Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-04
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
-Diphtheria is committing some ravages
in Wilmington. ."'.
Samuel Walker, prominent citizen of
Randolph county, died at Asheboro on Fri
day last. .....
"A fire in Goldsboro, last Friday morning,
destroyed property to the amount Of $4,000,
including two stores and a carriage factory.
Dock Davis, an escaped felon from the
Jail of Haywood county, was recently shot
and killed by man attempting to effect his
capture.
ALL the iron for the Milton and Sutherlin
Narrow Gauge Railroad, has arrived at Suth-
erlin, and the work of laying the track will
be commenced Immediately.
During the past year, six associations of
the Baptist Church in the State, have report
ed over 1000 baptisms, GIG of which number
are reported by the Chowan Association.
- The Gastonia Herald reports difficulty
between two citizens of Dallas on Saturday
night of last week, in which one of the party,
Mr.. w. F. Holland, was seriously stabbed in
the neck with pen knife.
The State Agricultural Fair will be held
in Raleigh, beginning on the 18th instant.
Preparations are making to render it more
attractive than it has been any year since the
war.
Says the Gastonia Herald Girls should
be very careful how and what they bore holes
in their ears with. DR.. Hunter informs US
that some few days ago be took off the lobe
of woman's ear very large tumor, which
weighed four and quarter pounds.
Mr.. Thomas j. King, Sampson county
man, was in Goldsboro Tuesday, Juggling a
heavy sack containing about $22 in old fash
ioned coppers, paid him by another Sampson
county man in payment of debt. The sack
weighed q pounds.
Says the Charlotte Democrat: At Cald-
we'll Superior Court last week, after the Grand
Jury were drawn and before they we're sworn,
Judge Cloud asked them each one "if they
had paid their taxes for the previous year," ;"
which being answered afirmatively, he then
asked eff they were free.holders ?" when
three were directed to stand aside.
- The number of convicts now in the North
Carolina penitentiary is 325, of whom 315
are males and 10 females. The color division
shows 81 white and 274 colored. Convicts
on the public works are, Western N. G. Rail-
road, 367 males and % females. On the
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad, IT'S, all
males. On the Georgia and North Carolina
Railroad, AZ, all males. On the Chester and
Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, 19, all
matchmaking grand aggregate now under.
going penal servitude in the State, of 95S-
920 males and S8 females.
james M. Justice, formerly Of Ruther-
ford county, but who recently moved to Hen.
dersonville, met with fatal accident at Co.
lumbus, the county seat of Polk, on the night
of the 18th ultimo. He was attending Su.
perior Court for that county, before which he
had several important causes-one of them
involving conflict between the State and
Federal authorities. 1t was noticeable du.
ring the afternoon that he was drinking heav-
lily, and at an early hour in the night he
walked off the second story balcony of Hills
Hotel, sustaining injuries which rendered him
insensible from the time of the accident to
his death, which occurred on the 18th. In
addition to the local reputation he sustained
as lawyer, his name became familiar to the
people of the State as principal witness or
prosecutor of the kuklux, who we're tried in
Raleigh at the Fall Term of the United States
Circuit Court, 1871. He was about 40 years
of age, and in early life carried on the wagon
making business in the town Of Henderson
vile.