Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 08, 1899, Image 2
Scraps and |acts.
? The completeness of British control
over the telegraphic communication
with South Africa is shown by the fact
that that the secretary of war at London,
has given permission to I)r. Leyds,
the Transvaal diplomatic agent at
Brussels, to send a telegram to Pre-|
toria to ask the number of killed and
wounded on the side of the Boers.
The Boers have no seaport, but communicate
with the Portuguese neutral
port on Delagoa hay; but the British
control the cables communicating with
Europe.
? James J. JefFerys is still the champion
prize tighter of the world. He
fought 25 rounds with Thomas SDarkey
before the Coney Island Athletic club
last Friday night, and although the
fight was not of a decisive character,
the referee awarded him the decision.
The two men appeared to be quite
evenly matched, aud at times duriug
the fight each had an advantage that
seemed to promise victory. The fight
is said to have been quite a decent affair
as prize fights go, aud it is likely
that the two men will be pitied against
each other again in a fight to the finish.
? A recent issue of the Transvaal
Critic contaiued this suggestive bit of
news: The man Uys, who thrashed
two native servant girls to death in the
Wakk erst room district some months
ago, has been senteuced to two years
hard labor. Mild as the sentence will
appear to those who correctly estimate
the value of human life, it has astounded
the relatives and friends of the accused.
It says a good deal for the
jury that they did not decide on an
acquittal, seeing that the State attorney
stated in the Raad not so long ago
that to thrash a native servant to death
was not a dishonorable action.
? Says a Charlotte dispatch of November
4: A rumor having gone
' '5 V? <-v t hot AT rC
auroau uvcr tuc tuuuuj * *.?.
Stonewall Jackson, widow of the distinguished
Confederate general, is absolutely
penniless, in want and hopelessly
ill and blind, Mrs. Jackson said
yesterday to a representative of the
Associated Press that these statemeuts
are very much exaggerated. It is true
that she is not in affluent circumstances;
but she has a competency aud
has always been above want. Her
health is somewhat improved and she
is not blind, though still suffering from
a painful illness, facial neuralgia.
Appeals having been made all over the
south for her relief, Mrs. Jackson is
anxious that the true state of the case
should be known, as she is unwilling
to accept any donations except those
offered as testimonials of love and
admiration for her husband.
? Secretary Hester's weekly New
Orleans Cottou Exchange statement,
issued last Friday, shows a decrease in
the movement into sight, compared
with the 7 days ending the same date
last year, in round figures, of 205,000
bales, a decrease under the same days
year before last of 87,000. The amouut
brought into sight during the past
week has been 373,128 bales, agaiust
577,76(5 bales for the seven days euding
this date last year, aud 460,628 year
before last. The total movement for
the 64 days from September 1, to date,
was 2,085,569 bales, against 3,563,148
last year. The movement since September
1, shows receipts at all United
States ports of 2,007,791 bales, against
2,(532,086 last year; overlaud across
the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac
rivers to northern mills and Canada
317,925, against 207,111 last year; interior
stocks in excess of those held at
the close of the commercial year 375,
077 bales, against 438,370 last year;
southern mill takings 2S4.176 bales,
against 25S,576 last year. Foreign exports
for the week have been 169,574
bales, against 350,677 last year, making
the total thus far for the season
1,327,593, against 1,571,759 last year.
The total takings of American mills,
north aud south and Canada, thus far
for the season, have been 794,378 bales,
against 023,440 last year. Stocks at
the seaboard and the 29 leading southern
interior centres have increased
during the week 49,046 bales, against
an iucrease during the corresponding
period of 97,2SS. Including stocks left
over at the ports aud interior towns
from the last crop and the number of
bales brought into sight thus far for
the new crop, the supply to date is
3,004,467, against 3,S03,714 for the
same period last year.
? A correspondent describing the
fighting around Ladysmith, uuder date
of Tuesday of last week, said that although
the day was terrible to the
British it must have been more so to
the Boers. The British artillery fire
is said to have been appalling, especially
on account of the use of lyddite
shells. When the shells burst, the casualties
in the immediate vicinity were
numerous. General Joubert sent a
formal written protest to General
White against the use of lyddite as iu
human. '1 he >?ew York feuu says ot
this: "The use of powerful explosives
in shells has never been condemned
by the nations. It was not
even criticised at the peace conference.
Lyddite is a secret compound, the invention
of British ollicers. The bureau
of ordnance of the United States
army has but little information regarding
its composition. It is classed with
melenite, the French explosive, which
is known to be a picric acid compound.
