Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-12-12
Straps and faets.

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The house of representatives, on
last Tuesday, passed bill authorizing
the postmaster general to allow an
indemnity not exceeding SO in any
one case for the loss of registered mail
packages. In the discussion of the
question it was developed that only
600 packages and letters were lost last
year out of 100000 carried, and
the statement was made that in cases
where other governments have allowed
indemnity for the loss of packages,
the increase in the registered business
has been great deal more than sutti-
cient to pay the expense. Heretofore
the government has assumed no re-
sponsibility in the carrying of regis
tered packages further than to prom
ise extra care to provide against
mishaps or loss.
Augusta News: Consider this !:
The whites actually bear 95 per cent.
of the school tax, and yet there are
100000 of Negroes in southland.
Then consider again that nearly as
many Negroes get schooling as whites
in proportion to actual population,
and that in the common schools the
advantages for both races are nearly
equal. The whites bear the burdens,
supply the schools and offer the op-
portunities. And yet, we hear contin-
ually from northern negrophile sources,
walls over the downtrodden condition
of the Negroes of the south. The
world does not show parallel to
what the southern whites have done
for the Negro race since the war. Nor
is that all. The southern Negro would
be still better off had he been deliver.
ed from the tender mercies of his false
northern friends.
- In Sing Sing, New York, last Tues
day, the engagement of Miss Susie Man
gam ofthat village to the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage of Washington, was announ-
ced. Miss Mangam is daughter of
Daniel D. Mangam, who is a grain
dealer in New York city and lives in
Sing Sing. Mr.. Mangam is reputed to
be a millionaire. Miss Mangam has
been popular young woman in Sing
Sing society. Daniel D. Mangam, Jr.,
brother of the future Mrs. Talmage,
two years ago married DR.. Talmage's
daughter. This will make Miss Man
gam, after her marriage, the step
mother of her sister-in-law and the
stepmother-in-law to her own brother.
DR.. Talmage will be his daughters
brother-in-law. The date of the we'd
ding is not announced, but the prepa-
rations are under way and it is thought
it will take place in holiday week or
shortly after the new year begins.
- Senator Mills of Texas, believes
that Cuba should belong to the United
States, and he has no fear whatever of
Spain. On last Wednesday he intro
duced in the senate the following :
"Joint resolution directing the presi-
dent of the United States to take mill
tary possession of the island of Cuba
and hold it until its inhabitants can
institute such government as they may
wish to organize, and arm such forces
as may be necessary to protect them
against invasion. Resolved, by the
senate and house of representatives
of the United States of America, in
congress assembled, That the president
of the United States is hereby directed
to take possession of the island of Cuba
with the military and naval forces OF
the United States and hold the same
until the people of Cuba can organize
a government deriving its powers from
the consent of the governed and arm
equip such military and naval force as
may be necessary to secure them as
against foreign invasion"
"A cablegram of Wednesday to the
New York Sun, says that, at last, an
end will be put to the disgraceful state
of affairs in Europe. Turkey must
either stop the massacre of Arme-
mans, or she will be torn asunder by
the European powers. 1t develops
that Great Britain, France and Russia
have all along been anxious to take
action; but Austria has held back.
Now, as the result of a conference
held in London, Austria has given
her consent for the regulation of Tur-
key, and an ultimatum has been sent
to the sultan. By the terms of this
ultimatum, the sultan must at once
bring about reforms in his dominions
or the powers will take action. The
report is that English, French and
Russian fleets are already at the en-
trance of the Dardanelles and the
Bosphorus, aud that they mean ex-
actly business. At the first news OF
the sultan's unwillingness to comply
with the demand of the powers, the
understanding is that the task Of for
cling the Dardanelles will be under
taken ct once. This will result in the
final conquest and partition of Tur-
key. If, however, the sultan submits,
the worst that will befall him, will be
to become a vassal of the combined
powers.
- From Argentina comes news of the
passage of a remarkable law, by the
enforcement of which the statesmen
oftbot for ouav ranuhlio very fooliShly