Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-02-17
Straps aud fafts.


- Maryland has 1876 public schools, which
are attended by 143,OO3 children.
- There is talk among the Connecticut far
mers of pledge not to raise any tobacco this
year, so as to work off the surplus.
-Parson Brownlow favors the idea of nomi-
mating Parson Brownlow for the vice-presi-
dency.
"A colored member of the Mississippi
Legislature has introduced bill providing for
whipping as punishment for certain crimes.
A mass of rock, estimated at nearly FIVE
hundred tons weight, fell from the bank near
the Bridal Veil Fall, at Niagara, a few days
ago.
A gentleman of Lynchburg, Va, owns a
set of chessmen neatly nodded in lead from
bullets picked up on the battlefield near Ap-
pomattox court house.
The first fruits of leap year shine forth in
the case of Miss Belle Harper, of Fairhaven,
West Virginia, who shot man because he
refused her offer Of marriage.
Every member of the Kansas House of
Representatives is provided with twenty daily
newspapers, during its session, at the public
expense.
The Iowa House of Representatives have
passed bill requiring that all conditions of
insurance policies shall be printed in type not
smaller than "long primer" and that the use
of smaller type shall vitiate the policies.
- The owner of pair of bright eyes assures
us that the prettiest compliment she ever re-
ceived came from child of four years. The
little fellow, after looking at her for mo-
ment, inquired naively, care your eyes new
ones?"
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is confined
to his room and bed at his Georgia home, and
it is the opinion of his friends that pulmonary
disease is slowly carrying him off. Mr.. Ste
phens himself has no expectation Of regain
ing his health, and has written to member of
the Georgia delegation to attend to his un6n-
ished business in Washington.
- 1t is not only in cotton goods that Ameri-
cans are beginning to compete with the English
in their home markets, but also iron and steel
manufactures. According to the Sheffield
Telegraph of the 22d ult., an American mer-
chant arrived in Sheffield few days BEFORE
with consignment of light steel hayforks,
shovels, spades &C., of American make, which
he proposed to sell at lower than Sheffield
prices for similar goods.
1t is stated that Bruce, the colored Sena-
tor from Mississippi, in executive session
of the Senate last Thursday, pronounced
himself as opposed to President Grant and
the Third-Term. He was quite emphatic in
his remarks, and said that he thought Grant
did not care for the South. He says he will
oI ri hor
stated the colored people had better make
terms with the resident whites of the South.
- The Senate Committee on postoAices has
addressed letter to the Postmaster General,
for an exhibit of the receipts and expenses
from third class mail matter, and whether it
is to the interest of the government to trans
port the third-class matter, at the rates charged
before the act of last March. The Committee
has before it the bill of the House restoring
the rates on third-class mail matter, and its
report will be prompted by the response of
the Postmaster General to the inquiries which
have been addressed to him.
Now, then, we are brought face to face in
South Carolina with the question which, dodge
it as much as we may, must, sooner or later, be
definitely and permanently settled. Here is
the question: Shall a hopelessly degraded
black majority rule and ruin minority ?
To suppose that this is what is meant by "a
Republican form of government" is an insult
to the memories of the founders of the Repub-
lie. Yet what else can we have in South Caro-
lima, Louisiana, and Mississippi as long as the
st. Louis Republican.
The following is given as Cincinnati
view of inside secrets at Washington !:
"Blaine and Morton may mutually destroy
each other and prepare the way for some one
else. The personal struggle for advantages
will still 60 on between them, and as neither
will consent to accept the Vice. Presidency,
it will probably end in the defeat of both.
1t is here that the third term ticket of Grant
and Hayes will be presented, and if Grant
finds that it will not be accepted, he will
and Hayes" From these observations it would
seem that the wind at Washington is entirely
setting westerly.
The Republican National Convention
will consist of 754 members, so that nomi-
nation Of President or Vice President will
require 379 votes. New York has 70 men,
bers; Pennsylvania So; Ohio A Illinois AZ !;
Indiana 80; Missouri 80; Massachusetts, 26;
Kentucky "a; Tennessee "a; Michigan %;
Virginia % Iowa ;; % Georgia %; North Car
olina 20; Wisconsin 20; Alabama 20; Mary
land IS; New Jersey 16; Texas 16; Louis
lana 16; South Carolina IA; Arkansas IL;
California 12; Connecticut IL. Each Terito-
ry is allowed two votes. The numerous rep
resentatives of the large and populous States
would be sufficient to decide most questions
in the convention if there were any mission of
sentiment or preference among them. There
does not, however, appear to be much chance
of that in the nominations, as each of
these States has separate candidate. The
allowance of votes of the Territories increases
the weight Of the delegation from the West.
Says the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer of
the 9th: If all the kilograms and newspaper
reports be true, all confidence in life insu-
rance has disappeared since the failure of the
Southern Life, with the headquarters at
Memphis. Said gentleman to US yesterday:
81 have policy of $4,000 in that company.
I expected to be sold Che used harsher
word) by northern companies, but | did
not think that Generals Colquitt and
Gordon, Southern men, would lend their
names to anything that was not good. 1t
has come to bad pass when our own men 60
back on u.s." He expressed the opinion Of
thousands in Georgia, who are looking anx-
iously for statement of the Georgia Depart
ment. We met two gentlemen yesterday,
each of whom had $4,000 policy in the COM
pany. They estimated that at least $4,000
of nolicies were held in Columbus-mostlY by