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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
WHY YORKVILLE ESCAPED,

"Suppose," remarked local mer
chant to the reporter on Saturday
"that the Yorkville buyers had gotten
hold of that Liverpool report from
New Orleans yesterday, wouldn't they
have made things hum ?"
Maybe yes, and maybe no. Thai
would have depended upon circum
stances. In the first place, the York
Vile buyers were in no special danger
They get their market Information
from New York and Liverpool, ant
have but little TO do with New Or
leans. The Liverpool market comes
early in the day by way of New York
and as Yorkville already had the cor
rect Liverpool market, the buyers
would not have been deceived by the
false reports from New Orleans.
But there is way by which tht
Yorkville market could nave been at
fected. For instance, Yorkville deal
ers frequently sell cotton to other large
dealers further south, who operate al
most entirely through the New Orleans
Exchange. There is one dealer in thi:
town who has sold hundreds of bales
TO that man Cults, of Savannah, who
bought 5000 at cents. Suppose Cults
had made the Yorkville man an oftel
for a few hundred bales at 8 cents
The Yorkville man would have beer
pretty apt to have taken off his coa'
and made things hum.
However, the news did not reacf
here until the excitement was all over
and the incident did not affect this
market in the least.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
DEWEY Is UNSELFISH.
Acknowledges the Assistance of His Cap
taIns.

Acknowledges the Assistance of His Cap
tains.
A feature of the Dewey reception or
Saturday was the presentation in the
New York City Hall of the loving cur
that the city has had made for the ad
miral. The cup is of 1S carat gold, O
beautiful workmanship, holds 42 quarts
and cost $4,000. Mayor Van Wyck
made the presentation speech, con
cluding as follows:
"To the mayor has been assigned
the personally pleasant duty of pre-
senting to you in the name of the city
of New York, the metropolis of ou'
country, this loving cup, keepsake
to remind you from time to time o.
her love for you and her special pride
in your deeds of valor, which she be-
lieves will for ages to come insure full
respect of all nations and people fol
our starry flag, whether flung to the
breeze over the man-of-war or over the
hip.of.commerce."
When the mayor had concluded
Admiral Dewey began to reply by say
ing:
81 would be quite impossible for me
Mr.. Mayor, to express in words -
At this point he was interrupted
with cheers, and he began again:
at would be quite impossible 10 ex.
press in words how deeply am moved
by this-all these honors, one after the
other-that beautiful cup, the freedom
of the city, this great, magnificent re-
ception. 1 cannot say what l want
but, speaking for myself and the gal
liant squadron had the honor to com
mand at Manila, I thank you from the
bottom of my heart"
After the formal ceremonies Admira
Dewey went about shaking hands with
friends.
"Come here, all you captains" he
said, addressing the naval captains
present. Then he introduced each te
the audience present.
"Captain Lamberton, of the Olym
pia," he cried.
"Captain Wilder, of the Boston
Captain Coghlan, of the Raleigh ; Cap
tain Dyer, of the Baltimore Captain
Wood, of the Petrel; Captain Walker
of the Concord"
"These are the men who did it
These are the men who should bt
thanked. Without them / could dc
nothing"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. John NJ. Boyce has retured from
pleasant visit 10 Woodward's, Fair
field county.
Mrs. A. r. Banks and son, Master
John, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Thos
F. Mellow, in Yorkville.
Miss Tulula Neville accompanied
her father, Rev. w. G. Neville, &c
Washington, last week.
Miss Bessie Lowry, Of Lowrysville,
is the guest of Miss M. Eula Lowry
on East Jefferson street.
Mrs. Eldred Griffith, of Charlotte
N. c., is visiting her sister, Mrs. w.
w. Lewis, on East Liberty street.
Rev. DR.. S. A. Weber, former pastor
of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
visited in Yorkville last week.
The many friends of Mr.. c. G. Par
ish were greeting him on the streets
last Saturday after lengthy spell o
sickness.
Mrs. S. NJ. McNeel and Miss Hulds
McNeel and Mrs. w. B. Moore lefl
Tuesday afternoon for a visit to Wash
ington, Baltimore and New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. It. Castles and Sin
children are quite i'll at their home at
Smyrna with typhoid fever. 1nforma
ton on Monday was to the effect thai
all are showing signs of improvement
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
THE STRAUSS PIANO.

