Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-02
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Henry Jacobs.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Hedrick, who killed Jennings some weeks
ago in Yadkin county, has been admitted to
bail by Judge Furches in a bond of $4,000.
DR.. McLain, IF Chatham county, fell sud-
denly dead a few days ago, while at the bedside
Ola patient.
"A Raleigh policeman charges several par
ties with having attempted 70 poison him, and
one of the accused has been held to bail.
"A special session of Mecklenburg Superior
Court was begun last Monday, Judge Schenck
presiding.
j. H. separk, Mayor of Raleigh, died Of
pneumonia and erysipelas, after briefillness,
on Monday last
- Two young men, said to be respectfully
connected, have been arrested at Kinston on
the charge of passing spurious nickle coin.
They confessed that they had the moulds for
the purpose and manufactured the counterfeit.
Cornelius Williams, colored, was hanged
at jackson, Northampton county, last Fri
day, for the murder Of Samuel Presson, a
bridge watchman on the Seaboard aHd Roam
oke railroad.
- The Primitive Baptists have erected and
lust finished at the Falls of Tar river the lar
gest church edi6ce in the State. Its seating
capacity is 10000, and is built on the site of
one that was burnt last year By an incendiary.
"A statement of the condition of the lately
suspended Bank of Mecklenburg, in the pre-
pairing of which skilled accountants have been
engaged since the closing of the bank, is near
ly completed and will be given to the public
in few days.
- The question of the approaching Conven-
tion removing Ex-Governor Holden's disabili-
ties is being discussed by the papers. The
Charlotte Democrat was the first paper 10 sug-
gest the measure, which is endorsed by sever.
al other papers of that party, though few of
the more ultra sheets take strong grounds in
opposition to the proposed act of clemency.
The Charlotte Observer says that DIR. j.
J. O 'Connell, a retired priest of the Roman
Catholic church, has given to the church Of
his faith near Woodlawn, in CASTOR county,
magnificent lot ofland, consisting of several
hundred acres, and also the sum of SIC, 900 in
money. A part of the money is to be devoted
to the establishment of a school, male and fe-
male, at or near Woodlawn.
- A soma mere youth-of Col. Robert
Strange, of Wilmington, III company with a
number of young men of that city, who were
visiting Haywood county, on Friday OF last
week, shot and killed the driver Of a vehicle
who had been engaged to convey the party to
Cattalooche Falls. The difficulty occurred
in consequence of the breaking of a wheel of
the hack. A youth named Bridgers, son of
Hon. R. R. Bridgers, of Wilmington, fur
nished the pistol with which the firing was
done, and both the young men were committed
to Waynesboro Jail. 1t was with much diff
Guilty that the friends of the slain man were
prevented from mobbing the entire party of
young tourists. The Charlotte Observer says
that Murray, the murdered man is a son of
the sheriff of Haywood county, and when
Strange was committed to Jail, an infuriated
mob gathered around the prison for the pur-
pose of lynching him, when the Sheriff sum-
moned posse and placed it at the Jail to save
the life of the man who had slain his son !!
Even in novels we read of few such instances
of stern resolve in the discharge of duty.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
More Heavy Failures.
-- Besides a number of recent minor fail
ures, reported from different parts of the
country, We also have intelligence of heavy
failure in Baltimore, and the suspension of the
National Gold Bank and Trust Company Of
San Francisco, followed by the suspension Of
other banks in that city.
The Baltimore failure is that Of Ahrens Il
Co., sugar re6ners, whose liabilities are two
and halfmillions of dollars. Arrangements
have been made for continuing the business Of
the refinery.
The San Francisco banks have suspended
on account as they allege, of an unusual de-
mand for coin. They claim to have ample
assets to meet their liabilities, and confidence
seems to be felt in all the banks of that city,
except the Bank of California. Business,
however, is much depressed Ralston, Presl-
dent of the Bank of California, on being re-
quested by the stockholders to resign, did so'
and soon afterward committed suicide by
drowning.
Spinner on Greenbacks.
-- Ex-Treasurer Spinner has been recent
" interviewed at Utica, New York, on the
currency question, and expressed himself free
ly. His theory is in advocacy of an incon-
trovertible bond bearing interest at the rate
of 3.65 per cent, not Judge Kelley's paper
bond, but one bearing interest in gold, and
capable of being honorably and easily substi-
tuted for our present government skies. lie
denied being an Inhationist in any sense of
the word, but said that on the other hand, he
was no Bullionist, and agreed with nobody
who derides our present currency as rag
money currency. He ascribed the apparent
unpopularity of such bond to the efforts OF
the banks to becloud and deceive the people
with regard to its purposes and effects, but he
predicts time when their reason and their
false promises will be thoroughly understood,
and when the people will take the matter into
their own hands and demand legislation in
their interest. The effect of such bond as
this, Gen. Spinner said, had been studied out
by him in all its ramifcations, and he was not