Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-20
Straps and faets.

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bia, to be ambassador to Great Britain,
and Horace Porter, of New York, to
be ambassador to France.
When Corhett whipped Sullivan,
he said he was ready to retire from
the ring. Fitzsimmons now says he
won't fight anymore. But that is all
buncombe. No doubt he would be
glad to rest on his present laurels /;
but for a pugilist to think of holding
the championship of the world" in
peace is silly.
A Charlotte dispatch of the 18th
says that John Ray, a guard at the
Rowan convict camp, while asleep in
his tent, was murdered and robbed by
a Negro. He was deeply cut in half
q dozen places. His watch and money
were stolen. After lingering for hours,
he died today. One cash over his
breast was so deep that the heart could
be seen beating. The cllizens are
securing the woods, and if the murder
er is caught it will go hard with him.
The ways and means committee
has been considering the tariff sched-
ule for some time, and it was the un-
derstanding that the new bill was to
be submitted to the house on Thurs
day. A glance at the / i'll is sufficient
to show that the old te ndency to dis
criminate against the s>uth has been
resumed. Cotton ties and jute bag
ging, which are at present free, have
been returned to the dutiable list, and
quite a number of other charges which
will mean an especial heavy tax on
the farmers of the south, have been
made.
With the winners, prize fighting is
a very profitable business. Champions
usually 60 on the stage, where they
never fail to draw big crowds. When
Corbett whipped John l.. Sullivan at
New Orleans, in 1892, he got purse
of $4,000. Then, in the next ten
days following the fight, he cleared
S23, 900 from exhibitions. AS the re-
suit of one performance in Madison
Square Garden, he got $4,000 net, and
during the year he is said to have
netted between S150,000 and 5000, 900.
Fitzsimmons is a man of very little
education, and while he will draw on
the stage, he can hardly be expected
to get along so we'll as Corbett has.
- The Germans are not accounted
good colonists; but they have succeed
ed in colonizing nearly all the thrones
in Europe. A contemporary says:
"The British royal house is German /;
so is the Russian imperial house, in
spite of it's name. Of course, all the
princes, potentates and powers in Ger
many are of German blood. The
Austrian emperor is German, and so
are the Spanish princes. The king of
Denmark is a German, the king of
Sweden is of French ancestry (the
founder of the present line was :Berna-
dotte), but his recent ancestry have
been Germans. In fact, the French
royal lines, the Portuguese and Ital-
ians, are the only non Germans among
them all, except in Turkey. Even the
kings and princes of the former Turk
ish provinces, Servia, Bulgaria, Greece,
Roumania, are Germans"
A convention of cotton growers,
held at Waco, Texas, on the 9th in
slant, adopted the following, which
has been published for distribution
throughout the south: eff all of US
devote our time and energies and a
sufficient amount of our labor to the
raising of those products consumed at
home first and give the balance to
cotton, we would necessarily reduce
the acreage of cotton and thereby re-
duce the yield. By so doing we not
only create a demand for our cotton
by lessening the supply, but by raising
al home the things we formerly pur-
chased from abroad with our cotton
money, we destroy the necessity for a
big cotton crop and strike from our
limbs the shackles of commercial
slavery that has afflicted and burdened
us so long. We recommend that every
cotton grower plant enough Of those
products consumed at home to supply
his wants and in addition to raise all
the cotton he can"
- The U. S. weather bureau today
gives out the startling information
that 500 square miles of the state of
Arkansas is under water, and that the
Mississippi river will continue to rise,
says Memphis, Tennessee, dispatch
of Wednesday. In the district to the
west of Marion, Ark, hundreds of
people were picked up. The work of
saving stock has been abandoned and
from now on all efforts will be directed
toward saving human life. Many and
altogether improbable reports are cir
culated as to the number drowned
by the refugees (Negroes) in an en-
deavor to stir sympathy. One Negro
gave out that twenty-five persons were
drowned near his place. 1t was proven
that they had sought the high lands at
the first approach of the flood.
Thousands of people are homeless and
dependent on the charity of the citi-
zens of Memphis. Reports from up
and down the river say the levees are
all in good shape, and it is hoped will
continue to withstand the pressure.
The total number of lives lost, so far
reported officially to the relief COM
mittee, is one dozen. Six steamers and
tugs and half q hundred skiffs are en-
gagged in rescue work.