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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

In England, France or Germany the Luet-
CERT trial would not have been permitted to
occupy more than a few days. and the de-
PENDANT would have been either convicted
or acquitted weeks ago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

If it is to be the custom for certain
class of immature fools to kill themselves
because of some miscarriage of matrimonial
designs, they should be taught that sit is
bad form" for them to do the suicide act
on the premises of the young womans
family
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

The Bank of England has resorted to its
oft-repeated scheme of putting UP the rate
of discount to check the export of gold.
OF course, if the gold is due the United
States it will be exported, whatever the
rate of discount, but with a high rate of dis
count SPECTATORS will not deal so literally
in American securities
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Sister-When two ball teams win and lose
game apiece, do they play the rubber?
Tommy-Naw. The kids outside de fence
does all the rubbern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

If the United States had acquired Cuba
from Spain when it did Florida, in 1919, all
the Cuban wars and atrocities of the last
fifty years would have been avoided and
the island would long since have become
populous and prosperous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

Governor Pingree would be put down as
opposing government by injunction but he
is not. When gas company was digging
trenches in front of his residence, to the
injury of his shade trees, as he believed,
he applied to che courts for an injunction
and prevented the corporation from carry
ing out its plan. So Governor Pingree be-
Meves that the Injunction is useful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

The anti-Tammany elements of New York
might succeed if they could get together,
but, as Tammany is always together, the
chances are they will fail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

Watts-Some of those Chinese plays are
six months long
Potts-What of It?
/ was thinking one of them would be q
good thing to take to the Arctic regions for
a one-nght stand"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

The meteorite brought back by the Peary
arctic expedition is the largest in the world.
and viii be valuable addition TO the sci
entifc curios. Of this country. 1t is eleven
feet six inches in length, three TO four feet
in thickness from six 10 seven feet in
height. and weighs one hundred tons. The
largest single stone in the soldiers monu-
ment in this city weighs less than fifteen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
Accommodating.

Dismal Dawson-Kind friend, could you
spare a penny for a pore man?
Kind Friend-I think if you will wait a
minute I may be able to get a copper for
you.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
Sixteen Pages

Ter-ruth need not waste SO much time
proving that Mr.. Smith is the best candi-
date for mayor in the field He admits it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

The live wires are so thick in the path
way of the Taggart campaigners that some
of them are driven to the dead fad of 16
10
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26

A city on a plain has its disadvantages.
One of these is the inability of those of its
residents who enjoy fine sunsets to see
these phenomena of nature. except in frag-
mentary glimpses down western street.
The same is true as to sunrise, but so
many other causes than the level grade of
the country and the hindering buildings
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places;
NEW YORk-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHIcAGo-Palmer House and P. o. News Co..
III Dearborn street
CINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. lo4 vine
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. r. Deering, northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co.. 256 Fourth avenue.
ST. IOUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House. Wizards Hotel and the washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street. between
Penn. avenue and + street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,
indianapolis, Ind.

Persons sending the Journal through the mails
In the United States should put on an eight-page
paper ONE-CENT postage stamp; on twelve
o. sixteen-pags paper TWO-CENI postage
stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these
rates.
All communications intended for publication in
this paper mast in order to receive attention, be
accompanied by the name and address or the
writer. III It is desired that rejected manuscripts
be returned, postage must in all cases be incosed
Tor that purpose.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

story of the poker game and suicide,
omitting the names. On the morning
it was printed the hostess read the
story and fell serseless to the floor.
In a few minutes she was dead. All
the names may come out when the
legal proceedings anent Shephard's
defalcation are heard.
A wear or so ago Major Rose, the
Texas commissioner of agriculture,
secured some cotton seed from Peru,
which he distributed among the cotton
planters of Southern Texas. In Peru
this cotton does not have to be planted
more than once every five or six years,
the stalk standing through the winter
and coming out s-een in the spring,
like sugar cane. It was thought pro-
bable that the cotton would grow
equally as well in Southern Texas, but
thorough experiment proves it to be a
failure. Among others who received
seed from Major Rose was i. Allen, OF
San Antonio. Nj. Allen planted the
seed on his farm, just south of that
city, where the cotton came up, looked
we'll and prospered finely during last
years drought, when ordinary Texas
cotton was almost burned up. The
winter proved too severe for it, how
ever, and in letter to Major Rose,
Mr.. Allen says he dug up some of the
roots, and in each instance found them
dead and perfectly devoid Of life.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11
HUNTING ON BICYCLES.

