Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-10

urers of the pure article.
Postmaster General Wilson has
turned over to the department of JUS
tice the case of the Seaboard Airline
railroad, recommending the prosecu-
ton of officials of that road if, in the
opinion of the attorney general, such
action is advisable. The papers in
the case submitted to the department
of justice allege that the Seaboard
Airline is guilty of an attempt to
defraud the government by padding
the mails during the month of March
last, during which month the test
weighing of mail matter over that
line was made in order to form an
estimate of the amount Of matter car
ried by the road, which would enable
the postofice department to make a
four years contract for such service,
and fix the rate of compensation.
- Frederic c. Pen6eld, United States
diplomatic agent and consul general
at Cairo, sends forecast Of the Egyp-
tian cotton crop for 1867 to the
state department.. He says that, in
spired by the high prices realized by
the cotton crop of 1895 6, Egyptian
planters have increased the area this
spring to the maximum limit permit
ted by the country's irrigation facili-
ties. Exact figures are not procura-
BILE, but it is estimated that the in
crease of acreage is from 5 to 8 per
cent, and that this seasons area ap-
proximates 1,150,OOO acres. The
greatest percentage of increase is in
the provinces south of Cairo. Conser-
vative forecasters believe the crop will
yield 100000 bales of $50 pounds
being the equivalent of 1,125,0O0
American bales, and the largest ever
raised in the Nile valley. Predicated
on the yearly increase of shipments to
America, it is probable that the United
States will buy $4,000 bales, equal to
about 100000 bales of American
weight, of the next Egyptian crop.
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of
South Carolina, is booked to speak to
the free silver Democrats of Chicago,
July 4, at Edison park, Chicago. The
County Democracy Marching club
gives it's annual picnic that day. The
Record says: "Vice President R. E..
Burke and his friends have no doubt
that Senator Tillman will accept the
invitation to speak. They admit that
for some time it has been known in
the inner circle of silver men that Mr..
Tillman has been anxious to appear
before a Chicago crowd. 'Tillman
will draw 5000 people to the picnic,
said Mr.. Burke. He is a great talker,
and he would tell the boys things
about silver that they never dreamed
of before. He will be at the picnic all
right and he will make speech.
Why, the gold members of the March
ing club will be with him because he
will make the money just flow into
the treasury of the organization.
There will not be any kicking"
The number of victims who per-
ished in the recent stampede at Mos
cow has been fixed at $500. That
such a multitude as this should have
perished in the open air, without any
thought of self.destruction, is almost
incredible. Bent upon having good
time, the tragedy was simply the re-
suit of excessive indulgence and was
even more fatal than a battle between
hostile armies. The Buffalo Courier,
in speaking of the number killed,
makes comparison with certain we'll
known engagements of the late war.
The highest number of Union men
killed was 3,O7O, at Gettysburg, where
14,479 were wounded. The number
of Confederates killed in the same
battle was 1892. At Spottsylvania,
the Union killed were 2,725 in the
Wilderness, the number was 2,246 at
Antietam, 2,1OS; at Chancellorsville,
1906 at Chickamauga, 1856 ; at Cold
Harbor, 1,s44; at Fredericksburg,
1,4S4 at Manassas, 1,747; at Shiloh,
1854 in the assault on Petersburg,
1888. This does not include those
who died of their wounds.
1t has been learned here on undis-
putable authority, says a Key West,
Fla, dispatch, of Sunday, that Maceo
has an army of 10000 men, and they
are strongly fortified in the mountains
of Pinar del Rio, the Spaniards having
utterly failed to drive them from their
strongholds. Maceo has eight can
mons, two of which were captured
from the "trocha" on his recent at
tack, when it was reported that he
was repulsed. The report that Maceo
has four companies of women soldiers
has been confirmed. The Cuban wo
men have such a dread of Spanish
brutality, that many of them prefer
fighting on the battlefelds beside their
husbands and brothers to being thrown
into the forts at the Spaniards' mercy.
In Maceo's recent attack on the tro-
cha, these amazons took part and
fought fiercely, using machetes on the
Spaniards. The attack was made
north of San Marcas and General
Bermudez crossed into Habana prov
ince with 1900 men.
- Primary elections and mass meet
ings were held in quite number of
Georgia counties last Saturday for the
selection of delegates to the State
Democratic convention, which meets
in Macon on June 25. Though quite
a number of gold delegates were elect
ed, the general result was unquestion-
ably free silver victory. Both sides
had been claiming Fulton, the county
in which Atlanta is situated; but the
claims of the gold men were unfoun-
ded. Every ward in the city and
every precinct in the county, went for
siluer II uas q nennine landslide g.