Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-03
MERE.MENTJON.

Thomas Whitesides, Esq, of York District, S.
c., has been appointed by the Governor, Agent
for the Catawba Indians. This tribe numbers
some forty males The Legislature made an ap-
preparation at the late session, of $780, for sup
plying the wants of these Indians ..'"''."B. Rush
Campbell, Esq, of Laurens, Past Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons, has
been appointed Grand Lecturer for the State Of
South Carolina '''''''':Dr. Benz C. Fishburn, Of
Georgetown, S. G., has been appointed Surgeon
General of the State, in the place of Dr. Robert
w. Gibbes, deceased '''''''''Miss Mary F. Hamp-
ton, Gen. Wade Hampton's youngest sister, died
recently, in Columbia. .''''''''A Masonic Lodge has
been instituted in Charleston, composed of colored
persons 1t is under the control of Northern
Grand Lodge. The names of the officers elect for
the current year, appear in the Charleston Neaos.
.'''""About two hundred and fifty freedmen left
Charlotte, N. c., last week, for Texas. '''''''The
Washington correspondent of the New York Herald
says that the Congressional Committee in the case
of Union soldiers murdered in South Carolina, will
not proceed to Anderson to investigate the charges
alleged, on the ground that they are not founded
in fact Miss Pauline, daughter of Col j. D.
Ashmore, of Greenville, was burned to death near
Bishopville, in Sumter District, on the 22nd ult.
.....".A Washington dispatch of Saturday last,
says that the Supreme Court has decided against
the constitutionality of the test oath. The opinion
will not be delivered for some days.
The centre of the United States is 100 miles west
of Fort Riley, Kansas '''''''''While physician
was working over young lady who had suddenly
tainted in the streets of GAINESVILLE, Ohio it was
found necessary to remove eleven pairs of stocking
legs and one pair of hose before he could restore
circulation through her pedal extremities. '''''.A
clergyman in Cincinnati has preached twenty-sev-
en- barrels full of sermons '''''One of the Cotton
mills in England produces eighteen miles of cloth
day. '''''''"There is one association in New York
forthe advancement of science and art and thous-
and for the advancement of immortality and crime
...Judge Busted, of the United States Dis
trict Court at Huntsville, Alabama, has instructed
his Grand Jury ito find true bills for treason a.
gainst persons who defame the Congress of the u
nited States "'''''''''A French Court has decided
that the epithet female" applied to woman,
constitutes an insult ''.'.'.A boiler exploded at
Memphis blowing the engineer out of sight He
will receive SIS a day from life insurance compa-
ny until he comes down. 1T was recently proved,
in an arbitrated case in Patterson that the profits
of the New Jersey Locomotive and Manufacturing
Company, for the last three years. were over $780,
600.
There are now seventy-eight manufactures of
cotton, calico and woollen goods in Georgia. ''''
The city of Atlanta is laid out in the form of Cir
Gle, to signify that it had no beginning and is to
have no end. '''''''''Some negroes in Boston have
voted for the Democratic tickets. There is great
hub-hub at the ''Hub'' about it, and the papers
think that powerful argument against the ne