Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-04-27
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- lhree nunQreu anu slXLeen penltenClary
convicts are now working on the railroad be-
tween Old Fort and Asheville.
The Greensboro Patriot learns that a lit
tie son of John Thornburg, of Randolph coun-
ty, aged four years, got hold Of some whisky
and drank enough of it to kill him. w
- The Morganton Blade says an incendiary
attempt was made few days ago to burn the
building occupied by Capt. Faucette's school
at Lenoir.
- The Charlotte Observer says that during
recent raid of detachment Of the Second
Artillery, after illicit distillers in Cleveland
county, thirty-three arrests were made and
eight stills captured.
- Calvin McGraw, an aged citizen of Ca
barrus county, while laboring under mental
alteration, hanged himself on Wednesday Of
last week, and on the following Sunday night
his wife died from grief and broken heart
caused by the rash act Of her husband.
-S Some weeks ago an old gentleman named
Wood was brutally murdered in his own house,
in Wilkes county by a band Of disguised men,
robbery being the incentive to the deed. Since
the commission of the act, five men, relatives
of the murdered man, have been arrested on
suspicion Of having committed the deed. '
The Charlotte Observer says: Chas. W..
Parks, worthy farmer in Randolph county,
died last week Of injuries received from vi
cious horse. An accident somewhat similar,
only a short time before, resulted fatally to
Mrs. Raines, an aunt of Mr.. Parks. The lat
ter was injured by an attack from an enraged
COW, and died soon afteward. -......
- The Southern Home says that Mr.. j. H.
Jones, the English miner, now in Charlotte,
has bought the mines owned by the Russell
Brothers, in Montgomery county, together
with the land, houses, barus, &c. The whole
cost is S28,O0O. Mr.. Jones expects to begin
working the mines in three or four months.
He pronounces them to be very rich.
The Centennial Commission has received
letter from gentleman in Shelby, who ex-
presses desire to exhibit at the Exposition
fifty of the ugliest men in the United States,
and wishes to know if it will pay. AS an ear
nest of his proposition, he encloses his own
photograph, inasmuch as he desires to be one
of the number, and says he can procure his
ugly specimens in Western North Carolina
At the last term of the Superior Court of
Cleveland county, man named Mode was
arragned on the charge Of killing his brother
in.law in Rutherford county, eight years ago.
The evidence went to show that the killing
was accidental but the defendant having sub
mitted to verdict of manslaughter, was sen.
fenced to four months Imprisonment, being
the mildest punishment known under the
statute.
Josiah Turner, editor Of the Raleigh Sen
tinel, indicted John D. Cameron, editor of the
Raleigh News-both Democratic papers
libel, in charging Turner with attempting to
buy off Matthew Atwater, candidate for the
last Legislature from the county of Orange,
with promise of per diem, that he (Turner)
might become a candidate. The case was
tried last Thursday, before Judge Henry.
The defendants were justified by proving the
truth of the charge. The jury, after ten min
utes' consultation among themselves, returned
verdict of not guilty.