Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-05-31
Scraps and 9aets.
This afternoons session Of the

patch Of Friday, from Greenville, Pa.
The occasion was the message brought
from the Associate Reformed Presby-
terian church of the south by its rep
resentative, Rev. DR.. w. w. Orr OF
Charlotte, N. C. Eloquently he spoke OF
the churchs desire for union with the
United Presbyterian denomination.
We've been courting twenty-nine
years." said the southerner, land 1t Is
about time the nuptial ceremony was
performed. The old soldiers have for
gotten their differences, there is no
sectionalism in the Democratic or Re-
publican party, the professional ana
business men have their national organ
izations, both north and south gave
their men for the nation in the Span
ish war, and why not we. who hold the
same faith?" An expression was tax
en-, every member of the assembly ris-
ing to his feet to give assent, amid
great applause.
One of the most singular law suits
of which there is any recent record
was heard in Wilson. N. c., last week.
says a letter. In wreck at Lucama'
due to a collision between passenger
and freight trains, an express car and
cars loaded with .guano were burned.
Lafayette Lucas bought the guano and
ashes and began to distribute this up
on his farm. Negroes loading the stun
found a fve-cut diamond. Others were
picked up, and so far twehty-eight
others have been discovered, valued
at $500. The whole community Is
wildly excited. Search is being made
in the field where Lucas hauled the fer
tilizers. The question is, who owns
the diamonds, Lucas or the finders!
In the case referred to, Henry
Jones, colored, found diamond
worth over $500. A magistrate
gave judgment in Jones' favor. The
owner of the diamonds has not
appeared. 1t is evident they were be-
ing smuggled, as they were not upon
the express manifest nor in the safe.
Lucas endeavors to stop the search
save by his agent are futile. The be-
lief is that many more diamonds are
vet unbound. Railway and express OF
ficials are taking no part in the mat
ter.
NO satisfactory progress has been
made in the negotiations at Tang1er
for the release of Ion Perdicaris,
wealthy American, and Cromwell Var
ley, his English stepson, who were Kid
mapped on May IS by Raissouli Mo-
roccan bandit, says a Washington dis
patch Of Friday. The patience of this
government Is sorely tried. The Amer
ican consul, Mr.. Gummere, Is still in
structed to act with great vigor to-
ward the sultan. Without waiting to
coal, Rear Admiral T. E. Chadwick
sailed in his flagship, the Brooklyn,
from Teneriffe today for Tangier,
where he will back up the efforts Of
Mr. Gummere to obtain the release Of
the captives. For a week orders had
been awaiting Rear Admiral Chadwick
at Teneriffe. The South Atlantic
squadron, Of which he is the comman-
der in chief, was ploughing through the
Atlantic from San Juan, P. R., to the
Canaries. The orders read for him to
send one ship to Tangier and to follow
with the rest. The Brooklyn Is much
more powerful than the other three
the Atlanta, the Castine and the Ma
rietta-and should reach Tangier by
Sunday. Rear Admiral Chadwick will
place himself in touch with Mr.. Gum
mere, who thinks the moral effect Of
American guns in the harbor will be
helpful. The remainder of the squad
ron will probably swing at anchor Off
the Moroccan city about Tuesday.
For some days, says London ca
BILE, the position of the British mission
at Gyang-tse of some fifteen hundred
men, forming the escort Of Colonel
Younghusband, the political agent, has
been seriously threatened by the Thi-
betans in spite Of two actions in which
they were defeated with great loss.
Gyang-tse, where the British force is
now posted, in the interior of Thibet,
is 10 miles from Lhassa, but there Is
the formidable Karo pass, intervening
on the direct road. Here a large body
Of the Thibetans posted themselves
two days march from the British camp
at Gyang-tse and held a wall built
across the entrance of the pass with
great tenacity. The British Indian
troops carried it by assault in snow
storm, but lost an officer, Captain
Bethune, three killed, and twenty-one
wounded, comparatively serious loss
considering the small numbers Of the
mission. The camp at Gyang-tse was
also attacked by seven hundred Thi-
betans under a Lhassa general, but the
Thibetans were repulsed, losing 250
killed and wounded. Despite these re-
verses the last dispatches said that
twenty thousand native troops, many
ering around the post. Communica-
tions with Gurn, in the rear, were kept
open until the last few days. The
British have been negotiating with the
Amban, the Chinese representative of
the Pekin court, China being the su-
zerain of Thibet, but the Lamas ruling
at Thibet have apparently refused to
admit the right Of these Intermediates
and have taken an independent stand.
The department OF agriculture on
last Saturday announced that an ant
has been found in Guatemala that IS
an effective enemy to the boil weevil.
1t will be Immediately introduced into
the cotton states. The greatest sig