Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-10-23
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weight of first-class mail packages, or
dered box of shoes, weighing 125
pounds, sent to him by nail with only
a 2-cent stamp affixed. There was on
the box, when it arrived, $40 worth of
due-stamps. There were so of the de-
nomination of so cents, for which he
saws he can obtain from dealers, $1.25
each. and SO of 80 cents, worth rs
cents each so by this calculation he
makes $50. This is the heaviest mail
package that ever passed through the
mail in Raleigh.
Charles Ritch, youngest son of Mr..
Thomas L. Ritch, of Charlotte, killed a
man named Thomas Breen, in Knox
Vile, Tenn, and is in bad scrape.
The press dispatch says that Breen
was walking along the street in COM
pany with friend, when he met young
Ritch and Emma Clark. Breen brush
ed against the woman and jolted her,
whereupon young Ritch drew a pistol
and shot Breen through the heart.
Ritch and his companion were arrested.
Emma Clark formerly lived in Char
lotte. Young Ritch is of good fami-
ly and until the Clark woman left
Charlotte he was clerk at the South
ern Railway Office at that place.
Mr.. William P. St. John, president
of the Commercial National Bank OF
New York, created profound sensa-
ton in the Bankers convention, in
Atlanta, last Thursday, by making an
unanswerable speech in favor OF the
free and unlimited coinage of silver by
the mints of the United States, at a
ratio of 16 to /. He followed Edward
Atkinson, one of the most enthusiastic
and honest single gold standard advo-
Gates in the world, and literally rid
died him. The great significance OF
the speech lies in the fact that Mr.. St.
John is one of the ablest financiers in
the United States. He commenced
the study of the gold VS.. silver question
solely with view to whipping out the
free coinage of silver "fallacy," and
when he got deep down in the subject,
he became so overwhelmed by the
facts that he gave up like the man he
is. and candidly announced his con-
version. His Atlanta speech is brim
full OF facts and figures that are calcu-
lated to carry conviction to the minds
of all honest seekers after the simple
truth.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, is one of
the ablest and strongest free coinage
advocates in America; but, above
everything else, he is a Democrat.
He made a speech the other day
that was calculated to convince any
body of the justice of free coinage.
He completely answered and re-
futed every argument that had ever
been made against the proposition with
facts that cannot be disputed, and
showed conclusively that the single
gold standard is unjust in principle
and criminal in practice. No other
deduction could have possibly been
arrived at from his powerful speech.
But, all the same, he said he was going
to stick to the Democratic party now
and forever. If the Democratic party
should make gold platform and put
on it a goldbug candidate, he would
support both with all the ability and
energy he could command. Here are
his reasons: The Democratic party
has always been and will always con-
tinue to be the great party of the peo-
pie. A goldbug platform and gold
bug candidate will be prima facie evil
dence that the great old party has
temporarily swung from her ancient
doctrines; but she will come back
after awhile, and will finally restore
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
as is her great mission and paramount
duty. Having unlimited faith in the
final triumph of the right, this great
Democrat is not willing to desert his
party on account of temporary mis-
take.
The dispute between Great Britain
and Venezuela is growing more inter-
esting. In fact, it seems to be pretty
near climax. About year ago, the
Venezuelan authorities arrested some
British policemen at Uruan in the
disputed territory. 1t was this action
that resulted in the suspension of
diplomatic relations between the two
countries. For the alleged indignity,
Great Britain wanted a heavy indem-
nity. Venezuela has been unable to
see that in arresting the British police
men she has done anything that she
had not a right to do. Within the last
few days, so it is reported, Great Brit
ain has sent to Venezuela, through the
German ambassador at Caracas, an
ultimatum which, in effect, demands
that the indemnity must be paid with
in a certain time or Venezuela must
take the consequences. At last &C
counts the ultimatum had not reached
President Crespo, of Venezuela; but 1t
is not thought that he will be at all
alarmed by it. 1t is the popular be-
lief that, under any circumstances, II
the matter leads to war, the United
States will have to take hand, and
the Venezuelans will not be bluffed
by the British. Crespo is said to be
a man of great courage and military
ability. He has at his call an army
fsomething like 100, 900 soldiers, most
of them trained veterans, and although
he has no navy of any consequence, II
the British make show of coming in
to his country to collect the indemnity
they claim, by force, he will do the
very best he can to make it extremely
warm for them.