Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-03
NORTH CAROLINA JEWS.

OF 1871, being an average increase 1or 1918 OF
II per cent. over 1872.
NORTH CAROLINA Jews.
Saint Johns Day was appropriately OBJ
served by the Masons generally throughou
the State.
- Johnstone Jones, Esq, editor of the Char.
lotte Observer, was married in the Episcopal
Church of that city on Thursday evening last
to Miss Bette Waters Miller.
speaking of Col. Aiken's success in North
Carolina, Evans, of the Milton Chronicle
claims to have always been pattern of hus'
bandry, and refers to Mrs. E.
The Fayetteville papers think the road
from that town to Florence, S. c., will be a
success. The directors of the company have
ordered estimates Of the cost.
| - The commencement exercises at David.
son College passed off very satisfactory last
week. The attendance of visitors was large
and the graduating class numbered more than
any previous commencement for several years
We learn from the Piedmont Press that
new mail route from Hickory to Wilkes
boro, went into operation last Tuesday and
that the route from Catawba Station to JEFF
ferson, Ashe county, has also been re0pened
The recent decision of the Supreme Court
to the effect that the homestead law Of the
State will hold good against debts contracted
previous to the enactment of the law, will be
regarded by the inferior courts as decisive, un'
til it shall be reversed by the United States
Supreme Court.
A suit originating in the Superior Court
of Catawba county, three years ago, and
moved to Burke for trial-involving dana.
ges sustained in mule "swap''-was decided
last week. The plaintiff recovered one dol
lar damages, and the costs of the suit will ap-
proximate six hundred dollars.
"A number of the soldiers of the garrison
at Smithvile gave variety entertainment
and concert on Thursday evening for the
benefit of the Methodist church of that place,
which the Wilmington Star says was credit
able effort, and with the same laudable object
in view their performance is to be repeated.
As an evidence of the influence exerted
by internal improvements in developing the
industrial resources of a country, already has
the Horse Ford Shoal water power, (Which
is Immediately on the projected line of the
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, }
been purchased by a strong company of capi'
talists, who will erect an extensive cotton
mill and the necessary tenement houses and
other buildings sufficient in themselves to
constitute handsome village.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
- Hiram Powers, the famous American
culptor, died at Florence on Thursday last
jesse R. Grant, father of the President
died at Covington, KY, on Monday.
There were ten cholera deaths in Nash
Vile on Monday, and seven in Cincinnati on
Sunday.
- The business portion of the town Of
Thomasville Ca, was destroyed by fire on
Monday. The loss sustained is over s15O,oOO
- Eight hundred thousand dollars in specie
we're shipped from New York to Europe last
Saturday.
The New York Ni6,me's Boston cor
respondent says B. F. Butler will receive the
nomination for Governor Of Massachusetts.
- The jury in the Kellogg assassination case
in New Orleans rendered verdict of moi
guilty. The man charged with the crime is
young lawyer, native of Charleston.
"A Little Rock, Arkansas, letter says rains
have fallen necessarily for forty-si days, inun
dating the lowlands and prairies, and utterly
running the cotton crop along the Memphis
and Little Rock railroad.
- The effects of the Alden Typc-setting Ma
chine Company were sold at auction in New
York recently for $4,000. The inventor hac
sunk over half a million of dollars in his ef
forts to perfect the invention.
The leaders of the McEnry party in Lou
isiana say if there is to be new election ir
that State, they desire and prefer that it bt
exclusively under the control of the Fedora
Government.
Col. Tom Scott, the railroad king, ha'
perfected an arrangement for new through
route from New York to Washington, ane
work has been commenced upon it. Two
through trains daily, morning and evening
will run over the road.
The Superior Court Of New York, il
general term, OH Saturday, affirmed the judg
mcnt against the Broadway street railroad
company, awarding $4,000 to the widow o