Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-03-22
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
ID. w. G. Benbow has been made bust.
ness agent for the Oranges of North Carolina.
- The Charlotte Observer learns that three
negroes broke out of Dallas Jail on Wednes-
day night of last week.
The Charlotte Southern Home learns that
large number of fruit buds in that section
have been killed this season. The prospect
so far is good for an apple crop.
- The experiment of road steamer be-
tween Statesville and Taylorsville is soon to
be tried. The Charlotte Democrat discourages
the idea, and recommends narrow gauge
railroad.
Capt. W. T. R Bells High School, at
Kings Mountain, now numbers near sixty
students, which speaks we'll for the institution.
Capt. Bell will be remembered by many in
York county for the efficient aid he rendered
the Democratic party in the late canvass.
A stabbing afray occurred in Dallas on
Saturday, which it is feared may prove to
have been fatal. John Hooser and Jasper
Long, two young men from CASTOR, got into
dispute when Hooser stabbed Long in the
side The latter at last accounts was very
low. Hooser has disappeared.
"A meeting of the bondholders Of the re-.
cognized debt of North Carolina was held in
New York on the 10Th, and a resolution
adopted for the appointment of committee
of three to confer with the North Carolina
Commissioner upon plan for the adjustment
Of the debt
The new election law fixes the day for
election of Governor and other State officers,
and also county officers, on Tuesday next af:
ter the first Monday in November, 1880, and
every four years thereafter, except as to the
next ensuing general election for members Of
the Legislature, county officers, &C., which
will be held on the first Thursday in August,
1878.
On Tuesday negro man named Jim
Wilson and bis wife we're arrested and put in
CASTOR county Jail on the charge of killing a
three year old child, who was sister of Will
sons wife, and who was living with them at
the time. 1t is said to have been killed with
leaden-headed cane, with which the skull
was broken in three different places. The
body was badly burnt, and showed other evil
dences of ill-treatment.
- An act was passed at the recent session of
the Legislature making it unlawful to export
partridges, dead or alive, from the counties
of Catawba, Rowan, Guilford, Rockingham,
Alamance, Orange, Iredell, Davie, CASTOR,
Columbus, Davidson, Auson or Forsythe.
This legislation was rendered necessary in
consequence of the large number of these
birds being trapped or killed for expectation
to foreign markets.
- The following magistrates for CASTOR
county were appointed at the recent session
of the Legislature: Chsrryville-W. 0. Har.
rellson, John T. Carpenter, Jacob Kiser,
Henry Summit. Dollas-Caleb Pasour, M.
D. Friday, T. F. w. Thompson, Milas With
GERS. Riuer Bend-A. P. Rhyme, James Alb.
ernethy, w. G. Rutledge. South Point-J.
G.. Gullick, John F. Luper, J. M. Lineber-
ger. Gro,uder's Mountain-B. G. Bradley, j..
M. Whitesides, R. w. Faucet, Thos. Chalk.
MERE.MENTION.
The New Hampshire election resulted in a
Republican majority throughout the State of
about $500. The Democrats carried the
first Congressional district by As majority.
The remaining two districts elected Republi-
cans. ..."..Madame Octavia Walton LIE Vert,
the distinguished authoress, died near Au-
gusta, Ga, on the 18th instant. ''''''lt is
thought an extra session of Congress will be
held before June. ....'...'Simon Cameron has
formally vacated his seat in the U. S. Senate,
and bis son, Don, will probably be elected to
supply the vacancy. .'"'''''''''H. P. Bell has
been elected to Congress from the ninth Geor-
gia district, to I'll the vacancy caused by
Ben. Hills promotion to the Senate. '''''The
Mexicans complain of fraud in their recent
Presidential election. Give them returning
board. .''.''...By common consent, the Sena-
torial question from Louisiana went over un'
til the next session of Congress. '''''''' Provis-
ion was made at the last session of Congress
for the payment of balances due Southern
mail contractors for the years 1859, 1860 and
1861. ......'."Milton S. Gambler, member of
Congress from the fifth Georgia district, in
fnrps an Atlanta interviewer that Abram S.
Hewitt spent one hundred thousand dollars
in the late Presidential campaign. ''''''1 1t is
now said that Gen. Joe Johnston will be Uni
ted marshal for Virginia. ''''''''Gens. G. T.