Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-17
Straps and faets.

Friday. A landslide from the noun
tain covered up several hundred feet
of track, and as a relief passenger
train neared the place, the rails spread
and caused a wreck. All trains had to
be annulled for week.
According to a preliminary report
issued by the treasury bureau, the VAL
ue of exports Of raw cotton during
the eleven months ending with May
aggregates s3OS,747,Os5. This Is at
least $4,000, 900 in excess Of the highest
preyious eleven months in the history
of the staple. If the figures hold on
the basis of those Of last year the
twelve months ending with June VIII
run them up to the grand total OF
100000.
The Philadelphia Record OF June
IA, publishes a letter from l. Grey
second mate on the British steamship
Tresco, and attested as true by w. n.
Bartlett, captain Of the ship, declaring
that as the ship was off Cape Halter
as, on her way from Santiago TO tnls
port, a sea serpent over 100 feet lons
was seen. The head resembled the
tabled dragon and had two great tusKs
like those of a walrus. The serpent
was chasing a school Of sharks when
first seen. When it approached the
shin the sailors barricaded themselves
in their quarters. 1t approached very
close to the ship and then swan away.
"A servant girls union, recently
formed at Holyoke, Mass, has passed
these resolutions: mo Sunday night
suppers will be prepared. No work
will be done in the kitchen between
7.30 D. m. and $50 a. M; no babies Will
be minded between acts Of ordinary
housework; no children will be allowed
in the kitchen; each girl shall. have
three nights out per week" The doc
ument goes on to assert that IS a week
shall be the only rate Of wages per-
mitted and that the front door must
be available for the company OF the
"help," as we'll as an apartment more
suitable than the kitchen to be used
as a reception room.
The town Of Heppner, Oregon, was
almost destroyed by a cloudburst last
Sunday. There were 1900 inhabitants
and It is estimated that fully 500 of
them lost their lives. AS soon as pos
sible after the flood had subsided the
work Of relief was commenced oy the
citizens Of the town. Dozens OF bodies
were. found In the creeks and In some
places they were piled over one anoth-
er. UP to o'clock Monday afternoon
over 200 bodies had been recovered
almost within the city limits. Tne
buildings which were not carried
away were moved from their founda-
tions or toppled over. Hundreds or
horses, cattle and sheep and hogs that
had gone into the creek bottoms Tor
water perished.
The United States has one Of the
smallest national debts in the world.
It Is equal to only s12 per capita. The
per capita debt of England Is S74, or
France $50 and of Australia $263.
Australia has the largest per capita
debt in the world. The United States
debt was largest in 1865. when the
civil war had piled up s2,3S1, 100000, or
s73 per capita. The civil war debt was
rapidly paid, and in 1892 it had fallen
to s5SO,OO0,0O0. 1t was increased 10
s1,046, 100000 by the Spanish war, but
has fallen again to about 1890, ,OOO.
In 1865 the average interest paid by
the government was 7.3 per cent. NOW
half the debt bears only per cent. in
terest. and the United States is the
only nation in the world that has been
able to sell a per cent. bond at par.
In 1865 the interest on the national
debt was s150.O0O,OOO a year, or about
s4.29 per capita, and now the interest
per capita is only 35 cents year.
Judge Thomas G. Jones, In the
United States court at Montgomery,
Ala, last Monday delivered a spec1ai
charge to the grand jury investigating
the peonage cases in which he took
occasion to say that these cases were
by no means general, but confined to
two or three counties. The court in
structed the jury as to its duty in the
premises, urging indictments In all
cases where the law had been violated.
The sensational part of his charge was
his declaration in response to a re-
quest of the jury for a construction OF
the Alabama statute known as the
criminal contract law, which permits
any person to confess judgment for
costs against persons convicted of
misdemeanors, and requiring such
persons so convicted to work out his
fine. The court held the statute to be
a violation of the Federal constitution
in that it was q civil contract, and no
one could be imprisoned for debt or
forced to serve master to pay such
debt. Judge Jones held that all con-
nected with such conviction and hire
Of such convict. except the committing
magistrate are liable to indictment un-
der the Federal statutes.
Herbert Vivian. a well-known trav-
eler and author of a book on Servia,
writes a London newspaper as fol-
lows: Il decline to believe the recent
crime has the countenance of the Ser
Wan nation. I have conversed with all
classes and know absolutely that the
only malcontentS were a few ladies
who were jealous of Queen Draga be-
cause they thought themselves more
suitable to share the throne; a few Of
ficers who thought themselves entitled
to more speedy promotion and a few
professional politicians who coveted
office When 1 last had the honor of
an audience with the king he talked
to me of the bad geographical position