Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-23
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Superior Court of Mecklenburg county
commenced last Monday with 60 cases on the
State and 800 on the civil docket.
- Reports come from various sections Of the
State to the effect that wheat is seriously in
jured by rust.
Bethel Methodist Church, in Union coun-
ty, was recently destroyed by an incendiary
fire.
- North Carolina Central Railroad stock
is looking up. A few years ago it could be
bought for s25 per share last week it sold
at public sale in Greensboro at $50 so.
- The Randolph Regulator has discovered
a colored man in that county, named Gloster
Welborne, who is 1l5 years old, a good Meth
odist and an exemplary Democrat.
- Work has been resumed on Davenport
Female College, destroyed by fire, several
months ago, and it is the intention of the
building COMMITTEES to push it forward with
all possible speed.
-Johnstone Jones, Esq, formerly Of Rock
Hill, S. c., and now editor of the Raleigh
NeDs, will retire from that paper on the 1st
of June and locate in Morganton for the pur-
pose Of practcng law.
John H. Smytbe, of Wilmington, the
finest scholar and the most intellectual man
among the colored race of North Carolina,
has been appointed by the President Minister
to Liberia.
The 1O3rd anniversary of the Mecklen-
burg Declaration of Independence was cele.
brated in Charlotte last Monday. Among
the invited guests was the Governors Guards
of Columbia. Col. J. P. Thomas delivered
the address,
- There is to be be convention of colored
people at Charlotte, on the 18th of next Sep
tember, for the purpose of taking steps to
resstablish the whipping post. Delegates are
expected from all the different Southern
States.
- The Democratic party of Mecklenburg,
which county, contains seventeen townships,
adopted the primary plan of making nomi'
nations. The county convention met last
Saturday, primary elections having been held
in the various townships on the Saturday pre-.
vious All the old county officers were re-
nominated.
- The trial of the young man Black, charg
ed with killing James Anthony, near Cherry
vile, in Lincoln county, several weeks ago,
did not take place at the recent term of Gas
ton Superior Court, to which county the case
was moved A continuance was ordered un.
til Fall term, and Black was returned to
Lincoln county Jail.
- Regarding the future action Of the Re-
publican party Of North Carolina, the fol-
lowing from the Greensboro New State, may
be taken as an authoritative declaration
"There seems to be great anxiety about what
the Republican party of this State intends to
do. 1t is safe to say that the party is in good
shape and will take care of itself. We be-
lieve that by the middle of next November
the Democrats will have no reason to find
fault with the apparent apathy among Re-
publicans."
"A correspondent Of the Ashevlle Pioneer
gives the following in reference to Bald
Mountain: Bald Mountain has split in
twain Your readers will remember that
two years ago great excitement existed in
this section on account of the wonderful and
inexplicabe noises heard in the bowels of the
old Bald. The sound, like muttered thunder,
apparently proceeded from the innermost
depths of the mountain, and created the Wild
est excitement among the residents in the
valley. In the past few days the mountain
has literally split in twain, leaving chasm
of 300 feet in length and from 8 to 10 feet in
width. So far as your correspondent can as
certain, the depth is one bottomless abyss.
AS yet no smoke or lava has been thrown out
from the crater.