Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-03-04

hearing the testimony we verify believe that
William Griffin committed the deed" Grif-
fin was arrested, and is now in the Jail of
Union county. As usual, liquor had much
to do with this terrible affair."
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
John T. Rees, proprietor of the Planters
Hotel in Greensboro, died Of congestive chill
on Friday morning last.
- Henry Cansler, highly esteemed citi.
zen, died at his residence near Lincolnton, on
Saturday of last week, aged Is years.
The Congressional investigation into the
affairs of the Western Judicial Circuit, result
ed in complete vindcation of Judge Dick
and Marshal Douglas The principal cause
of complaint was an alleged extravaganza Of
money in conducting the Courts of Judge
Dicks circuit.
j. William Thorne, member of the House
of Representatives from Warren county, was
expelled from the Legislature, on Thursday
last, by vote of 46 to 81, for promulgating
his disbelief in God. Thorne is carpet.bag-
ger from Vermont, and the resolution of ex-
pulsion was introduced by colored member.
The gambler, Beckley, convicted at the
last term of Cabarrus Court Of robbing Mr..
Boyd of Chester, S. c., in Charlotte, last fall,
and imprisoned in Concord Jail, pending an
appeal to the Supreme Court, came near ef-
fecting his escape one day last week. Beck.
ley has petitioned the Circuit Judge to send
him to the penitentiary, as preferable to con-
6nement in the Concord Jail.
- The Charlotte Observer says that the work
on the Carolina Central Railroad, between
Buffalo and Shelby, is progressing favorably.
The grading is about finished. The timbers
for the bridge over Buffalo Creek are prepar-
ed, or nearly so, and are at point somewhere
on the Eastern Division, ready to be carried
up. 1t is hoped that by the last of May
trains will be running through from Whining
ton to Shelby.
- The Charlotte Observer gives the following
particulars of the fire at Pineville on the
night of the 10Th ultimo, which destroyed two
stores-one belonging to j. R. kirkpatrick
and the other to j. R. Garrison. The fire
originated in the upper part of Mr.. Kirk
patrick's store, which was used as a grange
hall. The fire extended from this building
to the house owned by j. r. Miller and occu-
pied by Mr. Garrison as store and residence.
Mr.. kirkpatrick sloss in stock is about $4,000,
and notes and accounts to the amount OF
$4,000. Insurance, $4,000. Mr.. Garrison's
loss is about 5000, covered by insurance.
MERE.MENTION.
Cadet Gordon Claude, of the Annapolis
Naval Academy, has been dismissed for re-
fusing to fence with the colored cadet. '''"The
number of deaths from pneumonia in New
York, this winter, are said to have averaged
ninety a week. .'.'''.".Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
is in St. Augustine, Florida. '''''''';The Ohio
House of Representatives has passed bill
providing for compulsory education. .''"'Wo-
man suffrage has been defeated in the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives by vote
of IS yeas to 125 nays. '''''''''The tax on
; matches last year produced two and half
million of dollars at the rate of one cent
box. x.".''.'.There are fifteen foreign.born citi'
zens in the present Congress. Two of them,
Schurz, the German, and Jones, the Welsh
man, are in the Senate. In the House, there
are five Irishmen, four Scotchmen, two
Englishmen, one Canadian and one Mexi-
can. .'''.'''..The Missouri Legislature has
adopted concurrent resolution deprecating
Grants course regarding Arkansas, and urg-
ing that she be let alone. '''''''Caifornia pa
pers tell of the arrival of spring in that favor
ed region. Wild flowers dot the plains, and
wheat in some localities stands three feet high.
Among the graduates at the Washington
School of Medicine, Baltimore, last week, we
notice the name of r. G. Witherspoon, of
South Carolina. ..''.'".Colonel Forney ap-
pears in the personals of the Italian papers as
Capitano Giovanni Forez and now he's afraid
to come home lest Sheridan should snatch him
for bandit .'.''''''.The opinion prevails in
Washington that the Supreme Court will de-
clare the civil rights bill, just passed by Con-
press. unconstitutional .''"'"'The cabinet have
agreed, in no contingency, to call an extra
session of Congress. '''.':'''The recent burning
or the Cliff Locomotive Works at Scranton,
Penn, involves loss of halfa million of dol
lars and throws two hundred and fifty men out
of EMPLOYMENT. ..'''''"Gen. Porter, the new
Democratic Governor of Tennessee, who was