Several young men of Yorkyille tried
the novel experiment, last Saturday, OF
trying to follow pack of fox hounds on
bicycles. The bicycle huntsmen were
Drs. A. Y. Cartwright and p. T. Gordon,
and Mr.. J. P. White.
The fox was on hand to commence
with, and the animal was turned loose on
the southern outskirts of town. The
pack was put on the trail shortly after
ward, and there followed what the fox
hunters consider firstclass race.
It seems that the fox was something OF
a climber. Whenever the dogs got to
pushing it pretty close, it would take to
tree. This occurred three times; but
the last time the animal was too much
exhausted to be able to hold on to the
tree, and fell out among the hounds, by
which it was quickly killed.
The bicycle riders say that as the result
of their experiment, they are ready to
claim that, for fox hunting purposes, the
wheel is practically as good as horse.
They had to jump down occasionally on
account of ditch, and were somewhat
inconvenienced by the sleeper hills; but,
upon the whole, they kept as close up
with the chase as they would have been
able to do had they been on horseback.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Enquirer-A gentleman wants a copy
OF Mills's Statistics, DraytonI's View and
Moultrie's Memoirs, for each of which
he is willing ia pay fair price. Leave
information at THE ENQUIRER Office.
w. M. Kennedy-Is prepared to supply
you with school supplies, embracing
states, copybooks, pens and pencils,
tablets, papers of different kinds, cray
ons, etc., all at lowest prices. He also
has a stock of crockery and glassware.
w. B. Moore Il Co.-Announce that the
high prices of bicycles are things of the
past, and offer guaranteed p-to-date
wheels at $3.50, $3.50 and $40. They
are offering Champion mowers and
want you to examine them. They are
offering cane mills at bargain and will
supply you with evaporators at lowest
prices. Bunker Hill harness oil on draft.
J. II. Riddle-Enumerates a line of first
class fancy groceries which he has in
stock. He has lime, cement, shingles
and plastering hair, and will sell you
fruit jars at the lowest prices.
Grist Cousins-Are offering Lion parched
coffee at pounds for 81, which is claim
ed to be better than Arbuckle's. They
are selling green cotfees at 8 and 9pounds
for 81, and can supply you with molas-
ses and syrup of the best quality, cot
tage hams and bacon.
H. G. Strauss-On his recent visit to Cana.
da and the northern cities of the United
States, says that he purchased a quantity
of desirable goods before prices were
affected by the tariff. Some of these
goods are here and others will arrive
later. He continues his closing out sale
of summer goods and bargains can YET
be secured at his store.
r. G. Culp, County Supervisor-On the
2lst of August, will receive proposals
for building bridge over Four Mile
creek, in Catawba township, and on the
2lst of August will receive bids for re-
pairing a bridge over Crowder's creek,
at Davis's mill, near Ieno, in Bethel
township,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11
sCORCHED BY LIGHTNING.

The family of Mr.. J. H. B. Jenkins, of
Sharon, had narrow escape from death
last Thursday afternoon, by lightning.
The entire family had been out to
church, and Mrs. Jenkins and the chill
dren returned home while heavy storm
was coming up. A moment or two after
they entered the house, lightning shat
tered large oak tree about 100 yards
away, and at the same instant Miss Re-
becca Jenkins felt sharp sting on her
arm, and her younger sister was also
shocked.
Upon investigation, it developed that
Miss Rebecca had been severely burned
on one arm. There was red place five
or six inches in length, and the nain was
almost unbearable for period q. l2 OF
ii hours afterward.
Mrs. Jenkins did not feel the '.hock.
She heard the crash, however, when the
tree was struck, and saw coming in the
direction of the house, the bolt of elec-
tricity which struck Miss Rebecca. The
bolt she describes as looking more than
anything else like ball Of fire.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

- The press dispatches from Europe are
unanimously to the effect that the new
American tariff bill is already being felt
in nearly every manufacturing centre.
There is an alarming decrease in the
number of orders that are being received,
and most of the big factories are reducing
the number of their hands. There has
been talk in Germany of inaugurating a
tariff war against the United States; but
as the result of widespread discussion, it
seems to have developed that this will be
poor policy, for the reason that many
American exports, such as cotton for in
stance, are absolutely indispensable to
Germany, and indeed all the other Euro
pean countries. There is nothing for the
foreigners to do but make the most of it.,
and there is reason TO hope that when
they begin to feel still more severely a
tightening of the screws generally, they
might also begin to seriously consider a
revision of the present financial system
which is weighing so hardly upon the
American masses.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

