Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-24
MERE.MENTION.

John L. Langston, negro of Oberlin, Ohio, has
been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court.
This is the second instance Missouri has sub
mitted her bill of expensesfor calling outand equip
ping State troops during the war 1t amounts to
81, ,OOO, 900, or $l,OOO,OOO less than was at first
claimed. .'...An American citizen is now taxed
about four times as much as citizen Of Eng,
land. ...."...Almost every decade in our country
history, ending with the figure 7, has marked the
beginning of financial crash or severe depres'
sion. .'.''"!The net debt of New York city and
county is $3O 9Ol 1878, or about $42. SO to each In
habitant. '...'".''None but the brave deserve the
fair" No, and none but the brave can live with
some of them Bradley johnson, Of Richmond,
formerly Confederate General, has been admitted
to practice in the Supreme Court, under the rule
abolshing the test OATH 1.-The New York Her.
aid says that reconstruction by the territorial the
ory would necessitate the assumption of the debts
of the Southern States. "'..''The Atlanta InteVi:
qencer has been informed by the Comptroller Gen
eral of Georgia, that the law does not require that
revenue stamps shall be placed on notes, receipts,
orders, &c., wherein the State is party '''''''A
Bill has been introduced into the House Of Repre-
sentatves of Nebraska, to strike the word white,
from the Constitution of that State '''''''A tele-
graphic dispatch says that the Tennessee Leglsla-
ture will, undoubtedly, at an early day, pass law
extending suffrage to the freedmen.
At Natchez, Miss, the freedmen have bought a
church property for $4,000, paying $4,000 down,
and the rest they agree to pay in ten months.
The Confederate General Sterling Price apd family,
arrived at St. Louis from Mexico, on the y tn in,
slant. ...'.'..A New York court has just decided
that husband having two wives is liable for goods
sold to both of them '''''''sBi Arp is Mayor Of
Rome, Georgia. 1.-THE passage of the District
suffrage bill will confer the privilege Of voting on
about 5000 negroes in and around Washington.
'''''''.A disgusted editor thinks Mexico would be
better off if Napoleon and Seward were both in Par,
adise. Yes, but how would the citizens Of Para
disc like it ?'.'"."N. p Willis, the poet, and edi-
tor of the Home Journal, died in New York on
Monday last ''''-New York rejoices in seven citi-
zens whose collective wealth is estimated at $780,
OOO OOO .''.''''Georgia has provided for the edu'
cation of her INDECENT and MANNED soldiers ''''''
There were 10000 marriages in Ohio during last
year about 5000 more than in any previous
wear. ut is believed that the emigrationto A
merica from Irelandand the Continent, the coming
spring and SUMNER will be the greatest on re-
cord. .'''''.An NJ. D. hasbeen lecturing in Peters
burg, Virginia, on the Disease called Love-" O1
course he recommended matrimony as cure, ''''''
Cincinnati ''steam refined lard" is made from car
casses of hogs that die without the butcher
aid. "...'.In Genoa there are regular marriage
brokers who have memorandum books filed with
the names of the marriagebale girls of the different
classes, with notes of their figures, personal attrac
tons, fortunes and other circumstances ''.''A bill
has been introduced in Congress by Mr.. Noel to al
low the women of the District to vote. ''''A lite
rary man, on retiring into private life, said his con-
necton with the press had thawed, and resolved it
self into 'sadieu."