Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-03
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


trees about that town are now in full bloom.
There will be in the next Legislature,
says the Raleigh Nesus, 16 colored members,
in the Senate and II in the House.
"A lady living near Salisbury, in attempt
ing to rescue pet dog, was struck by an en-
CINE on the N. G. railroad one day last week
and instantly killed.
A still.house was burnt in Forsythe coun'
ty last week, the loss to the owner amounting
to one hundred and fifty dollars. What the
community will save by tie accident has not
yet been estimated.
- Should Attorney General Williams be
sent to the United States Senate from his
State it is rumored that Hon. S. F. Phillips,
of North Carolina, will be called to fill the
vacancy in the Cabinet of President Grant
Capt. Obadiah Woodson, well-known
printer, and who in the latter part of his life
had filled several important positions of hon.
or and trust in his county, died at his home
in Salisbury on the 18th ultimo, aged fifty
seven years.
Deep River, in Randolph county, on
which stream are located five cotton factories
within space of fifteen miles, is lower than
it has been since 1916. Great drouth pre-
walls, and the people have to 60 distance of
twenty miles to get their grinding done.
The Hickory Tavern Eagle says that one
day last week negro boy in that vicinity
fell from load of hay on the prongs Of a
pitchfork which he held in his hands and one
of the prongs pierced entirely through his
neck without inhicting death. He will re-
cover.
The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Company have consummated lease Of the
N. G. Road from Goldsboro to Greensboro,
which arrangement, it is thought, will result
benefcially to the eastern and western Sec
tions of the State, insuring close connections at
Goldsboro, and more prompt delivery Of
freight entrusted to that line.
George Shipwash, one of the prisoners
who escaped from Yadkin jail some time ago,
has been recaptured. His crime was larceny,
for which he was tried last week and senten-
ced to the penitentiary for four years. Ship
wash is considered kind of desperate. He
was sentenced to be shot three times during
the war, but made his escape each time, and
since the war has broken Jail several times.
On Friday morning last the mail train
on the Wilmington and Weldon railroad ran
off the track about eight miles from Colds
boro, three of the passenger cars being pre-
cipitated down an embankment. The cars
were wrecked, but fortunately no one was
either killed or badly wounded. Several of
the passengers received slight injuries, how
ever, among them W. J. Smith, Of Abbeville,
S.. C.
Charles Hammer, negro, was tried for
horse-stealing at the last term of Greensboro
court, and sentenced to the penitentiary for
ten years. Another negro who voted the
Conservative ticket at last election was prose
cuted on charge of stealing hoe two years
ago, and convicted and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for one year; and crowd Of radical
negroes who created riot in High Point
few weeks ago, endangering the lives Of men
and women, were tried and fined one dollar
each.
On Monday of last week Oscar j. McFee
was arrested at Charlotte, and Joseph Baker
at Salisbury, by a United States detective,
charged with counterfeiting. About $500 in
counterfeit gold coin was traced to McFee,
and a smaller amount to Baker. One hun
dred mouldings for coming were found in the
possession of McFee and smaller number in
the possession of Baker. The arrested par
ties were taken to Greensboro, and after
hearing before Judge Dick, McFee was bound
over in the sum of $4,000 and Baker in the
sum of $1,000 to appear at the next term of
the District Court at Greensboro, beginning
on Monday next. In default Of bail McFee
was remanded to Jail. He is Canadian by
birth, but for the past few years has lived in
Texas