Lyddite has been used by the British
principally in the 12-pounder mountain
guns. It is used for bursting the 12pounder
shells, and, being about six
times as powerful as gunpowder, the
shells burst into thousauds of fragments
and cover a considerable area.
The sound of bursting shells charged
with lyddite is much greater than in
gunpowder shells and proves demoralizing
to the enemy's forces. The army
ordnance department of this country
has been experimenting for some time
to secure a safe yet high explosive, aud
will probably adopt thorite, a secret
compound invented by l'rof. Tuttle,
of Seattle, Wash. The English army
use incendiary charges in the guns of
their smaller mountain batteries for
the purpose of firing villages. When
the I'liiled States recently purchased
several mountain batteries from Maxim
& Co., of England, a supply of incendiary
shells for use in the Philippines
was also secured."
? A vigorous plea for rural free delivery
is made in the annual report ol
first Assistant I'o.-tmaster (leneral
Perry S. Heath, just made public. Mr.
Heath says the service so far has resulted
iu increased postal receipts,
enhancement of the value of farm
lands reached hy rural free delivery of
from $2 to $3 per acre ; a general improvement
of the condition of the
roads traversed by the rural carrier ;
belter prices for farm products, the
producers being brought iu daily touch
with the state of the markets, besides
educational benefits conferred by relieving
the monotony of farm life
through ready access to wholesome
literature and knowledge of current <
events. On November 1st rural free
delivery was in successful operation (
over 383 services, radiating over 40
states and oue territory, Idaho, Wyoming,
Mississippi and Montana being 1
the only states unrepresented. Beitween
the beginning of the new fiscal
Ivrnr .Tnlv 1 1890. and November.
J.?., V??v - , 7 with
an additional expenditure of
$150,000, rural free delivery has been
extended to nearly ISO,000 persons at
an annual cost of about 84 cents per '
capita, against au average per capita
cost of $2.80 in small towns of 5,000
population. "It is a small matter to a
resident of a town," says the report,
"to be saved a walk of a few hundred
yards to the postoffice, while on the
contrary it is a great accommodation
to the farmer to be spared a drive of i
5 or 10 miles over country roads to
get his mail. In a recent public dis- i
cussion advocates of the system who (
took the value of the time thus lost in
the busy farming season, at only 50
cents per head, found that their figures
ran up into many millions of dollars
lost to the agricultural interests
through being obliged to send to the
village for the mails." Rural carriers <
are shortly to be authorized to receive |
and receipt for letters for distribution
as city carriers do now.
<slu 41ovlu'iUc (Enquirer. !
YORKVILLE, S. C.: 1
WEDNESDAY. NOV'R 8. 1899. '
? Senator McLaurin considers the
Philippines the front gate to the
open door, while Senator Tillman rather
believes in taking chances on being
able to climb the yard fence. Neither,
however, seems to be willing for the
locking of the door unless the United
States be tendered a duplicate key.
? Up to the time at which it was
necessary for The Enquirer to go to
press yesterday, it was impracticable
to get any definite information from
the Kentucky and Ohio elections.
Such news could not have been secured
until 12 o'clock last night. It
seemed to be pretty generally couceded
on Monday night that Goebel would
be elected governor of Kentucky by a
good round majority ; but as to whether
McLane would carry Ohio was a
matter of very considerable doubt.
Both sides were claiming the state, and
the chauces appeared ahout even.
? We have a private letter from one s
of the numerous parties to the dispellsay
controversy, asking us to print
what he has been having to say on the
subject. We respectfully beg leave to
decline. We know uothing about the
matter except what we have been reading
in the papers. Some of this stuff
we have believed and some we have
not; but we frankly confess that we
look with more or less suspicion on all
the parties engaged in the controversy.
To discriminate between them
would be extremely difficult; but we
are sure that we are not going to substitute
such stuff as they are writing
for the matter we are now giving our
readers.
? Referring to our observation that
it was rather curious that the daily
papers of the state had not seen fit to
to publish the correspondence between
the Spartanburg mill meu and Senators
Tillman and McLaurin, the Columbia
State remarks:
So far as The State is concerned there is
nothing curious about it. The correspondence
was not sent to this paper ami hence
was not published therein. The letter of
the cotton mill men ami Senator MeLaurin's
reply, were first published in
the Atlanta Constitution, and we knew
nothing of them until they appeared in
that paper. Perhaps the correspondence
was not intended l'or home consumption.
