Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-19
Straps and faets.
On last Saturday two Mormon

preachers and assessed nDe. ne
elders had no money and were started
off to Jail, but succeeded in getting
the jailer to accept their watches as
security until they could send for
money to pay the fines. President
Rich, of the Southern Mormon society,
says he will proceed in the courts
against the Taylor county judge.
The Transvaal situation is un.
changed, according to all obtainable
official information, says London dis
patch of Wednesday; but the contin'
ued delay of the Boer answer to Great
Britain's demand for joint inquiry as
to the effect upon the Outlanders OF
the proposed franchise reform meas
ures, makes matters look more serious
The war Office has completed its pre-.
parations for an emergency force OF
10000 men to be ready to leave within
a week. Fast steamers for their trans.
portation are waiting ordes. 1t is said
that the Grenadier Guards, now at
Gibraltar, and the Twenty-first Ian
GERS, now in Egypt, may be sent to
South Africa in addition to the other
regiments which have already been
ordered.
u In time Washington will be the
great Roman Catholic educational cen
tre of the United States. The head oi
the Franciscan Order, heretofore in
New York city, is to come to Wash
ingtou during the fall, making the
third novitiate to be located by the side
of the Catholic university, and the
new Trinity college for women will
make the fourth. The other novitiates
are the House Of the Paulist Society
and the Holy Cross college, the latter
the novititate of the University OF
Notre Dame, Indiana, to be opened in
September and to be dedicated in Oc-
tober with elaborate ceremonies. In
no section of the United States are the
Roman Catholics so numerous as in
Washington and the country around
it. Maryland was settled by the Cath
olics, and those who have come after
Lord Baltimore have kept the old
faith with resolutepess which is quite
astonishing, considering the falling
away from early religious traditions
and belief which is part of the history
of Protestant colonial settlements.
Says Bradstreet's: A record which
cannot be characterized otherwise than
as remarkable was made by the United
States as an exporter of manufactures
during the last fiscal year. The total
exports of this class of products for
the year were valued at 1888, ,667 ,794, a
figure slightly in excess of the estimate
of the chief of the treasury bureau of
statistics made over a month ago.
The total is nearly s48, 900, 900, or Is
per cent. in excess of that for the pre-
ceding fiscal year and is over double
the value of exports of manufactures
in 1891. In order to appreciate the
increased share which manufactures
are taking in the total volumes of our
exports, it will be of service to recall
the fact that while in 1891 they formed
only 12.4S per cent. of the total, in
1898 they had risen to 24.02 per cent,
and in the fiscal year 1899 the proper.
tion was increased to 2S.15 per cent.
The fact that the great increase in ex-
ports of our manufactures in the fiscal
year just closed was made at time
of rising prices for such goods would
seem to indicate that the ability of
the manufacturers of the United States
to compete with success in the markets
of the world rests no longer upon
conjecture.
- Henry NJ. Neill, the cotton crop
expert of New Orleans, who predicted
the enormous crops Of 1S94-95, 1897
SO and 1S9S-99, is out with forecast
indicating that the crop now maturing
will exceed any Of these and may
reach the unprecedented total of l2,-
100000 bales. In circular, issued
last Tuesday, he says: On August l3,
1898, l stated that the promise for the
crop of lS9S-99 was equal or superior
to that OF lS97-9S and vastly better in
Texas, and the outlook with even some
unfavorable conditions thereafter
would show crop of 10,500,000 bales
assured, with 100000 to 100000
more within range of possibilities.
This crop turns out about II, ,25O, 1000
bales in spite of the most severe win
ter ever known in the south, during
which deal of cotton was lost in the
field. That it would have reached
100000 and possibly $4,000, 900, but
for this heavy loss, is now generally
admitted. For the present crop am
satisfied that on an average the prom
ise per acre is fully equal, if not su-
perior, to that of last year at this date.
Texas, with the exception of the loss in
the Brazos valley, which will hardly
reach 100000 bales, has been particu.
larly favored with alternate rain and
sunshine and now promises the best
crop to the acre ever known"
- Says Lexington, KY, dispatch of
Wednesday: From every county but
nine of the 119 composing the state,
one of the most remarkable gather
ings of Kentuckians ever assembled
in the interest of any political cause
met today in accordance with the call
of Chairman P. P. Johnston, of the
State Central and anti-Goebel Demo
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