Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-14

the 2,0OOth patient April 13, 1872, IA
years the 3,O00th patient April 20,
1878, 6 years the 4,0OOth patient June
IA, 1883, years; the 5,000th patient
July 1S, 1887, 4 years; the 6,0O0th pa.
tient February IA, 1891, 4 years the
7,OOOtb patient April 1, 1894, years /;
the S,O0Oth patient April 5, 1897, 8
years. 1t thus appears that we now
admit in three years the same number
that it formerly required thirty years
to bring to our doors. The cost per
ca pita last year was $102. The total
appropriations asked for this year
amount to $105,800.
Penitentiary Report.
The following with regard to the
penitentiary is from the annual report
of Superintendent Neal to the general
assembly: We had confined in peni-
tentiary and convict camps one year
ago 72S received from the courts 280;
escaped convicts recaptured IA max
ing 1,017. Discharged by expiration
of sentence 165 pardoned 12; escaped
20; deaths 81; killed while trying to
escape 8; accidentally killed g; return
ed to Jail by order of the court l; total
loss 233 leaving in confinement JAN
uary l., 1899, 7S4, which is an increase
of 81 for the past year. For more
detailed statement as to the prisoners,
l would respectfully refer you to the
full and explicit report of Captain
E. II. Westfield in bis report for the
year just closed. The institution is
out of debt, with cash on hand and in
sight amounting to $l5,633.39. We
have had a very unsatisfactory year
agriculturally, short cotton crop, bad
quality and low price; but taking all
in all we ought to feel satisfied, as we
will be able to make ends meet this
the worst year for farming operations,
so far as clear money is concerned, in
the history of the institution. How
ever, I would recommend. that the
board authorize the payment of $40, 900
to the state treasurer within the next
80 days, or as soon as we will be able
to make collections and sell what cot
ton we have on hand. We can pay
the state treasurer $4,000 within the
next Is or 20 days and have Sc, 900 or
81, 900 to use in the next years opera
tions.
Confederate Records.
The following is from the report of
Colonel John P. Thomas to the general
assembly with reference to Confederate
records: SIN announcing the compile
ton of my labors iu the fulfilmenl of
the high trust committed to me, and
this in an enlarged form and upon a
broader scope than that originally
contemplated, / might here appro-
priately close this report, and rest with
a grateful sense of duty done and a
high appreciation of the privilege
accorded me of vindicating the truth
of history, and of consummating a
work of justice to the dead and honor
to the living of our noble and self
sacrificing Confederate soldiers. But
l would be wanting in my whole duty
if did not further recommend to the
general assembly the logical conclusion
of this matter by the publication in
book form of the rolls collected, with
an appropriate sketch of the part taken
by the state of South Carolina, and the
various commands from this state in
the War Between the States-agree.
ably to the joint resolution of the
general assembly, approved December
20, 1S93-the same being the Thirty
third anniversary of the passage of the
Ordinance of Secession of South Caro-.
lima. No augmentation is necessary
to increase the obvious force of the
proposition. The proposed publication,
as a matter of justice, is due to the
cause in which South Carolina pledged
her all in vindication of her sover-
eighty. Moreover, the publication
would be an act of craftsmanship CAL
culated to promote our state pride and
to augment a feeling of brotherhood
between our people that would
strengthen the muniments of the COM
monWealth."