Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-30
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

In Wake county there are thirty-eight
white Baptist churches, with membership Of
1900. ...r... aa j. ... .,~a
- Hon. A. G. Thurman, of Ohio, has accept.
ed an invitation to deliver the annual address
at the State University, next June, before the
graduating class. ' 'e. ..,. .... ...
- The committee on the State penitentiary
are Of the opinion that work on that institu-
ton should be discontinued, so that heavy
drain on the treasury may thereby be stopped.
- The election of Governor Vance to the
Senate Of the United States meets with gener-
al approval by the press and the people of the
State. ..''' =.
= Mr.. Josiah Turner, member Of the Legis-
lature from Orange, has offered a resolution
in the House, providing for an investigation
of his own election, in order to learn whether
there was or not fraud in it.
- The Charlotte Observer says that on
Tuesday evening Of last week, Mr.. J. N.
Harkey, the postmaster at Stont's, on the
Carolina Central Railroad, fell off the mail
train, on which he was passenger, and was
instantly killed, the train passing directly
across the breast of the unfortunate man.
-- Under the head of military Gossip" the
Raleigh News states that Adjutant General
Johnstone Jones returned from New, York
last Tuesday, at which place he has been in
attendance upon the grand convention of
officers of the volunteer service from the
various States of the Union. The General
reports that his reception was most hospita-
BILE. . .,,.. .........'.
AT Greensboro, on Monday Of last week,
the case of the N. G. Railroad Us. N. H. D.
Wilson, trustee, was heard before Judge
Kerr on motion to remove Mr.. Wilson as
trustee and appoint receiver. The Judge
declined to allow the motion, and an appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court. Mr.. Viii
son is of the firm of Wilson & Shober, bank
ers, who made an assignment few months
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- The Raleigh Observer Of the 26th says
that recently Deputy Marshal w. j. Watson,
with Deputy Collector Worth of the Fifth
Collection District, came down upon large
still in full operation at the head of j. I. AL
lens pond in Orange county. They destroy.
ed about $500 gallons of beer, and all the
fixtures of the still. 1t is not known who was
the owner of it, as no captures were made.
- Louis WE'LL, convicted at Spring term,
1877, of Union superior Court, of man
slaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten years, has been pardoned by Govern
or Vance. If we mistake not, the. offence Of
WE'LL was committed while he, was discharg-
ing the duties of policeman. The Govern
or's endorsement on the application for par
don is alike creditable to himself and the
Jewish people, of whom the pardoned man is
a representative: Recommended by Judge
McKoy, Solicitor Pemberton and a large
number of the citizens of Wilmington, Rich
mond and Union. The case was one of man
slaughter not aggravated, and take pleasure
in saying that I, sign the pardon in part re-
cognition of the good and law-abiding char
acter of our Jewish citizens, this being the
FIRST serious case ever brought to my notice,
on the part of any Of that people" g.. .,