We also first noted the correspondence
referred to in an exchange. No (
one asked us to publish it ; but calculating
that it was of very considerable
interest to the people of this section <
aud observing that it was not copy- .
righted, we did not trouble ourselves to
inquire whether or not it was intended
for "home consumption." Many
weekly papers have published the correspondence
aud it is still free to the
dailies. <
? Although it is not difficult to ex- i
plain what is meant by the open door |
policy in China, to give a clear under- <
standing of the attitudes of the different
European gevernments, in a short 1
newspaper article, would be rather l
impracticable. Briefly, however, the 1
Chinese empire is looked upon as being 1
on the verge of a "breakup." Its J
integrity has been affected by the in- <
terference of the various European na- 1
tions. England was the first to thrust <
herself upon China by loree. Then i
eame France, Germany and last Jius- i
sia. Japan also figures in the compli- <
cation. Kach of these countries have s
in turn wrested from China by diplo- I
mati?- t .! :?tcertain concessions. I
|The 1 uit. il *!a;< - has a treaty with
China by which this country is guaranteed
all the commercial and other
rights that may be accorded to the
"most favored nation." So far as
China is concerned, of course, this
country can ask nothing more. Germany,
Russia aud France have not
agreed upon an established policy with
regard to China ; but they are inclined
to favor an arrangement which calls
for the establishment of "spheres of
influence." In brief, this means that
each shall take a slice of China and
have absolute control of the commercial
relations of the same. England,
ihe United States and Japan are invited
to participate in this arrangement.
The matter is now the subject of diplomatic
negotiation ; but from such statements
as are reaching the public
through the public prints, it appears
that the three last named powers, and
especially the United States, are disposed
to insist that all nations have
the same rights in all the Chinese ports.
There seems to be no reason to believe
that the settlement of the question
need necessarily lead to war. It is
thought that if the open door nations
insist, the sphere of influence nations
will forego their intentions, and agree
to the open door arrangement, which
ought to give the greatest satisfaction
all around.
BUSINESS AND POLITICS.
When we criticized the daily press
last Saturday for refraining from a discussion
of the practical business questions
involved in the Philippine issue,
we had no idea that the matter was to
be so soon forced upon it, and with
3uch tremendous vengeance ; but now
the battle is joined, and in our humble
judgment it is likely to remain joined
until it is fought to a finish.
The Southern Cotton Spinuers' association
has thrown down the gauntlet
in the preamble and resolutions unanimously
adopted in Charlotte last
Thursday night and published elsewhere
iu this issue. Coming as they do
from such a source, and embodying as
they do such an important mixture of
business and political declarations, these
resolutions cannot be ignored. They
ire well calculated to command?to
force?careful, serious, consideration
from all who are capable of thought.
The signers of the first Mecklenburg
rleclaration were out for liberty, and
the signers of this?which may
very properly be called a second Meek- i
leuburg declaration?are out fordiviiends.
Both these incentives, it must
|
be admitted, are very strong, and to .
cur view, whether morally right or (
oot, conditions are ripening for as |
rapid a spread of this second propa- i
;anda as was experienced by the first. '
The bold confidence with which the '
cotton spiuners map out a policy for
>ur international relations, is, to say
he least, somewhat startling. Their 1
programme involves doctrines that are
liametrically opposed to what a considerable
section of the southern daily j
mess has been laying down as the cor- ,
ect rule for political guidance; but 1
,hat is easily accounted for. Until I
iow southern manufacturing interests I
lave taken no part in polities; but
;ince it has entered the field, it is but
lateral that its creed should be idenlical
with that of the north.
And if it is the "main chance" that
s to prevail in this matter, there is no
eason why the cotton spinners should
ie alone, for logically there belongs
vith them not only all the mill operates;
but also all the cotton proiucers.
For instance, suppose it is a
fact that the market for cotton goods
;an be held at its present volume or
ieveloped only by the maintainance of
Iree trade in China, then everybody
nterested in cotton is interested in
this free trade. The contraction of
:he market, of course, means the stoppage
of many spindles, throwing out
if employment many operatives, and
lessening the demand for cotton, while
ihe expansion of the market, equally,
if course, means the opposite effect.
But the cotton producers are not
?o nuick to see the "main chance" as '
?, .. 1
are the cotton spinners, and they are
slower to take advantage of it unless |
thoroughly convinced that they are
morally right. And in the present i
oase, as information develops, the '
right of the matter is becoming plainer
every day. After all, who is threat- ,
ening to close the ports of China ? Not (
Chiua herself; but Russia, Germany and i
France, which countries would keep 1
out our manufactures for their own 1
benefit. Looking at the question from
this standpoint, the declarations of the (
spinners involve considerations that (
are not altogether devoid of correct I
principles.
