Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-08-21


room for improvement, and we hope by an
other year to be able to chronicle still fur
ther decrease"
MIR. Robt. Doster, who lives in Pleasant
Valley, just beyond the South Carolina line,
was in Charlotte, Thursday, and on going
home was informed by his wife that negro
named Crow had insulted her. The next day
he went to Crows house "to see about it."
As he approached the house the negro drew
pistol and attempted to shoot him, but the
weapon missed fire, Whereupon Mr.. Doster
drew his own revolver and fred. The negro
received wound in his left arm, which, how
ever, is not serious. The nature Of the insult
offered Mrs. Doster was not ascertained.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
There are over 1900 pleasure.seekers Wis
iting Asheville this summer.
- The Baptists of Lincolnton are making
preparations to build a handsome brick
church.
The total receipts of cotton at Charlotte
since the 1st of last September, were $4,000
bales
-One-third of Rowan county adopted the
stock law at an election held last week. The
whole county of Cabarrus has adopted the
law.
Mr.. John G. Potts has been elected may.
or of Pineville, by the board of town com.
missioners, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of John M. Boyce.
At Beaver Dam, Union county, on the
9Th instant, Mrs. Crawley was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. She was sit
ting near the fire place, and the fluid passed
down the chimney, tearing it to pieces.
Bob McCorkle, colored, was hanged at
Taylorsville, last Friday, in the presence of
three thousand people, for the murder of a
white man named Wesley Wycoff, in Novem-
Der last.
- The Shelby aurora is informed that Mr..
A. R. Homesley has purchased (from the
First National Bank, of Charlotte,) the mer-
chant mill, known as the Fronerbarger mill,
about half mile below Buffalo Paper
Mills.
The Charlotte Observer learns that two
women-a daughter and granddaughter Of
their victim-have been arrested in Cabarrus
county, and committed to Jail, charged with
causing the death by violence of an old wo-
man, Mrs. Clay, who lived in the same house
with them, and was regarded as burden to
the younger women.
The Statesville Landmark says that du-
ring the past few weeks Mr.. w. A. Daniels lost
at his still-house, near that town, more than
one hundred fine hogs with cholera, and a
very much larger number of pigs. His swine
died so rapidly that the smell became so OBJ.
noxious that he hauled them off by the wag-
on load and had them burned. Messrs. Paul
Bost, w. M. Shook, and Silas Watts have
also lost heavily by the same disease.
-Statesville gave almost unanimous vote
to subscribe $4,000 to the building of the
Narrow Gauge Railroad from that place to
Taylorsvile. The distance between the two
places is about % miles. The county also
takes deep interest in the extension of the
Statesville Railroad to Mt. Airy, and will
vote liberal subscriptions, say 100000, the
same amount given to the Atlantic, Tennessee
and Ohio Railroad. Two hundred convicts
are to be assigned when the road is ready for
grading. DR.. J. j. Mott is President of this
contemplated road.
The State Grand Lodge of Good Tenn
plars was in session last week at Winston,
and correspondent of the Raleigh Observer
gives some interesting statistics of the present
condition of the order in the State as CLEANED
from the report of the secretary. This shows
that the number of members of the order in
the State at the time of the annual report
next preceding this, was 4,27O.; initiated
since, 1857 admitted by card and restored,
251; total, 6,37S; total loss, 2,73S; present
number, 3,640; number of lodges organized
and reinstated, So number of lodges in good
standing, 1913; receipts during the year, ST.
623; disbursements, s1,623.
The seventy-6rst case decided by the Su-
preme Court of North Carolina, at the recent
term-State vs.. Lunsford, from Macon coun-
ty-had a humorous side, and is thus report
ed Several boys, with view of perpetra-
ting joke, went to the house Of an aged man
by night, and Disgusting their voices, repre-
sented that they were in search of horse
thieves and offered him a reward to show
them the road. He mounted on horse be-
hind one of them, who galloped short dis
tance, when the old man, upon complaint of
hard riding, got down to change horses, where
upon they rode off, leaving him in the dark,
half mile from his house. No harm was
done except the jolting caused by the gallop-
ing. Held, An Indictment for false imprs.
onment does not lie, as the prosecutor went
voluntarily, and there was no violation of the
criminal law in any respect.
MERE.MENTION.
There has never been such promising
prospect for cotton in Northern Texas, as at
present. ''..'"Mrs. Potts, the pedestrienne, on
her return from New Orleans, writes to some
friends in. Atlanta to have her some money
ready, as she is out of funds necessary to meet
her wants '..'.'."Gen. Samuel F. Carey, the
champion Greenbacker, has announced bis
purpose to stump Ohio for Gen. Ewing, the
Democratic candidate for Governor. ''''''Tex-
as claims from fifteen to eighteen Congressman
under the new apportionment. ''''''"Official
census returns just completed show that the
nonnIation of Kansas. on the first of March,