Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-27
Strips aud fafts.
- Half the children in the Boston public

Judge David Davis, of Illinois, seems to
be rising into greater and greater prominence
as Democratic candidate for President.
Florida is progressing in wealth and pop
ulation more rapidly than any of the Southern
States.
- James Stephens, late head centre of the
Fenian Brotherhood of the United States,
died in Paris recently. At one time he Gre
ated quite sensation in this country.
Jefferson Davis has just lost suit for
$4,000 in court at Vicksburg, Miss. The
ex-President put in claim for that amount
against his brothers estate, and the court de-
cided against him.
There are now eight pin factories in the
United States, which make 100000 pins
daily. In addition to these the importations
of pins reach 25,000,000 daily. As these are
all easily sold, it is safe to say that y, 100000
of pins are lost daily, or $4,000 every minute.
Where they all 60 is the wonder.
A California inventor has patented con-
trivance for driving sewing machines which
does away with the treadle. A number Of
springs are moved by clockwork and gov
erned by lever so nicely that the needle may
be made to move at any rate Of speed. The
machine will run about an hour and a quarter
with one winding up.
The colored citizens of Crystal Spring,
Miss, in public meeting, have declared their
intention to withdraw from politics, to culti-
vate friendly relations with the white race, to
use all means to put down crime, to endeav-
or to produce everything necessary for their
own consumption at home, and to organize
among themselves an association similar to
that of the Patrons of Husbandry.
"A company Of twenty-one freedmen sailed
from New York in the bark Liberia, Thurs
day afternoon. They were chiefly from North
Carolina and Louisiana, and were sent out
at the expense of the American Colonization
Society. The desire to go to Liberia is stead
lily increasing, in consequence OF the letters
received from those who have previously emf
grated. The planting Of coffee in Liberia is
likely to be largely remunerative, for land
can be purchased at fifty cents an acre, and
the taxes do not exceed fifty cents on the one
hundred dollars.
The New York Herald reasons that war
with Spain would be hazardous game for
Grant to play, since the first success would
probably be on the side of the Spaniards.
They have now we'll equipped army of 216,-
900 men, while our effective army does not
exceed 10000. Spain has two hundred and
two war vessels in an efficient condition, while
our whole array Of monitors and old tubs
numbers only one hundred and sixty.six.
This disparity, the Herald admits, would be
overcome in six or eight months, but mean-
while the political contest would be decided.
The National Woman Suffrage Conven-
ton, which meets at Washington City on the
9th of the present month, will discuss the
following questions: care not women also
citizens of the Republie'-part of the people ?
On what Just ground is discrimination made
between men and women? Why should wo-
men more than men, be governed without
their consent? Why should women more
than men, be denied trial by a jury Of their
peers? On what authority are women tax
ed while unrepresented? By what right do
men declare themselves invested with power
to legislate for women?
The Rev. j. L. M. Curry. D. D., Of Rich
- mona, va, writes 4FUuf Aiexanarla Egypt:
"Many Confederate soldiers will be glad to
hear that Gen. Loring, so well known and
loved as skillful and brave officer in the
Confederate army, is stationed in this city in
command of a corps of Egyptian troops for
the defence of the whole northern coast. He
deservedly stands high in the confidence Of the
Viceroy. Some thirty American officers are
in the Khedive's service, but Gen. Loring
alone of all of them, is in actual command Of
the troops. The general is Pasha, but
knows how to make Americans fell at home
He has studied Egyptian history and polity
and the Arabic language very diligently, and
is themost thoroughly posted man l have met
He has on his staff Gen. Reynolds, brave
Confederate officer, and cordial, noble-heart
edVirginia gentleman. In the Egyptian ar
my are Gen. Stone, we'll known in Richmond
Gen. Field, of Virginia ; Col Derrick, of Hal
flax county; Col. Lockett, of Alabama, and
Others"
Ex-senator Brownlow the great third
termer, ex-Postmaster Bard, two men above
all others unsuspected of any superhuous ten
derness toward "unreconcilable rebels" unite
in condemning the attempt to make martyr
of Jefferson Davis Mr.. Brownlow says thai
while Mr. Davis was the nominal head Of the
rebellion, he was in reality it's greatest weak
ness, and so unpopular was he, that at the
close of the war, that but for his incarceration
in Fortress Monroe, he would have been hated
and despised by the Southern people. As fol
the bug bear of his return to the United States
Senate, if his disabilities are removed, Mr.
Brownlow says the step would be the death
knell of the Democratic party, and he does
not believe in standing in the way of that
Mr.. Bard thinks Mr.. Blaine's course was un
wise and unnecessary, and says of Southern
sentiment: eve can assure our Northern
contemporaries that the large majority of the
Southern people are for shaking hands and
wiping out the past. Let us all endeavol
to accomplish this, and meet at Philadelphia
and the Centennial, reunited as Of old-broth
ers of common country, with one destiny"
The recent election at Memphis, Tenn.
for municipal officers, furnished another ev.
idence that the cohesiveness for the colored
vote in the south has been broken, and that
the scheming white Radical politicians are
fast losing their power in bringing the color
ed people to the polls like "sheep to the sham
bles." At the Memphis election on Thursday
last over two thousand colored men went to
the polls and voted the entire Democratic tick
ct without solicitation, despite the fact that
light to sunset for the success of the opposi'
tion ticket The Memphis Appeal mentions
amongst the incidents Of the election, that a
we'll known colored man approached Barbour
Lewis at one ofthe polls, and embracing him
to his hearts content said: Farewell, Bar.
bour; we must part forever; may the Lord
take liking to you, for we niggers can't y
ex.Congressman Barbour Lewis, and other eS.