Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-15
THE Y0RKYfhhE EMQU1R RER.

tween Greensboro and Egypt, in Chatham
county, the present terminus of the Fayette-
Vile and Coal Fields Railroad.
- The Charlotte Observer says goods by the
carload are piled up daily in front of Witt
kowsky & Rintels' establishment During
the first three days of last week their sales
amounted to s2O,O0O
- The Charlotte Democrat says the Israel
ties of Charlotte number 125 men, women
and children, and more energetic and indus.
trious, liberal or kind hearted people never
inhabited any town or city in the country.
Thomas GLADDEN. was convicted at Cleve-
land Superior Court, last week, of the MUIR
der of Thomas Rippy, and, as the Banner
states, sentenced to be hanged on the 23rd IN
stant GLADDEN. is represented as a young
man about % years old, of slender build,
pale.f;c and slender features. He has
served two years in the South Carolina penl-
tertiary for robbing the mail. The case of
State rs. Elwood, for murder, WAS removed
from Cleveland to Castor county.
Governor Brogden has issued instructions
to the various solicitors Of the State to "exer-
else due diligence in prosecuting and bringing
to trial any President, Director, Secretary and
Treasurer, or any other officer, servant or
employG, who has either directly or Indirect
ly advised, aided, encouraged or assisted in
any manner whatever, in changing the gauge
of any part of the North Carolina Railroad,
or what is commonly called the "North Caro-
lima division of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad" In pursuance Of these instruc-
tons, Solicitor Strudwick, of the 9TH judicial
district, has gone to Greensboro, where he will
issue the necessary process against such rail-
road officials as may be reached by process of
law, and hold them in the requisite bonds for
their appearance before the next term of Gull
ford Superior Court.
MERE.MENTION.
fortunately for the victim" says Ken
lucky paper, "the bullet struck him in the
centre ofthe forehead and glanced off. '''' A
nurseryman at Bloomington, ILL.,, recently
sold a ton ofseeds and bulbs to Californian,
which he is sending by mail in 5000 four
pound packages. ''''''.'Don't write long obit-
uaries. Save some of your kind words for
the living. .'''''''''In consequence of riotous
demonstrations of the miners in Luzerne
county, Penn, the sheriff has yielded his au-
thority to the military. .'''."There were three
candidates for Governor in Rhode Island, and
the result was no choice by the people tor
Governor or Lieutenant Governor. For
other offices the Republicans carry the
State. .'..'''..The next transit of Venus will
occur eight years hence, and two thousand
years must elapse before recurrence of the
transit thereafter. 1.-The British House
of Commons has rejected the proposition to
enable unmarried women to vote at parlia-
mentary elections. '...'.""An Omaha dispatch
says that the number Of emigrants westward
bound at the present season is unprecedented.
Ninety-three hundred have left that place
since March 1st .....'''Last year spurious
LIQUORS to the value of four hundred million
dollars were sold in the United States. ''''''The
Milerites now assert that the world will come
to an abrupt conclusion on June Is. Prof.
Tice, of St. Louis, also predicts terrific cy-
clones about that time.
The receipts of cotton at all the ports up to
latest date, are 23S, ,20S bales short of those at
the same time last year. ''Women are
permitted to practice law in Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Missouri and Maine '''''''''A New Or
leans paper says the dollar stores in that city
are places where you may buy twenty-five
cent article you don't want, for four times its
value. ..'.'."The Tennessee legislature has
imposed tax of $40 upon every able-bodied
single man above the age of thirty. '''''''The
South has raised seven hundred and twenty
five millions of dollars worth of cotton in
three years. ''''''''The Tennessee legislature
has submitted to the people constitutional
amendment providing for the meeting of that
body once in four years. '''''''''Congress gave
s5O5, 900 to the Centennial celebration at Phil
adelphia. .....''..The Baltimore oyster trade
employs twenty thousand men. '''"' Colonel
Jefferson Davis and Captain Ulysses S. Grant
are invited to a reunion Of the officers of the
Mexican war in Austin, Texas on the 9th Of
y.'''.''"'The colored people in Georgia
have subscribed literally to the fund for the
relief of the sufferers by the tornado in that
State. .''''''."New Orleans estimates her COM
ing sugar crop at 100000 hogsheads.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Civil Rights in North Carolina.
At the opening of the Federal Court,
now in session in Greensboro, Judge Dick, on
charging the grand jury, fully expounded the
civil rights bill. The following is the SUBJ
stance of his remarks upon this topic, as re-
ported by the Patriot:
"He declined expressing an opinion as to
the constitutonality Of the act, deemiDg such
expression premature. He gave about the
same construction to the operation Of the law
as is set forth by the Judges in Ohio and else
where, holding that the act gives the colored
man no rights in this State that he did not
possess before under the old statute laws, with
the excpntion of trial in the Federal Courts,