Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-01

- The other day William ]. Bryan
met a man in Detroit over 80 years
old who had been voting the Demo.
cratic ticket all his life, and made some
pleasant wish about Mr.. Bryan being
spared as long as he had been. Mr.
Bryan said: "Just think of it. That
would carry me to 1856, and that is
long time fora man to wait for burial
who, according to his Republican
friends, is already dead"
- Secretary Hester's statement of the
worlds visible supply of cotton, issued
last Friday, shows decrease for the
week Just closed of 2S,916 bales
against a decrease of 1882 last year
and 81, 1926 in 1895. The total visible
is 4,719,O1s, against 4,747,s35 last
week, and 1857 PA last year. Of this
the total of American cotton is 4,401,
O19, against 4,457, 1886 last week, and
4,119,214 last year, and of all other
kinds, including Egypt, Brazil, India
etc., 31s, 900 against 100000 last week
and 321 200 in 1895.
- Winston Sentinel: Mr.. ]. Van
Lindley, of the Pomona nursery, says
it is his opinion that we will not have
peach in this country this year. The
cold snap killed them in the bud. he
saws he thinks this is the case all over
the country east of the Rocky Noun
tains, for be has heard from many
places and it is the same cry. A day
or two of warm weather about the
first of the month caused buds to swell
and the freeze did the rest. Of course,
there may be tree or two not killed
isolated cases-but the great bulk is
gone up.
- The conferees on the census bill
have agreed and will make their re-
port during the present week.. Ger.
tain features of both the senate and
house bills will be retained. The Gen.
sus will be nominally under the direc'
tion of the secretary of the interior
but all appointments in the census bu'
reau will be made by the director OF
the census. The director, assistant di-
rector and 800 supervisors are to be
appointed by the president and con-
frmed by the senate. The director
receives a salary of $4,000 and the as
sistant director $4,000. The only i'm
portant point of difference was in re-
gard to whether the census should be
made a bureau of a department OF
separate, the house bill providing for
an independent bureau.
- The Congress of the Daughters ol
the American Revolution, in session in
Washington last week, elected officers
as follows: Mrs. Daniel Manning, Buff:
falo, N. Y, president general; Mrs. E.
w. Howard, Alexandria, Va, vice
president in charge of the organiza,
ton Mrs. w. A. Smoot, chaplain gen.
eral; Mrs. A. Akers, recording secre,
tary general; Mrs. K. K. Henry, cor,
responding secretary general Mrs. G
B. Darwin, treasurer general. Among
the vice presidents general elected are
the following: Miss Mary Temple
Tennessee Miss A. M. Wheeler, Ala
bama. Mrs. Mildred Mathis, Tennes.
see, was added to the list of honorary
vice president generals. A motion
that the Daughters use their influence
to have substituted the expression
"war between the states" for "war o
the rebellion" was adopted. Mrs
Stonewall Jackson, widow of the noted
southern leader, was introduced to the
audience.
- The largest market of the world
for American cotton oil is Marseilles
France. In 1897, 100000 kilos o.
oil were shipped there from the United
States, and the total for 1898 will be
very much higher. A kilo is % pounds
The oil is doctGred so as to taste like
olive oil and sold as such all over the
world. 1t is also used for the manu-
facture of soaps, perfumery, cosmetics
and other toilet articles. 1t is one o.
the largest industries of France, and
has become so cheap and superior, it is
driving out other oils, and the crushers
of oleaginous seeds, whose markets
have been nearly destroyed, are now
trying to have prohibitive duty i'm
posed upon the American article. The
manufacturers of soap, however, are
resisting the movement, and it is prob
able that they will make compro
mise with the local seed crushers un'
der which the oil from the United
States will be rendered unpalatable by
the admixture of some harmless sub
stance, so that it cannot be used fol
food.
Charlotte Observer: DR.. Rainsford
the preacher who succeeds in keeping
New York stirred up pretty much al
the time, last Sunday preached upon
the growing tendency on the part o.
the wealthy people to break the Sab
both by an indulgence on that day ir
worldly amusements. He made his
talk rather strong but he was sure O.
his ground. That was on Sunday
morning. On the same afternoon, as
if in corroboration of DR.. Rainford's
charges, Mrs. Oliver P. Belmont gave
a luncheon followed by biograpt
exhibition of war scenes and concert
by full orchestra, while Mrs. Rober,
A. Osborn, who invented the "Dramat
ic Break fast" gave the first of hel
Sunday musical afternoons, at the
Waldorf. Astoria, for which seats are
said to have sold as high as S. apiece
and where standing room was at 8
premium. And yet these people gel
mad at DR.. Rainsford and denounce