Mr.. James M. Starr, of Yorkville, is
the winner of the handsome Kings
bury piano that was offered last spring
by Mr.. H. G. Strauss for the largest
number of coupons presented at his
Office by any one individual on Sep
lembey 30.
These coupons, it will be remember
ed, were given out to customers, one
for each so cents cash purchase. The
competition during the summer has
been quite interesting and up to Satur-,
day there was no certainty as to the
successful competitor.
When the closing hour Of the con-
test expired, it developed that there
was only one individual in the race.
That was Mr.. Starr and he came
forward with coupons to the number
of GIGS. Mr.. Strauss promptly award.
ed TO him the piano.
In view of the efforts of Rev. j. II.
Simpson for the Hickory Grove Or
phanage, the fact that MIR. Starr ap-
peared as the only competitor, seemed
to involve a certain amount of mys-
terry but Mr.. Starr kindly explained
this to the reporter on Monday. 1t
appears that some time back, Mr..
Starr and Rev. Mr.. Simpson, each
recognizing the other as his most dan
gerous opponent, agreed that on the
last day of the competition they would
compare notes, and the one having the
larger number Of coupons, would pur-
chase from the other at a cent each.
Upon comparing notes, it developed
that Rev. Mr.. Simpson had 1851 cou-
pons and Mr.. Starr had 3,S47. Mr..
Starr accordingly gave Mr.. Simpson
check for $23.5l and offered the cou-
pons collected by both in behalf of
himself.
Strange to say, only small per cent.
of the coupons given out by MIR.
Strauss in the contest have shown up.
Mr.. Starr secured his coupons largely
by purchase, and Mr.. Simpson got his
principally by donation to the orphan
age; but still there is outstanding
quite large number that have not
yet shown up. Mr.. Starr, however, is
in perft city good humor over the
situation; Rev. Mr.. Simpson has
brought the orphanage out ahead,
and Mr.. Strauss, when seen by the
reporter, talked and looked as if he
were more than satisfied with the gen.
eral result of his generous offer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04

- Those fake cablegrams from Liv'
erpool last Friday had another effect
rather more important than the max
ing of such big excitement on the Ne"
New Orleans cotton exchange. Prices
for spots were temporarily raised to
cents in many parts of the south
Many people would have thought that
s cents ought to have been sufficient
to have moved the entire cotton crop
We do not see, however, that the re-
ceipts were swelled to extraordinary
figures. Maybe after all, it is going
to take something like s cents to move
much of the cotton that is now being
held back. The New Orleans incident
does not actually prove anything Of
the kind but it seems to be strong
indication in that direction.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04

desk and without the usual formali-
ties summoned a meeting Of the Ex-
change, and some one moved the sus-
pension of business. The motion was
carried unanimously. After securing
legal advice it was decided to declare
null and void all transactions of the
day. But this does not settle the
matter. On the strength of the New
Orleans fluctuations dealers in spots in
different parts of the south bought
thousands of bales of cotton, some of
them paying as high at s cents for it.
E. A. Cults, of Savannah, bought
5000 bales at this price. Another
Savannah man bought $4,000 bales OF
futures in New Orleans and had
an estimated profit of $4,000. The
incident is likely to give rise to great
deal of litigation, for Notwithstanding
the fraud there enters into the situa-
ton considerations which do not justi-
fy the Exchange from nullifying con-
tracts.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04

INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.


