Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-19
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

james Moore, charged with the murder
of Benjamin McGinhis, his son-in-law, has
had his case continued from CASTOR to Meek
lenburg.
The Charlotte Observer learns that postal
cars will be put on the Richmond and Dan
Vile Railroad, and the North Carolina Rail-
road between Charlotte and Greensboro, at
an early day.
- General Blount, convicted at the recent
term of the r. S. Circuit Court at Statesville,
on charge of defrauding the Cherokee In
dians, and who appealed, has been admitted
to bail.
- The Legislature assembled on Monday
last and was organized by the election of R.
F. Armfeld of Iredell, as President of the
Senate and Johnstone Jones principal clerk.
Mr.. Robinson, of Macon, was elected Speaker
of the House. After the election Of officers
both Houses adjourned until next day.
- The Ashevile Pioneer reports the most
dastardly outrage of a widow woman being
whipped nearly to death by her three BROTH
ers.n.law, in Swain county. She was taken
from her bed at night and dragged out into
the yard and numerically beaten. She re-
cognized the parties, who were arrested and
bound over in the sum of 5000.
-Asheville had lively sensation last week,
caused by shooting affair, between Oscar
Eastmand and Charles E. Anchisi, of the
u. S. Secret Service. 1t is alleged that the
attack on Anchisi was premeditated, and
made to prevent him from appearing as a
witness against the counterfeitors who were to
have been tried in the u. S. Circuit Court at
Ashevile.
On Friday night two negroes entered the
house of a old man named Setter, residing
near Salisbury, for the purpose Of robbing
him, and upon his refusal to give up his money
they fired upon him. The wife of the old
man then attacked one of the negroes with q
spade, giving him a fatal blow upon the head.
Setter has since died from the wound he re-
ceived when shot,
The Lincoln Progress of Saturday says ::
eve learn from visitor to Dallas Court that
the grading on the Chester & Lenoir railroad
is all completed from Yorkville to Dallas,
with the exception of about FIVE miles, and
that is said to be light grading. 1t is ex-
pected that the entire work of grading will
be completed by the first of January next,
and that by next spring the train will run to
Dallas"
Mr.. Ashworth, Sheriff of Randolph, is
the fourth Sheriff to settle with the Treasurer
this year. He was the third last year. Ran
doph county is out of debt, and there are but
two prisoners in her Jail. MIR. Ashworth
collected all the taxes for 1873 and 1874 be-
fore he settled, with the exception of about
forty dollars Randolph has no colored man
in Jail or in the penitentiary. The colored
people of Randolph conduct themselves WE'LL
The Greensboro State says that several Of
the counterfeiters were tried at Asheville, last
week, and convicted. Among them, was Dr.
Blackburne, who pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to three years imprisonment in the
Albany penitentary. This is the same man
who jumped out of the car window between
Greensboro and Charlotte, trying to escape
from the custody of the Deputy Marshals
having him in charge. That leap broke his
leg. After that, he escaped from the Ashe'
Vile jail, but was recaptured. Jno. l.. Crane
was sent for two years to the penitentiary.
speaking of CASTOR county, the last South
ern Home says: The grading of the Narrow
Gauge Railroad has been completed for sew
eral miles from Dallas in the direction OF
Yorkvlle. In few months the two places
will be connected by rail. CASTOR will then
have three railroads without any cost to the
county. These roads will develop the vast
resources of the county and make it one OF
the wealthiest in the State. The taxes OF the
county are light, the soil generally fertile, in
many places very rich, the mineral resources
are various and inexhaustible and the water
power unsurpassed any where. There is
great future before the model county, espe-
cially since the people are taking hold of man
ufactures in an earnest and a determined
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