Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-17
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west, is to the effect that the damage
by the cold snap of the past few days
is almost inestimable. Throughout
INDIANA, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa,
the frost has killed early fruits and
vegetables, cut corn down to the
ground and played hovoc with berries,
grapes and early grain. The loss will
easily foot up millions Of dollars.
- The treasury of the rich State of
Texas is empty. The passage of the
general appropriation bill by the recent
legislature made the State liable at
once for S614,OOO. To pay this amount
there was only 100000. The bill be-
came effective on Wednesday last, and
within six hours every cent OF the
100000 in the treasury was taken out
There is now a shortage of S514, 900.
Treasurer Workman says it will be
January before the State will be on
a cash basis again.
- Reports of the past few days from
Cuba, indicate that the fortunes OF
war have considerably changed. The
Spaniards hold Havana and the other
large towns on the island but in the
interior, the insurgents are carrying
everything before them. Several bat
ties have occurred recently, and in
almost every instance, the Spaniards
have been considerably worsted. The
insurgents were at first badly off for
arms, but have of late captured great
many rifles from the Spapiards, and
are daily becoming more and more
able to cope with their adversaries.
The decision of the United States
supreme court on the income tax cases,
is expected next Monday, and there is
reason to believe that the constitution
ality of the tax will be fully sustained,
except the exceptions made in the
former decision. 1t is not customary
for the Judges to give out an intimation
of their decision before they are Of
fcially promulgated from the bench.
At the former hearing, however, there
was g tie-four to four. After the
hearing of a few days ago, Justice
jackson remained in conference with
the Judges who before voted to uphold
the law. This is taken as meaning
that he agrees with them, and that is
why it is thought the constitutionality
of the income tax will be sustained.
The Southern Baptist convention,
which has been in session in Wash
ington for the past week, has adjourn
ed. = Chattanooga was selected as the
next place of meeting, and Friday be-
fore the second Sunday in May the
time. An encouraging report as to the
work among the colored people was
made. There are 100000 colored
Baptists in the South. DR.. H. A. Tup-
per, Jr., of Baltimore DR.. ]. B. Haw-
thorne, Atlanta DR.. A. ]. S. Thomas,
South Carolina, and DR.. J. n. Prest-
ridge, Kentucky were appointed a
committee to convey the fraternal
greetings of the Southern convention
to the Northern convention, which
meets at Saratoga on May %.
- The Consolidated Telegraph and
News company is the name of an or
ganization that was perfected at Pitts
burg, Pa, last Thursday, and its pro-
moters say that it is going to be most
formidable rival to the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies. The
idea of the new company is to push a
new telegraph printing machine which
can be used as common typewriter.
A message played on the instrument
will be reproduced on a sheet of paper,
or on tape at any desired point in
any city having the lines. lnstru-
ments will be placed in private offices,
and those running the affair claim it
will be at about one-half the present
cost of telephones. They claim the
new invention is specially adapted to
the work in newspaper offices. They
claim to have given the machines
hard test in the Office of the Baltimore
American, and that the work was most
satisfactory. The machine is run by
a dynamo of l-horse power.
Complete and revised statements
furnished the department of agricult-
ure by the railway and water transpor-
tation companies. Of the cotton move
ment from the Southern States to the
ports and to Northern and Eastern
points from the beginning of the sea-
SON to April, 1895, together with the
returns made by the departments coun-
ty agents of the amounts of cotton left
on the plantations and in the interior
towns on April l, and the amounts re-
ported by the mills as bought from
September to April /, show as fol-
lows: Total railway movement, ,495,-
1877; remaining on plantations, ETC.,
3S4 $50; bought by mills, Coz, 500; to-
tai crop, 9,4S2,913. In addition to the
above mill purchases, are to be added
1866 bales bought by Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Georgia, Tennessee, North and
South Carolina mills from States in
which their mills are not located, also
19,001 bales brought by Virginia, and
1926 brought by Kentucky mills, all
of which are included in the railway
movement, making total of 646,12S
bales reported by the Southern mills
as bought from September l, 1894, to
April l, 1895. No deduction has been
made of cotton remaining on planta-
tions and in interior towns on Septem-