Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-10-07
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The Presbyterian Church OF Greensboro
has new bell weighing l 1893 pounds, the gift
G. G. Yates.
A store and dwelling we're burnt at Shoe
Heel, on the Carolina Central Railroad, on
Sunday morning of last week. The goods
and buildings were insured for their full
value
The Ashevile Erpositor learns that the
work on the Spartanburg and Asheville Rail-
road will soon be let to contract all the way
from the South Carolina line to the town Of
Asheville.
The new Jail for Mecklenburg county is
finished, and the prisoners were transferred to
it from the old building last week. The new
structure is described as an admirable build
ing for the purpose, and cost nearly $4,000.
WIN. Scoggins, Of Rutherford county,
who gained considerable notoriety in 1871 as
"ku.klux hunter" was sentenced at the re-
cent term of the court for that county, to six
months imprisonment for shooting at Z. D..
Hawkins.
- The Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural Society, says the Raleigh Ne'us,
have rendered an invitation to Jefferson
Davis to deliver an address at the approach
ing fair, which will commence on the 18th
instant.
A temperance convention, composed of a
largenumber of citizens at which D. F. Cald-
we'll, Esq, presided, was held in Greensboro
last week. Resolutions were passed looking
to the Inauguration of movement for the
suppression, by legal means, Of the traffic in
ardent spirits.
John Lamb, the youthful parricide of
Columbus county, (charged with killing his
father while he was sleeping and then burn
ing the house to conceal the crime,) was found
guilty last week in the Superior Court at
Lumberton. A movement is on foot to get
an appeal to the Supreme Court.
- The Shelby aurora says at the recent
term Of Rutherford Superior Court, true
bill of indictment was found against Thomas
Mode, for the murder of his brother-in-law, a
man named Gamble. The murder was com.
mitted at Modes house on a Sabbath morn
six years ago, and the crime has been kept
concealed in the family until quite recently.
The Charlotte Observer says that the
Sheriff of Meckenburg has been notified by
Governor Brogden not to erect a gallows for
the purpose of executing the death penalty on
Ellwood, who was sentenced to be hanged to-
morrow. The Governor will commute the
sentence, but to what extent has not yet trans
pired.
- The Bank of Mecklenburg has been adj
judged bankrupt by Judge Dick of the Uni
ted States District Court. The late President
of the Bank, Mr.. Tate, interposed no objec-
tons to the proceedings, though by his attor-
ney he insisted that an incorruptible and fear
less man should be appointed assignee. No
assignee has yet been chosen in legal form,
but it is thought that Col. E. \. Osborne will
be selected for the position.
The existing revenue laws of the State
tax circus exhibitions s100, to be paid in adj
vance, for each days performance, and 10
per cent of the gross receipts Notwithstand-
ing the impost, there are now two circuses ad'
vertiscd to be in the State at all earl ly day, and
with their usual keen eye to business, they
seem determined to overcome the taxes by
liberal advertising in the newspapers, which
of course, will bring them patronage com
! r,o,suroto NTH tho aytanf of their ad dvertise
ments.
George Appewhite, the last surviving
member of the Lowery gang Of Robson out
laws, who was recently recaptured in Colds
boro and returned to Columbus JAIL, from
which he escaped while under sentence Of
death, some three years ago, has yet chance
for life. In the interval between his escape
from Jail and his subsequent arrest, the Legls