Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-09-07

ed out. This action Will De TAKEN
with a view to recruiting the regulars
up to the maximum strength allowed
by law and to give the volunteers who
may wish to continue in the service
the preference in recruiting. 1t is es-
timated by the war department author.
tiles that about 1000 or 5000 men will
be required to I'll up the regular regl-
ments, that number of vacancies being
likely to exist in the near future on
account of deaths and disabilities, and
the withdrawal of men under the priv
ilege allowing new regular recruits to
leave the service at the end of the war.
The army administration appreciates
the superior value of men possessed of
military training, and desires to give
distinct preference to veteran volun-
teer soldiers of the war in filling up
the regiment of the regular army.
Not long ago the Suez Canal COM
missioners were shocked by an auda.
cious application from the representa-
tives of three firms whose products
were biscuits, chocolate and soap, re-
spectively, for permission to advertise
these on the banks of the canal, year.
ly rental of $4,000 being offered for the
privilege. The application was prompt
ly refused. According to an Egyptian
paper, the "Imparziale," there was
recently found painted in oil in enor-
nous characters over the entrance slab
of the Pyramid of Cheops, at Ghizeh,
the legend. "Blank's Dundee Whis-
KY" The advertisers had gone one
better than the Suez Canal appli-
cant, for they had dispensed with the
formality of asking anyone's permis-
sion. How the trick was done the
sImparziale" cannot understand, for
the pyramids are supposed to be
watched by Bedouins day and night.
But, alas the advertisers labor has
been lost. A hard-hearted and un-
sympathetic Direction Arcbaologique
of Cairo gave orders for the erasure
of the inspiriting legend.
"A side light, exposing anew the
horrible conditions. of camp life at
Chickamauga, was presented to Chi
cago audience Thursday night, says
The Tribune of that city, in speech
delivered before the Standard Club by
Captain Milton J. Foreman, quarter
master of the First Illinois cavalry,
the regiment now in camp at Fort
Sheridan. "For month we lay in
mud hole" said the speaker. "It was,
indeed, slough of despond, where the
conditions were far more dishearten-
ing than they could possibly be on the
heights of San Juan or at Santiago.
But our men of the rank and file were
heroically patient. There was only
one blanket for every seven troopers,
and the only water to be found was
taken from the semi-stagnant stream or
pool known as Chickamauga Creek.
1t was better known as the creek of
death. Within few weeks, when the
troops, healthy and vigorous before,
began to be taken sick, samples of
blood from 80 of our men were sent to
Washington, D. c., for analysis, and
in every case was found clogged with
typhoid fever germs sufficient to inocu-
late all the standing armies of Europe"
General Fitzhugh Lee is no doubt
as we'll liked personally as any man in
Virginia, but he isn't going to be Unit
ed States senator in the place of Mr..
Martin for all that" said Mr.. J. n.
Braxton, of the Old Dominion, at the
Ebbitt. "Our people, while according
to General Lee full praise for his gal
lantry and for his good service at
Havana in a critical time, are not
going to let that blind them to the fact
that he is goldbug. No man who is
not in line with the Chicago platform
is going to carry off any political
honors in Virginia, at least not IN the
near future. The minute that the
general gets into the campaign he will
find himself confronted with his gold
bug record and that will down him
with the people. Senator Martin has
not only been consistent silver man,
but he has also been one of the most
useful public servants that Virginia
ever had at the national capital. He
has worked for the best interests Of
his state with an energy that never
tires and has been wonderfully sue
cessful in obtaining all he has sought
to accomplish. He will be his own
successor in the United States senate"
- The totals of Secretary Hesters
annual report of the cotton crop in
the United States were promulgated
on September l. They show receipts
of cotton at all United States ports
for the year of $780, $50 bales against
6,S29, 100 last year; overland, 1884,
S13 against $40, O,4S2; southern con-
sumption, taken direct from the inte-
rior of the cotton belt, 1892, ,S2l against
9SS,332, making the cotton crop Of
the United States for 1S97-9S amount
to 11,199,994 bales, against S,757 1854
last year and 9,901,2 PSI in 1895. Mr..
Hester has made his usual investiga-
tion into the consumption of cotton by
every mill in the south, including
woolen mills that have used cotton,
and the results show total Of ,23l, =
SAL, but of this $4,000 were taken from
outputs included in port receipts. This
totol cbouc thot the mills of the SOuth