Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-13

ton, gave certificate that death was caused
by the fatty degeneration of the heart, and
the jury so found"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Rutherford county will soon have a cot
ton factory in operation.
- The N. G. Railroad company has reduced
the number of the employees of the road, and
also reduced, ten per cent, the wages of those
retained in employment
Peter Staley, an old man of II years,
charged with the murder of Jacob Capp in
Guilford county last spring, has been ar.
rested in Illinois, to which State he escaped,
and brought back for trial.
The forty counterfeiters in jail at Ashe.
vile nearly effected an escape last week week
by removing some of the gratings with case
knife The act was detected in time to frus.
trate the scheme.
The Indictment of Ex-Governor Holden
for alleged ofenses committed during the
Kirk war, in making the arrest of Josiah
Turner, junior, was dismissed at the recent
term of Orange Superior Court, the Judge
ruling that the defendant was entitled to i'm.
munity under the amnesty act passed by the
last legislature.
- In aluding to the recent arrest of coun.
terfeiters in North Carolina, the Greensboro
New North State says that the section in which
they operated is so full of counterfeit money
that business is almost stagnated, and that
several of the small country merchants have
been almost ruined by receiving so much of it.
The Raleigh Neus says it is rumored in
that city that the lease of the North Carolina
railroad will be surrendered in a few days,
and a consolidation of that road with the
Western North Carolina and the Atlantic
and North Carolina roads is being fixed up,
with Hon. w. A. Smith as President.
- The Charlotte Observer learns that a
disastrous fire occurred in Shelby on Thurs
day night last D. w. Durham's dwelling,
next to W. P. Loves brick store, caught fire
and was burnt down. The fire communicated
from this house to McArthur's bar-room, and
from this to T. Dickson's store-house. From
Dickson's store it extended to his dwelling
and all were consumed. A heavy rain was
falling all the time, and it is owing to this
fact alone that the main part Of Shelby was
saved. The origin of the fire is not known
From statistics published in the Raleigh
Neus, it appears that North Carolina produ
ced last year IA, ,431 bales of cotton, II, ,150,
OBJ pounds of tobacco and %, ,758, ,490 bushels
of corn. Edgecomb is the largest cotton-pro
ducing county in the State, having reached
last year, 1S,361 bales There are twenty
counties in the State that raise no cotton al
all. Caswell takes the lead in tobacco and
Lenoir produced 100000 bushels of corn
standing at the head of the list. Chatham
has the largest yield of wheat, showing q
product of 156,753 bushels.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The majority of the mills at Fall River
Mass, are working on half time.
-Thirty.6ve Chinese have arrived at Au
gusta, Ca, having been engaged to work on
the canal. More are expected to come in a
few days.
- Conner, the type.founder of New York
was elected sheriff of New York county, on
the Democratic ticket, by a majority of 25,
900.
Right Rev. John Early, D. D., Bishop
of the M E. Church, South, died in Lynch.
burg, Va, on the 5th instant, aged eighty.
eight.
- The Bridgeport, New Jersey, Board Of
Education have passed resolution denying
the admission of colored children to the pub.
lie school.
In Newark, New Jersey, of 5000 jewel.
lers, 5000 are now idle. The Domestic Sew.
ing Machine company of the same city has
discharged 223 employees.
AN attempt was made last week, to burn
the town of Lebanon, Penn. The town was
fired in FIVE places, and property to the value
of $4,000 was burned.
Gen. w. j. Hardee died at Wytheville,
Va, on the morning of the 9th. His remains
were taken to Selma, Ala, the place of his
home, for interment.
The President has ordered that the Mo.
docs be located on the Indian Territory. The
estimates for the support of the Indian bureau
amount to seven millions, an increase of two
millions.
"A Washington dispatch says the Post
master General is quite confident of the adop-
ton of his postal savings bank system. He
has encouraging letters from many Congress-
men.
Cairo, Illinois, has elected female to the
office of School Superintendent. There were
two female candidates and several male can
didates; but the contest was between the la
dies-the males receiving only few votes.
! 49, Ten mills of various kinds, near Phila-
delphia, employing 100 hands, have suspend
ed entirely. Gen. Patterson's mill, employ
ing 500 hands, is yet running full time at a
reduction of Is per cent. in wages.
/ The Southern Claims Commission will
meet in Washington about the middle of De-
cember to report to Congress on twenty-five
hundred claims, being three or four hundred
more than last year. The amount involved