Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-12-05

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perfected arrangements for combina-
ton, the first effect of which will be
to raise the price of paper from 81 to
81 a ton. If the scheme is success
and there is every reason to believe ii
will be, the additional tax on the news
paper publishers of the country will be
something like s5,OO0,OOO per annum'
Whether the notion was correct or
not, few years ago it was very com
mon belief in the south that the Ne
gro population enjoyed almost total
immunity from the ravages of con-
sumption. But such is not the case
now. A medical paper prints sta.
tistics showing that in eight of the
largest southern cities, the proportion
of deaths from consumption among the
colored race, as compared with the to-
tai mortality, is more than so per
cent. greater than that of the white
population.
- The stories OF Spanish atrocities
in Cuba are unparalleled by anything
of like character that has been heard
of during the present generation.
Among the inhabitants of the island
are quite a number of neutral people,
who have taken no part in the war and
who are known as "paciiers. These
people have been doing what they
could to make an honest living regard
less of the turmoil and bloodshed going
on about them. 1t has developed ot
late that the Spaniards, when they are
unable to find, or afraid to attack the
insurgents, are in the habit of murder
ing great numbers of these inoffensive
paci6ers and then sending word to
Spain that they have won battle.
Recently a Spanish captain named
CoIzazo confined large number OF
women and girls in a church and then
set fire to the building, destroying all
together.
- Secretary Hester's cotton state
ment for November shows the amount
brought into sight during the month
to be 1,639,S09 bales, against 1872
754 last year, 2,l90,795 year before
last and 1,675, ,O41 in 1898. The move
ment since September has been 4
75O,O25, against 9,5S3,7Ol last year,
5000, ,23s year before last and 3,S27,-
$50 same time in 1898. Northern
spinners took during November $685.
90S bales, against 315,326 last year
and 550,S13 year before last, increas-
ing their total for the three months to
TIA, POI, against 72O, ,59S last year and
1,O62, ,27S the year before. This makes
their average weekly takings for the
season SO, 500, against 55, ,43l last year
and S1,713 the year before. Foreign
exports for the first three months have
been 2,352,977 bales, showing an in
crease over last season of 912, ,447 and
an increase for the same period year
before last of S2,421. The gain in
foreign exports during November COM
pared with November last year has
been 367, 1888, and compared with the
same period year before they have
decreased 7O,491.
"A Washington dispatch has it that
in his message to congress next week,
President Cleveland will propose a
plan for the settlement of the Cuban
trouble, honorable alike to Spain and
Cuba. In brief, the plan is this: A
commission, to be composed of three
members, is to be appointed. The
United States, as the representative
of Cuba, is to select one mem Der
Great Britain, as the representative of
Spain, is to select the other; and
these two are to select third. Then
the three will agree upon a proper
valuation of the island of Cuba, and
the Cubans will purchase their liberty
at this valuation by means of bonds,
to be bought by England and guaran-
teed by the United States. Under
this plan, if carried out, it is believed
that it will be only a question of a
very short time until Cuba will be
annexed to the United States, and her
future prosperity assured.
- The State: That Mckinley plural
ity, like the tabled catfish has 'swunk
uncommon" At first, certain gold
papers largely, but loosely, intimated
that it was not far from 1000, 900.
Then a great many of them agreed
that it was about 100000. Not 10
days ago some were saying that it was
100000. Then the New York World
figures it out at 70S,000 and now the
New Orleans Times Democrat, which
is vouched for as statistical authority,
places it at only $4,000. Our contem-
porary's figures, carefully compiled are
as follows: Total-McKinley, 7,044
ss4; Bryan, 6,452, 2,21S; Palmer, 49,,
sos; Levering, 104, ,427 :; Bentley, TO-
67S; Matchett, 9,942; McKinley's plu.
rality, 592,6 ,666. Total vote, 1882, ,49S.
AS Bryan's vote increases, Palmer's de.
creases. 1t has run down to 116,000
or about $40 of l per cent. of the
total. Bryan's vote is almost precisely
100000 more than Cleveland's Gland.
slide" vote in '92.
- Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Shar.
key fought before the California Ath-
letic club, in San Francisco, last We'd
nesday. Fitzsimmons is the man the
sports have been so anxious to see
matched against Corbett. Sharkey is
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