Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-13
Straps and faets.

cover their preferences as to the may
orally. The polling has lasted six
days and 100, 900 of the 500, 900 voters
have expressed themselves. Only af-
ter it began, did Henry George become
an active candidate. His vote during
the first three days was quite small,
but since then his proportion of the
total has been increasing by bounds
every day. On Thursday he had dis
tanced Tracy and was almost abreast
of Low in the total count, while the
figures for that day showed him run
ming almost neck-and-neck with Van
Wyck. If this rate of increase con-
tinues he will be at the head of the
list by the time 250,0O0 voters shall
have been heard from.
- The new Spanish cabinet has re-
called General Weyler from Cuba and
ramed as his successor, Blanco Y.
Arenas, marquis of Pena Plata. The
new captain general will leave Spain
at once with 10000 additional troops.
General Weyler processes to be very
we'll satisfied with the situation. Had
he only been governor. general, he
SAYS, he would at once have sent in
his resignation upon the change in the
Spanish ministry; but as he was also
in command of the army, he did not
feel justified in throwing up his re-
sponsibility until requested to do so.
He claims that he has already practi-
cally pacifed the island, and there is
left but little for his successor to do.
The insurgents, however, claim that
their cause is brighter now than ever,
and it will be only few short months
longer until Cuba is independent.
Augusta Chronicle: The people
of the east are having object lessons
of their own as to falling prices. They
have such vast accumulation of capt.
tai, so many industries and such in
domitable pluck, that nothing can dis
comft them; but their losses from
shrinkage in values have been tremen-
dous. In 1890, one Andrew ]. Davis,
q Massachusetts nan, died in Montana.
He had invested largely in the west,
chiefly in mining properties. When
he died his estate was valued at 81 ,2l3,-
600. 1t is now estimated at $403, 900.
There is some litigation, involving
expense, but the bulk of the deprecia
ton was in stocks. Recent legislation,
largely that of 1898, devastated his
fortune. All over the east, real prop
erty has shared relatively the same
fate, and unfriendly financial legisla-
ton has perhaps struck its hardest
blows in the very section that most
aided in accomplishing it. Light will
break in the east presently.
- Boston Courier: All flags used in
the United States navy are made by
women at the Brooklyn navy yard.
In the great sewing room in building
7, from 20 to 80 women are assembled
to work on the flags. Not only are
our stars and stripes made by them !;
but also the flags of every nation in
whose waters our vessels sail. Some
of the women grow old il the service,
for the workers in the department are
preferred for their skill as needle
workers and not on account of parti-
san influence. The change of admin
istration has no effect upon these wo-
men. Year after year they sew the
stripes together and the stars to posi-
ton upon the blue armament in the
corner of the flag. They embroider
the Chinese dragon and applique the
fantistic symbols used in the flags of
other nations. Every star shows a
certain number of stitches to the inch,
and the work receives rigid inspection.
The work lasts all the year round, and
there is no fiuctuation in the wages
paid.
Charlotte Observer, Saturday: Mr..
E. w. Myers, of the United States
geological survey, was in the city yes
terday on his way to Blacksburg, S. c.
Mr.. Myers work consists of measuring
the discharge and flow of streams, the
testing of springs, artesian wells, etc.
For the past month he has been to the
Dan and Staunton rivers, Virginia !;
the Roanoke, Tar, Neuse, Cape Fear,
Yadkin and Catawba, in North Caro-
lima. He says that the people along
these streams say that they are lower
now than in 10 years. In many places
they are almost dried up. Mr.. Myers
came from Norwood, on the Yadkin,
Thursday, and there he found the
water SO low that the ferry boat al
most dragged the ground. After meas
uring the discharge of the Broad river
at Blacksburg, yesterday, he returned
to Charlotte, and will today 60 to
Rock Hill, S. c., to measure the dis
charge of the Catawba near there.
Mr.. Myers makes his home at Chapel
Hill. and travels this state and parts
of Virginia and South Carolina. He
is a good authority on the watercour-
ses of this state.
According to Latham, Alexander
& Co.'S. "Cotton Movement" the acre
age of the present crop in the south is
24,O91, 900, the largest ever known !;
but owing to unfavorable conditions,
the yield will not be SO large as the
big crop of 1S94-5. In regard to for
mer crops, the publication also gives
instructive information. AS, for ex-
ample, the crop producing the highest
total receipts for the past 20 years was
the crop of lS9O-91, which aggregated
in value s49O, ,4SO,17 although it was
a comparatively short crop, producing
only 1852, ,597 bales. The largest cot
ton crop during this period was the
crop of 1S94-95, which yielded 9,901,-
e51 bales of cotton. although it aggre-