Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-27
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Col. William Bingham, OF the bingham
School at Mebaneville, died of consumption IL
few days ago in Gainesville, Florida.
"A colony of Canadians have purchased a
large tract of land in Guilford county, on
which they will locate.
The United States troops stationed at diff:
ferent points in the State have received or.
ders to move to Fort Randall, Dakota.
All the proposed constitutional amend
ments, except that relating to public charities,
have passed their third and final readings in
the Legislature. ..
- Sergeant Clemmons, of the garrison sta.
toned at Charlotte, committed suicide by
drinking vial of laudauum. on Tuesday
night of last week.
- The Charlotte Observer learns that a
bridge in course of construction across Yad.
kin river, between Jonesville and Elkin, was
washed away by the recent frshet
"A youthful impostor representing himself
as a son of Gen. Wade Hampton, Of South
Carolina, was arrested in Weldon last week
He had previously been operating in Norfolk
and Portsmouth.
H. E. Stilley, senator from Beaufort coun'
ty, has been arranged before the county com
missioners on a charge of embezzeling the sum
of nine hundred dollars of the Peabody fund
which he had drawn for the purpose of paying
to teachers.
- The Hickory Tavern Press says the Ca.
tawba River Baptist Association have projec.
ted the enterprise of building Female Col
lege in the town of Hickory. Elder S. Head
has been appointed agent to solicit subscrip'
tions, and is meeting with much success.
The Rutherford Record tells US of man
in that county who went to the election and
voted on the same day that his wife died and
of another man who had three wives in one
year, and is now living with the fourth one.
The Record asks deprecatingly, or exultant'
1--WE don't know which-if any county in
the State can furnish parallel.
At meeting of the North Carolina bond
holders, held in New York the other day, a
committee was appointed to institute legal
proceedings to secure the payment of the in
terest on the bonds. 1t is claimed by the
North Carolina papers that the meeting was
composed of the Swepson ring of bond-hold'
ers, who having obtained their bonds by fraud,
as is alleged, are growing restive under the
fear that they will never be paid.
In the Superior Court of New Hanover
county, last week, the first mortgage bond
holders of the Wilmington, Charlotte & Ruth
erford r. K. Company, obtained decree Of
foreclosure in the Superior Court. The coun-
ty holders compromised with number Of the
creditors of the road, who were resisting the
foreclosure. Three commissioners were ap-
pointed to sell the road, after giving forty
days notice. The bondholders assert that
they will complete the road to Charlotte by
January l, 1874.
At Greensboro, on the 20th instant, the
case of Sibly and others against the Western
North Carolina railroad came up before Judge
Dick in the United States District Court, in
chambers, on motion of Governor Caldwell for
an appeal. The motion was granted, and
bond given in the sum of s20O,0O0-injunc-
tion having been served on the State treasurer
restraining him from signing the bond. Pri,
vate parties signed the bond, and S. Med.
Tate was appointed temporary receiver of the
road. This action will at least delay the sale
Of the road.