Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-08
Straps and faets.

tnat tnat the secretary OF war at Lon
don, has given permission to DR.. Leyds,
the Transvaal diplomatic agent at
Brussels, to send telegram TO Pre-
toria to ask the number of killed and
wounded on the side of the Beers.
The Beers have no seaport, but COM
municate with the Portuguese neutral
port on Delagoa bay; but the British
control the cables communicating with
Europe.
- James J. Jefferys is still the cham
pion prize fighter of the world. He
fought % rounds with Thomas Sharkey
before the Coney Island Athletic club
last Friday night, and although the
fight was not of a decisive character,
the referee awarded him the decision.
The two men appeared to be quite
evenly matched, and at times during
the fight each had an advantage that
seemed to promise victory. The fight
is said to have been quite a decent af-
fair as prize fights go, and it is likely
that the two men will be pitted against
each other again in fight to the finish.
A recent issue of the Transvaal
Critic contained this suggestive bit of
news: The man Uys, who thrashed
two native servant girls to death in the
Wakkerstroom district some months
ago, has been sentenced to two years
hard labor. Mild as the sentence will
appear to those who correctly estimate
the value of human life, it has astoupd-
ed the relatives and friends of the ac-
cused. 1t says a good deal for the
jury that they did not decide on an
acquittal, seeing that the State attor-
ney stated in the Raad not so long ago
that to thrash native servant to death
was not dishonorable action.
- Says Charlotte dispatch of No.
vember 4: A rumor having gone
abroad over the country that Mrs.
Stonewall Jackson, widow of the dis
tinguished Confederate general, is ab-
solutely penniless, in want and hope
lessly i'll and blind, Mrs. Jackson said
Yesterday to q representative OF the
Associated Press that these statements
are very much exaggerated. 1t is true
that she is not in affluent circum'
stances; but she has competency and
has always been above want. Her
health is somewhat improved and she
is not blind, though still suffering from
a painful illness, facial neuralgia.
Appeals having been made all over the
south for her relief, Mrs. Jackson is
hnf tho firm uta nf the
should be known, as she is unwilling
to accept any donations except those
offered as testimonials of love and
admiration for her husband.
- Secretary Hester's weekly New
Orleans Cotton Exchange statement,
issued last Friday, shows decrease in
the movement into sight, compared
with the 7 days ending the same date
last year, in round figures, of 205, 900
bales, decrease under the same days
year before last of $1,000. The amount
brought into sight during the past
week has been 373, ,12S bales, against
577,766 bales for the seven days ending
this date last year, and 460,62S year
before last. The total movement for
the 64 days from September l, to date,
was 1885, 500 bales, against 1858, 14S
last year. The movement since Sep
tember l, shows receipts at all United
States ports of 2,OO7, ,791 bales, against
1882 ,0S6 last year; overland across
the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac
rivers to northern mills and Canada
3l7,925, against 2O7, Ill last year; in
terror stocks in excess Of those held at
the close of the commercial year 375,-
GIT bales, against 1885, last year ;
southern mill takings 2S4,176 bales,
against 25S, SIC last year. Foreign ex-
ports for the week have been 1854
bales, against $50, ,677 last year, max
ing the total thus far for the season
1927, ,593, against 1,57l,75 last year.
The total takings of American mills,
north and south and Canada, thus far
for the season, have been 794, 1878 bales,
against 623, ,440 last year. Stocks at
the seaboard and the 90 leading south
ern interior centres have increased
during the week 49, ,046 bales, against
an increase during the corresponding
period of 81, ,2SS. Including stocks left
over at the ports and interior towns
from the last crop and the number of
bales brought into sight thus far for
the new crop, the supply to date is
3,G04, ,467, against 3,S03,714 for the
same period last year.
"A correspondent describing the
fighting around Ladysmith, under date
Of Tuesday of last week, said that al
though the day was terrible to the
British it must have been more so to
the Beers. The British artillery fire
is said to have been appalling, especial
ly on account of the use of lyddite
shells. When the shells burst, the cas-
ualties in the immediate vicinity were
numerous. General Joubert sent a
formal written protest to General
White against the use of lyddite as in
human. The New York Sun says Of
this: 1.-THE use of powerful explo-
sives in shells has never been con-
demned by the nations. 1t was not
even criticised at the peace conference.
Lyddite is secret compound, the in
vention of British officers. The bu-
reau of ordnance of the United States
army has but little information regard
ing its composition. 1t is classed with
melenite, the French explosive, which
is known to be picric acid compound.
Lyddite has been used by the British
principally in the 12-pounder mountain
guns. 1t is used for bursting the 12-