Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-23

eral Tor twenty-five Genus al acre. LX-Oeua-
tor Frank Arnim, of Edge6eld, was the pur-
chaser.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Bears are said to be more numerous and
destructive in the eastern part of the State
than ever before known.
Capt R. A. Shotwell has entered upon
his duties as associate editor of the Southern
Home.
The planning mill of Jonas Rudisill in
Charlotte was destroyed by fire on Thursday
morning last. Loss about $1,000.
Rev. Dr. R. Hett Chapman, of Charlotte,
has inherited large fortune by tho doath of
northern relative.
-Larkin N. Gilbert, merchant of Lenoir,
Caldwell county, died suddenly on the 10Th.
He was attacked with pain in the ear, and
died in few minutes afterward.
The fourth attempt to wreck the trains
on the Salem and Greensboro railroad was
made in the neighborhood of Friendship a
few nights ago, by placing obstructions on the
track.
The Newberne Times says the aGronaut
of the Great Eastern Circus met with a seri-
GUS accident at Kinston. The balloon, in
descending, and when about one hundred
feet from the ground, burst and came down
with crash. The man was seriously injured.
The Statesville american commends the
action of Caldwell county in voting SUBJ
scription of 100000 to the Chester and Le-
noir Railroad. And yet Statesville could
claim to be the "proper market for the pro-
ductions of the Catawba valley" with as much
consistency as the "city" of Charlotte.
The survivors of the Mexican war in
North Carolina-some two hundred in num-
ber-have formed an association, the object
being to procure pension from the U. S.
Government. The next meeting of the asso-
citation will be held at Ashevlle, on the 4th
of July.
At Shelby court last week the case Of the
State Us. Leander jolly created much interest.
Jolly was an officer of the United States and
had arrested one Noble Surratt, during the
late ku-klux unpleasantness, without war
rant. The jury found the defendant guilty,
and the penalty imposed was payment of costs.
The Greensboro Patriot speaks in COM
plimentary terms of the conduct Of Solicitor
Lusk during the recent term of the Federal
Court in that place, he having shown gene
rous disposition toward those who were unfor-
tunate enough to get into the clutches of the
law, and not praying judgment in single in
stance.
- The Lincoln Progress of Saturday last,
says: "From private letter we learn that
man answering the description of Owens, who
killed J. w. Cheek, as described in the last
Progress, has been upon Upper Creek, Burke
county, and said he was lodging the revenue
officers. He was riding good horse, and has
now gone over the mountains toward Mitchell"
The Raleigh Neus learns that G. j.
Green, of Alamance, has effected arrange
ments with the Hope Cotton Mills, of Patter-
son, N. j., for the removal of all their cotton
machinery to Hickory, Catawba county. The
erection of the necessary buildings will COM
mence at once, and the company hope to have
their machinery in operation within year.
Saturday last was the sixth and closing
day of the State Fair. The Raleigh Neaes
says that it has not only been an unpreceden-
ted success, but that it has so far out-rivalled
all of its predecessors, in every respect, that no
comparison can be instituted between them.
The only regret was that the speaker for the
occasion, Hon. Daniel VOORHEES,, of Indiana,
failed to keep his engagements, in consequence
of misconnections of trains. His place, how
ever, was ably filled by Senator Ransom.
The Newberne Times says that at the af-
ternoon performance of the Great Eastern
circus, in Kinston, on Monday of last week,
"a woman with her child went in to see the
menagerie, when the attendant present threat
ened to throw the child into the lions den, at
the same time seizing it; the child became
badly scared and in few minutes died. The
outrageous conduct of some of these circus
people, towards citizens of our city, as we'll as
in other localities visited, is such as to de-
serve the seycrest condemnation"