Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-13
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

ClOn OF S,OUU.
George Ayers, Charlotte shoemaker,
attempted to commit suicide the other day.
The Branch Mint at Charlotte closes on
the 30th of June, in accordance with an act
of Congress.
- The managers of the State Agricultural
Society have been indicted for toleratng
games of chance upon the grounds at the last
fair.
DR.. Tucker, who shot Col. Robert Ham
lin in Henderson few months ago, was tried
at the late term of Orange Superior Court
and fined $500.
Mr.. J. Armstrong, aged So years, a resi-
dent of CASTOR county, was thrown from his
buggy and killed, while returning from Dal-
las court, on Tuesday of last week.
A number of sharpers travelling with a
show that passed through Winston last week,
we're arrested for stealing and gambling, and
committed to Jail.
Col. VIM. Johnston vas elected Mayor
of Charlotte at the election last week over
the former incumbent, w. F. Davidson. Poll
tics did not enter into the contest, both candi-
dates being of the same political faith.
Hon. James T. Morehead, a younger
brother of the late Governor Morehead, died
in Greensboro on the 4th instant in the 77th
year of his age. He was al able lawyer and
had filled many positions of public trust hon.
orably to himself and with benefit to his State.
"A man by the name of Lyons, at one
time agent of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad at Augusta, was brutally
assaulted by some unknown person in Char
lotte, several nights ago, from the effects of
which he has since died.
The Patriot defends the management of
the Greensboro lottery, and says the drawing
was conducted as fairly as anything of the
kind could be. The difficulty seems to be-,
that every ticket holder was disappointed at
not drawing fortune.
The Greensboro Patriot learns that Col.
Buford has signi6ed to Governor Brogden
his intention to begin the change of gauge on
the North Carolina Railroad east of Greens.
boro. This is considered the shortest way to
test the validity of the recent legislative en-.
actment
The Shelby aurora says: "Wm. H. Ell
wood, who is charged with murder, and who
moved his trial from Cleveland to Castor, has
moved it still further and proposes to try
Charlotte but we learn that Solicitor Mont
gomery says he will not let him be tried in
that county"
Peter Peeler, respectable citizen, and a
deputy sheriff, of Cleveland county, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his barn on
Wednesday of last week. The Charlotte o.
seruer mentions as singular fact that Mr..
Crow, the former owner of the plantation on
which Mr.. Peeler lived, hanged himself some
years ago near the same spot that Peeler se-
lected for the commission of his rash act.
Much dissatisfaction is reported to exist
in Orange county at the nomination of Josiah
Turner, of the Raleigh Sentinel, on the same
ticket with Hon. w. A. Graham for the Con-
vention from Orange county. 1t is alleged
that Mr.. Turner resorted to demogogical
means to secure his nomination, while at the
same time he is not the choice of the Demo
cratic leaders of the county.
The Raleigh Sentinel which was bitter
opponent to the change of gauge of the N. 9.
Railroad, suddenly became a convert to that
measure, which led the Neaus to intimate that
the Sentinel had been bought over by the
railroad managers. In consequence of the
charge, Mr.. Turner made an attempt, last
week, but without success, to indict the pro-
prietors of the Ne,os in the Superior Court Of
Orange.
The design of the medal to commemorate
the Mecklenburg Declaration of lndepend'
euce has been completed, and number of the
medals have already been stricken at the
Philadelphia mint. In size and value the
medal is equal to the halfdollar piece Its
design and finish are very creditable. On
one side is hornets nest, which is typical Of
the announcement of the Kings officers that
Mecklenburg was hornets nest of rebels.
On the same side is also liberty cap sur
rounded by the rays of the rising sun. Be-
meath are two clasped hands, which are typi-
cal of the united North and South at the close
of the last war. On the reverse side, within
a circle, are the inscriptions: "May 10th,
1775-Mecklenburg Declaration of Independ-
ence. Two thousand silver medals have been
ordered by the executive committee Of the
centennial celebration, and large number of
copper impressions.
MERE.MENTION.
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