Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-14

Hayne, Hon. L. =. Dunn, Hon. >. L. r1oge,
Hon. T. j. Robertson, United States Senator,
Hon. j. J. Wright, Hon. A. j. Willard,
General R. B. Elliott.
- Col. Thomas Davis an old citizen of Co
lumbia, died last Saturday in lunatic asy-
lum at Philadelphia. The Phenir says
"He accumulated handsome fortune by his
industry and skill as an artisan and coptrac-
tor. After retiring from active business of
this sort, he purchased a valuable river plan
tation on the Congaree, aud engaged in ex-
tensive improvements of tile manufacture and
drainage, stock rearing &c. Since the war
he withdrew his attention from planting and
built the Columbia hotel. The troubles which
he had sustained and the losses he had met
affected his spirits and impaired his judgment.
The mental in6rmity at last became chronic
and fixed, and his friends removed him to a
hospital for the insane.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Hon. A. NJ Waddell has been nomina-
ted for reelection to Congress from the Will
mington district.
The widow Of Ex-Governor Worth died
in Asheboro on the 4th instant, aged sixty
eight years. Her remains were taken to
Raleigh for burial.
"A little sou of Mr.. Glass, residing near
Greensboro, was burned to death last week,
while playing in a field where his father was
burning brush.
- The Charlotte Fair Grounds were sold at
public auction last week, and were bought by
DR.. Joseph Graham for s11,700. The Oh
server says it is designed to convert the
grounds into racecourse.
&C. A. Hayne, colored mail agent, charged
with robbing the mail, pleaded guilty in the
United States District Court at Wilmington
last Saturday, and was sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary.
The Virginia legislature refuses to grant
power to the Richmond and Danvile Rail-
road Company to change the gauge of that
road to conform with the gauge of the N. G.
Central, which roads are now conducted under
the same management.
The Raleigh Sentinel witch sees ghost
in every bush, has just discovered that "there
is now deliberate plan on the part of Wall
street men, backed by certain bond and rail
road manpulators, to rob North Carolina of
its railroad property, from Morehead City to
Old Fort"
"A man in Mecklenburg county claims to
have cured himself of consumption, after
reaching the last stages of the disease, by
drinking freely of the fresh blood of lambs
and goats. Should it not cause the patients
to banker too much after grass, the expert
ment is worthy of general trial.
Joseph w. Holden, republican, has been
elected Mayor of Raleigh. A majority of
the aldermen elected on the same ticket are
republicans; though all the candidates elect
ed are committed to the prohibition ticket
Should the newly y-elected board fulfill their
promises in regard to closing the bar-rooms,
it is thought the legislature will hereafter as
semble in some other town. The liquor
dealers, however, have determined to contest
the case, having been advised by legal counsel
that the election was illegal.
The Greensboro Patriot gives the follow
ing items respecting the great Southern Cir
Gus, which lately exhibited in that town {:
rabbits and boquets were among the tro-
phies the circus gals carried from town. A
colored man from Salem, on his way to In
diana, lent his money, amounting to $40, to
a confidence man at the circus and didn't
have enough left to pay his fare to Indiana,
80 he went back home. A white mans pock-
ct was picked of s43. The ringmaster would
not play elephant for the clown, both got mad
and had large sized row over it in the dress
ing room."