w. Meek Faulkner, Administrator-Pub-
fishes notice to debtors and creditors
of the estate Of Mrs. Sallie +. Faulkner
deceased.
w. II. McCorkle. Probate Judge-Gives
notice that Mrs. Mary Il. Shannon has
applied to him for letters of administra.
ton on the estate of Thomas Lominack
deceased.
Jas. NJ. Starr Il Co., Leading Druggists
Say for you to SOW wheat and to use
blue stone; that they have 400 pounds
of it in stock. Also speak of cash.
mere bouquet soap, and want you to pay
what you owe them.
DR.. G.. f. Williams-Has lost white
spotted setter pup and will literally re-
ward the finder.
l.. NJ. Grist-Has second hand saddle
for sale. Price 81. Also a second hand
cooking stove. Price $40.
G.. p. Lowrance-Has pork and beans ir
cans at 10 and Is cents can and has
fresh hams.
Grist Cousins-Have received shipment
of flour which was made at Riddles
Champion Roller mills, fresh candy
fnackerel at cents, white fish at cent
soap, California hams at 10 cents
pound, sweet and Irish potatoes, apples
cabbage, etc. ,
J. j. Hunter-Says that keys will be tried
on Saturday, October I, and the person
or persons holding keys which un lock
the box gets IS in cash. Keys given
with ever dollar purchase. His =
ladies' shoes, he says, are beauties. He
has mems derby and alpine hats and
boys caps.
II. c. Strauss-Tells of his magnificent
stock of dress goods, clothing and sta.
pie goods and notions and points out
the special inducem ents he has to offer
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
Wednesday, October 4, 1899.

children is rather out of proportion TO
the amount of taxes now being paid.
There are no figures available upon
which TO base definite statement;
but in any event, the cotton mill chill
dren who live within the incorporate
limits, and who desire the privileges of
the Graded school, are entitled to the
same.
Sometime back the fact was men
toned in The ENQUIRER that it was
the intention of the cotton mill COM
pany to build q school house and con-
duct school for the benefit of the
children of mill employees. If it shall
develop that the mill property is with
in the incorporate limits of Yorkville,
then it may be very easily arranged
that this school can be established un-
der the supervision of the Graded
school trustees, and in addition to its
proper apportionment of its own spe-
cial taxes, it will also have the right
to share of the common school fund
of the county, the same as other pub
lie schools.
But as already suggested, it is rath-
er too early to discuss details yet.
The FIRST thing to be determined is
whether or not the York Cotton mills
are in the Yorkville Graded school dis
trict, and all these other matters may
be taken up and settled later on.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
COTTON SEED FOR HOGS.

1t has turned out just as the writer
supposed. Sometime back it was stated
that there was probably among THE
ENoUIRER's readers some farmers who
had had more or less experience in
feeding cotton seed to hogs, and who
could give some information on the
subject. We have found the man for
whom we were searching. He is Mr.
C. B. Smith, who lives on Bullrun
creek, about six miles south of Ches'
ter. He has been feeding cotton seed
to hogs successfully for years and his
plan has long since passed the stage
of experiment. Mr.. Smith writes as
follows:
"EDIToR OF THE YORKvILLE EN-
oUIRER: In recent issue you made
INQUIRY about the feeding of cotton
seed to hogs. have had some ex-
perience along this line, and think |
can give you little information that
NAV be of value. | have been feed
ing cotton seed, both cooked and raw,
for great many years, and so lar as
am aware, have never lost hos on
account of them yet.
"That cooked cotton seed are oetter,
I have no doubt; but since | find that
raw seed answer the purpose Win
much less trouble, l do not do great
deal of cooking. My plan is to dig
out a hole near the branch where wa
ter is handy, put in pile of cotton
seed, pour on enough water to give
them IA good soaking: let them stand III
the water for a day or such matter,
and then let the hogs have their VIII
at them. | usually put into the mole
at one time enough seed to DO three
or four days, thus saving great deal
of trouble.
81 got this idea in Mississippi III
1852. Cotton seed were of very little
value there, and it was customary TO
haul the seed from whole crops OF cot
ton and dump them into convenient
ponds. Everybody's hogs helped them
selves and nobody thought of any dan
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
er on account of the soaked cotton

ger on account of the soaked cotton
seed.
"Mr. Smith Hardin, one of my
neighbors, is one of the most progres'
sive farmers in Chester county. He
raises about SO hogs every year and
feeds them largely on cotton seed.
For the past IL years or such Il matter
it has been his custom to haul cotton
seed by the wagon load, 10 or Is bush
els at time and dump them into II
shallow pond for the hogs. Of course
he does not depend entirely Oh cotton
seed. He raises great many pinders
and potatoes, and allows the hogs the
run of wheat stubble, pea fields and
other pastursge.
at has been my observation and
experience that dry cotton seed arc
very dangerous to hogs. The lint
seems to clog the breathing apparatus
generally, and thus produce death 4;
but when the seed have been well
soaked this danger is obviated. | will
say also that l do not think that hogs
ever swallow the cotton seed hulls'
They chew the seed, swallow the juice
of the inside kernel and throw the out
side hulls away. They could not man
az. dry seed with SO much salisfac
ton"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
LOCAL LACONICS.

