Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-01-04
Scraps aud faets.

ments can never be exactly estimated,
the January account is believed to in
volve fully s1S0,000.00O. While the
payments are not all made on the first
of the month, railroads and Industrial
corporations usually arrange with the
banks some days in advance so that
when the first Of the year arrives the
money is in hand to meet the ooliga-
tions.
The end Of the year finds the Unit
ed States treasury in a most prosper
our condition. The treasury has accu-
mulated surplus and unexpended bal
ances, which may be properly termed
surplus, Of S244,00O,OOO. This is made
up of $147,000,000 for which the treas
ury has no present use and which Tor
this reason has been deposited IN ma
tional banks for the benefit Of trade
and commerce; of $72,O00,00O repre-
senting working balance today and OF
an actual surplus Of $25,000,000, rep
resenting excess Of receipts over ex-
penses, which has accumulated since
July 1st, the beginning Of the present
fiscal year.
The imports Of raw cotton into the
United Kingdom from the United
States during the first eight months
of 1906 were s10,4S0.O00 less than dur
ing the same months in 1905, but Va
s53,1OO more than during the same
months in 1904. The decrease In
American cottons was partly made up
in imports from Brazil and Egypt, and
that although there was an increase
in the imports from British posses
sions in 1905, as compared with 1904,
they fell short Of the imports OF the
latter year, showing that cotton pro-
duction in the colonies, as far as Brit
ish imports are concerned, seems to be
making no progress. Notwithstanding
the decrease, American cotton consu-
tuted about 81 per cent Of the total
imports into the United Kingdom dur
ing the first eight months Of 1906.
Never in the history Of the coun-
try, says a Liverpool dispatch, has
the cotton trade been worked to such
an extent as at present. Following up
on the erection of eighty big factories
in southeast and central Lancashire,
another score are being projected in
the same areas and contracts for their
erection have been placed. The scar
city of weavers Is so great In scores
OF sheds that managers are asking
their workpeople to write to relatives
and friends, who have gone out to
Canada and the United States to re-
turn to Canada and the Lancashire,
as there is constant and remunera-
tive employment awaiting them.
Weavers and overlookers' wages are
being advanced and If the boom con-
tlnues the employees will be asked to
share more of their profits with the
workpeople. There appears to be a
scarcity Of weavers in Canada and the
United States also for they are being
advertised for all over the country and
alluring terms offered.
January marked the beginning of
the life of several legislative acts OF
congress important to the citizens OF
the nation as a whole. These are the
free alcohol law, the pure food law,
the anti-p pass section Of the inter- state
commerce law, and the notifications
of the navigation laws to simplify en-
rollments and licenses. The pure food
law contemplates the barring from in
ter-state commerce Of foods that are
injurious to health and the free alco-
hol law is intended to assist farmers
and smaller users Of power to have
fuel that in efficiency and cost shall
be cheaper than gasoline or kerosene.
The anti-pass provision Of the inter-
state commerce law forbids common
carriers, directly or indirectly, giving
interstate free tickets or passes for
passengers. except to their employees
and families, the agents Of the carriers
and their surgeons, physicians and at
torneys, to persons engaged in reli-
gious and charitable work and to GER
tain other specified classes.
"A German merchant who has just
returned from Port Arthur, according
to q London dispatch, gives in a pri-
vate letter an interesting description
of that famous ST onghold. He says:
"On landing 1 found myself in the
squalid harbor quarter. 1t was de-
serted except for few Chinese and
japanese loafers. A Chinaman drove
me past great heaps Of rubbish and
debris of demolished houses. In the
So called European quarter a death
like silence reigned. Only ten Euro
peans live there now, and Of business
there was no trace. The Japanese
confine their efforts 60 refortifying the
place. 1t Is still picture Of ruin, es-
pecially in the neighborhood Of Forts
2 and 8. Some eleven inch shells
weighing two hundredweights each
were lying about. In the casemates
one comes across human bones, army
boots, caps, cartridge cases and vari-
lying about in confusion. The sight
leaves an indelible impression Of
dreary, utter desolation."
Acting on information furnished by
a traitor, the police during the last
few days captured over hundred
leaders and members of the st. Peters
burg military organization Of the So
cial Democrats, who were conducting
a propaganda in the army and navy
says St. Petersburg. dispatch.
Among them was the editor Of a Sc
cretly published paper twenty five
soldiers and several women. The po-
lice also arrested many members Of an
important group of Terroristic Social
Revolutionists and captured, according
to report, a list Of twenty-seven high
officials who had been sentenced to
death. Finally it is asserted that the
police accidentally obtained informa-
tion which frustrated a plot to blow
up a number of persons at confer
ence which was to be held in the near