Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-12-16


eral Gomez.
"A big mass meeting was held at
Dallas, Texas, last Sunday to express
sympathy for the Cuban patriots.
There were present about 1000 per-
sons. Andrew Jackson Houston, a son
of Sam Houston, the Texas liberator,
presided. A message was received
from Senator Roger @. Mills saying
that he stood by his Cuban resolution
and would continue to do so even if it
meant war with Spain. The message
was uproariously applauded. Speeches
were made by several prominent Tex
ans and resolutions endorsing the posi-
ton of Senator Mills on the Cuban
question were unanimously adopted.
AS the result of the meeting a "Cuban
Aid Association" was organized with
400 members. The Texas people are
greatly excited over the condition of
affairs in Cuba, and the understanding
is that volunteers are leaving the state
constantly to GO to the aid of the insur-
gents.
~ The Chicago Tribune understands
the art of "boiling down" to perfection.
1t tried its hand on the presidents
last message, and here is the way it
succeeded: To Congress: Things are
about the same in Turkey. Spain has
not crushed the Cuban rebellion yet.
The United States and Great Britain
have quit making faces at each other.
Our ambassadors need better dwell
ings. 1t costs like everything to run
this country. Still, we need to spend
q little more money on the army and
the seacoast defences. Our postal de-
partment is o. K. Ditto our navy.
Indian affairs need overhauling. The
pension list is still too big. We must
look after those Pacific railroads more
closely. Free distribution of garden
seeds is humbug. I think I have
done pretty good work in reforming
the civil service. The interstate COM
merce law needs little patching.
The Wilson bill is all right. Carlisle
is all right. Shoot the greenbacks.
The trustees must 60. Let US be
economical. Grover Cleveland.
Ex.Secretary Hoke Smith appear
ed in Magistrate Foute's court, in At
lanta, last Friday as counsel for Mrs.
NJ. L. Henson, who was charged by
DIR. F. T. Powell with robbing him of
his pocket book. The doctor stated
that Mrs. Henson had visited his Office
to get a prescription. As she was
leaving, he asked her if she would not
kiss him. He declared that she did
kiss him and at the same time pick his
pockets, getting a purse containing
$45. The defendant denied the state
ment and declared that she ran out of
the Office when the doctor became
amorous. Mr.. Smith invited the doc
tor, who weighs 225 pounds, to hug
him and show the justice how the wo-
man picked his pockets. The doctor
accepted the invitation, threw his arms
around the ex-secretary and they
hugged each other tightly, but the
doctor could not reach Mr.. Smiths
hip pocket, for he is stout too. Nor
could Mr.. Smith reach the doctors
gun pocket and the magistrate decided
that it was impossible for Mrs. Henson
to have robbed the physician even if
she had hugged him, and dismissed
her.
- Following is the New Orleans cot.
ton crop statement from September l
to December IL: Port receipts 4, ,075,-
144 bales, against 1885, 9,759 last year,
4,S31 800 year before last and $780,
1876 for the same time in 1898; over
land to mills and Canada 456,3S1,
. against 45s, 1875, 6ss,955 and 459,513 /;
interior stocks in excess of September
1, 422,56O, against 5O4, ,541, 429, ,341
and 372,3S9; southern mill takings
3,141, against 316, 6,121, 30,03S year
before last and 266,s51 crop brought
into sight during 102 days to date
1884, ,226, against 4,113,796, $3.50, 1874
and 4,478, 1888 crop brought into sight
for the week 934,77S, against 329, ,227
for the seven days ended December II
last year, 24,O65 and 414,946; crop
brought into sight for the first II days
of December 534, ,206, against $50, 0,O95,
747,S66 and 651 ,229. From this weeks
figures are deducted minus corrections,
interior towns 1924, ports 1,1O6, or
total of 1880. Comparisons in these
reports are made up to the correspon-
ding dates and not to the close of COR
responding week. Comparisons by
weeks would take in 104 days of the
season of last year, los year before
last and LOG in 1893, against only 1O2
this year.
"A Philadelphia paper of last Fri
day published a long story to the effect
that regiment of l 800 men to fight in
Cuba was being raised in the cities of
Baltimore, New York, Boston, Wash
ington and Philadelphia, and that an
other regiment has already been
raised in the states of Virginia and
Tennessee. Philadelphia's quota to-
wards the regiment being raised in the
eastern cities is given at 800 men, and
it is said that about IS men have al
ready been enlisted in Philadelphia.
The men are to receive S25 a month
pay and must be American citizens Of
good reputation. Captain VIM. H.
Hanley is said to be enlisting the Phil
adelphia battalion. Captain Hanley is
said to have served 1S years in the
United States army in the Fourth in,
fantry, Fourth artillery and Second
cavalry and was discharged from the
service in 1885. Colonel julius H.
Rhodes, pension agent of Washington,