County Alliance Meeting.
The regular quarterly meeting OF
the York County Farmers Alliance is
to be held in Yorkville on Friday, Oc.
tober Is.
Until January LIST, 1899.
THE TWICE A-WEEK ENQUIRER,
filled with the latest and most reliable
news. will be furnished from the date
of this issue until January 1, 1900, for
so cents.
Fire Excitement at Clover.
There was a small fire excitement at
Clover last Sunday morning, OCCASION
by the burning of the roof of Mr.. John
J. Smiths kitchen. The people turn
ed out promptly and extinguished the
flames before they had time to make
great deal of headway. The loss is
covered by insurance.
The Piedmont Springs Property.
The Piedmont Springs property
near Kings Creek, consisting of 293
acres was sold last Monday by the
clerk of the court for partition, in the
case of T. NJ. Whisonant and others,
against ]. NJ. Dover and others. The
property was bid off by Mr.. ]. A.
Wilson for S1,775.
r, I,e Celebrated In Kentucky.
Governor and Mrs. McSweeney have
received an invitation 10 60 to Lexlng-
ton, KY, to attend an anniversary Gel
ehration of the battle of Kings Noun
tain, which is to be celebrated on Oc-
tober 7. The invitation is extended
by the "Lexington and Bryan State
Chapter, d. A. r"
Destroyed by Fire.
A destructive fire occurred on Mr.. L.
B. McClain's place just on the south
ern outskirts of Yorkville last Satur-
day night at about $50 o'clock. How
the fire originated is not known ; but it
burned so iercely that it was soon be-
yond control, licking up large and
substantial building that was formerly
used as cotton gin +; but at the time
of the fire, and for year previous was
used as a farm storage warehouse, and
at the time of the fire was full of brick
and agricultural machinery. Several
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04


- All who know anything whatever
about the school book business are
fully aware that it is source of end
less annoyance if not corruption. 1t
has been the source of more or less
scandal in almost every state of the
Union, and on account of it many a
prominent educator whose character
had previously been above suspicion
has had to answer to charges of bri-
berry. The cause of all this is reason
ably clear. In the first place there is
very little difference in the merits OF
quite a number of leading series OF
school books. To discriminate between
the different systems and 10 give a
good reason therefor is sometimes al
most impossible. The school book
publishers have long since protected
themselves against the contingency OF
cutting each others throats by agree
ing to combination having in view
the avoidance of that very danger.
They are enabled to hold prices high
abnormally high. This then makes
the matter of adoption Of any series
for whole state a consideration that
is we'll worth striving for. One of the
results of the situation is the employ
ment by the publishers of numerous
agents, secret and avowed, with au-
thority to use corruption money like a
French ambassador, and among the
representatives of the various pub
fishers the commission charged with
the responsibility of making school
book selections has lively time. This
situation is not wholesome. 1t is pro-
ductive of scandal. Sometimes this
scandal has more or less foundation
and sometimes it has none but all the
same it should he avoided. The only
way to avoid it is to secure independ-
ence of the school book trust, and we
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
FACTORIES AND THE SCHOOLS


