to one pound a day, consist
ling of horseflesh and rice.
s,J From the revolution to 1860, 4,3O4.-
O29 immigrants arrived in the United
States. From 1890 to 1899, 3,650,3S i'm
migrants arrived, and for the first elev-
en- months Of this fiscal year 1894, ,164
have landed.
fF There are now 13 cable lines
across the Atlantic in successful ope-
ration, yet the charge for sending mes
sages remains what it has been for 25
years or more-25 cents a word for
commercial messages and 10c a word
for press dispatches.
sas' Every indication points to the fact
that the cotton crop will be short, as
compared with last season. The figures
show that a crop of 9,500,0O0 bales will
be about what the commissioners Of
agriculture Of the Southern states will
declare is in sight.
IN The California orange yield Is To-
900 car loads, and next year 1t is ex-
pected to exceed 10000 car loads. The
total sum invested in orange property
| in California rs years ago was $4,000;
now it is $4,000, 900, and is annually in
creasing by s2,uOO,0OO.
Sg It is said that, owing to the intro
duction Of machinery in the manufac-
| ture of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco,
several thousand hands will soon be
thrown out Of work. One machine is
said to produce 100000 cigarettes and
1000 pounds of cut tobacco minute.
az The English startling has come un-
der the same ban as that which rests
on the English sparrow. The depart
ment of agriculture has issued an or
der prohibiting the importation of the
starting and forbidding it's transference
from state to state within the Union.
sg The American National Red Cross
announces that under the powers con-
ferred upon it by the last congress, 1t
will at once begin active work for the
relief Of those suffering from famine In
India. Headquarters for this branch
relief work will be opened In New
York city.
"a The largest orchard in South Da-
kota is near Hurley, Turner county,
and has $50 acres, in which. are 5000
trees, two acres being given over to
plums. Besides the trees there are
!, 900 currant bushes, 1000 gooseberry
bushes, 500 grapevines, and three acres
of strawberries.
fN The secretary of the interior has
Issued an order withdrawing from en-
try at the land Office, 300 square miles
of territory in New Mexico. The Sec
ton includes most Of the more import
ant cliff dwellings, the intention being
to make Of it the Pajarito Cliff Dwell
ers' National park.
3g Together they were looking over
the paper. "Oh, how funny" said she.
What is it?" he asked. "Why here Is
an advertisement that says, No rea-
sonable offers refused" whats so
odd about that?" Nothing, nothing
she replied, trying to blush, "only those
are my sentiments"
fy An inventor has hit upon meth
cd of putting stone soles on boots and
shoes. He mixes a waterproof glue
with a quantity Of clean quartz sand
and spreads it over the leather sole
used as a foundation. These quartz
soles are said to be very flexible and
to give the foot firm hold even on the
most slippery surface.
38' A waiter in a cafe in Elizabeth, N.
J., entered huge ice box and accident
ally pulled the door. He could not open
lit from the inside, and exhausted him
self in kicking at it. Then he fell on
the floor and was not found for an
hour. Three of his toes were so badly
frozen that they will have to be ampu-
tated.
! sT Scarcity of farm laborers in Eng
land has brought a strange assemblage
to the country districts. The other day
there was working on a Surrey farm a
couple of clerks, compositor, solici-
tor who had been unable to scrape up
the money to take out his certificate, a
medical man and a pawnbroker's as
lsistant.
sS 1t has been estimated that a bale
Of cotton will make a mile of brown
sheeting. At this rate, the annual
crop of the South would, when manu-
factured into CLOTH be sufficient to put
band around the earth the full width
of the bolt, over 300 times. Literally
speaking, her crop is sufficient to
clothe the entire world.
3S Clerk-I am to be married shortly.
Could you not manage to increase my
salary a little? Employer-Couldn't
really. But I'll tell you what I'll do for
you my boy. I'll shorten your hours
during the first three months so that
you can spend your evenings at home,
and after that I'll lengthen them again,
so that you will have an excuse to stay
away.
| 28' The bell that hung in the Alamo