Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-06

arm and taken to the hospital and two
other Cinnamon were shot. Twenty
one Cinnamon were arrested.
- Washington special: The amount
paid out during the past month on ac-
count of the war department was $l4,-
9S1,OOO. For the same month last
year the total payments were 1924, ,Ol5,-
934; but that sum represented large
army then in the field and expenses
which had been contracted for when
the war with Spain was at its height.
Before the outbreak of the war with
Spain the monthly expenditures Of the
war department averaged about S4,-
100000, or about S5O,OO0,000 year.
This was the average for several years
prior to the war with Spain. But for
the war in the Philippines it is likely
that the war department expenditures
would have become normal by this
time. At any rate, they would not
have exceeded $5,O00,000 or S6,0O0,-
900 a month. The navy department
expenditures have again become near
ly normal. During the month just
closed the navy expended $4,542,oO9.
- Cuba's tobacco crop is now coming
into the market. The normal supply
is about 81 900 tons year. This year
it will fall below. The crop is selling
at high figure, and it may be said
will sell at top figures as long as the
reputation of the Cuban leaf is what
it is. The Indianapolis News says !:
Mexico and other countries declare
they can grow as good leaf The
people who smoke will not listen to
them. The fame of the Cuban pro-
duct is certainly due to the quality and
not the quantity, for Cuban tobacco
cuts very small figure in the markets
of the world. We grow seven times
as much as Cuba. India grows five
times as much, Russia three times and
Austria twice as much. Frances crop
in southern France and in Algeria is
far ahead of Cuba's, while the immense
quantities grown in the Philippines, in
Sumatra and other eastern countries
make the Cuban crop look small. The
tobacco product of the island ofLuzon
which has a great deal of the same
reputation in the Orient that the Cuban
leaf has in the Occidert, is about four
times greater than the Cuban crop
but still the word Havana is the word
10 conjure with among smokers of the
world.
- News and Courier In Prof. Riv-
ers's account of the Raising of
Troops in South Carolina for State and
Confederate Service, 1S61-65," now
being circulated for revision by the
state historian, Colonel John P. Thom-
as, appears the following interesting
statement: "Few able-bodied men
were found in the state liable to Con-
federate conscription. The voting pop
ulation Of the city of Charleston at
the opening of the war was about g.
700; it sent upwards of 5000 men
into the army. AS early as January,
1862, Pickens district had sent IA
companies to the field and six more
were ready. At the same time Marion
district, with less than 1000 voters,
had in service Is companies. Will
liamsburg, with voting population of
1000, had sent 760 men to the war.
Horny, with the same number of vo-
tiers, had 925 men in service. Laurens
had sent 13 companies and Barnwell
16 companies, and there had been
raised in Greenville more than 1000
volunteers. The same patriotic dispo-
sition was displayed in every district.
Little was gained to the real strength
of the Confederate army by the subse-
quent forcible operation of the con-
script law in South Carolina" The
same thing can be said, we believe, Of
every southern state. The Confeder-
ate army was an army of volunteers.
Last Wednesday night, says dis
patch, six Mormon elders were con-
ducting a meeting in school house
at Pine Bluff, Stewart county, Tenn,
when the building was stormed by a
mob of over 100 men. Eggs and rocks
were thrown through the windows, and
the building almost entirely demol-
ished. Those present fled to save their
lives, as bullets commenced to strike
the building thick and fast. Miss
May Harden, popular young woman
of the place, walked between the FL
ders Olsen and Petty, with view to
checking the work of the mob. While
the trio passed down the road shots
were fired from ambush, and the wo-
man was hit by ball and almost in
stantly killed. Her brothers said they
would avenge the crime, and, after
the excitement died out, secured blood
hounds and placed them on the trail
of the assassins. Burton Vinson, a
prominent young farmer and superin-
tendent Of Sunday school, wrote
confession, stating he had killed the
girl; but that it was an accident and
he wished to rid himself of remorse of
conscience. Shortly after the confes.
sion the bloodhounds trailed to his
home. Vinson turned, picked up a
knife and cut his throat, almost at the
same instant sending a bullet through
his brain. His family and the officers
posse witnessed the suicide.
- In the report presented at the war
department from General Fitzhugh
Lee, commanding the provinces Of
Havana and Pinar del Rio, that officer
makes a number of recommendations
for reform for the betterment of the
inhabitants. Among these are that
an early census of the island be taken
that the question of suffrage be con-
sidered i'm all its asnerts and q decis.