THE FACTS I.N THE CASE. I
The report of the Philippines commission,
synopsized elsewhere, if ac- ,
cepted as true?and it is difficult to see
how one can refuse to accept it, puts i
the whole matter in a new light?and i
proves that many thoughtless squibs
on the subject have been unwarranted.
Of all the reasonable objections that
have been urged against our occupak
~ T) Iti litMiinno t c? I ma n rroc t
LIU II U1 II1C A lilii buu oiiuugvoi j
have been these: How can a liberty <
loving civilized nation like the United
States be guilty of crushing and butch- 1
ering a people engaged in fighting for \
liberty and independence. 2. The Ira- ,
Jilionul policy of the United Slates as a |
nation has been to remain at home and t
Attend to their own business and keep I
nut of foreign complications. We 1
diould, therefore, assume no respousi- J
nility with regard to any foreign coun- (
ry or people. ,
The report of the Philippines com- |
mission furnishes a great deal of evidence
to show that the first objection
is not based 011 fact, and that although
there is abundant justification for the
second objection, the responsibility has
been forced upon us in such a way
thut it is simply a matter of impossibility
for us to escape its consequences.
Take the facts set forth by the commission,
in the case of the first objection.
We were at war with Spain.
Aguinaldo, who had, by selling out his
country for cash, proved that he was
uot a patriot, volunteered his services
against the Spaniards. All the facts
show that he was impelled purely by
considerations of personal interests.
The Americans took Manila. Aguinaldo
desired to loot the city for the
benefit of himself and followers ; and
because the Americaus refused to sanction
the murder, rapine, robbery and
arson that would have been instituted
by him, he declared for independence
and set up a government of his own.
Into this government he co-erced thousands
of his own people by force, and
made other thousands believe that
they could place no more dependence
in the promises of the Americans than
in the promises of the Spaniards. He
had no more moral right to the position
of dictator assumed by him, than
did any one of the other several millions
of Filipinos in the island of Luzon,
and there is no reason to believe
that he would be able to give his people
even as good government as the
Spauiards gave them. The Americans
were, therefore, from the first, and are
still, confronted with a choice between
two propositions: 1. Of retiring ignominiously
from the country and deunrlinry
ttufto/1 noAnloa anrl intPrPGtfi
that we ourselves have heen the means
of placing at the mercy of an adventurer;
or 2. Establishing peace, order
and good government such has for
years beeu earnestly desired by the educated
and progressive classes among
the Filipinos.
Our departure from the Monroe
doctrine, of course, is still an open
question, and remains for future settlement.
That we will have to remain
iu the Philippines uutil order is restored
is settled. Either that, or there must
be some other arrangement whereby
the responsibility of the matter can be
completely transferred. But with the
restoration of order it does not follow
that we have to remain in the Philippines.
If we see fit, we may withdraw
and return to our traditional
policy. Which course we will pursue
promises to be the one great issue of
the next national campaign, and judging
from developments up to the present
time, it promises to play as much
havoc with party alignments as any
issue that has confronted the people
since the establishment of the government.
THE PHILIPPINES COMMISSION.
3ayn Tlmt Thin Country U Honor Itouod to
Suppress Agulnuldo.
The commission appointed by the
president last winter to investigate the
situation in the Philippines, submitted
tin exhaustive preliminary report last
Thursday, and the same was at once
u;iven out for publication in the daily
papers of Friday morning.
The report is evidently prepared
with great care. It commences with
the rebellion that took place against
the Spaniards in 1896, and reviews all
the important developments up to the
time the commission left the islands
some months ago. The report is signed
by J. C. Schurman, George Dewey,
Charles Den by and Dean C. Worcester,
[t is published iu full in all the metropolitan
dailies, and an extended synopsis
of it was sent out by the Associated
Press. The full text of it would fill
nearly two pages of The Enquirer ;
but a synopsis will probably prove as
interesting to our readers.
The insurrection of 1896 is described
as having been instituted, not for the
the purpose of gaining independence ;
but merely to secure the reform of outrageous
abuses that were being perpetrated
by the Spauish government and
the Itomish clergy. The specific complaiuts
of the insurrectionists are published
in full. The Spaniards acknowledged
the justice of these complaints,
and after some fighting secured a settlement
of the trouble by the promise
of a large sum of money to Aguinaldo,
and the grantiug of the reforms demanded.
By the terms of the argument,
Aguinaldo und his associates
^ lolanrlo hoftiro t hp
VCIC IU leave tlJC iDiamio uviv>v vmvi
money would be paid. They left.
