Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-05
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Five prisoners escaped from the Greens.
boro Jail last Thursday night.
-Alamance county has six cotton factories
with 14,sOO spindles and 274 looms.
Work on the Mount Airy and Green's
boro Narrow Gauge Railroad was commenced
at Mount Airy on the 2Oth ultimo.
George G. Tanner, for considerable
length of time conductor on the Atlanta and
Richmond Airline Railroad, has been ap'
pointed Consul to Belgium.
- The Statesville Bank has filed petition
in bankruptcy, asking to be declared bank
rupt. A counter proceeding is in preparation,
seeking the appointment of receiver.
- The Statesville american reports the re-
cent capture, by revenue raiders, in Yadkin
county, of 33 illicit stills, a large number OF
hogs, and several barrels of whisky. No
prisoners were taken and nobody was hurt.
y Mr.. f. H. Britton, of Charlotte, former
ly editor of the Carolina Times, published at
Columbia, S. c., but for many years past con-
nected with the Charlotte press, suffered a
stroke of paralysis last Thursday.
- The Lincolnton Progress says that on
Wednesday of last week, Pinckney Robert
son, lad of thirteen years, living four miles
southeast of the town, was thrown by mule
and killed.
Deputy Marshal Franks, whose case has
been undergoing investigation at Washington
for several days past, has been remanded to
North Carolina for trial. Franks was held
in $4,000 bail for his appearance before the
November term of the u. S. District Court
for North Carolina at Asheville
Judge Buxton has decided against en-
forcing Prohibition in the town of Monroe,
Union county, in regard to the result of the
late election, where the sale of Intoxicating
liquors was voted against by one majority of
the citizens, and which election was contested
by the license men. The question must now
be decided by the courts.
Says the Lenoir Topic: A few days since,
the dead body of Mr. Thomas Farmer, who
lived on North Fork of New river, in Ashe
county, was found about 250 yards from his
residence. Mr. Farmer had been at work on
his farm, and was murdered while on his
way home in the evening. His son.in-law, a
man named Shepherd, has been arrested on
suspicion.
"A citizen of CASTOR was passing grave
yard, in that county, last Sunday, when he
noticed an old, gray-headed colored man
emerging from it. He asked the old man
what he had been doing over there, and was
told that he had been over to see ''old mas
ter's grave" "It has been 'leven years since
de war;" said the old darkey, "and has nev-
er yet missed a Sunday goin' to see it."
- Joseph Thornburg, of Castor county,
who was convicted of illicit distilling at the
late term of the Federal Court at Statesville,
sentenced to serve term in the county Jail
by Judge Dick, and who made his escape
from prison, Tuesday night of last week, has
received pardon from President Hayes, and
is now at home with his family. When
Thornburg escaped from prison, he could
have had but small hope of Executive clem-
ency, and when granted, the President did
not of course, know of his selfobtained lib
erty.
- The Charleston Neus and Courier pays
the following compliment to North Carroll
ma lad "Ten years ago a poor white boy
drove wagon into Spartanburg, S. c., from
the mountains of North Carolina. Two days
ago, amid the plaudits of the spectators, be
was graduated at Wofford College. By in
dustry, energy and economy he saved and
kept enough to pay his way, and earned and
received his diploma. What Mr.. z. T..
Whitesides, of Rutherford, N. c., has done
thousands of others can do, if they are equal.
ly willing to labor and practice self:denial.
The Commonwealth that has such sons may
we'll prize them as her most precious jewels. "
A Washington dispatch conveys the fol-
lowing information concerning the govern
ment prosecutions against violators Of the in
ternal revenue laws in North Carolina: Du-
ring the past six weeks, Senator Ransom, of
North Carolina, has been appealing to the
President and Secretary of the Treasury for
an amnesty for all his people charged with
violating the internal revenue laws. The
Senator has been in the city for several
days on this matter. 1t is said he has con.
cluded on an arrangement with the internal
revenue department by which all cases in