Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-08-31
Straps and faets.

August z, f0r IT ,oOf los, al average
of say 1923, which is considered i'm
mense. One of them, purchased for a
Buenos Ayres breeder, brought S., 400,
the highest price ever paid at auction
in England for sheep.
- Some weeks ago, DR.. Duncan, OF
the Twenty y-second Kansas regiment,
opened the grave of a Confederate Of
ficer who was killed in one of the bat
ties of Manassas and buried on the
battlefield. The Kansas ghoul has
been tried by court martial, and on last
Saturday sentence was passed. The
fellow is to spend five years in peni-
tentiary.
- Secretary Hester's statement OF
the worlds visible supply of cotton,
for the week ending last Friday, shows
a decrease for the week of S0,O6S bales,
against decrease of 58,676 last year
and 97,541 in 1895. The total visible
is 1878, ,493, against 1, 75S, ,561 last week
and 1,035,62 last year. Of this the
total of American cotton is 1,47O, ,493,
against 1857, ,561 last week and 800, ,42O
last year, and of all other kinds, in
Guiding Egyptian, Brazilian, Indian,
etc., 2OS, 900, against 1876, 900 last week
and 232, 200 last year.
- With the French sense Of fitness,
a buIlfight was gotten up recently for
the benefit of the Burgoyne sufferers at
Toulon. Four thousand people crowd
ed into the bull ring, and after waiting
for an hour and a half were Informed
that the managers of the entertainment
had disappeared with the entrance
money and that the bull6ghters would
not fight until they were paid. The
spectators thereupon began to tear
down the woodwork of the building
and set it on fire, and there was a
panic in which women and children
were trampled under foot.
- Lieutenant Stone, of the Second
Texas cavalry, who is just back from
Cuba, tells story of how a United
States scout named "Shorty" Coma
les, outwitted the Spaniards while he
was doing spy work. He was intrust-
ed with an important message to a
distant commander, and started on his
perilous journey across country on a
mule. Fearing he might fall into the
hands of the Spaniards he placed the
message in a rubber tobacco pouch and
then forced it down the animals throat.
Sure enough, the scout was stopped by
the Dons but after being searched he
was permitted to proceed. Arrived at
his journeys end, the mule was killed
and the message delivered. Gonzales
naturally was the hero of the hour.
- Turks and Hebrews, as well as
Christians, have been much excited by
the sound of the three bells of the
new Protestant church in Jerusalem.
For several centuries the use of bells
by the Christians in Palestine, or else
where in the Ottoman Empire, had
been prohibited by the great Turk,
who has conceded it now, however, to
his friend and ally, the evangelical
German Kaiser. In the "Theatre de
la Turque," published in 1888, it is
said: "The turks hate bells as SYM
bol of Christianity, and do not permit
even Christians to use them. Only in
a few remote mountain converts, or In
lonely islands, where there are no res
ident Mohammedans, is the use of a
bell tolerated"
Admiral Schley received great
demonstration at the navy department
last Saturday morning. He went to
the department quite early, and after
a call upon Acting Secretary Allen,
emerged from the main door of the
secretary's Office. His presence be-
came known, however, and as soon as
be was seen cheers rent the air from
the clerks who had assembled to catch
a glimpse of the hero of Santiago.
Officers and clerks from the depart
ments crowded the corridors of the
navy department until it was impos-
sible to pass through. They crowded
around the admiral, eagerly reaching
forward to shake hands. The lady
clerks were even more demonstrative,
and the admiral was kissed by old and
Young without discrimination. 1t was
finally necessary to form line and to
pass the crowd around through the
large rooms of the secretaries in order
to give them u chance to shake hands
with the admiral. Many prominent
army officers took part in the demon
stration.
The Philippine Islanders commits
sion in Europe has addressed letter
to President Mckinley regarding the
appeals made to him by high Roman
Catholic ecclesiastics in America to
protect the religious orders in the is
land. The expulsion of the friars, the
commission contends, is "a necessary
antecedent to moral sanitation" The
letter names particularly the archbish-
op of Manila and the bishop of Nueva
Covia and Nueva Caseres, "whose acts
of hostility against both natives and
Americans and against the Jesuits,
and other respected religious institu-
tions, are condemned by every one."
The commission urges Mckinley to
said the Filipinos to suppress the i'm
moral and diabolical institutions fos-
tered by these monks" and the letter