Spain paid a part of the mouey to
Aguinaldo on his arrival at Hong Kong,
and promised to pay the balauce when
the insurrectionists laid down their
arms. The iusurrecliouists laid down
their arms; but Spain refused to pay
the balance of the money. Not only
this, but so soon as she found the insurrectionists
helpless she abused them
worse tbun ever. The Filipinos, of
course, were greatly outraged, not only
at the Spaniards; but also at Aguinaldo
for the way he sold them out.
Upon the breaking out of the war
with Spain, the United States consul
general at Singapore advised Admiral
Dewey that Aguiualdo would arrange
with him for co-operation against the
Spaniards. Admiral Dewey accepted
the offer; but after the battle of Manila
found that Aguinaldo had neither
arms or men. Admiral Dewey supA
. iU.J.U dlh ormc I'll F?f 111'Pfl
jJUCU n^uiumuu witu .
from the Spaniards, and joined by the
native militia that had been equipped
by Spain, the Filipinos established
themselves at Cavite, and soon overran
all the Island of Lnz>11 except the
city of Manila.
At no time did Admiral Dewey form
itn alliance of any kind with Aguiual;lo,
and it was not until after the arrival
of General Anderson that Aguinildo
ever said anything about claiming
national independence. Admiral Dew:*y
requested Aguiuuldo to remove his
Headquarters from Cavite to Bacoor, in
irder that the Americans might occupy
Cavite. Upon this Aguinaldo pro:laiuied
himself dictator, and upon his
nvn authority told his people that the
tVmericans had promised them iude^
tendence.
Aguinaldo is said to have been so exasperated
at the landing of the Americans
thut he wanted to attack them
at once ; hut deferred doing so for the
reason that he did not have sufficient
arms. Aceordiugly he and the members
of his cabinet decided to wait until
the full of Munila, when they calculated
on gettiug possession of the
arms and equipments of the Spaniards.
When the Americans begau to invest
Manila, they encountered more or less
opposition from the Filipinos who had
already established themselves along
i > uv/o iv r? ao uvvvoooi j iui vuv ?
caus lo occupy. The Filipinos, however,
were made lo get oul of the way,
which they did without attempting to
make trouble.
The Filipinos took no part whatever
in the attack at Mauila on August 13;
but after the city was taken inarched
forward with the intention of looliug it.
The American forces refused to al
low them to enter the cily. Theu
Aguiualdo boldly demauded a part of
the Spanish mouey that had been
captured, all the arms that had taken
from Spanish prisouers, the palace of
Maiacauau for himself, the right to
loot the churches of Mauila, Paco and
Ermita. These demands were, of
course, refused.
After the taking of Manila, the relations
between the American and Filipinos
became more strained daily,
The Filipiuo soldiers were iusistent on
their rights to enter Mauila, uud the
Americans continued lo bold them
back; but without violence. After
awhile the Filipiuos begau to believe
that ihe Americaus were cowards. Ou
Jauuary 28, a conference was held between
Filipinos appointed by Aguiuuldo
aud representatives appointed by
General Merrill, with a view to coming
to some understanding as to the intentions
of the Filipinos aud the people of
the Uuited Slates. The Fiiipiuos were
uuable or unwilling to give auy definite
statement; but tbe Americans
gave assurauce that they would not
inaugurate auy hostile act. After that
the Filipinos gave more trouble than
ever, aud, finally, on the 4th of Feb
ruary, eulered the American liues aud
forced the Americans to tire ou them,
after they had heedlessly iguored the
usual demaud to halt. The story of
the trouble that followed and tbe result
has already been published.
After this the Fiiipiuos were given
to understand that the Americans
would guarnulee all the reforms that
they had usked of the Spaniards and
more; but Aguiuuldo reminded the
people of Spain's broken promises and
said that Americaus were no more
worthy of belief, etc. From this ouward,
he and other leading Filipinos
did all they could to foment discontent,
aud are keeping it up.
The commission insists that there
has not been a time since the arrival ol
Admiral Dewey in Manila, that the
Americans could withdraw even if such
a step hud been desirable. Il has beeu
the desire of Aguinaldo and his crowd
lo loot Manila and the country generally,
and this country owes it not only
to foreigners, but to the friendly na- j
lions, to protect them from the unarchy
that would certainly follow our with- ,
drawal. i
MERE-MENTION.
The German minister of the interior (
has hinted that if the balance of trade
with the United States continues 1
against Germany they may have to
abandon the gold standard. v-The
explosion of a cotton compress cylinder
in Natchez, Miss., last Saturday,
caused the loss of $30,000 worth of
property. It is claimed that the <
president is about to appoint a civil
governor for Cuba to succeed General
Brooke us military governor. The
Maryland campaign closed last Saturday
night with the situation in doubt.
