Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-03
dt'ausiae Gatherings.

a6~ The Goa. trade in Western Ger
many has been stopped by car fam
line.
p@ Congressman Boutelle, of Maine,
has been committed to an insane asy-
lum.
ad- Irish Fenians claim to have
200, 900 men who are willing to fight
Great Britain.
s9 Don't make friend of the man
who thinks more of his dog than he
does of his wife.
p4~ The St. Petersburg papers say
that Providence is Furnishing Great
Britain for her greed.
R0r A 90 story building, to cost 81,
900 900, is to be erected at Nos. 20 50
Broad street, New York.
p1- General Butler was hit in the
side by spent bullet from a schrapnel
shell in the Colenso battle.
n9- The world is always ready to
take off its hat to the man who does
the right thing at the right time.
s~ Nearly $500 residents of Mime.
sofa shared in 1899 in the tree-plant-
ing bounty, receiving s2.40 an acre.
Bas- The government has decided to
allow no more Indians to leave their
reservations for purposes of exhibition.
s9 Prussian public teachers have
been forbidden to 60 hunting, on the
ground that it is an immoral pastime.
a9 Cracksmen's tools, found on the
scenes of recent Paris burglaries, indi.
cate the work of slick American
crooks.
sd@ The people of Great Britain are
beginning to realize that never before
has the stability of the empire been so
seriously threatened.
a6 France proposes to expel from
the country Max Nordau, a German
correspondent, who has criticised
Frenchmen as degenerates.
nag The Ancient Order of Hiberni-
ans, of St. Louis. propose starting a
fund of 100000, for the transporta'
ton of troops to aid the Beers.
sd New fortifcations nearly COM
pleted at San Francisco, CAL, will
make the Golden Gate one of the best
protected ports in the country.
edse The Salvation Army has hired a
hall in Paris close to the exposition
building, and will conduct services
daily for the benefit of visitors.
tag Experiments recently made in
Europe with 49 different kinds of Ger
man, French and Austrian sugar beet
seeds, show that German seed is by far
the best.
ga An English authority has discov-
cred that the average age at which
Englishmen marry is % years and 5
months, and that of women 26 years
and 2 months.
p4" The directors of the Royal We
suvian Observatory announces that
Mount Vesuvius is now perfectly quiet,
and that the eruptive period Of lS95-99
is definitely closed.
BS- A tongue made of rubber and
resting on pivot set between the
teeth belongs to a New York man.
He is also able to talk distinctly and
freely, and eats with ease.
a9~ A proposition by General Miles
to have the highest class at West Point
graduated in February in order to fill
vacant lieutenancies finds an opponent
in Adiutant General Corbin.
sd- The British transport Hermes,
with 900 mules, has sailed from New
Orleans for Capetown. The Hermes
is the sixth vessel which has left that
port with mules for the English army.
s9 The decision as to whether Gen
eral Wheeler shall return to bis con-
gressional duties or remain with the
troops in the Philippines is left in the
generals own hands by President Nc
Kinley.
B9~ The discovery of the operations
of band of counterfeiters in Cuba is
leading government officials to consid-
er the advisability of applying the Uni
ted States laws against counterfeiting
to the island.
H8 The authorities in Algeria gave
$4,000 toward fighting the grasshop-
pers. In one section 5000 camels
were employed to carry the material
for burning over the places where eggs
had been deposited.
sa The largest corporation in the
world is in Pennsylvania-the Carne-
gle Steel company, capital stock $780,
100000. Next comes the Federation
Steel company, of New Jersey, capital
authorized S200,000,000.
H9 Dorsey w. Shackleford, who has
taken BANDS seat in congress, is a
rich man. He made his money in the
large zinc and lead mines of Camden
county, Missouri, of the best of which
he is practically the owner.
p9e Merchants in the upper part OF
New York City are complaining of the
number of counterfeit halfdollars that
T were being offered them in the rush of
the Christmas shopping. The pieces
were very good counterfeits in appear
ance, but they were of very light
weight.
s9 When the Beers modified their
forces it is said that they only called
out the first levy of men between is
and 81, some $4,000 in all. The sec
nnd levy would consist of those be.