Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-07-25
Straps and fafts.

happy with seventy Founders.
- Central Park, New York, is S67 acres
in area, and Phoenix Park, Dublin, one of the
largest city parks in the world, is 1852 acres.
Detroit, Michigan, is said to exceed all
the other cities of the United States in the ex-
tent of its manufacture of tine.cut tobacco and
cigars.
David Wallace, of Delaware county,
Indiana, lately hung hir,selfto the same limb
on which his father performed a similar act
of suspension last February.
- The new postal cards will be three
inches wide and FIVE and one-fourth inches
long, the stamp and lines to be engraved on
them in variety of colors.
- The Fredericksburg News says that in
"Caroline county, Va, nearly all the people
are candidates for the office of County Treas
urer. One said that if he could get all the
candidates to vote for him, his election was
certain"
- There is story of a grocer who is so
economical that he sends home the bundles
his customers buy, and when they arrive at
the houses, has the boy empty the paper bags
and bring them back with the strings they
were tied up with. That's what you call
careful grocer.
"A new vessel is about to be built on the
Clyde, to run between Liverpool and New
York, of dimensions only second to the Great
Eastern. Herlength is to be five hundred and
seventy.six feet over all, and she is to be fifty
feet beam and twenty-five feet in depth. 1t
is expected that the great steamship will make
the voyage from port to port in seven days
- Mr.. L. F. Post was drowned at Cape
May, on the 10th instant. Mr.. Post had
plunged into the surf to save boy who had
got beyond his depth, and the undercurrent
taking them, both perished together Mr..
Post was one of the stenographers who repor-
ted the ku-klux trials for the Columbia Union
last winter, and was also employed for some
time as stenographer at the headquarters Of
Maj. Merrill, in Yorkville.
Colonel Shorter, in conversation with
Mr. Evarts, of Montana, at the Greeley head
quarters in New York, said that the Demo
Gratis down South did not care cent for Gree
ley's past record. Said he, ave don't ask
him to 60 back on single one of his lifelong
principles. We would not honor him as We
do now if we thought he could be persuaded
or paid to deny his old abolition record. We
love and trust him now for his present record,
his amnesty sentiments, and his earnest desire
for harmony and reconciliation"
THE Charleston Nens says: "Associate
Justice J. j. Wright, the colored member of
the South Carolina Supreme Court, made
two-hours speech at the colored mems Conven-
tion, held in Baltimore last Wednesday. He
advised his hearers to demand fuller recog-
milton of their civil rights and larger share
of Offices, advocated a constitutional amend
ment to make a foreigner competent to be-
come President of the United States, and
pitched into the Cincinnati platform extensive
ly, especially the fourth article providing for
local sslfgovernment, which he said was re-
vival of the doctrine ofsecession."
- Under date of New York, July 10Th,
the following comparative cotton statement is
published: Receipts at all ports for the
week 1854 bales; same time last year 1O,S06;
total for the year 2,692, ,62S last year 3,752,-
554. Exports for the week, 5796; same time
last year, Is, ,053; total for the year, 1928, 1904;
last year, 3,O17,922 Stock at all United
States ports 124,724 last year, 1914; at
interior towns 9,719; last year 16,20S. At
Liverpool 969,0O0; last year, 100000. Amer
ican afoat for Great Britain $4,000; last
year, $4,000.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore Sun, writing under date of the 18th
instant, says: "a statement was made in ad-
ministration quarters to-day that the President
contemplates the pardon ofabout half the per-
sons who were convicted of belonging to the
ku-klux organization in South Carolina, and
who are now undergoing imprisonment at
hard labor in the Albany penitentiary. 1t is
stated that he proposes to free all those who
are known to have been ignorant and misgui-
ded, and who have been forced into the organ
ization. None ofthe intelligent men or lead
ers are to receive amnesty"
The States in which the Irish vote exert
a strong influence are California, Connecticut,
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylva-
na The total estimated Irish vote Of these
States is 81 1859, divided as follows Califor-
mia 9079, Connecticut II ,273, Illinois 10000,
Indiana 4419, Missouri 1854, New Hamp-
shire POSI-, New Jersey 14,464, New York
S3,134 Ohio 1902, Pennsylvania 150,625.
Total 81 $50. The four States in which the
German vote will exercise great influence
are Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
The total vote of these States has been estima-
ted at 124,96S, divided as follows: Pennsyl-
vania 32,029, Ohio S6,57S, Indiana 1861,
Illinois 46,75O. Total 124,96S.
Recently, at Summit, Mississippi, a
poor cripple came hobbling up to the depot,
dropped his dirty bundle on the floor, and
seated himself on it, After eating piece Of
stale bread that he took from his ragged coat,
he delivered himself thusly: "Gentlemen,
don't trouble yourselves about me; I am an
outcast, but not vagrant; | am not dishon-
est, or would have better clothes. l fought
the Indians in Florida the Mexicans in Mex
leo the rebels in Virginia !; the white men in
Louisiana. I have been an honest Republi-
can held Office under Republican govern
ment. But when refused to steal for them,
I was not only cast out of Office, but these sores
tell YOU something Of the unmerciful whipping
I received at their hands. All I ask for now
is to live until after the election, that I may
vote for Greeley and Brown, and witness the
ours as the political lash is applied to them"
Three dollars and seventy-fye cents was soon
made up by few rebels, a ticket was pur.
chased to jackson, Miss, and the old Federal
soldier was sent on his way rejoicing
"A case of selfimmolation by Hindoo
widow has occurred in Brighton, England
The woman was the widow of one Moses
Spinemann, rich merchant who married her
in Malabar, of which country she was a ma
tive. During her residence in England she
always retained her own religion and customs,
and caused to be constructed on her husbands