Admiral Schley received a great
reception in Atlanta last Saturday.
In a speech in the Virginia campaign
a few days ago, Senator Daniel
ilmt Hnn VV T Rrvnn mav
iiiiiaituru vntiv fT , j ^
uot be the next Democratic nominee, j
The New York papers give
from one to four pages each to the t
JefFerysSharkey prize fight. The
American Steel and Wire company has
closed a deal for 50,000 tons basic iron i
and 50,000 tons bessemer pig iron, at a
cost of $2,375,000. Blast furnaces in i
the south will furnish 40,000 tons.
A number of prominent Gold Standard
Republicans, of Massachusetts, have i
published a circular announcing it as i
their intention to vote the Democratic
state ticket as a protest against the I
criminal aggression policy of the presi- i
dent. Mrs. Hazen, who is to be I
the wife of Admiral Dewey, is a Ro- I
man Catholic. In a card published
Monday morning, J. R. McLean <
said he would certainly be governor of i
Ohio. Mississippi's quota for the i
Spanish war was filled by 700 Chicago I
volunteers. It now develops that Mississippi
has an old statute that allows j
$00 to each resident of another state i
who enlists in her regiments in time of ]
war and the Chicagoans are combining i
to prosecute their claim for the money, i
Charleston has raised the yellow
fever quarantine. A considerable I
force of Kentucky troops went to Lou- ,
:n..;iia nn monHn v nn umm 11 nt of threat- '
ened election troubles. President <
on McKinley left Washington for Ohio ]
Monday for the purpose of casting bis 1
vote iu yesterday's election. ]
DauKliterK of the Confederacy. j
The convention of the South Caroli- s
ua Daughters of the Confederacy will I
he held in Greenville on November 14 r
and 15. Two delegates from each of c
[the 28 chapters are expected. Up to r
November 1, the following had report- i
ed : Mrs. Duncan Mclutyre, Marion; s
Miss Florence Mullins, Marion; Mrs. i
J. W. Simpson, Spartanburg; Mrs. r
James H. White, Johnston ; Mrs. J. H. j
Powe, Cheraw; Mrs. Richaid O'Neale, d
Columbia ; Mrs. T. P. Bailey, Georgetown
; Mrs. L. S. Ehrich, Georgetown ;
Mrs. J. T. Pendervis, Sumraerville;
Mrs. Altamont Moses, Sumter; Miss v
Sadie Townsend, Edisto Island ; Mrs. .
William Laugiilin, Anderson; Mrs. M
L. Bouham, Anderson ; Mrs. Lula Ayre
Vandiver, Anderson; Mrs. Nannie ^
Bomar, Aiken ; Miss Susie F. Hall, I
Aiken ; Mrs. L). D. McColl, Bennetts 2
ville; Mrs. Hugh Buist, ltoek Hill; ,
M iss Mary Swatlield, liock Hill; Miss
Julia Smith, Spartanburg; Miss Sara u
Ball, Laurens ; Mrs. O. L. Schumpert,
Newberry ; Miss Claudine Khett, Char- ?
leston ; Mrs. J. W. Brunsoh, Florence, s
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
INIkKX TO NKW AI?VKKTISK.UKV VS.
W. II. Hicklin?Calls ihe attention of
cotton raisers to the fact that lie is now
prepared to put up their cotton in eith
er round or square bales as may be desired.
The Enquirer Office?Will pay a liberal
reward for the recovery of a pocket
book and contents advertised in today's
paper.
J. H. Riddle?Returns his thanks to persons
who have discharged their indebtedness
to him, and asks those who
have not yet to settled to do so without
delay. He will soon have on hand 100
barrels of flour of different grades.
Sam M. Grist?Announces the removal of (
his place of business to the room one
door south of The Enquirer building.
He gives some information about the
Oliver plows and still has on hand three
Corbin disk harrows. 1
W. B. Moore Co.?Announce that on
next Monday tbey will have something
unusual on exhibition. They do not
say what it will be ; but wants you to
come and see for yourself.
Grist Cousins?Tell you about the Californir
evaporated peaches tbey have on
hand, the New Orleans molasses that is
expected, and prepared buckwheat flour
that they have in store.
J. J. Hunter?Don't want the ladies to
forget his Reginashoes, and wants tbein
to examine his new lot of capes and
jackets.
John E. Carroll, Superintendent of Education'?Calls
the attention of school officers
and teachers to the law with regard
to Arbor Day.
ARBOR DAY.
