Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-31

| 5,508 and $3.50. The most OF the persons
arrested are charged with interfering with
Swails in his advocacy of Rainey for Con
gress The others are arrested for giving
Swails notice to leave the county.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The mountains of Western North Caro-
lima are covered with snow. ....,..
The grading of the Chester and Lenoil
Railroad will be finished to Lenoir by the
middle of December.
- Robert Lumson, Abram Maberry and l.
A. Mason, have been appointed storekeepert
and gaugers of the Sixth North Carolina
District.
w. H. Priester, of South Carolina, who
recently shot colored waiter in Charlotte
restaurant, will, it is understood, return tc
Charlotte and surrender himself to the author
tiles.
- Jim Laxton, colored, was hanged al
statesville, last Friday, having been convict
ed of rape, alleged to have been committed
on the person of white woman in Caldwell
county, on the night of April IA, 1875.
- Nathan Waters, who murdered Richard
johnson, in Richmond county, last April
and made his escape, has been arrested in
Cuthbert, Georgia. Governor Vance has is
sued requisition upon the Governor Of
Georgia for the fugitive.
A Washington dispatch Of the 26th inst.
says: The Attorney General, in accordance
with the recommendation of the acting Com.
missioner of Internal Revenue, has granted
the petition of some four hundred persons in
North Carolina indicted for violation of the
revenue laws; they will be allowed to plead
guilty to the charges against them, but sen.
tence will be suspended during good beha.
viour. They promise to abstain from further
violation of law themselves, and use their in
fuence to prevent others doing so.
Vance and Merrmon are the names most
prominently spoken of for United States Sen
ator, to be elected by the next Legislature of
North Carolina. As singular coincidence
in the light of subsequent events, it is mention
ed that in 1861 Vance went to Raleigh as
captain of company, and that the present
Senator Merrimon was also private in the
same company. Judge Merrimon, however,
was soon appointed commissary captain, and
Vance was elected colonel of the 26th regi.
ment. -.
- The Charlotte Observer says that at the
sale of the property of the late Sheriff Rhyme,
of CASTOR county, last week, things sold at
prices which indicated that plenty prevails in
our neighboring county. Mules, some OF
them pretty old, sold at prices ranging from
$50 to $115, six months time; corn sold at
374 cents per bushel, six months time, and
other things in proportion. The people ap,
peared to be happy and prosperous, and but
little was heard of hard times among the
Gastonians.
The Wilmington Sun learns that on last
Friday evening, a young man, son of A. M.
Mcintyre, put the torch to his fathers store,
which was situated about four miles from
Moss Neck, and burned it to the ground, to-
gether with its entire contents-except posi-
bly, that of the money drawer. Young Nc
Entyre recently married young woman to
whom his parents seriously objected, and at:
ter the marriage his father would not admit
the pair into his door. This exasperated the
boy and he started forthwith to the store, a
mile distant, and destroyed it. The incendi-
ary has not been arrested.
At Lumberton, on Thursday last, Miss
Amelia Linkhawe, approached young man
by the name of Ed. Hartman, at his room in
the hotel, and demanded to know if be in
tended fulfilling his promise to marry her,
she alleging that he had effected her ruin up
on promise to marry. Hartman persistently
refused to marry her, when she drew revol-
yer and shot him, the ball entering his breast
and lodging in his back. The wound was
at first supposed to be mortal, but the ball
has been extracted, and the physicians enter
tain hope of his recovery. Soon after the
shooting, the young woman gave birth to a
child. Owing to the critical condition of the
wounded man, his assailant was bound over
in bond of $4,000.