Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-21
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


At the recent term of CASTOR Superior
Court, Judge Logan presiding, His Honor
especially charged the grand jury on the sub
ject of ku-kluxing, conspiracy, &c.
York baltimore and Jerry Thompson,
colored, convicted at the last term of Ruth.
erford Superior Court for the murder of Sam
uel Martin, colored, in March last, we're hang
ed at Rutherford on Friday.
james W. Elliott was convicted at the last
term of Davidson Superior Court of killing
Jesse Harris, and sentenced to be hung De-
cember 10th. An appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court.
Charlotte has had two cases of small pox,
the first case having been brought there by a
railroad conductor. The Democrat says the
two cases are almost entirely we'll, and no new
case has occurred.
The Legislature met on Monday last and
organized Col. James 7. Morehead, of Gull.
ford, was elected Speaker of the Senate to
hold that position until the Inauguration of
the Lieutsnant-Governor; and James L.
Robinson, of Macon, was made Speaker Of
the House.
Among the agricultural implements ex-
hibited at the fair at Wilmington, was cot
ton picking machine, which, it is claimed,
will do the work of ffty-two hands. The
machine was tested in a cotton field near the
grounds, but the report of the committee has
not yet been published.
David Cloninger, living near Catawba
Station, was arrested few days ago upon a
United States Commissioners warrant and
bound over to the U. S. District Court on a
charge of violating the internal revenue laws,
his oHense consisting in paying a neighbor
three twists of homemade tobacco for splitting
a few rails.
-Messrs. J. Y. Bryce & Co., and B. R.
Smith & Co., two Charlotte firms engaged in
business in Boston, lost their Office and Office
furniture, by the recent fire in the latter city.
It is understood that the books, papers, etc.,
belonging to the business of each of these
firms were saved. No cotton was destroyed
by the fire belonging to either Of these firms.
The decision of the coroner's jury in the
case of the Rev. DR.. j. Brinton Smith, who
died in Raleigh on the morning of the 1st
ultimo, was rendered on the 18th instant,
after the reception Of the report Of DR.. Geuth,
of Philadelphia, who made chemical analy-
sis of the stomach and brains of the deceased.
Traces of poison are alleged to have been
found, sufficient to confirm the suspicious at
first entertained, that DR.. Smith had been
poisoned, and his wife and daughter have
been arrested and committed to jail on the
charge of having administered the fatal dose.
The case excites much interest in Raleigh on
account of the high social position of the
parties. DR.. Smith was northern man, and
has been resident of Raleigh for the past
four or five years. He was President Of st.
Augustine College, (colored) and an able and
distinguished Episcopal minister. He is said
to have been gentleman Of rare intellectual
endowments, and had many friends and ad-
n,irers in Raleigh. The accused had hear
ing before Judge Watts on Saturday last, and
we're discharged on the ground that there was
no evidence against them.
The New Tax LEvY.-The following is
the full text of the circular issued by Comp
troller-General Neagle to the various County
Auditors, directing the tax levy:
You are hereby authorized and directed, in
accordance with the provisions of law on this
subject, to levy the following taxes on all
taxable property in your county: To meet
appropriations for the fiscal year commencing
November 1, 1871, six mills on dollar; for
the support of public schools, two mills on
dollar for payment of the interest accruing
prior to January 1, 1873, on the following
bonds and stocks Bonds and stocks outstand-
ing on the 1st November, 1870, as shown by
Comptroller Generals report for the fiscal
year ending 31st October, 1870, 81 ,665, ,9O8.9S;
balance of new bonds in hands Of the Finan-
cial Agent of the State on the above date,
and since sold for the benefit of the State,
$2,200,000-total, s9,865,9O8.98. And such
others as may have been issued in exchange
for any of the above, under Conversion Act
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