Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-13
Straps and fatts.

New York police force, have to pass
civil service examination. An exam
ination was held recently for promo
ton to the Office Of chief, and the sue
cessful applicant was Peter Conlin. 1t
has developed that one of the questions
asked during the examination was
"What would you do in case of a riot
by strikers in the city ?" Conlin's an
swer was to the effect that he would
advise the employment of five regi-
ments of soldiers with battery of ar
tillery, and be went on to designate the
points at which he would plant cannon
in the streets. 1t would seem that if
there is a strike during Conlin's ad-
ministration, there is going to be some
bloodshed.
William E. Harvey, the author of
Coins School Of Finance is busy
with the organization Of vast secret
political society, to be national in its
scope and to have for its object the
immediate rehabilitation of silver. He
has already secured charter for the
organization under the laws of the
State af Illinois, and the statement is
made in the papers that work has
commenced in nearly every county In
the West and South. "Patriots OF
America" is to be the name of the or
ganization, and an absolutely essential
preliminary to membership is an oath
to the effect that the applicant holds
the principle of free coinage above par
ty allegiance, and will bolt his party in
case it refuses to unequivocally endorse
free coinage. A number of prominent
free.silver men have associated them
selves with Mr.. Harvey in the under
taking.
Following is the bureau report,
with reference to cotton, issued on
December 10: "a crop equal to 67.3
of last years, or 6,375, 900 bales of 500
is indicated in final returns from coun-
ty and State correspondents. The
department of agriculture's more COM
plete reports, based on the commercial
movement, will be issued in 1896, the
first of them probably in February.
Mean farm price 7.57 cents, gain of
IS per cent on last years figures, 4.6
and of 9 per cent. on 1898. The
returns from correspondents are al
most uniformly unfavorable as to
quantity, the weather having proved
generally disastrous. Drouth caused
an unusually early marketing through
out the cotton area, with an almost
total sacrifice of the top crop. Lint,
however, is generally clean, so that
the quality is exceptionally high.
Many reports show crops completely
gathered and marketed.
The next National Republican
convention is to be held in St. Louis
on the 10th of June next. The matter
was decided by the National commit
tee at meeting held in Washington
on Tuesday. There were five bids for
the convention, aud it took four bal
lots to settle the matter. The last
ballot resulted as follows: New York,
0; San Francisco, Is; Chicago, g.;
Pittsburg, 0; St. Louis, 29. The news
was received with great rejoicing in
St. Louis, and the hotel men are still
busy answering kilograms in which
they are requested to reserve apart
ments for the various Republican poll
ticians throughout the country. Speak
er Reed and Major Mckinley, who
are both presidential aspirants, had
their quarters engaged at the Southern
hotel within half an hour after the
result of the ballot by which St. Louis
was chosen was announced. This
indicates that there is going to be q
lively fight for the Republican nomina-
ton, and the leading candidates intend
to get in early at every turn.
- Senator Mills has introduced bill
in congress providing that the secre-
tary of the treasury be required to coin
all the silver in the treasury into half
dollars, dimes and quarters, and to pay
out silver whenever the gold reserve
shall fall below S100,O00,000. 1t was
suggested to Senator Mills that such a
law would surely result in forcing gold
to a premium. He said, however, that
this is a mistake. This cannot take
place except when the volume of silver
and greenbacks is so increased as to in
crease prices in this country, and even
that will not really affect the value of
gold one way or the other. Ifthe treas
ury refuses to sell gold to the expor-
ter, he will simply have to 60 in the
market and buy it as he would any
other commodity, and the treasury is
not affected in the least. 1t can pay
its debts in either gold or silver as it
sees fit. Senator Mills is satisfied that
his plan will help to solve the present
difficulty. He says individuals never
pay interest when they can get around
it. The government can get along
without paying interest, and he thinks
it is foolish not to do so.
The country of the Armenians,
who are being massacred by the Turks,
borders on the Black sea for several
hundred miles, and has no other sea-
coast. The only entrance to the Black
sea is through the strait of Darda-
nelles, the sea of Marmora, and the
Bosphorus. The Dardadelles and Bos-
phorus are both narrow passages of
less than mile in width, and Turkey
controls them both with powerful