Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-22
MERE-MENTION.


vile, has been appointed Solicitor of the
Southern Circuit, by Governor ORR. ''.''.
Rev. H. G. PARSONS, of the South Caro-
lima Methodist Conference, died at Wades.
borough, N. G., on Monday of last week
......".General JOHN S. PRESTON has re-
turned to Columbia, from his European
trip. He is in good health and spirits. 80.
I'VE learn from Georgia exchange
that the wheat crop in that State is very
promising. ......'..'ANDERsoN, of Missouri,
has introduced constitutional amendment
to change the name of the Government
from "the United States" to "America "
-.....".The New York Tribune says the
municipal election at Reading, Pennsylya,
MIA, last Friday, resulted in the success of
the Democratic ticket by over 200 majority.
.........Dr. Abernethy used to tell his pu-
pills that all human diseases sprang from two
-stufing and fretting. .....'.".Gov.
Jenkins, at the request of the ladies of
Miledgevile, has issued an appeal to the
ladies Of Georgia to contribute one dollar
each for the relief of the wife of ex-Presi.
dent. DAVIS. .'........Two papers in the
Southern States are now edited and publish
ed by negroes-the Colored Tennesseean,
by Scott, Waring & Co., and the True
Con,municator, at Baltimore, by Williams
& Cook. ......"..Gen. GRANT has issued an
order dated February S, 1866, in which he
revokes all orders previously issued, grant
ing transportation to furloughed soldiers.
1t is stated that the judges of the United
States Supreme Court are equally divided
on the question of the constitutionality of
the test oath. .........The Jail at Darlington,
South Carolina, was set on fire and burnt
by some of the prisoners Cd the 7th. None
of the prisoners escaped. .....'....A bill to
authorize the construction of dam at Xii.
bourn Wis, is alluded to in the Legislature
as "that dam bill. ."......The oldest news
paper in America is the Gazette and Chron-
icle, published in New Hampshire. 1t has
just completed its l09th year. '.''''Black's
inhumanity to black makes negroes mourn
.........CATEsBY JONES, late of the Con-
federate Navy, passed through Panama, re
Gently, en- route for Chill, where be is to
have a commission in the Chiliau Navy.
'.......A movement is on foot at Washing.
ton to unite the union democrats and con-
servative republicans of the country into a
new party, to be called the national union
party, and to support the Presidents policy.
A mass meeting is advertised to take place
to day.
The friends of Messrs. STANTON, HAR.
Lam and Attorney.GeneraI SPEED, say that
these gentlemen will resign their positions
in the Cabinet, if the Presideuo vetoes the
negro bureau bill. .........Gen. R. E. LEE,
a few days since was examined for several
hours before the Reconstruction Committee.
.........The demand for corn by the South,
next season, will afford an immense trade
for the West The attention of the South
being again turned to cotton, the West
must supply it with breadstuffs, and this in.
tercourse will create union that STEVENS
and SUMNER cannot destroy. '''.'''.'A civ
il court in Houston, Texas, recently fined
restaurant keeper $50, and bound him
over in $1,000, for Aogging negro waiter.
.'.'.....At a meeting of the Stockholders,
in Charleston, few days since, W. j. Ma
oRATH, Esq, was reelected President of
the South Carolina Rail Road Company.
.........The Richmond Eraminer has been
suppressed by the military authorities.-
All the manuscripts in the Office were seiz-
ed.