Lest they forget, Superintendent
McMahau calls attention of the school
authorities to the law relating to Arbor
Day. He hopes all schools will take
an interest in the occasion. He has
written as follows:
To the County Superintendents of Education
: The legislature, by an act, .approved
February lf>, 1898, has directed
"that the free public schools of this state
shall observe the third Friday in November
of each year as Arbor Day, and on
that day the school officers and teachers
shall conduct such exercises and engage
in the planting of such shrubs, plants and
trees as will impress on the minds of the
pupils the proper value and appreciation
to be placed on flowers, ornamental shrubbery
and shade trees."
Until the observance of this day in our
schools has become an established custom,
it may be overlooked, unless specially
brought to the attention of the teachers.
You will, therefore, nrge upon all
the teachers of your county to celebrate
the day in their schools.
THE COTTON MARKET.
The generul tendency of the New
York and Liverpool murkets during
(lie past few days lias been upwar.l.
There has been, however, no especial
excitement.
On the local market the best price
of which the reporter had information
as having been paid yesterduy was
7.40. It is quite probable that a better
price may have been paid after these
figures were obtained.
The local receipts up to this time
have not been nearly up to tbose of
the same date last yeur. It is not
practicable today to give exact figures;
but it is reasonably certuin that the
total does not post up more than 2,000
hales or about 25 per cent, of last year's
receipts.
The farmers of the surrounding
country have so far been reluctant to
sell. It is doubtful as to whether in
the aggregate they have marketed as
much as 50 per cent, of their crop.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mr. G. L. Riddle, of Zeno, has been
quite ill for two weeks past.
Mr. B. D. Springs, of Charlotte, was
in Yorkville last Monday on business.
Miss Belle Mendenball, of Belhesdn,
is visiting her brother, Mr. J. B. Mendenhull,
of Yorkville.
Mr. \V. H. MeFadden, of Smith's
Turnout, spent last week with Mr.
Philip L. Moore, near Yorkville.
Mr. R. S. Davidson, of Chester, is
confined to his bed at the home of his
sister, Mrs. VV. H. Herndou.
Mrs. Elins Irman, of Bullock's
Creek, spent seyeral days last week in
Yorkville with friends and relatives.
Mr. Robt T. Howe, of Chester, spent
several days last week visiting the
family of his son, Mr. Joe. A. Howe, at
the York Cotton Mills.
Mrs. T. S. Jefferys, Mrs. Hanahan,
Miss Bessie Gilbert and Dr. Jas. Han- 1
ahau, left Yorkville last Saturday for 1
Columbia, to attend the fair.
Mrs. T. G. Gulp, of Fort Mill, who
bad a prolonged attack of typhoid fever
in the summer, is again confined to her j
oed, and her condition is considered
to be quite serious. '
Rock Hill Herald : John T. Rod- (
ley, of New York, spent Wednesday I
and Thursday in his old home. We i
never saw him look so well, and we (
Lake it that he is doing well.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Pursley and Mr.
ind Mrs. C. T. Thomas, of the Zadok 1
neighborhood, left last Monday uight
for the state fair, at Columbia. It was <
their iuteution to return home lomor- <
row.
The Enquirer is in receipt of the <
following from Tuscumbia, Ala.: "Mrs.
J. C. Damtella requests the honor of
four presence at the maniage of her (
laughter Frances, to Reverend Charles '
Banks Katehford, on Wednesday, No- f
/ember the 15th, at 12 o'clock, at the (
First Presbyterian church." .
Dr. Win. M. Walker continues to
jrow weaker and weaker. There
seems to be but the slightest hope for J
is recovery. He seems to retain his
neutal faculties in their full vigor, ex- I
:ept that he is troubled by a peculiar c
Irowsiness which he is unable to oversome
except when forced into converat
ion. As to how long life may last
s a matter of uncertainty. The end I
Duy come at any moment; but the
M'obability seems to be that it will be
leferred for days, perhaps weeks. a
.?? I
WITHIN THE TOWN. a
The county hoard of commissioners i
rill hold its regular monthly meeting ii
n the oflice of the supervisor today
A carload of operatives arrived in D
'orkville last Friday night from North n
/nrolina to work in the Sutro mills. a
sight work will commence shortly, e
nd the mill will give steady employ- v
nent to 75 operatives. ^
Mr. Benjamin Armstrong, who was (j
hot on the 9th of September by Cou- j
table Ferguson, called at The En- a
(iUiRER office last Saturday to protest
against the published statement to the
effect that he was advancing upon the
officer with an open knife in his hand.
He sa^s he had no knife, except a
worthless barlow that was in his pocket,
and his statement was corroborated
by a little boy named Whisonant, who
says he witnessed the shooting.