"A newspaper without enemies is
scarcely deserving of friends" The vi
ciOus and lawless never like bold, fear
less newspaper, and every self-respecting
publisher should be proud of their enmi-
ty. There are other newspaper foes, how
ever, who are more troublesome and con-
sequently more to be feared. First and
foremost is the man who owes news
paper an honest debt and will not pay it.
Then there is the ambitious mortal who
wants an office and complains because the
newspaper cannot consistently champion
his cause; he is pretty likely to become
an enemy. The man who wants to shape
the policy of a paper and is not allowed to
do so, is sure enemy but the meanest
is the man whom the newspaper has be-
friended, and who deliberately condemns
the sheet after securing from it all the as
sistance he possibly can.-Hampton
Guardian.
Pshaw pshaw!! brother; don't talk.
THE ENQUIRER knows all of those fell
lows and lots of others you have not
mentioned. Some Of them have been
barking at our heels like fees for years,
and among them are some who might
have really amounted to something had
they devoted their efforts to honest en-
deavor instead Of the venting of spleen.
But don't talk about them, brother.
Just let drop tear of pity on their poor
writhing souls and leave them to the
misery you are unable to help. Than
grieving about them, you will find more
important work in other fields.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

- Judge Simonton has handed down
another original package decision. 1t
defines what is meant by al original
package to he the package as delivered to
the common carrierby the manufacturer,
and as delivered by the common carrier
to the consignee. For instance, if the
manufacturer delivers a ten gallon kcg or
a box of bottles, these are original pack
ages. The consignee cannot sell the bot
ties separately, nor can he draw from and
retail the contents of the keg. If, how
ever, he receives a quantity of bottles
loose, then each one is an original pack
age, and can be sold as such.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11
Newholl and the State Board.

Columbia Register, Sunday: There
was another matter Of considerable
import which the board discussed with
the governor. That was in reference
to Detective Newbold. Some of the
members of the board believe that Mr..
Newbold is somewhat officious, and
appear to think that the board must
do what he suggests always. The
board considering that he is an en-
ploye of the state, and not running the
dispensary, the matter should be deci.
ded at once. The governor declined
to talk about this matter last night,
and the real trouble between Mr.. New
bold and the board could not be learn
ed except in general terms. Mr.. New
bold, in his detective capacity, has
unearthed many violations of the dis
pensary law, as well as others. His
ideas as to what was best to be done in
various cases seem to have conflicted
with the boards ideas, and they evil
IDENTIFY want an understanding as to
what is what before proceeding any
further,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss Maude Nets left last Friday fol
Blowing Rock, n. G.
Miss Rosa Ewart, Of Gastonia, is visit
ing at Mr.. Pelham Morrow's.
Mr.. J. T. Thomasson, Of w. B. Moore
& Co., is confined to his bed with fever.
Mr.. P. w. Love, who recently got up
from an attack of fever, is suffering Sc
we're relapse.
Miss Pearl Williams returned home on
Monday evening from a pleasant visit to
friends at Hickory, N. G.
Mr.. o. f. Grist and family spent Sum-
day and Monday in Lenoir with Captain
J. T. Crisis family.
Mrs. w. B. Williams and Mrs. P. T.
Gordon returned yesterday from weeks
visit to relatives in Union county.
Mr.. d. It. Woods returned home Mon
day from Blacksburg, where he has been
visiting his fathers family.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11
NEGRO PICNIC.

! The annual picnic, given under the
auspices of a number of leading Negro
farmers of York township, took place or
the Howell's Ferry road, just without
the incorporate limits of Yorkville, last
Friday, and was attended by between
600 and 700 Negroes from different parts
of the county.
There were three bands present-the
"Silver Link" band, of Yorkville tn e
"Byars" band, of Hickory Grove and
the Chambers band, of Smyrna. Each
of them played number of pieces dur
ing the day, and the music generally was
highly creditable.
A feature of the exercises consisted OF
speeches by wellknown Negroes, inclu-
ding Green Simril, John Fausett, Ell
Sandifer and others. Green Simril had
been given general supervision over the
exercises. In bis speech he congratula'
ted his brother farmers over the success
full fight they had just had with General
Green," told them that they were now
entitled to few days of rest, and exhort-
ed them to be on hand, bright and early,
in the coming struggle to capture the
spoils of the fields before the arrival OF
General Frost" who was often as pow
erful an enemy as the one with which
they had just been battling. Simril also
told his fellow farmers that they had no
business worrying about politics. "Agri-
culture" he said, "is better suited to our
race than any other vocation. Let ua be
honest, upright and fair, pay our debts,
walk straight in the eyes of our fellow
men, do what we can to educate our chill
dren, give our attention to hard work,
and we will not only be protected by the
laws; but we will fit ourselves for all the
responsibilities of citizenship which may
hereafter devolve upon u.s."
None of the speakers had anything to
say about politics; but all discussed mat
ters pertaining to the peculiar interests OF
their own race. The picnickers had a
big dinner and plenty of it, splendid or
der prevailed throughout the day, and
altogether the occasion was highly credi-
table to all concerned. Il
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11
TIILMAN AT TIRZAH.

