Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-22
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hogs that were being shlpped from the
west to the east through Asheville.
The estimate of the losses to the
cattle and sheep interests caused by
the recent storms in Colorado, made by
State Veterinarian Charles Cresswell,
reaches a total of 100000, covering
4,2O0 head of cattle and 47,500 head
of sheep. A large number of sheep
and cattle were killed in Wyoming
and northern New Mexico at the same
time; but Mr.. Cresswell has no data
from which to base an estimate.
- Monroe Journal: A young man
came down from Charlotte last week
on business trip, and while here de-
cided to visit friends in the country.
He INQUIRED of one of our merchants
if he could get room in his safe for his
money until he returned. The mer-
chant told him he could, and the
young man drew forth two dollars to
be deposited. Before leaving he drew
80 cents to defray expenses while IN
the country.
uc uOuSC VIZ HSAS
will recommend favorable action on
bill to pension Mrs. Mary F. Cobb, of
Kokomo, Ind, one of the eight daugh-
ters, now living, of Revolutionary SOL
diers. She is the daughter of Revo-
lutionary patriot, the grand daughter
of another, and the widow of sol.
dier of the war of 1912. The latter
was Lewis Bryan, sometimes spelled
Bryant, whose son by his first wife was
the grandfather of William Jennings
Bryan. He was in Captain Cunning
hams company of Donnoldson's regi-
ment of Kentucky. Mrs. Cobb's faith
er was Daniel Cano, lieutenant in
Andrew Moody's company, Second
Regiment of Continental Artillery, and
his father was John Cano, known as
the "Fighting Chaplain" The latter
died at the age of II, and the former
at the age of 96, Mrs. Cobb's age at
the present time. She has been
widow over so years.
- Atlanta Constitution The worlds
product of tobacco is estimated at
1900, 900, 900 pounds, valued at about
100000. Of this the Western
Hemisphere raises about 650,000,OOO
pounds, the United States contributing
48O, 100000 and Cuba, whose tobacco
is the widest known and highly esteem
ed, only producing 62,OOO,OO0 pounds.
Europe raises about 5000, 900 pounds,
the East Indies 40O,OOO,O00. Austral-
ia 100000 pounds and Africa not
enough to be counted. BY the addi-
ton of our new territories, the United
States will increase her product by
Cuba 62,O00,00O, Porto Rico S,SOO,OOO
and the Philippines 45,0OO,00O, which
will give us total of 60S,S00,000
pounds. Of the states in the Union,
Kentucky leads with about 1S5, ,000,-
600 pounds, which is far in excess Of
any other state. North Carolina comes
next with only 100000 and Virgin
ia next with S5,000,00O.
Baltimore Sun: Great Britain con-
tinues to be our best customer. In
the year ended December 81, 1898, we
sold to the United Kingdom $53S, $751;
7S7 of exports, against 1882, $685. ,024
in 1897; while we bought of that coun-
try directly but $11, ,361 ,617 of imports
against $l59, ,0O2, 1856 worth in 1897.
We sold our English cousins four times
as much as we bought from them.
The balance was settled largely, of
course, by our purchases from coun-
tries to which England exports more
than we do. England takes of US
mostly wheat, lard, cotton, corn leath-
er, hams, beef, copper and other un-
manufactured articles. We bought
from her chiefly worsted and woolen
goods, wool, cotton goods, jute goods,
linen goods, tin plates, earthenware,
alkali, bleaching materials and hard
ware. While we do not buy of Eng
land as much as we sell her, still we
buy of her more than we buy from any
other country, and we take from her
larger proportion of our imports than
any other foreign country (not a colo
N.Y. takes.
- DR.. Octavius A. White, of New
York, presented to the senate, last Fri
day, through Senator Tillman, three
notable paintings of Revolutionary SUBJ
jects in South Carolina, that were ex-
ecuted by DR.. Whites father, the late
John Blake White, of South Carolina.
A resolution offered by Senator Hans
borough, acting chairman of the libra
ry committee, accepting the paintings,
was adopted. AS described in DR..
Whites letter to Senator Tillman, one
of the pictures is the famous one rep
resenting General Marion inviting
British officer to share his meal of
sweet potatoes, roasted in the ashes of
his camp fire. The second depicts the
scenes where Sergeants Jasper and
Newton, members of Marion's band,
unaided, rescued a body of American
prisoners who were being conducted
by force of British soldiers to the
prison camp at Savannah. The female
in the foreground was the wife of one
of the prisoners, who devotedly ac-
companied her husband. The third
represents the patriotic action of Mrs.
Motto, of Edgefeld district, South Car
olina, in furnishing to General Marion
and Light Horse Harry Lee, fire-ar-
rows with which to destroy her own
mansion, then held by the British and
used by them as fort.
Secretary Hester's weekly New
Orleans Cotton. Exchange statement,
issued last Friday, shows decrease in
the seven days ending this date last