Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-28
Scraps and 5aets.

A Washington dispatch intimates
that the state department has informa'
ton to the effect that Ii Hung Chang
has been detained in Shanghai. There
is nothing definite in the information
given out. 1t is understood that Lii
Hung Chang started from Canton to
Pekin ostensibly to bring about set.
tlement of the whole trouble. Several
of the powers were suspicious of him,
and there was talk of overtaking him
on the way. From the Washington
dispatch it would appear that this is
what has been done. Anyhow, LII
Hung Chang is still at Shanghai with
out much probability of his being able
to get to Pekin or even back to Canton.
Captain Robley D. Evans, of the
United States Navy, passing through
st. Louis last Monday, en- route to
Washington, talked freely of the China
situation. He said: SIN my estima-
ton the great powers of the earth are
facing the most critical situation in
modern history. I do not believe that
China may become a world power, by
it's own force. It stands in immediate
danger of dismemberment. The par
tition of the empire can only be pre-
vented by the United States. I ap-
prove of the policy of the administra-
ton as now outlined. This country
cannot afford to stand by and see Chi
ma divided among the European gov
ernments without making protest
that will startle the world.
The "amendment" campaign in
North Carolina is getting pretty hot up
about Wilmington. Last Tuesday
night, Jack King, an unlicensed Bap-
tist preacher, or exhorter, undertook
to distribute some anti-amendment
Populistic literature in one of the
Wilmington wards. A number of red
shirts got hold of King, ducked him in
a horse trough and made him promise
that he "would not do so any more" "
King had two men-Thomas M. Sim
mons and William Branch arrested
and taken before justice of the
peace. Simmons plead that he con-
sidered it no harm to wash a dirty
henchman of Butler like King. The
red shirts did not deny their guilt.
King withdrew the prosecution on the
ground that the men "knew not what
thew did" 1t is understood that they
feared retaliation.
The navy department, on Wednes-
day, made public the mail report OF
Rear Admiral Kempff, explaining his
reasons for refusing to join with the
ships of the other powers in the at
tack on the Taku forts. Rear Admiral
Kempff's explanation for refusing to
participate in the attack on the fortif-
cations of a power with which we
were at peace is warmly commended
by Secretary Long. Admiral Kempf g
first report says: son Thursday, June
II, Rear Admiral Bruce called and
asked what I thought of the matter,
and informed him that 1 was not au-
thorized to initiate any act of war
with a country with whom my coun-
try was at peace; that my limit was to
protect American interests, both by
regulations, and under recent instruc-
tions from both the navy department
and from the commander-in-chief of
the United States naval forces on the
Asiatic station"
IA few years ago." said Chicago
clergyman the other day, "there went
up great cry for 'missionelly Bibles
in the Flowery Kingdom. The Bible
society was extremely grati6ed. The
demand was unprecedented and thou
sands of dollars were spent in sending
them nice red morocco testaments.
This sort of thing went on for a long
time; but the number of native con-
verts did not increase accordingly.
The missionaries investigated. What
do you suppose they discovered ?"
"That they used the Bibles for gun
wadding?" "No. They made fire.
crackers of 'em. Practically all the
nicely printed Bibles that we were
sending over there were rolled up in
nice little rolls, a page at time, and
made into fire crackers. The Chinese
make frecrackers at home for an in
crediably low price, and the paper
that they were getting free was a con-
siderable figure with them. But it
taught US Celestial lesson, as I might
say"
The national weather bureaus
weekly summary of crop conditions,
issued last Tuesday, says Rain is very
generally needed in the Atlantic coast
districts north of Florida, the drought
being quite severe in the Carolinas,
New Jersey and portions of New En-
gland, while too much rain has fallen
over portions of the central valleys of
northern Texas, the central gulf states
and northern Florida. Throughout
the Atlantic coast districts corn is gen.
orally in need of rain. Generally there
has been some further improvement in
the condition of cotton but the crop
is suffering from drought in the Caro-
linas and from too much rain in por-
tions of the central belt and portions
of Texas. In the last named state it
has generally made rapid growth, be-
ing excellent in places and poor in
Others. Shedding is reported from the
greater part of the cotton belt and
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