Last Friday was the big day or the
Alliance campmeeting. 1t was "Till-
mans Day." and although the weather
was threatening, the people came from
far and near. Old soldiers who have in
their tins been accustomed to big crowds,
say that, old and young, little and big,
this crowd must have consisted of some
thing like 1000.
Senator Tillman and Governor Ellerbe
arrived on the southbound o. r. & g.
train. The crowd had reached large pro-
portions before their arrival, and in order
to fill in the time, Colonel D. P. Duncan
made the first speech of the day.
Colonel Duncan talked principally OF
the benefits and achievements Of the AL
lance. He told how the organization had
done a great deal for the uplifting of the
masses, and how it had brought about
among the farmers a powerful brother
hood which extended to all parts o. the
country. He claimed also that the organ
ization had done more to break down the
barriers of sectionalism than any other
influence that has ever been known in
this country.
He did not know much about the intri-
cacies of the tariff. In fact he would
hardly know what the tariff was if he
should meet it in the road. But, all the
same, he would tell of fact that had
come under his observation, and which
seemed to bear on the subject. Previous
to the passage of the Wilson bill, Texas
was great wool growing country. He
had friends there engaged in sheep
raising, and there were sheep everywhere.
With the passage of the Wilson bill, and
the inauguration Of the era Of free wool,
prices went down so low that the wool
growers had to get rid of their sheep as
rapidly as possible at any price they
could. There was nothing left for them
but to tear down the fences Of their pas
lures, plow up the land and plant cotton.
As the result of the Wilson bill, which
let in the whole world, the price of wool
went down and carried with it the price
of cotton. And then again, the thousands
and thousands of acres which the for
mer wool growers were forced to add to
cotton production, still further lowered the
price. Just what all this amounted to be
was not able to say with any degree of
positiveness but as for himself he would
be perfectly willing to give these sheep
growers a bounty of a dollar or more
head, if that would only again turn their
cotton lands back into pastures and leave
us, i'm this section, with less competition
in the production Of the tleecy staple.
Senator Tillman and Governor Ellerbe
arrived while Colonel Duncan was speak
ing, and Colonel Duncan shortly after
ward brought his remarks to a close.
The crowd was keen to hear Tillman,
and he did not keep it long in suspense.
The senator began his speech, as is his
custom at Trzah, by referring to his first
extemporaneous speech near there, eleven
years before. Then he was hard-work-
ing farmer, lean and sunburned but
weighed down with the tribulations Of
his class. Since that time he had passed
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

- The strike in the Fulton Bag and Cot
ton mills, of Atlanta, has been satisfacto-
rily adjusted. The strike, it will be re-
membered, was principally by the action
of the arrangement Of the mill in intro
ducing Negro labor. The white employees
walked out ap2 the affair created quite a
commoti0H in Atlanta. At length the
management came to terms and prom
ised to discharge the recently employed
Negroes. The strikers then demanded
that the places of all but few Negroes
employed about the mills, be filled by
whites. The mill management declined
to accede to this demand, and there was
another bitch which was finally straight
ened out by an arrangement providing
for the restoration of the status quo before
the trouble commenced. Feeling over
the matter has not entirely subsided.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

The Columbia Record, Of last Satur-
day, goes back at DR.. Strait with column
or more of editorial. The Record CORES
pondent had reported the doctor as having
made "weak attack on Tillman and Nc
Laurin, without mentioning names," and
the doctor asserted that such had not been
his intention. The Record quotes at
length from the report. of the doctors
speech as published in THE ENQUIRER,
and after citing that portion in which the
doctor condemns the Sl9O,OOO subsidy for
the fast mail on the Southern railroad,
cites the fact that Senator Tillman was
entirely responsible for this provision.
The railroads generally were getting
bounties, says The Record, and as the
bill was bound to pass in spite Of all pro-
tests, Senator Tillman did what he could
to get the only piece Of pie that was offered
for the south. Tillman did this because
he recognized that he was the representa-
tive not only of the farmers; but of other
business interests also. Strait, in con-
demning the appropriation, was con-
demning Tillman. Next, The Record
reproduces what the doctor had to say
about the tariff on lumber, rice, the tlirt-
ing of southern statesmen with northern
politicians, the vote Of members of the
ways and means committee, ETC., and
asks if the doctor thinks there was any
body in the audience who was so dull as
not to be able to understand what he
meant. The article concludes: 1.-THE
Record does not intend to argue the tariff
question with DR.. Strait, for he evidently
knows nothing about it. 1t only desires
to show up his subserviency to the sena-
,orial syndicate. Fellow feeling makes
us wondrous kind and DR.. Strait has n
fellow feeling for the senatorial syndicate,
for it's success means that such small fry
as he can stay in public life, while its
defeat means no man can obtain public
preferment unless, like Tillman and Nc
Laurin, he has brains and ability to work
and do something for the people of South
Carolina"