Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-21
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tariff bill have secured the restoration
of cotton ties, jute bagging and gunny
cloth, etc., to the dutiable list. The
Democratic conferees did not agree to
this arrangement, and an effort will be
made to get the senate to refuse to
sanction it. The result is uncertain
It is practically settled, however, that
the rate of duty will be less than has
ever been imposed before.
- The New York Journal has writ,
ten up Pierrepont Morgan and his
monster railroad trust. According to
The Journal, Mr.. Morgan controls the
following properties: New York Cen.
trail $3.50, 1855, ,2OS; New York, New
Haven and Hartford S103,319,313;
Reading s76,709,2 ,291; Lehigh Valley
s66,3O6, 1858; Erie SITS, ,493, ,1S1; South
ern SlS6,233,173 Northern Pacific
s106, 100000; Big Four S64,5l7 ,635
chesapeake and Ohio $73, ,7OS, 100, a
grand total of 81, 1,O16, 1882, ,259.
The British newspapers are seri-
ously considering the possibility of
war with the United States. The trou-
bic is over the ancient and apparently
interminable Behring sea seal fishery
controversy. Secretary Sherman made
an assertion recently which, in effect,
accuses the British of having been
guilty of bad faith, and this is what
has stirred up the papers. All the
British dailies and most of the week
lies, are discussing the matter, count
ing their ships, guns and men, and spec
ulating as to the ease with which the
United States can be licked out OF
their boots. The American papers are
not taking the situation seriously.
- Atlanta Constitution: Mr.. Fred
Jones, travelling passenger agent of
the Cotton Belt, returned to Atlanta
recently after stay of three months
in Texas, where he has been working
business. He says that he never saw
crops looking better in that state.
The small grain crops are made and
the planters are picking cotton in
southern Texas now. All over the
state the cotton crop will be large, and
if the price does not get away down,
the Lone Star farmers ought to have
money next fall. In the flooded dis
tricts of Arkansas and Mississippi the
farmers have promising crops. While
the water was high their labor got
scattered and it has been difficult to
get enough hands in some sections /;
but everything considered the valley
planters have done remarkably we'll.
As the waters receded they put in
their crops, which, though late, are
growing nicely.
- Charlotte Observer, Saturday /:
Tillman Heath and Manlius Sloan,
colored, live in the Ramah neighbor-
hood. Both have strong, healthy wives
and large number of children. Tues
day, Health and Sloan got into quar-
rel over some trivial matter. Harsh
words led to blows. While they were
at it with fists, teeth and claws, their
wives heard the disturbance, and each
went to the help of her respective
liege lord. The children which be-
longed to each household were attrac-
ted by the noise of battle, and they
went out and took a hand in it. The
battle ragged between man and man ;
woman and woman; children and
children. They fought thus for fully
an hour. Heath finally ran Sloan's
head into a fresh pile of earth, and
nearly choked him to death. Other
parties interferred, and the war was
put an end to. No weapons were
used, but nevertheless the ground was
covered with blood and loose hair. 1t
was terrible battle. Mr.. T. G. STEM
house, of this city, knows both Heath
and Sloan, he having come from that
neighborhood.
- Mr.. NJ. V. Richards, the wide
awake land and industrial agent of
the Southern Railway, has taken ad-
vantage of the revival of interest in
gold mining by the discoveries of the
Alaskan field, to get up most valua-
BILE little work devoted to gold mining
in the Southern States-North and
South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee,
Alabama and Maryland. The article
contained therein on the industry n
the Carolinas is by Messrs. Holmes an !.
Nitze, of the North Carolina geologi-
cal survey. The records show that
South Carolina has mined more gold
since 1890 than any other southern
states. In 1895 the output of her
mines was S12S, ,4O3, while Georgia's S
output was only 500 more. The total
amount of gold mined in the southern
states since 1779 is placed at S45, $685.
4S3. OF this South Carolina mined
S3,7O9,566, and takes third place
among the states, North Carolina COM
ing first and Georgia second. The
bulk of both Georgia and North Caro-
lina's output was mined, however, prior
to 1879, while nearly all of South Car
olina's mining has been done since.
- The public clamor against women
working on the city rock pile in Kan
sas City, Kan, has become so loud that
the police dare not carry out the or
der, and the scheme will be abandoned
without trial, says a dispatch of
Friday. Several women prisoners were
sent to Jail by the police judge this
morning; but none of them were set
to work. The backing down of the
police department was due principally
to the action of the Current Event
Club, woman's political organization,
which held an indignation meeting and
denounced the plan of putting women
on the rock pile as "degradation of
womanhood and blot on the state of
Kansas" The club virtually served