Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-06-24
MERE.MENTION.

Stdtc 1IcdSuICI ltluU VIC IutO1Oos
due on the bonds of the State of South Carolina,
since July ls 1867, will be paid on and after July
lst, at the Treasury office at Columbia. '''''Two
colored persons have been recently appointed
Clerks in the Charleston post Office. ''''''Dr. P.
NJ Wallace, editor of the Spartanburg Gazette,
died in that town on the 1lth instant. An
insurance agent recently visited Kershaw county,
and in one weeks time received applications for
policies amounting to over quarter of million
ofdollars ''''''''The Postmaster General has re-
Gently established post:ofice at Nsh-Dam Tn
ion county, and appointed Mrs. N. S. Stokes post
mistress 'Barnwen is said to be one of the
richest counties in the State '''''''On Saturday
last, number of boxes Of peaches were shipped to
New York from Charleston. 1.-THE measles
are going the rounds in Charleston '''''''The rate
of taxation in Brooklyn this year, is four per cent
in New York, two per cent. The non-tax- paying
Legislature of South Carolina has put it to the
unfortunate tax payers at the rate of one hundred
and fre per cent '''''."'A negro woman in one of
the southern counties Of this State, recently gave
birth to twins-one white and the other black.
This is social equality with vengeance. '''''"B.
Oden Blanton, ESQ.,, of Newbery has been ap-
pointed Consul Of the United States at Naples.
The Union Pacific Rail Road takes passengers
from Omaha to Promontory Point, 1000 miles, in
sixty hours The fare across the continent is one
hundred and sixty-fve dollars. Reversible
parasols, which close with the lining outside, are
the newest things in this article ''''.Corn is SELL
ing IN Texas at ten cents bushel''''.''"A reward
is offered by western farmers for a grasshopper
trap. '..'''Texas has planted hundreds of acres
of the castor bean, and is preparing to physic the
whole nation. '''.''.A religious paper in Kentucky
contends that Christians should not only not make
and sell whiskey, but should not even raise corn
for that purpose '''''''A junk dealer on Cape Cod
tried to melt the lead out of the end of q bomb
shell the other day in his kitchen stove. He spoil
ed~a pot of beans in the operation. '''"''"Rev.
Joseph Cross, D. D., formerly Of the Methodist
Church, but now of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, has been called from Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
to the Rectorship of St. Johns, Buffalo, New
York. 1.-THE State Convention Of the Radical
party Of Texas has adopted resolution in favor
of enfranchising the whites now disfanchised.
A negro ecturing in Georgia, asserts that Adam
was yellow man. We know an incredulous fel-
low says he wasn't any such Adam thing. .''''''''A
Kentucky paper objects to the word "croquet' as
too Frenchy, and wishes the game to be called
Presbyterian billiards. ''''''Besides the thirteen
railroads now centering in Chicago, seventeen 9TH
ers are building which will have terminus in that
city. ''...''The New Jersey railroad is at present
transporting over its line two hundred and forty
tons of strawberries day. ''''It is said that the
guauo islands are nearly exhausted. In few
months these islands will be deserted, and then all
the ships now engaged in the trade will make for
the Guanape islands, five degrees south Of the
equator ''''''"'A gentleman died in Chicago last
week leaving life insurance policies to the amount
of $3.50, 900. "''''There are 5000 printing houses
in the United States, of which New York State
has All. ."'''''.'Wendell Phillips is now champion.
ing the cause Of the Indians, and advises them to
seek redress against the United States by tearing
up the Pacific railway. ''''.There were 4l6 deaths
279 births and 43S persons married in New York
city last week. There were 1873 deaths in Brook
lyn '..'''Wine is cheaper than milk in some parts
of California. '''''''''The town of Quitman, Geor
gia, which was laid out in 1850, has now 1000 in
habitants.
The Florida Legislature has ratified the Fifteenth
amendment. .''""'Imitation calicoes, made Of pa
per, are sold in England. '''''".A remonstranct
against the appointment Of "visible-admixture
men to Office, addressed to President Grant, ha:
received 5000 signatures in New York. '''''''The
Methodists are said to be building an average Of
one and half church edi6ces day. ''''''''Johr
H. Surratt, the victim of Radical oppression, ha:
opened general commission house at No. 80
] LIGHT St. Wharf. Baltimore. ....".Thomas G.