Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-03-30
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

"A new mail route is to be established
from Morganton to Shelby, to 60 into opera
ton ON the 1st of July.
AT Rutherfordton, on Sunday night and
Monday morning of last week, snow fell to
the depth of nine inches, and the weather was
intensely cold.
The Centennial of North Carolina Meth
odism was celebrated in Raleigh last week,
commencing on Tuesday, and was largely at
tended by ministers of the Conference and
laymen of the church.
Last Thursday an affray took place in
Salisbury between W. A. McCorkle and a
man named Green Cauble, in which the lat
ter was cut twice by knife in the hands Of
the former, and severely wounded.
Elisha Skinner, negro in Gates county,
deliberately whipped his sister to death. She
died within five minutes after he struck her
the last blow. The brute was arrested and
committed to Jail.
The Shelby Banner says that Rev. A. l..
Slough has COW for which he has been Of
fered 5000 in cash. She is of the Wade
Hampton stock. and gives four gallons of
milk at one milking.
Alta colored prayer meeting in the Sugar
Greek neighborhood, in Mecklenburg county,
last week, one of the brethren prayed long
and earnestly against the fence law. He ar
gued in his prayer that the white folks were
forming combination to prevent the COWS
from eating grass.
True merits meet its just reward. The
brethren of Plymouth Church will no doubt
be glad to learn that their pastor has received
Aattering yet unexpected endorsement in
Lenoir county. Mr.. James G. Cox, of Kins-
ton, has given the name Of Henry Ward
Beecher to his fine Spanish jack, which he ad-
vertises as lively and industrious animal
DIR. John Mclean, of CASTOR county, one
of the oldest and most intelligent citizens in
that section of the State, says that he can re-
member as far back as the year '19 and 30,
when the winter was so mild that the cotton
stalks in the fields were uninjured by the
frost, and that sufficient vitality was left in
the stalks to produce bolls which matured and
opened. Though the bolls of the second
growth were not very large, still the lint Of
the cotton thus produced was not Of the very
lowest grade.
- The Shelby Banner relates the following
WHISKY ,and-lightning fish story: On last
Sunday evening two young men were sitting
on the river bank, in Rutherford county, fish
ing, both in the same hole, with bottle of
whisky sitting between them. During the
time little cloud passed over them with a
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tedly to the young men, there came keen
fash of lightning and struck the bottle OF
whisky sitting between them and tore it into
atoms. The young men we're slightly stunned,
but were not hurt in the least
The four county commissioners Of Robe
son county, charged with conspiracy to pre-
vent DIR. Norment from taking his seat in the
late constitutional convention, were bound
over by u S. Commissioner Cassidey for trial
at the next term of the U. S. Circuit Court to
be held at Raleigh. Although the District
Attorney had entered nol pros. in the case
of Gen. Cox, implicated in the same charge,
the Commissioner also ruled that the General
should be cited to appear before the Circuit
Court to answer the charge of conspiracy, to.
gether with the four commissioners.