Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-08
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Gen. Johnstone Jones is to deliver the
memorial address in Morganton.
The grading of the Chester and Lenoil
Railroad was finished to Hickory last Friday
evening.
- The city election in Charlotte, last Mon
day, resulted in the choice of Frank I. o.
borne for Mayor.
-Sallie Michael, who made the pipes Of
that celebrated brand, died near Morganton
last week, in the S7th year of her age.
- Hon. Clinton L. Cobb, prominent Re
publican politician, who represented the first
Congressional district in Cuugress, during the
4lst, 42nd and 43rd Congresses, died in Eliz
abeth City on Wednesday of last week.
- Saturday last several hundred negroes
met in Weldon to discuss the question Of 60
ing to Kansas. Several speeches were made
pro and con, and committee appointed tc
ascertain particulars and report.
Burke and Mcdowell county jails are tc
give lodgings for year to twenty illicit
whisky distillers and tobacco blockaders who
were convicted before Judge Dick at the
recent term of the Federal Court in States
vile.
- Walter F. Leak, Esq, of Richmond
county, prominent lawyer and long identi
fed with the political history of the State
died at his residence in Rockingham on Mon
day of last week, aged so years. He was g
Democrat of the old school.
- The superintendent Of the work says that
he will, in four weeks time, have the Western
North Carolina Railroad completed six miles
west of Swannanoa, when he will transfer
passengers over the gap and land them within
twelve miles of Asheville. .....
james McCrary, father of the Secretary
of War, writes to the Statesville American to
say that he is a native of Iredell county, N.
c., whence he emigrated at the age of 9 years
with his father, who first settled in Tennes.
see, and afterwards in Indiana The father
of the Secretary married Kentucky lady.
Says the Lincoln Progress: Peter Eaves,
alias Peter Mccoy, who was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary for the larceny of
money at the last fall term of our court, stab.
bed and instantly killed brother convict on
the Chester and Lenoir Railroad near Hick-
ory, last week. Eaves and his victim are
both colored.
The Charlotte Observer of yesterday says
that on Tuesday morning, Mr. Christian K.
Ross, father of the long-lost Charley Ross,
arrived at Charlotte in company with anoth.
er gentleman, who were on their way to LIE.
noir, in Caldwell county, Mr.. Ross having
received information which leads him to be.
lieve, that his son is in or near that town.
Says the Asheville Citizen: Cherokee
Court, which was recently held, Judge Gud-
ger presiding, tried two capital cases; one, a
negro named Thompson, charged with killing
another negro, was convicted of manslaught-
er. Mrs. Rachael Michael, indicted for kill
ing James Ross, was declared guilty by the
jury, and the judge sentenced her to be hang
ed on the 18th of June. An appeal was ia.
ken to the Supreme Court.
DIR. S. B. Traywick, dentist, was found dead
in his office in Monroe on Tuesday morning
of last week. He complained of being un.
we'll the previous afternoon and lay down on
lounge to rest, where his son left him. 1t is
supposed that he died before dark on Mon
day evening, as his spectacles were found on
his nose and an open book near him, as if he
bad been reading, but no lamp had been
lighted. He was not discovered dead until
atout o'clock Tuesday morning. DR.. Tray
wick was about 55 years old, and leaves a
family and many friends to mourn his death.
The Charlotte Observer Of Saturday says
Mr.. w. M. Russ, of the agricultural depart
ment, came to the city yesterday morning
with two hundred and fifty thousand young
fish, which were designed for distribution in
streams and ponds along the Air Line Rail
road. On arriving at the depot here, the wat
ter in the cans in which the fish were trans'
ported was changed, and a few hours after
wards an examination showed that every fish
in the cans was dead. This water was taken
from the well at the depot, and so far as
known is as pure as any in the city. The