Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-24

were going to be overrun with orders
from the continent. Everywhere he
went he was asked about the accom-
plishments of the United States in like
inventions and developments and had
lots of people to tell him that until the
Spanish war their idea was that the
United States was walled in country,
80 to speak, with no influence abroad
politically and industrially.
A remarkable state of affairs in
postal history is shown at Skaguay,
Alaska, the gateway to the Yukon, in
reports just received at the postoffice
department. The Office was establish
ed and opened at Skaguay, January l,
1898, and w. B. Sampson was appoin-
ted postmaster. With the rush into
the Yukon and the Klondike, Ska
guay's postal business developed with
a rapidity unprecedented. The re-
ceipts for the year ending March 81,
1899, were $3.50. The money order
receipts for the year ending April 4,
were $4,000. About 125 letters were
registered daily, and frequently there
were applications for 20 or 25 money
orders of 500, the largest amount
money order carries.
The movement for the election of
United States senators by the people
is making more rapid headway, appar-
emily, in Mississippi, than it is in Vir-
ginia. Thirty-eight counties of the
former state have ordered primary
elections to express their preferences
for United States senators and to in
struct their representatives in the
legislature to vote their choice. 1t is
stated that there will probably be at
least 120 instructed in the next legis-
lature, out of total of 1S9 on joint
ballot. Two United States senators
are thus to be elected by the Mississippi
legislature. Governor McLaurin and
Congressman John Allen are the con-
testants for the long term. Senator
Sullivan is now filling the short term
by appointment of the governor, and
it is not probable that he will have any
opposition.
- The Spanish cruiser Reina Mer-
cedes arrived at Hampton Roads last
Sunday in tow of several tugs of the
Merritt Chapman Wrecking Company,
and went into five days quarantine
off Old Point Comfort. The Reina
Mercedes was sunk in the mouth Of
Santiago harbor last July by order of
Admiral Cervera, as the Spanish fleet
made it's break for liberty. The object
of sinking the ship in the harbor was
to prevent the entrance of the Amerl-
can fleet. The work of raising. the
vessel consumed several months, and
the trip to the United States was COM
menced on May 13. Great crowds of
people from Newport News, Hampton
and Norfolk went to Old Point Com
fort on Sunday to see the vessel but
they were not allowed to 60 on her.
When the Reina Mercedes is released
from quarantine, she will be taken to
Portsmouth for repairs.
"A Washington dispatch of Satur-
day SAYS that when the Americans get
through with the Filipinos, they are
likely to have big contract in bring.
ing the inhabitants of the Sulu group
to subiection. General Otis recently
sent two battalions of the Twenty
third infantry to Jolo, the capital of
the group, to take possession. The
Sulu group consists of about $50 small
islands, and although the Spaniards
exercised nominal sovereignty, as a
matter of fact, they have never had
any foothold except in the capital city.
The inhabitants of Sulu are fierce,
warlike people, mostly Mohame6an
polygamists and slave owners. They
are inspired in battle by religious
fanaticism that neither asks or gives
quarter, and it is their habit to cut
and slay until they expire. They are
an ease.living people who make their
women and slaves do their work for
them, and in their wars it is their hab-
it to save alive only women and chill
dren, the former for their harems and
the latter for sale as slaves.
The Twenty sixth National Con-
ference of Charities and Correction was
held at Cincinnati last week. Among
the most interesting papers read was
one by Mayor Jones, of Toledo, Ohio.
In this paper, among other things, the
mayor said: "Able-bodied men ever
walk the streets, alleys and highways
of our country pleading for work, yet
there is no lack of useful and bene6-
cial work that ought to be done. In
asmuch as private interests and private
greed have failed to find plan that
will let all who are willing to work
have the right to live, the time seems
ripe for collective effort to solve the
problem inasmuch as labor produces
all wealth, let us have more wealth.
Ruskin says that the wealth of ma
tion may be estimated by the number
of happy people employed in making
useful things Let us set the example
of state made wealthy according to
this lofty conception !; in short, let us
apply ourselves to the task of inaugu-
rating and perfecting just social sys-
tenn, conceived and carried out upon
scientific lines, and poverty, crime,
vice and human misery will be things