Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-26
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The Raleigh Observer was bought by its
creditors, at public sale, on the 18th instant
and will be continued under the editorial
management of P. M. Hale, Esq.
The crops in Mecklenburg county, says
the Charlotte Democrat, "are doing well
wheat and oats have turned out satisfactorily,
if not the best for several years. Cotton is
we'll worked and the stand is very good"
- The owners of the Rudisil gold mine,
near Charlotte, have recently sold one-half
interest in the mine for $4,000, and the
Duffy mine, in CASTOR county, was sold to
Boston capitalists, few days ago, for $4,000
cash.
-Asheville now boasts of cozy opera
house, which was opened recently by the
Thorne Comedy Company with Miss Bonnie
Meyer in the character of Fanchon. Prior
to the play, Miss Meyer delivered a neat ad-
dress. .......
One of the convicts now at work on the
railroad, near Greensboro, who was sentenced
for stealing money from the telegraph COM
pany, says he has twenty-five hundred dollars
of the money yet. He gave bis lawyer five
hundred dollars to defend him, and the re-
mainder is loaned on mortgage in Charlotte.
AT the term of the Superior Court for
Iredell county, last week, Alexander Brad.
we'll, white, and Thomas Roseboro, colored
were convicted of burglary and sentenced to
be hanged on the 9th of August. 1t will be
remembered that the young man Millen, an
accomplice in the crime, managed to elude
capture, and is still at large.
Dan Mccall, half.witted white man, was
run over by the passenger train Of the Air
Line Railroad, near Kings Mountain, on
Wednesday oflast week, and instantly killed.
The coroner'sjury attributed no blame to the
conductor or engineer, as the man was lying
on the track and the train could not have been
stopped in time to avert the catastrophe.
The Charlotte Observer learns that Mrs.
Henry Underwood, a respectable widow lady
of River Bend township, died at her home
last week at the advanced age Of SO years.
She maintained all her faculties to the last,
but has lost her teeth. 1t is given as we'll
authenticated fact, however, that she had be-
gun to regain them; in short, she was cutting
teeth, as she did nearly SO years ago.
The Charlotte Observer of Saturday re-
cords the death, which occurred on the pre-
ceding day, of Mr.. Joshua Trotter, of that
city. Mr.. Trotter was a native of Virginia,
came to Charlotte when quite young man
and entered the business of manufacturing
carriages and buggies, which he followed un-
interruptedly until short time before his
death. He was Quaker and lived fully up
to the strict religious and moral principles in
culcated by that denomination,
speaking of the suspension Of the cotton
house of B. R. Smith & Co., of New York, the
Charlotte Democrat says: "The suspension
caused some excitement in financial circles,
but no in one Charlotte was hurt, as all their
liabilities are at the North. The firm is com.
posed of B. R. Smith, Junius M. Smith and
Bart. S. Johnson, all former citizens of Char
lotte Dealing in cotton futures did the work,
and will do so for many more if the bad
practice is continued. We are pleased to
hear that the firm will soon resume business,
and that it has been offered material assis-
tance and sympathy by New York houses.
The members of the firm are of irreproacha-
BILE character, and all who know them be-
lieve that they will do all in their power to
meet liabilities. One of the firm, Mr.. Junius