Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-09-25
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The population of Winston is 1887; OF
Salem, 1885; the two combined, 4,373.
Greensboro has population of 4,529
A lodge of Knights of Honor, with %
charter members, was instituted at Greensboro
last week.
- The Rudisill Hill Gold Mine, near Char
lotte, has been sold to Northern company of
capitalists, and will be worked more largely
than ever.
Col. Duncan K. McRao has accepted an
| invitation to deliver an address at the Char.
lotte Fair, commencing on the 4th Of Novem.
Der.
Senator Vance has gone to Topeka, Kan
sas, as member of the subcommittee of the
Senate committee on elections, to investigate
the charges of corruption against Senator
Ingalls, in his election to the Senate. On his
return, Senator Vance will take the stump
for Democracy in Ohio.
1t is now claimed that Hoke c. Secrest Of
Union county, who killed his wife and child
in the edge of Burke county in the latter part
of 1877, is now insane. If the effort to estab:
lish his insanity is successful, he will be sent
to the asylum, but, if not, it is stated his case
will be removed to Iredell for trial next De.
cember.
- Mrs. Jane Y. Christmas, the only daugh-
ter of the celebrated Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines,
of New Orleans, died last Thursday morning
at Warrenton, it is said, Of yellow fever. She
came from New Orleans about two weeks
ago and brought the disease with her. She
leaves three children. Mrs. Gaines was with
her.
The Raleigh Observer says: "The appeal
of the State Supreme Court to the Supreme
Court of the United States, in the case of the
the State vs.. Hoskins, from Guilford county
involving the question of jurisdiction of the
Federal Courts over assaults committed by
United States officers in the discharge of their
duties, has been withdrawn by the State
So the decision of the Supreme Court, affirm.
ing the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts, is
sustained"
- Under the head of "the same old story u
the Charlotte Observer relates the following
1t was rural romance, not different in any
material points from a thousand similar oc'
currences. They met at a singing school
where so many young people "meet." An
attachment declaration, an engagement, op
position on the part of her parents, hesitation
doubt, almost despair, resolution, a plot to
escape, and a marriage in South Carolina
Trial Justice D. M. Wallace performed the
ceremony, and the young couple were Mr.
j. B. Richards and Miss NJ E. Suggs, from
the neighborhood of Brevard Station. About
the same time, and under the same circum'
stances, Mr.. Ed. Fayssoux and Miss Davis
daughter of Mr.. Oliver Davis, of Gastonia
were married.
POLITICAL NEWS.
- Official returns show that in the recent
California election, one Democratic Congress
man was elected.
- The ballots voted in San Francisco. at the
recent election, were two feet long and five
inches wide, and contained eighty.seven
names.
- The Portland (Me.) Argus mentions as 9
rumor that Senator Blaine has spent S2O,
900 of his private fortune to carry that
State for the Republicans at the last election
The same paper asserts that the Republican
campaign in Maine cost that party $25O,O0
- The breach in the Democratic party Of
New York continues to widen. On Friday
last, Edward Newcomb, of Albany, was nom
mated by the anti. Robinson section of the
party for senator. An entire county ticket
was also nominated. Resolutions were adopt
ed unanimously endorsing John Kelly fol
Governor. The convention was largely at
tended.
"A number of colored citizens Of Balti
more have organized Democratic club, be-
cause, as they claim, the Republicans have
given them but few of the Offices, while the
Democrats, though not supported by the col
ored vote, have secured them the right to
testify in the courts and to have separate
schools. These seceders repudiate the idea
that they owe their emancipation to the Re
publican party, but attribute their freedom to
the necessities of the war which the Republi
can leaders kept insisting at first was not un'
dertaken to free the slaves.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.