Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-03
Scraps and facts.
- Saws Manila dispatch of Wed


ion, ambushed ten men of the Third
cavalry Who were escorting a provis-
ion train. The Americans scattered
and while returning to camp one man
was killed. The insurgents captured
four horses and quantity of provis-
ions. A subsequent reconnaissance of
the locality developed the fact that
there were entertainments and force
of Filipinos, estimated to number 500
men. The Third cavalry is preparing
to drive the insurgents out.
Kentucky's two state governments,
completely oficered and each claiming
to be the regular and legal officials,
are in Frankfort, and will remain,
each claiming the right to administer
the affairs of state until the question is
adjudicated in the courts. AS antici-
pated, the banks refuse to recognize
either of the contending factions and
as a result both are without money,
and the state funds are as securely
tied up as they could be. Legislators,
county as we'll as state officials, and all
kinds of contractors with the state will
have to wait until somebody is author.
lied by a decision of the courts TO pay
them. and the state will have to wait on
what is due it until the courts say who
is authorized to receive it. The Demo-
cratic state officers have opened offices
in the State hotel. The charitable
and penal state institutions are among
the sufferers.
- Saws a London dispatch of Wed.
nesday: The rapidly growing casual
ty lists are being classified as quickly
as possible. They show that up to
this morning the total number of casu.
alties was 12, 1884, of which 2,3l9 were
added during the last fortnight. Ten
of the eleven Scotch regiments lost
about 1850 men, and eight of the Irish
regiments 1000. Then come the Glou.
cesters and Northumberland, while of
nearly 200 Colonials, the Royal Cana.
dians lost 121 and the Victoria mount
ed contingent 26. The casualties are
classified thus: Killed, 1898; wound
ed, 6,s3S; missing, 3,173; disease $50.
Lord Roberts has forwarded an addi-
tional list of the British casualties dur
ing the three days fighting at Paarde-
burg, showing IL killed, 80 wounded,
and 4 missing, and including seven
officers and four Canadian privates
wounded.
- The secretary of war has before
him a difficult problem, requiring a
decision whether or not the United
States is now in a state of war. In
time of peace; but not in time of war,
any United States soldier may pur-
chase his discharge from the army
upon the conditions prescribed by
law. More than two score applica.
tions are now before the department
awaiting a decision. If it is held that
this is time of peace, then, incident
ally, that decision might carry with it
the reduction of the pay of all
the soldiers now in the Philippines
by nearly one.half, a contingency
that cannot be contemplated without
apprehension. There are equally dan
gerous complications lurking in the
other proposition, namely, that the
country is in a state of war, so that it
is regarded by he officials of the war
department as unfortunate that de-
cision on this point should be forced
from them at this time.
- Says Charlotte special of Thurs
day to the Atlanta Journal: Yesterday
afternoon Mecklenburg county farm
er sold to Charlotte cotton buyer 20
bales of cotton of the crop of 1873,
which he had had stored in barn
ever since. He received 9 cents per
pound for the staple, the total aggre-
eating about S720. This transaction
furnishes basis for an interesting
calculation on the cotton line. If the
farmer had marketed his 20 bales as
soon as ginned in 1875, he would have
received II cents u pound for it, or
about S1,360. as the price in 1875
ranged from 13 16 to II 2 cents; :;
had be invested his $3.50 at per
cent. interest aud saved the proceeds,
he would now have something like
$500 as the net marketing Of his 20
bales of cotton. Thus it is seen that
in this case it did not pay to "hold
cotton" even though no loss bad been
sustained in weight, which, however,
would amount to considerable in a
period of 25 years. The farmers ac-
tual loss was $4,000.
- Fifty tons of candy have been sent
to the soldiers in the Philippine islands
by the commissary department of the
army during the last three months,
and large amounts to the soldiers in
Cuba and Puerto Rico. This is done
upon the advise of the medical as well
as line officers of the army, because it
is a physiological fact that in the
tropics a moderate consumption of
confectionery promotes health and sat-
isfies natural and not unhealthy crav-
ing of the stomach. Candy was never
furnished to the United States army
before, although it is commonly used
as ration by the British and French
troops in the tropics. The larger part
of the shipments are chocolate creams
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