Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-01

Col. Winchester Graham, chief clerk in
the office of Comptroller rGeneral Hagood
met with an accident last Saturday, resulting
in his death in a few hours. He had boarded
the accommodation train for the purpose OF
visiting his home near Augusta, and after the
train had passed the usual place for him to
get of, he walked to the rear end Of the car
while the train was in motion, and stepped
off, acting, apparently, as though he expected
to enter another car. He was, however, in
the last car of the train, and consequently
went to the ground, receiving by the concus
sion internal injuries which proved fatal.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
-Gaston Superior Court has been postponed
until the second week of this month.
-Catawba county produced 125,642 bushels
Of wheat the past season.
Col. Thomas M Holt was reelected Pres
ident of the State Agricultural Society.
The first snow of the season fell at Hen
rvs, the head of the Western N. G. Railroad
on Monday of last week.
IN. P. Overton, white, and Noah Taylor,
colored, are to be hanged in Washington to-
morrow for a murder they committed in 1874
Governor Vance receives great many
anonymous letters-some giving advice, and
others written in complaining mood.
The walls of G. j. Lineberger's new cotton
factory, in CASTOR county, are now up, and
the necessary machinery has been ordered.
"A stage line has been established between
Cheraw, S. c., and Hamlet, the present ter.
minus of the Raleigh and Augusta Ai-Line
Railroad.
Mr.. Waddell, of the House of Represen.
tatives has introduced in Congress bill to
abolish the Western District of North Caro-
lima.
Governor Vance has commuted the SEN
tence of Sarah D: johnson, found guilty Of
infanticide at the last term of Iredel Supe-
rior Court, from hanging to imprisonment in
the penitentiary ten years.
The Charlotte Democrat computes that
there are but about seventy survivors of the
Mexican war in North Carolina. The Demo-
crat rightly concludes that the Mexican war
veterans are worthy of being pensoned.
In the western part of Buncombe county,
on the 18th ultimo, two men named Muse and
Sharp got into scutae, while at a wedding,
in which Muse gave Sharp fatal wound with
pocket knife. Muse was permitted to es-
cape.
- Before the war, says the Charlotte Home,
the county of Mecklenburg gave more than
81 900 to the Bible cause, each year; the sum
now raised is less than 800 year. This is
owing not to the indisposition of the people to
give, but to their inability.
In Wayne Superior Court last week, the
case of Waitman Thompson, white, charged
with killing his wife, was, on motion of the
accused, removed to Wilson county. Only
about month ago, Thompson's wife was
found dead on the public highway, she having
been horribly murdered. Suspicion points to
her husband as the perpetrator Of the deed.
The convention of colored men in Raleigh
last week, from which some good results were
expected, proved worse than failure. A po-
litical element got the ascendency and ran the
convention to suit itself, doing no good and
much harm, by stirring up the bad blood of
the negroes against the white race in general
and against the present State administration
in particular
- The Charlotte Democrat of the 26th ulti.
mo, speaking of recent visitor by the editor
to Lincolnton, says: "Lincolnton will soon
have the advantages of the Narrow Gauge
Railroad. The grading between Dallas and
Lincolnton is completed, and work is now 60
ing on from Lincolnton towards Newton, one
mile being graded within the past few days.
81 convicts are now at work ON the road, and
80 more expected from Raleigh this week.
When the road is completed to Newton, this
section will have new line to the Western
N. G. Road, which we think will be Of much
advantage to Charlotte"
On Tuesday night of last week, as we
learn from the Charlotte Observer, large
number of negroes assembled at a corn-shuck-
ing in Castor county, near Garibaldi, and
there was much whisky on hand. Towards
the close of the frolic, two negro men, Jim
Holland and Rufe Nicely, got into difficulty
and fought furiously. A crowd gathered
around with clubs and sticks and prevented
any one from interfering, and the fight lasted
for some time. Finally Holland got Nicely
down and choked him till he died. We have
been unable to learn whether or not Holland
was arrested.
The Charlotte Observer vouches for the
correctness of the following item, and supple
ments it with the statement that previous to
the birth of the triplets mentioned, the lady
in question gave birth to three children, one
at time: "It was thought worthy of note
when, about two years ago, the wife of Mr..
Thos. J. suggs, formerly Of this town, but
now of CASTOR county, gave birth to three
children at one time but last week she went
herself one better, giving birth to four. None
got away, and the whole quartette is living
and doing we'll. Further than this: the trip.
lets, Mrs. Sugg's former achievement, are all
living, and here we have the case of seven
children from one mother and none more than
two years Of age"
Says the Wilmington Reuiew: "What a
proud meeting that must have been between
the two Governors of the two great common.
wealths of North and South Carolina men
made illustrious by their devotion to princ-