Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-05

the Red Gross society. Mr.. Demetrlus
Vasto, the secretary of the American
fund in aid of the Greek Red Cross
recently summoned Miss Barton for q
conference in New York in regard to
her possible journey.
One night last week, some reli.
gious partisan in Jackson county, Ala,
carried into the woods, stripped and
severely whipped two Mormon elders
The elders subsequently appealed to
Governor Johnston for protection, rep.
resenting that they had been threaten
ed with death if they remained in the
state. The governor has promised to
protect them, and has instructed the
sheriff of the county to make them
his special charge.
- Regarding the probable effect on
cotton by the overflow of the Missis.
sippi, The Times-Democrat says that
the estimate of 100000 bales loss on
account of the flood is wild exagger-
alton. Even if the entire Yazoo delta
was overhowed and not a pound oi
cotton raised there, the total loss would
not exceed quarter of those figures.
A small acreage is likely to have far
better effect on prices than the over
flow.
- Colonel John S. Mosby was kicked
in the head by horse in the grounds
of the University of Virginia 10 days
ago. He was taken at once to the
University infrmary, where he now
lies. His left eye was destroyed, the
outer plate of the skull was broken,
and the surgeons feared that worse
mischief had been done. The colonel
had gone to the university to see the
performance of a play written by his
son, John S. Mosby, Jr.
- The Tennessee centennial exposi-
ton opened last Saturday morning
and was largely attended. The open
ing ceremonies began with civic
parade with about 5000 men in line.
The parade acted as an escort TO
Governor Robert L. Taylor, who was
also accompanied by state and city
officers and his full staff. The parade
ended at the auditorium on the expo
sition grounds, where short ceremonies
were held at II o'clock. Promptly at
noon the machinery on the exposition
grounds was started by President Nc
Kinley, who pressed an electric button
in the White House at Washington.
The day was observed as a public
holiday. Among the many guests
were Hon. Adlai Stevenson and his
party and Governor Stevens, of Mis-
souri,.
1t is understood that Secretary
Gage is soon to recommend to con-
gress a material reduction in the tax
on distilled spirits. His reason is that
the present tax of $1.10 is above the
revenue producing point. There are
as much spirits used, of course, as for
merly; but on account of the greater
premium illicit distilling has incr eased
to an extent that is alarming. The
appropriation available for putting
down illicit distilling is only $4,000 a
wear, and this sum is nothing like suf-
ficient. There has been a noticible
increase in the mountains of Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia, and in the far western states.
With the tax reduced to 80 cents a
gallon, as under the old Mckinley
law, it is thought that the inducement
to illicit distillers will be very much
diminished. and the revenue will be
greatly increased.
- On the authority of one of the
leading statlsticians of Europe, DR..
Lipsins, of Berlin, it is stated that the
Turks have massacred 100000 Ar
menians, destroyed $500 Armenian
towns and villages, sacked 56S
churches and compelled 2S2 towns to
embrace Mohammedanism within the
last two years. DR.. Lipsins, says the
New York Mail and Express, is a fair
witness, and has made a careful in
uuiry. He began it with a serious
conviction that the Turks had been
maligned and misrepresented; but as
he went on with the work he discov-
cred that the story of their infamies
had been only half told, and that the
full truth of their butcheries would
not bear repetition to the ears of the
Christian world. His dreadful statis-
tics of the devastation of Armenia
shed vivid light upon the character
and purpose of the nation whose hands
the European countries are now sup
porting in war of subjugation against
Greece.
- New York Herald: "Things can
not 60 on as they are" This homely
phrase, heard every day from the lips
of thoughtful men, sums up the popu-
lar conviction as to the present condi-
ton of the country. If the dullness
of trade, stagnation of industry and
insufficient employment of labor were
due to famine, war or pestilence, the
people would bow to the inevitable
and pray for relief. But we are affiic.
ted in none of these ways. On the
contrary, We are told there is too much
food, too much iron and coal, too many
manufactured goods-too much OF
everything that is needed to make
people comfortable and happy. The
trouble is restricted markets and ina
bility of would-be consumers to obtain
these things. All our Affections are
of our own making. Supplying a
large part of the worlds food and
four-fiths of its cotton, with marvel
Gus mineral resources and population
of matchless skill and energy, we are
condemned to see nations with inferior
advantages making rapid progress
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