Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-18
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

In Watauga Superior Court, last week
Ephraim Herman was convicted of the muir
der of Elisha Trivett and sentenced to bt
hanged on the 29th instant.
The Raleig Observer says during the
month of September, there was shipped from
the stations on the North Carolina Railroad
1926, ,6SS pounds of dried fruit.
The cotton factory of Mr.. H. G. Ben
nett, located 6 miles from Marion, N. c., was
burnt on Monday of last week. Loss abou
$25,OOO. No insurance.
- Elijah Keeter tried in the Wilmington
criminal court last week, for the murder o.
Peter Robinson, committed in Wilmington
last August, was found guilty of manslaugh
ter and sentenced to the penitentiary for siz
years.
- Last week the Cape Fear river at Fay
ettevlle, rose fifty feet in a short period. II
is estimated that $4,000 bushels of corn, be-
sides much other property, was lost in the
low-grounds between Wilmington and Fay
etteville.
- Federal Court for the Western N. G
District met in Statesville last Tuesday. The
number of cases set for trial is smaller than
at any time since the establishment of the
court. There are only about seventy-6ve
cases on the docket, and many of these are Of
small Importance.
The crops are generally good in Catawba
county. A large quantity of buckwheat
corn, cabbage, apples and hay have been
raised the present year. In addition, several
thousand dollars worth of cattle will 60 from
that county to the Valley Of Virginia this
fall.
In the Federal Court at Greensboro, A
w. Howerton, of Salisbury, was convicted Of
robbing the mails on the Western North Car
olipa Railroad. Howerton was not a regular
agent on the road, but had been in the habit
of running occasionally as the substitute Of
one or the other of the regular agents, and il
was while running in this capacity that be
perpetrated the robberies for which he has
Just been tried and convicted.
- If the Democrats are susceptible to the
charge Of stealing Hayes, the Republicans
are equally guilty of an attempt to capture
Governor Hampton. The Statesville Amer
ican, Republican paper, hoists his name fol
the Vice Presidency in 1880, and the Greens
boro New State proposes for the National
ticket in 1880, "Evarts and Hampton" as
the candidates son the platform Of Reconcil'
iation, Peace and Prosperity"
- Recently, in Robson county, four chill
dren, of one family, died ofdiphtheria and were
buried at the same time. At Company Shops
on the N. G. Railroad, the disease is prevail
ing to an alarming extent. At that place,
last week, one lady, with her own hands, laid
out and dressed nine little ones-6ve in one
family. The people should be careful of their
children. Keep them at home, comfortably
clad and their systems we'll toned up. The
disease is not infectious, like small pox and
scarlet fever, but is contagious.
Says the Charlotte Observer The work
of constructing the Chester and Lenoir Mar
row Gauge Railroad beyond Lincolnton COM
menced few days ago. For long time it
could not be determined whether the read
should run by way Of Hickory or Newton.
Finally, the question was settled by Newton
complying with the conditions, and securing
the road to that town. Consequently the work
is proceeding in that direction. The Narrow
Gauge has been completed up to the Carolina
Central Railroad, mile below Lincolnton,
and will use the track of that road the re.
mainder of the way to the town. The Lin
coin Progress says on the same subject: The
people of Catawba county took charge of the
convicts on the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge Railroad, last Saturday, and began
work on the north side Of town Immediately
upon taking charge. Since assuming control
of the convicts, they have graded about half
mile of the road, aud are pushing the work
ahead with commendable energy. The peo-
pie of Catawba are wide awake and energet-
ic, and with the requisite amount of capital
at their command to complete the road, they
propose putting it through without delay.