Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-31
Scraps aud fatts.

yesterday, from Mrs. Mary Martin,
mother Of Sheriff Martin, Of this coun-
ty, 353 acres Of land six miles north OF
Ellenboro. The price paid was $4,000.
Mr.. Kethel, is representing some New
York syndicate and left for that city
last night. The property was bought
for the purpose of opening up mon
azite mine, for getting out and clean
ing the stuff. Then it will be shipped
to Germany. The work Of building the
mill will commence in few days.
Says a San Antonio dispatch: Mrs.
Richard King, the largest woman land
owner in the United States, who is
known as the Cattle King" of Texas.
has just added to her already immense
domain by the purchase Of 10000 acres
Of land adjoining the San Gertrude's
ranch. The land was purchased from
the Texas Land and Cattle company,
and Is known as the Laureles Ranch In
Nueces county. Before the purchase
was made, Mrs. King had in her pas
lures considerably over one million
.,
year $4,000 young steers and heifers,
and there are now 100000 head Of all
kinds Of beef cattle on the ranch.
Mrs. King paid 50 an acre for the 10000
acres just purchased.
Chincoteague, Va, special of Au-
gust 25, to Philadelphia Record:
When the minister kissed his bride,
Joseph McDuff, the groom, last night,
knocked down Rev. James Porter, rem
dering him partly unconscious. Nc
Duff and Miss Agnes Talley, both OF
whom reside on Chincoteague Island,
drove to the parsonage, and after the
ceremony the minister as usual kissed
the bride. The next instant McDuff's
fist shot out and caught the minister
square on the jaw, laying him limp
in the corner of the room. Friends
seized the angry groom and explained
to him that it was the custom Of min
isters McDuff was Modified, and as a
peace offering drew forth two $40 notes
which he rendered to the dazed and
surprised clergyman.
The weather bureaus weekly sum-
mary Of cotton conditions, issued from
Washington last Tuesday, is as fol-
lows: The weather Of the week has
been generally unfavorable for cotton.
Complaints of shedding and rusting
are general throughout the entire cot
ton belt, except in Missouri and Okla
homa, but in Oklahoma the crop has
been somewhat damaged by hot, dry
weather. Some favorable reports are
received from Tennessee, Arkansas and
Louisiana. Cotton is backward and in
poor condition in Texas, although the
late crop has improved where rain fell;
it is opening quite rapidly in portions of
Georgia and Alabama, and picking is
in progress in those states as we'll as
in many localities in the western cot
ton region. Tobacco is in good condi-
ton in the Ohio valley and Tennessee,
and the prospects for this crop are gen.
orally favorable in these states as we'll
as in New York. Rains were unfavor-
able in Virginia.
Charlotte Observer, Tuesday,: Mr..
Thomas J. Smith, merchant and far
mer of Pineville, who was in the city
last night, takes rather a blue view of
the cotton crop in this county. He
says he wants the farmers of Mecklen-
burg who have been predicting such
large crops to go out and carefully ex-
anime their plants. He brought to The
Observer office last night two stalks
that he had plucked from a field near
Pineville, which on an average year
will yield one bale Of cotton to the acre.
The two stalks were nearly six feet
high. On one there was three bolls and
on the other four full grown bolls. The
excessive rains have run the stalk up
into weed, and it doesn't fruit, as it
should, said Mr.. Smith. The cotton
stalks are larger than ever before; but
the luxuriant growth does not mean
fine cotton by any means. Mr.. Smith
declares that unless there are many
fine days-warm, clear weather-the
cotton crop in Mecklenburg will be so
per cent. below the average.
= In an interview given out from At
lanta last Tuesday, Bishop Turner, Of
the African Methodist church, had the
following to say with regard to the best
manner Of preventing assaulting
among Negroes: IT am as much con-
rinced as ever that African emigration
would be best for the Negro and best
for the white man. There Is an irresist-
able conflict between whites and blacks
that nothing but separation can put an
end to- Our children are generated and
nurtured under a malignant and misan-
thropic excitement that will wreck this
country and make our civilization a re-
proach and by-word. And if it is a fact
that the Negro will not let white wo-
men alone. then the white men owe it
to their manhood and honor to get rid
Of him; and if they will open up a
highway to Africa millions of the black
race will CO. Rather than shed so
much blood, and possibly some inno-
cent blood, you had better enact laws
to brand these fools and scoundrels.
and chop their ears and Danish them
to Africa. If the country will turn
over all these criminals that they are
burning, hanging and shooting to me-
and brand their checks and carry them
to Africa, will give the world anoth-
er Rome, or establish a country like
Australia. which was founded and built
up by English cut-throats and penal
convicts.
Saws an Atlanta dispatch of We'd