Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-31
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
IS. W. Craig, worthy citizen of Castor
county, died at South Point on the 20th in
stant
Warren Kirkpatrick, charged with burn.
ing the barn of A. G. Reid, of Mecklenburg
county, has been acquitted.
- The engineers of the Fayetteville and
Florence railroad are rapidly surveying and
locating the line of the proposed road.
- The Hickory Press says that Messrs
Ellis & Shuford will soon erect cotton fac
tory on the Catawba river near that town.
- Hon. Daniel w. VOORHEES,, of Indiana,
has accepted the invitation to deliver the an.
nual address before the State Agricultural So
ciety at the approaching Fair.
- The interest on the State debt including
that on special tax bonds, will, on the 1st of
October next, the close Of the fiscal year,
amount to the enormous sum of $S ,038, ,904.15.
A farmer in Halifax countyhas one thou
sand acres of low land in clover An acre
will yield a ton, which is worth $50. After
a good stand of clover is obtained, it requires
but little or no labor.
A white man, named Penner, killed a
negro at divers, in CASTOR county, on Fri
day of last week. Penner attempted to es-
cape, but was pursued and captured in Char
lotte.
- The Fair of the Carolinas, to be held in
Charlotte, will begin on the 25th of Novem-
Der and continue for five days. The Observer
says great preparations are being made to
have it the best and most attractive fair that
has yet been held in Charlotte.
- The musical genius of Jackson Massey, a
blind boy of CASTOR county, is attracting con-
siderable attention. He is only ten years of
age, and the skill with which he performs on
the piano is said to be remarkable. From
the Observer we learn that he gave two sue
cessful concerts in Charlotte last week.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the North Western North Carolina Rail
road Company was held in Greensboro on the
oath. The road is completed to Salem. Col.
A. S. Buford was elected President, and was
authorized to take immediate steps to extend
the road through the Yadkin valley to Ten
nessee.
- The Milton Chronicle says threshing
machine belonging to Sidney Lea, Of Caswell
county, exploded on Saturday last, while rum
ming at rapid rate, and knocked down eight
men, two of whom were wounded, it is thought,
mortally. The teeth of the cylinder were
sent through the roof of the barn with great
violence.
Ono night last week drunken negro
named Lamb was committed to the Robson
county Jail in Lumberton, for disorderly con-
duct on the streets, and next morning was
found dead. Upon the examination of the
other prisoners, it was ascertained that Lamb
was murdered by his roommate, a white man
named Baxter No cause is assigned for the
deed.
- On Saturday of last week, while John
Ewing and his son John, who were engaged
in digging a we'll near Charlotte, were pre-
pairing to make blast at depth Of 80 feet
below the surface, a premature explosion took
place, hurling the men, with thousands OF
fragments frock, from the bottom of the
well into the air above Both men were Sc
riously injured.
speaking of the survey of the proposed
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge railroad
the Hickory Press says: "rhe distance from
Yorkville to Lenoir by dirt road is 824 miles
The first line surveyed by Col. Gardner fo
the narrow gauge road makes the distance 8;
miles-saving J mile. The line now being
surveyed will shorten the distance three o.
four miles or more We understand Colone
Gardner says that for several miles between
the Catawba river and Lenoir the cross tie
can be laid without any grading. DIR. Dave
ga estimates the cost of building and equip
ping the road at $1,000 per mile. The pros
poets of this road grow brighter every day
There is manifestly change of sentiment il
its favor