The question as to whether the
York Cotton mills, or any part of the
company's property, is within the cor
porate limits of Yorkville, and, there
fore, liable to town taxes and special
school taxes, has not yet been settled
but is still receiving consideration.
Since mention was made of the mat.
ter in THE ENQUIRER, there has been
not little talk and speculation on the
subject pro and con. Some people
have been disposed to consider the
situation sensibly and others, who are
unable, on account of limited informa'
ton, TO do considerable amount o1
thinking, have allowed themselves to
become more or less excited.
The matter is an important one, and
it is important that it be settled no"
and settled right. There is no need
however, for any excitement or undue
feeling. 1t is only necessary to con
slider the situation just as it is and tc
deal with it accordingly, in the light o.
common sense and the existing law.
1t was the intention of the builder;
of the York Cotton mill to locate the
main buildings without the corporate
limits of the town. So far as the re-
porter is aware, they did not cause
survey to be made; but went ahead
with reference to the mile post tha,
has always been looked upon as mark
ing the extreme limits of the town
1t has been stated that this mile pos
has been moved one way or the other
in times past. 1t is also stated that the
measurement by which the mile post
was located, took into account the
crooks in the road, and if so it is not 8
full mile, on a bee line, from the
courthouse.
Just how all these things are, the
reporter has no Information. There is
SC much doubt involved, however, that
the matter can only be settled by a
careful, accurate survey, and this, OF
course, should be made at once. II
this survey should show that the mill
property is outside Of the incorpora-
ton, then, of course, the whole matter
is settled but if the property is not
outside of the incorporation, there will
be other matters of Importance to be
considered.
Some of the people who have been
excited on the subject, have consider
ed only Il prospective increase of the
Graded school funds. They have for
gotten that the corporation not only
pays taxes, but it gives employment to
large number of families that have
children to educate, and it is not i'm
probable that the number of these
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04

- 1t is always more or less dltflcull
for a newspaper to get correct railroad
information. 1t is difficult sometimes
even when the railroads give it Out
themselves, for often the railroads are
more particular about what they would
have the public believe than they are
of the actual facts. From such point
ers as we have been able to pick up
we are still of opinion that the con
version of the Carolina and North
Western into standard guage and its
extension to Camden and the coal
fields of Tennessee is go. We have
good reason to believe that there is nc
foundation for the story that the South
Carolina and Georgia is now under the
control of the Atlantic Coast Line, OF
that it is to be connected with Sumter
by an extension from Camden. We
would like to see this; but the indica
tions are rather against it than for it
The requirement of the South Caro-
lima and Georgia by the Southern
seems to be developing into disad
vantage rather than an advantage fol
Charleston. Under old conditions
Charleston had a soft thing of it in
freight rates to points along the Three
C's. Within the past few months rates
to these points have increased from Sc
to IS per cent. There is very gooo
reason for believing that the Seaboard
Air Line really intends to get into
Charleston at an early day, and if il
does the situation is likely to be i'm
proved considerably.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04

- The Dewey reception last Friday
and Saturday was the occasion of the
greatest demonstration that has evel
been seen in the United States. 1t i:
said that on one or two occasions, New
York has gotten up longer parades
but there was never a larger crowd ir
the city. The naval parade on Friday
was a magnificent affair. There were
in line a number of large vessels, nu
merous smaller ones, aud private craft:
without number. All during the day
the water front echoed and re-echoeC
with the booming of saluting guns ano
the scream of steam whistles. There
were nearly $4,000 people in the land
parade on Saturday, and considerably
more than a 100000 spectators or
the sidewalks and in the windows
fronting the streets through which the
procession passed. The people cheer
ed Dewey until they were hoarse, and
the old hero was kept bowling and
smiling from one end of the route te
the other. Admiral Schley came in
for the second measure of applause
He rode in a carriage and was dressed
in citizens clothes; but the people
soon spied him out and the ladies
along the route filled his carriage with
bouquets thrown from the street. Peo
pie shouted most for "Dewey, the hero
of MANILA" and "Schley, the hero O
Santiago" Governor McSweeney and
the South Carolina boys came in for
part of the applause; but this, O
course, was only in the nature of ordl
nary courtesy. Admiral Dewey was
thoroughly tired out by the time the
exercises of the day were over, and
when he finally managed to make hi:
escape, he explained that he would re-
main in retirement until Tuesday
when it was understood he would have
to 20 through it all again in Washing
ton
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04

can think of only one expedient to
this end. The state is already in the
school book business. Let it 60 lit
tie deeper. Suppose the general as
sembly should select commission OF
competent educators to prepare sys.
tenn of books suitable for the common
schools of the state. Let the state
own the copyright and have the
books published here in South Carroll
ma. The books may be sold to the
children at price that will be sutfi
cient to pay all expenses. We think
the result ought to be satisfactory to
all concerned, and we feel pretty well
satisfied that this arrangement will ac'
complish at least one very desirable
end-the doing away of all opportuni'
ty for the corruption that has hereto
fore been believed to be so prevalent.