Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-09

- OalUOTula Imports DTlchS lToiu oapau,
as better and cheaper than those made in the
State, notwithstanding twenty per cent. ad
valorem duty.
-- The "wheat belt' is enlarging its area
Arkansas, for instance, will export small
grains this year for the first time in its hsto-
ry The same general tendency to raise more
and buy less is observed throughout the South.
- Gov. Allen, of Ohio, was asked about
his prospective majority. "Well, replied he,
there is a division of opinion about that
among our own people, The lowest estimate
gives us 10000, and from that all the way up
to 6OOOO"
- Since the year 1900, England has waged
forty-nine wars; France, thirty-eight; Rus
sia twenty-five Austria, twelve; Prussia,
eight and in spite of all the peace societies
aud International conventions, they all appear
anxious for another.
--- The Republicans of Spartanburg Court
House have resolved to make no nominations
for municipal Offices, but will support any
ticket, by whomsoever nominated, the men,
bers of which pledge themselves not to license
any bar-room within the corporate limits OF
Spartanburg, during their term Of office.
- Assurances have been received that
Hons. Fernado Wood of New York, NJ. P.
Poland, of Vermont, Geo. H. Pendleton of
Ohio. S. P. Christiaucy and Geo. H Willard
from Michigan, and Hon. VIM. d. Kelly OF
Pennsylvania, have accepted invitations to
attend the Great Georgia State Fair in
October.
- A boy eight years of age has recently
been sentenced by an English clergyman
and magistrate to one month in prison and five
years in reformatory school for the offence OF
placing few pebbles on the track OF rail-
way, with the purpose-to quote his own
Ian guage-of hearing them 60 ''snudge" when
the train passed over them.
- James Webster Smith, of South Caro-
lima, better known as colored Cadet Smith,
having been cadet at West Point for sever
al years, was married at Highland Falls, New
York, on Thursday, to young woman OF his
own race, whose acquaintance he made whilst
at West Point The military band of West
Point Vas secured for the occasion, and dis
coursed the best of music to the delight of the
white and colored guests, who were about
equally divided as to numbers. Prominent
colored men from distant parts of the country
were present to witness the ceremony.
- Chicago is just the place for an inter
esting divorce case. The last thing of this
sort occurring in that city is delightfully."-
complicated affair. Not long since MIR.
Briggs obtained divorce from his wife on
the strength of the testimony of a DR.. Savage,
that his relations with Mrs. Briggs had re-
peatedly been of criminal character. But
now Savage turns around and retracts swear
ing that his "confession" was obtained while
he was Intoxicated and temporarily insane"
and was entirely false, and on the strength of
his retraction Mrs. Briggs has applied for
a reversal Of the decree of divorce. This is
interesting, but it is made more 80 by the
action of Mrs. DR.. Savage, who is using her
husbands confession respecting Mrs. Briggs,
to get divorce from her husband This COM
plcated case beats the Beecher-Tilton affair
and puts Chicago ahead Of Brooklyn.
An English journal says that goods
made entirely of cotton are called merlno,
owing to the woollv surface impaired to them.
Such goods are sold both in the United States
and in the Spanish South American market
in large quantities, especially in the form of
mems undershirts and drawers. To cause the
cotton to resemble wool it is scratched, and
the surface raised by particular process. A
thread Or two may be drawn out and burned
in the flame of q taper If the material be cot
ton it will consume to light, impalpable
white ash, cotton being vegetable fibre; but
if on the contrary, it is wool, and therefore
an animal fibre, it will twist and curl in the
flame, and show a black ash, accompanied
with a smell which will speak as to its origin.
Cotton is now so cleverly treated that it is
frequently taken for silk, also an animal fibre,
and this simple test is always resorted to when
there is any doubt upon this point.
-- Col. McArdle, the editor Of the Vicks-
burg Herald, appeals to the master OF the
Mississippi State grange, III an open letter, to
inaugurate measure in this year Of large
crops that will give the gray haired chief of the
late Confederacy comfortable home. lie
wants each one Of the six hundred and seven
ty.fve oranges in Mississippi to give six bales
Of cotton, or two hundred thousand dollars.
This would furnish comfortable home tor
Mr.. Davis, who is still a toiler for bread,
and also leave for investment sum large
enough to support himself and family, and
provide for the education of his children. Col.
McArdle thinks Mr.. Davis home should be
in the State which has been his dwelling
place for more than fifty years. "Once re-
iieved," says the Colonel, "from the carking
care of a daily struggle for bread, Mr.. Davis
will have leisure to devote himself to the pre-
paration of history Of our late gigantic and
disastrous civil war, and thus build for himself
and the South monument as imperishable
as time ITSELF"
- The New York Herald deplores the
fact that Ohio Republicans have changed
their base and made the school question and
not the currency the main question in the can
vass. This, says the Herald, "is an indication
that their own party is so infected with the
initiation heresy that they dare not risk can
vass on the issue. 1t is true, in point Of fact,
that the Republican party of Ohio is divided
on this question, and that considerable pro-
portion of its voters are inhationists In the
last Congress, nine of the twelve Republican
members of the House from Ohio voted for
imitation, and they, no doubt, supposed at the
time that they we're in accord with their con-
stituents. Those Republican constituencies
in Ohio may have waived their views, but
not changed them, and this is probably the
reason why the party dare not make square
fight on the initiation issue. Their change of
base to the school question, in the midst of
the canvass, is likely to be interpreted as
confession that, on the initiation issue, the
Democrats would carry the State"
- The new New York postofice is finish
ed and opened for public use. The business of
this office is immense. Three hundred thous-
and domestic letters are received and distribu-