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

seal.d envelope, directed to the Speaker of the
House, by whom they will be opened on the
day of the organizing of the Legislature
An effort is being made to establish an
orphan asylum at Oxford. The subject of
establishing an asylum for inebriates has also
been discussed. The State Medical Society
at its last session strongly recommended such
an institution.
DR.. j. Brinton Smith, teacher in Raj
eigh, died very suddenly one morning last
week, just after taking seidlitz powder.
Suspicious are entertained that he was pois-
oned, and the stomach of the deceased has
been sent to Philadelphia for examination.
Mr.. Jackson Scales, long and favorably
known by the travelling public as proprietor
of the Southern Hotel at Greensboro, died
suddenly near Houston, Texas, on the 18th
ultimo. His hotel was destroyed by fire last
summer, and he removed to Texas with the
view of bettering his fortune.
Forty y-eight colored youths left Green's
boro on Sunday night for Hampton, Va, at
which place they are to be educated at the
expense and under the direction of an English
society of Friends for teachers-this being the
condition on which they are to be educated
gratuitously.
The Raleigh Neus learns that Judge Merri-
mon has indicted Hon. John Pool for the cir
culation of campaign document headed
"Read and Circulate" which was extensively
circulated under Pools frank during the GU
bernatorial canvass, and contained gross per-
sonal reflections on the private character of
the Democratic candidate for Governor.
- The case of Thomas Gilchrist, charged
with the killing of w. B. McClennan in Ro-
beson county few weeks ago, came up under
writ of habeas corpus before Judge Russell
in Wilmington on Saturday last, and after a
full hearing of all the circumstances of the
case, the prisoner was released absolutely and
without condition from further arrest.
"A Raleigh merchant has brought suit
against the telegraph company on the follow
ing grounds: He had cotton in store with a
firm North, awaiting his orders. He tele-
graphed, "Hold cotton" The operator in
Baltimore, in repeating the dispatch sent
from Raleigh, made it read "Sold cotton
The consequence is the firm North sold the
cotton, whereby loss was sustained.
"A knotty question arises in Catawba
county. A number of persons of that county
are bound over, on charges of ku-kluxing, to
the United States Circuit Court, which con-
venes in Statesville on the third Monday of
this month, who are likewise bound, with diff
ferent securities, to the Superior Court Of
Lincoln county, which convenes at the same
time.
Congress, at its last session, established a
United States Court for the Western District
of North Carolina, but failed to make any
provision for the appointment of United
States Marshal. As no Court could be held
without a Marshal, and no money could be
drawn from the treasury to pay the expenses
of the Court in the absence of such officer, to
meet this unexpected emergency, Marshal
Carrow, of the Eastern District, has been ap'
pointed disbursing agent Of the Department
Of Justice, and under this appointment has
drawn $4,000 to defray the expenses of the
Court. This makes s249,000 as the total
amount drawn during the past twelve months
for this purpose. Heretofore the annual ex'
penses of the Federal Courts in North Caro-.
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