Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-15

would like to remain IN the SERVICE,
he said, with animation, sand be sent
to the Philippines, where there is some
fighting. Iwould not care so much to
stay in the army if had to remain in
this country"
- The Daughters of the Revolution
rejected with scorn the offers of ANAL
gamation which were rendered by the
Daughters of the American Revolution
at their recent meeting in Washington,
saws w. E. Curtis. Their membership
is limited to about 1000, while the
Daughters of the American Revolution
number over $4,000; but they are
proud, exclusive and uncompromising,
and say that at their annual meeting,
which will be held in Philadelphia in
April, the olive branch will be refused
by a unanimous vote. The Daughters
of the Revolution owe their existence
to the failure of Mrs. Flora Adams
Darling, a comprehensive and jealous
woman, to keep her position at the
head of the older organization. She
started an organization of her own,
which she thinks is better than the
other.
How we change, says the Charlotte
Observer. A few years ago we were
all denouncing Speaker Reed for
counting a quorum, and calling him
czar, and all that, and some of the
Democratic representatives wanted to
cut his throat as he sat in the presid-
ing officers chair. Last Saturday,
upon the eve of the adjournment Of
the house, Mr.. Bailey, Democratic
leader, arose, and after forid speech,
presented a resolution thanking the
speaker for the sable, impartial and
digniied manner" with which he had
presided over the house, and every
mothers son of them, including old
General Wheeler, whom the speaker
had just snubbed, hoped up on his
feet and put the resolution through
with a whoop. We were liars back
yonder about 10 years ago, or else we
were liars last Saturday, for Reed was
the same kind of man and speaker
then that he is now.
- The department of agriculture, on
last Friday, issued the following crop
report: The consolidated returns of
the various crop reporting agencies of
the department of agriculture show
the amount of wheat remaining in
farmers hands on March 10 to have
been the equivalent of 1913 per cent. of
last years crop, or about 1S9,000,O00
bushels. The corn in farmers hands,
as estimated, aggregates S00,500,000
bushels, or 41.6 per cent. of last years
crop, against 7s2,sOO,Ooo bushels, or
ALL per cent. on hand on March l.,
1897. The proportion of Che total
crop shipped out of the country where
grown, is estimated at 20.6 per cent.
or about 396, 100000 bushels. The
proportion of the total crop merchant
able is estimated at 1922 per cent. In
oats there are reported to be about
2SS, 100000 bushels, or 1877 per cent.
still in farmers hands as compared
with 272,OOO,OOO bushels or 3S.9 per
cent. on March l, 1897.
- Raleigh, N. c., dispatch of Friday
SAYS: Further particulars in regard
to the conduct of the Tenth immunes
were received here today from the
towns along the Seaboard Air Line.
Between Atlanta and Monroe they shot
Flagman Sam Sealy in the heel, in
ficting a painful wound. At Monroe
they raided the dispensary, carrying off
some Is packages of whisky. At
Henderson they came near killing an
old white man named Crozier. In
Weldon, the last point at which they
stopped in this state, their conduct was
the worst. At the point of a pistol
they forced John Battle, worthy COL
ored man, to drink seven glasses of
whisky. Battle fell down senseless
soon after drinking the liquor and died
before a physician could be summoned.
The riotous troops forced their way
into stores and saloons, taking what
ever they wanted. They fired upon a
switchman who failed to run at their
command and spoke insultingly to
those whom they met upon the streets.
Lieutenant Colonel H. B. Sharpe
testified at the beef inquiry in Chicago
last Saturday that wagons which had
not been cleaned after being used for
the transportation of manure, and
wagons in which the garbage had been
carried, the bottoms of which were
covered with slime in which maggots
were crawling, were used to carry fresh
meat to the soldiers at Camp Thomas,
at Chicamaugua last summer. Lieu
tenant Colonel Sharpe was stationed at
Chickamauga from April 23d to July
Goth, of last year, and was later chief
commissary with General Brooke in
Puerto Rico. The blame for this con-
dition of things, said Lieutenant Colo
mel Sharpe, lie on the shoulders of the
regimental commissaries, who sent
wagons for the meat without having
them properly cleaned, according to
orders. AS soon as he learned Of the
matter he ordered the wagons cleaned
Immediately. The meat issued to the
troops, the witness said, was of good
quality, and in good condition but
after it had been carried in wagons in
the condition described, it was, of
course, impossible for the troops to use
it.
Washington dispatch: The clerks
whose duty it is to prepare a
statement showing the number of new
Offices authorized by congress at. its
last session have difficult task this
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