Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
Straps aud fafts.

fields not long since, two of the reaplng
women, following IN old custom, seized
him and bound him with bands made OF
straw. The Chancellor submitted with
good grace, and extricated himself by pay
Ing a liberal ransom. He rode away IN
his carriage with straw bands still fasten-
ed round his arms.
The Washington correspondent OF the
New York World says: A movement IS
on foot among. Southern capitalists TO Sc
cure a good grade of English %colonists. A
Southern capitalist told me that he be-
longed to q syndicate which was Offering
inducements to English manufacturers to
come to the best districts of the South
with their entire plants. Especial induce
ments are to be offered to cotton spin
ners."
The cotton crop of the United States
for the year ended September l, 1883,
as compiled by the Financial Chronicle,
amounted to I, oil, 707 bales against ,5l5, 662
bales in 1887, and 6,55O,215 bales for 1856.
OF the crop of 1888 there was exported a.
63S, 981 bales, while spinners took 2,230,294
bales, leaving a stock on hand OF lSl,2Zo
bales. The largest previous crop was that
of 1928, which amounted to 6,992,Z3o
bales.
"A man near Fayetteville, Tenn, built
a fire one cool morning, lately, and IN q
little while saw a pair of big black feet
drop down the chimney. A little search
revealed a colored neighbor of bad repu-
tation stuck fast in it, and upon being re-
leased. said that, owing the householder
ten cents, he had come to pay it, and find
ing doors and windows fast, chose this
mode of entrance; but as his shoes and an
x were left outside, his tale was not
credited and he was sent off to Jail.
j. w. Robinson, a prominent and
wealthy oil contractor of Lima, Ohio, was
shot down and murdered in cold blood
last Friday night by Michael Rhinehart.
They were in friendly conversation:
Rhinehart was promptly arrested and
barely escaped being lynched before the
sheriff could get him to Jail. The sheriff
then summoned a strong guard of men and
placed them in position to guard against
any lynching. The murdered man stood
high in society and leaves a widow and
two children. He has many friends VINO
swear they will avenge his death.
AS an illustration of progress in Cen
trail Asia, it may be mentioned that While,
a few years ago, the traveller was likely
to be killed by the natives, he IS now IN
greater danger of being smashed up IN a
railroad accident. A train on the rams
Caspian Road was upset a few weeks ago
near Samarcand, and five people were Kill,
ed. They happened to be train hands and
Europeans, but had they been Mohamme-
dan pilgrims, who now employ this mod
ern method of expediting their journey
to Mecca, there might have been a great
crv against this infdel invention for kill
ing off the faithful.
Just before dawn last Saturday morn
ing, an explosion of -four dust occurred IN
the brick flour mill of the M. B. Clark
Company in Cleveland, Ohio, blowing off
the roof, shattering the walls and setting
fire to the whole inside of the building.
Eighteen men were in the building and
ali were injured by being blown against
the walls and machinery. Four were Sc
riously hurt and taken to the hospital;
two, unable to escape, persisted in the
burning building. The rest escaped. The
building was entirely destroyed. Loss,
$780, 900. The explosion was caused by the
spontaneous combustion of flour dust.
"A rather remarkable lawsuit is in
7 progress in what is known as the NORTH
<ern Neck" of Virginia, which involves the
ownership of both the Rappahannock and
Potomac rivers, with their tributaries and
immense fish and oyster interests. The
Marshalls, heirs and descendants OF Lord
Fairfax claim the entire control ofthese rlv,
ers under the original grant made to Lord
Fairfax by the Crown of England, which
includes the river on the charter track.
1t is not generally thought that there is
any validity to their claim, but they have
retained able counsel and are pushing the
matter. They have purchased from the
descendants of Lord Calvert their interest
in the Potomac on the Maryland side.
- The following dispatch is from Ottawa,
Ontario, under date of Friday last: Late
advices from the northwest report great
suffering and many deaths from starva-
ton among the Indians of the Canadian
Northwest Territory. From the Peace
river district several cases of cannlballsm
are reported, where, to a V their oWn
lives, heads of families have killed and
eaten their children. Last season Parlia-
ment voted the sum of S354,O OO for sup
plies for the destitute treaty Indians by
the Northwest, but from what has been
learned dishonest agents who were en-
trusted with its disbursement nave appro-
priated the greater portion of the grant.
Gabriel Dumont, Riel's lieutenant, has
again been attempting to stir bad feelings
among the Indians, with, it is said, a con-
siderable degree of success.
Says a correspondent of the Albany
Argus: A gentleman told me recently OF
a strange experience related by a friend of
his. It was during the battle of Gettys-
burg that his friend, just before entering
the action, took his canteen from his
shoulder and hid it in a crevice in the
rock. Then came the fiery hail of shot
and she'll that swept down regiments like
fields of wheat before the reaper. At the
close of the battle the soldier forgot all
about the ~canteen, nor did it ever occur to
him again until he visited the field at the
late reunion. Then it flashed through his
mind, and after a few minutes search he
found it where he had left it on that mo
mentous day. 1t seemed scarcely credible
that it could have been overlooked during
the minute explorations of the field ever
since the war, but the gentleman who re-
lated the incident is of unimpeachable
veracity.
The telegraph reports the following
case of the wrecking and burning ola train
by a forest fire in Michigan last Saturday:
"Fire has been burning in the woods of
Northern Michigan for two weeks, and
although several towns and much val
liable property have been threatened, no
serious losses have resulted up to this time.
A disaster is, however, reported on the
Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron Railroad,
resulting from the forest fires. An express
train, while running twenty miles an hour,
ran on a piece of track beneath which the
ties had burned. The engine, express and
baggage cars and two coaches left the rails,
and ran along the ground about two
lengths Of the train. The engine then
turned over in a ditch. Engineer Har-
man and the express messenger were
thrown clear of the wreck and escaped
with bruises and burns. The fire On the
track Immediately communicated to the
coaches, and the passengers and crew bare
ly had time to run through the train and