Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-04-11

duces railroad compensation five per cent,
and allows postmasters of the fourth class
commission on the stamps which they cancel,
instead of on those which they sell.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. .--.
- The amount of bullion assayed at the
Charlotte mint last month was 3,393.37.
Two children we're bitten by mad dog
in Raleigh last week.
- The second annual Meeting of the Grand
Lodge, Knights of Honor, convened in Char
lotte last Tuesday. ......
Col. Wheeler, the historian, who was re-
Gently stricken with paralysis in Washington,
is we'll again.
- Rev. L. K. Wiley, of Granville county,
has been pronounced insane by jury Of his
countymen.
- For the first time in thirty or forty days,
good rain fell in Charlotte on Wednesday
and Thursday of last week.
- Considerable interest has been revived
in the scheme for the building of a railroad
from Danville, Va, to Statesville.
- Twelve boxes of tobacco were seized at
the depot in Greensboro last week. They
were packed in -four barrels, and had been
shipped from Kernersville as -four.
- Lueco Mitchell, a young man of much
promise only few years ago, died in the lu-
natic asylum at Raleigh last week, having
lost his mind by over indulgence in strong
drink. ....
- In the municipal election at Dallas, last
week, the "wet or dry" question was the is
sue, and the advocates Of each side of the
question worked vigorously. Dallas has been
dry town for two years, but she couldn't
stand it any longer, and threw of the yoke of
dryness by Il majority of nine.
- Matt. Evens, notorious desperate, who
was tried and convicted in Greenville, S. c.,
for burning machine shop, and sentenced to
Imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, but
who managed to effect his escape, has been
captured in the mountains of North Caroli-
ma.
- At the spring term of Anson court,
Thomas Womble will be tried for the mur-
der of his sster.in.law, Miss Rushing The
Indictment contains two counts-one of MUIR
der by administering the poison the other
as accessory by obtaining the poison for Miss
Rushing to take.
-Ex.Judge Tourgee wrote newspaper ar
tice abusing ex-Judge Fowle. Fowle met
Tourgee at the railroad depot in Raleigh, and
asked him if he wrote the article referred to.
Tourgee made no reply, whereupon Fowle
struck him over the head with cane, draw
ing blood. The Gro wd rushed in and prevent
ed further fighting.
At the recent term Of the Superior Court
for Yadkin county, it was some time before
competent grand jury could be obtained,
owing to the holding of the Supreme Court,
requiring of each grand juror that he shall
have paid his tax for the previous year, and
that he has no suit pending in court of any
issue.
- Mrs. Hayes made application, few days
since, to Governor Vance, through Major
John Hughes, of Newbern, for the sword of
her late husband, General Hayes, of the
Union army. The Governor wrote her in
reply that he would be happy to send the
sword to any address she might designate, and
expressed his satisfaction in being able to
place in her hands this relic of gallant SOL
dier and officer. The sword was captured by
Governor Vances old regiment, the 26th, in
one of the great battles in Virginia.
- The report of j. ]. Mott, Collector of the
Sixth District of North Carolina, to the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, shows that du-
ring the month of February, 1878, his force
of special deputies went through the counties
of Wilkes, Allegheny, Ashe, Watauga, Yad-
kin and Davie, and parts of Alexander and
Iredell, and destroyed 639 stands Of mash,
$4,000 gallons of beer, 81 copper stills, $40
gallons of singlings 80 empty beer stands, 35
bushels of meal, 95 gallons of whiskey and
81 illicit stills, and carried off 43O gallons Of
whisky, which will be offered for sale.