A tenement house on the Isabella
Steele place, occupied by Negroes,
was destroyed by tire last Monday at
noon. The building was so nearly destroyed
before the alarm was given,
that the tire department was unable to
accomplish anything. The property
destroyed was worth $75 or $100 and
was insured.
Charley Smith, a colored mortar carrier,
employed ou the York Drug store
building, fell from a scaffold last Friday
afternoon, and sustained injuries
that came very uear proving fatal. He
fell a distance of 12 or 15 feet, and his
bead struck a brick. The bony vault
around the left eye was broken and
for some lime he was insensible. Another
laborer uuderuealh the scaffold
was injured by the falling debris. He
suffered principally in a severe sprain
to the ankle. Smith's injuries were
attended to by Dr. Miles Walker, and
the wounded man was taken to bis
home near Gulbriesville on Suuday.
The shopliftiug Negro, Ed Ellerbe,
who sometime ago reaped such a rich
harvest in Yorkville and was caught
in Chester, where he has siuce been
serving a term on the chaingang, was
brought up to Yorkville last Saturday
and committed to jail to await trial at
the next term of court of general sessions.
There is little reason to doubt
that he will be convicted.
I/OCAL LACONICS.
For Housebreaking and Larceny.
Randolph Davis, colored, was committed
from Belhesda township by
Magistrate 0. L. Sanders last Saturday
on the charge of burglary. The prosecutor
is auother Negro named Sam
Crawford.
Preaching at Sutton's Springs.
There was quite a good sized con
gregation to hear Rev. J. C. Johnes,
who preached in the school house at
Sutton's springs by special iuvitation
last Sunday afleruoon. Mr. Johnes
was invited to preach in the schoolhouse
again on 4th Sunday in November.
and he accented the invitation.
Salesday.
There was a lurge, well-behaved
crowd in town on lust Moudgy, salesday
for November. There were no
unction sales by t he sheriff or the clerk ;
but there was a great deal of general
business transacted, along with considerable
horse-swapping. There was not
a great deal of whisky in evidence (luring
the day.
Out at the York Cotton Mills.
The York Cotton Mills uow have
a sufficient number of operatives
to run all their machinery. In all
about 250 operatives bave regular employment.
It was decided not long
ago that 1,000 additional spindles
would prove a good investment and
they were ordered at once. They will
be put in operation as soon as possible
after their arrival.
In North Carolina and Tennessee.
The Charlotte Observer says: Mr.
J. A. Johnson, who has charge or a
force of bauds on the 0. R. & C., ou
the Tennessee and North Carolina line,
says that the}' are at present cutting
their way through stone. Tne scenery,
he says, is the wildest he ever saw.
Johnson City, 25 miles distant, is the
nearest town. He and his inen had to
walk over the mountains, a trip, be
says, that they are not apt to forget.
May Not Be Here.
Will Strait, who is charged with having
attempted to poison bis mother-inlaw,
Mrs. Kidd, some weeks back by
sending her a mess of green corn with
strychnine in it, may not appear for
trial at the next term of the court.
He is now in Arkansas, where be went
with the knowledge and consent of his
bondsmen, and is reported to he quite
sick. Theer are many suspicious circumstances
in connection with the affair
and the neighbors and relatives of
Lhe parties directly concerned are very
much divided over the question of
Strait's guilt or innocence.
Speech From Senator McLaartn.
With the approval of the members
jf the board of trustees, Superintendent
Dendy and the teachers of the
JTorkville Graded school, have invited
Senator McLaurin to deliver an adIress
before the pupils on the occasion
)f the one hundredth anniversary of
,he death of George Washington. The
inniversary occurs on Thursday, De
emuer 14. oeuaior iuci^aunii nas not
ret had time in which to reply, and
whether or not he will be here carnot
fet he stated. If, however, he finds
t practicable to accept tbe invitation,
le will find here a thoroughly apprelialive
audience.
THK WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
>eart)i of New? Continues; Hut British Difficulties
Are on the Iucrease.
Still there are uo satisfactory details
>s to the results of the fighting near
jadysmtlh uu Monday of last week,
ind but little iufurmation as to bowhe
army under Geueral White is makng
out with the besieging Boers.
>ince last Thursday telegraphic communication
with Lady-smith has been
iruclically suspended, aud only a few
leagre scraps of uews have occasionlly
been coming through, it is supposd,
by means of uative runners. Tbe
/hole story of the fighting has not yet
een told.
A telegram from Pietmoritzburg,
ated November 2, aud published in
.ondou the next day, said that Gener1
White had sent tbe women and