Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-04
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The Charlotte judicial district has now
four candidates for solicitor and three fol
judge.
- Mr.. E. Constantine Davidson, of Meek.
lenburg county, announces himself an inde'
pendent candidate for Congress in the Char
lotte district. The Democrat says that Mr.
Davidson has been the Grange lecturer in
that section for some months past.
At the Republican Congressional conven'
ton of the Greensboro district, held at High
Point on last Thursday, Col. W. F. Hender.
son was nominated on the SEVENTEEN ballot
Col. Henderson is native, and has to con-
tend with the carpet-bag element.
"A change has recently taken place in
the ownership and management Of the Pied
mont Press, published at Hickory. Mr.. Hus'
sey has sold his interest to Messrs. j. F. Muir
rill and VIM. M. Corkill. Messrs. Avery
and Murrill will be the editors.
Gen. R. B. Vance, the present representa-
tive in Congress, has been nominated by the
Conservatives for reelection in the 9th, or
Asheville district. Hon. Plato Durham, who
has always been identified with the same par.
ty, is an independent candidate in the same
district.
The Charlotte Southern Home learns that
work was to have been commenced last Mon.
day, at Dallas, on the Chester and Lenoir
Railroad, Mr.. Jonas Hoffman being the con.
tractor. The Home further expresses the opin-
ion that no one now seems to doubt the com.
pletion of the road.
Hon. J. M. Leach, of the 9th congrcssion-
al district, has issued circular letter to his
constituents, communicating his purpose not
to be candidate for reelection to Congress.
He defends his course in voting for the in
creased salary and back pay bill, and claims
that this bill lessened the peoples taxes over
a million dollars.
The Observer says much commotion was
caused in Charlotte last Wednesday night by
two negro men and negro woman who were
elegantly dressed and drove stylish ph@ton.
They visited the different drug stores and
called for soda water, which was refused !;
though the negroes told the venders of the
cooling beverage that they would have to
come to it yet"
The Southern Home says the farmers in
the Charlotte section are a good deal discour.
aged. Cotton is not up we'll, and the cool
mornings have given that which is up sickly
hue. A good proportion of the corn planted
has not got through the crust. The general
drought following the devastating spring
floods will cause the cotton crop to be very
short.
The Newton N;ndeator furnishes this
startling item "The number of unfortunate
prisoners just from Camp Douglass and sales
men thrown out of employment by the Chica,
go and Boston fires is fearfully on the increase ;
but the hardest case we have met with is the
negro who says he was ku-kluxed in South
Carolina for voting for "de Narrow Gauge
Railroad"
The Asheville Expositor of the 18th ulti.
mo, reports that quite recently several severe
shocks have been observed at Bald Mountain,
equal to any that have preceded them within
the last three or four months. The same pa
per says that few evenings ago, a party of
four or FIVE at Spicer Springs saw huge light
moving up Broad river, which shone with
such intensity as to exhibit the trees and hills