Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-09
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

"A woolen factory is proposed in Ashevllle
and subscriptions of stock are being made fo1
that purpose.
The Federal Court, Judge Dick presi'
ding, commenced its sittings in Greensboro
on Monday last
Capt. Nat Atkinson, of Buncombe coun'
ty, will have on exhibition one hundred va
rieties of apples at the State fair.
The black lead mines near Raleigh, sue
cessfully worked during the war, are to be
reopened and operated by company ofnorth'
ern capitalists.
The village of Milton has voted a SUBJ
scription of $4,000 to the proposed railroad
from that place to Sutherlin's Mill on Dan
river
Governor Caldwell has appointed a spe.
cial term of Guilford Superior Court, to con-
vene on the 9th of December, for the trial Of
both civil and criminal cases. Judge Henry
will preside.
The Sycamore Falls Mill property, on
Haw river, near Company Shops, has been
purchased by G. w. Swepson, who intends to
erect cotton factory on the premises at an
early day.
The Charlotte Observer learns that the
widow of the late DR.. Joseph Ross, Of that
county, an aged lady, while laboring under
temporary fit of insanity, committed suicide
by drowning herself on Friday morning last
Hon. A. NJ Waddell, of Wilmington
by research among old documents and pa
pers has collated facts going to prove that
the Cape Fear section was settled by Irish
voyagers 500 years before the discovery Of
America by Columbus.
The North Carolina veterans of the Mex
lean war are to have reunion in Raleigh
on the 18th instant. A permanent organiza
ton will be effected, and delegates elected tc
the National Convention which is to meet in
Washington next January for the purpose o.
making efforts to secure pension.
The three counties of Guilford, Randolph
and Davidson, have reported for the yeal
ending June 3Oth, 1873, 297 public schools
in which 12,757 pupils wero instructed. "A
Teachers Institute of four weeks was held in
each of these counties last summer, in which
from thirty.seven to one hundred teachers
were instructed.
"A railroad meeting at Troy, Montgome
ry county, on the Oath ultimo, in the interes
of the projected road from Greensboro te
Cheraw, is reported as success. Speeches
we're made by D. F. Caldwell, Col. Dockery
and others, and resolutions adopted evincine
disposition of the people to take hold of the
work in earnest.
David Collins, white, and Alexander
Blalock and Jacob Hood, colored, were triec
in the Superior Court of johnson county last
week for the murder of Allen Jones, of color
1t was alleged in the trial that the principal
Collins, was in negotiations with one Parish
for the purchase of an OK which Collins had
concealed, and the deceased knowing that il
was an undue advantage taken of Parish by
Collins, informed Parish where the OK was
hidden. This, it was charged, led to the per
petration of the murder, in which Blalock
and Hood were accessories. The trial, a full
report of which is furnished by the Raleigh
Neus, excited great interest. Collins and
Blalock were convicted and sentenced to bf
hanged on the 18th of November. Hood wa:
acquitted An appeal was granted the con
demned men. This is the same case which
has been telegraphed to the press as the "6rs
ku.klux trial before State court"