Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-18
Scraps and facts.

actual wheat, are In poSltlon 10 al
most name their own price. Mr.. Baker
also gives it as his opinion that this
country has already exported wheat
that it will need for its own consump-
ton.
- That Americans are inveterate cof-
fee drinkers is attested by the fact that
during tie first nine months of the
present year, this country imported
not less tLan 5SO,O52,92l pounds of
coffee, valued at s5S, ,433,S92 Of this
enormous aggregate, Ala, 4,4Sl ,4O7
pounds came from Brazil, comprising
the cheaper grade of coffee known as
Rio. More expensive grades were I'M
ported from other parts of South Amer.
ca and from Central America. OF
Central America coffee some 100000
pounds were imported into this coun-
try during the first nine months of the
present year. Coffee from the East
indies and the Netherlands was i'm
ported during this same period to the
amount of 4,O54, ,16S pounds. From
these figures it is evident that Amerl-
cans are strongly welded to the coffee
drinking habit.
Mr.. Bryan had busy and agreea-
BILE day today, says a dispatch OF
Tuesday from the City of Mexico. He
called to pay his respects to the Amer
lean minister, General Powell Clayton,
at 10 O'Clock, and was cordially greet
ed, and, after passing an hour with
the minister, he drove in the forest OF
Chapultepec with Thomas Braniff,
president of the Bank of London and
Mexico; Ex-Governor Crittenden and
General John B. Frisbie, and in the al.
ternoon he was a visitor, with Mrs.
Bryan, at the chamber of deputies,
and was admitted to the floor, the
congressman all rising out of respect
to the leader of the Democratic party
in the United States. He was invited
to speak and talked of parliamentary
institutions, and of the progress which
Mexico is making on all hands. His
reception in the chamber was enthu-
siastic.
William E. Curtis, the well-known
Washington correspondent, furnishes
the following (1S90 saloon statistics ::
The number of licensed saloon-keepers
in the United States was reduced TO-
$40 during the last year. In 1896, the
total was 2l6,35S; in 1897, 2O6,OlS.
OF the latter 11,O74 are licensed to
sell malt liquors only. There is no
state or territory without its saloons; {;
even Alaska has 147 and six breweries.
Prohibition Maine has 995, Kansas
2,269, and Iowa 3,7S9. Indian Terri
tory has only 13, the smallest number.
New York, of course, leads of, and
the other states follow in the following
order: New York, $4,000; Illinois,
1889; Ohio, 14,s49; Pennsylvania,
1859; California, 12,767. There are
comparatively few saloons in the
south. Alabama has $50; Arkansas,
649; Mississippi, 1926; South Carolina,
322 Georgia has 1,3l0-only 256
more than the District Of Columbia,
400 less than Montana, and 1913 less
than Rhode Island. Arkansas, Indian
Territory, Maine, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Oklahoma and Vermont are
without breweries.
"A national bankruptcy bill, simi-
lar in its substantial features to the
Henderson -Cubberson bill, passed by
the house last session, has been repor-
ted by the house judiciary committee.
The bill provides for both voluntary
bankruptcy and involuntary bankrupt
cy. By its provisions any one may
file a petition and 60 into voluntary
bankruptcy except corporation. The
latter may be forced into it; but not
otherwise. Wage earners, laborers and
farmers cannot be forced into it. All
Others are subject to involuntary
bankruptcy for certain designed causes.
In general these involuntary causes
relate to fraudulent conduct on the
part of the bankrupt. The clause in
past measures providing that a man
who permits his commercial paper to
20 unpaid for 80 days shall be an in
voluntary bankrupt, is eliminated.
The general effect of the bill is to dis
charge the bankrupt of all debts after
the estate has been administered, and
it has been found that there has been
no fraudulent conduct. The bankrupt
measure is so framed as to make its
administration simple and inexpensive.
1t involves only two officers, referee
and trustee.
- The cable dispatches are having
a great deal to say just now about the
Count and Countess Castellane, of
Paris. The Countess Castellane, it
will be remembered, is daughter of
the late Jay Gould. She is now hav-
ing trouble with her husband. About
ali the count had when he married
was his title. He comes of family
once famous, and the name is proud
one. For this Miss Gould swapped
her millions. Now there is talk Of
separation by mutual consent. If that
cannot be arranged, then the countess
will sue for a divorce. The trouble is
on account of the counts extrava-
gance. He has an ambition to dupli-
cate, or rather outdo, the Grand
Trinon at Versailles, one of the most
magnificent palaces in the world. He
has already spent millions on the
scheme; but only has it fairly under
way. George Gould is said to have
advised his sister that unless she should
soon put stop to her husbands ex-
travagance, he would waste her entire