Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-24
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS,

ton Jail professed religion last Friday.
"A cargo of $4,000 watermelons was ship
ped from Albemarle Sound to Washington
City last Friday.
Mr.. Rufus L. Patterson, of Salem, we'll
known throughout his State, died suddenly on
Tuesday of last week.
Mr.. Simeon Frankford, nm old and highly
respected merchant Of Charlotte, died at his
residence in that city last Saturday morning,
aged SO years.
Rev. B. S. Bronson, late rector Of the
Episcopal church in Charlotte, has accepted
a call to the Episcopal church at Wilson,
N. G.
Thornes comedy company has received
additions from New York and is delighting
Asheville, where they are spending the sum-
lner.
-Eighty-6ve years old, and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary for manslaughter,
was the fate Of Abel Mann, of Tyrell county,
last week.
- Mr.. John Randleman, one of the propri-
etors of Union cotton factory, in Randolph
county, and an enterprising man. died sud.
denly on Saturday of last week.
Miles Frey, clever well-to-do farmer
near Newton, Catawba county, has gone de-
ranged, and has to be confined in house,
constructed for the purpose, near his resi-
dence. 80 ,. II
- The deer in the lower end of Craven coun-
ty are reported to be destroying the growing
cotton The Newbern Democrat says they
are so numerous and bold that they come into
the fields and lay acres waste in single
night.
- The Raleigh Observer says that about the
first of August Senator Blaine and family
will arrive at Mrs. Pattons, at the foot of the
Black Mountain, to remain for a couple Of
weeks. He will visit Mt. Mitchell, and take
a run through the Land of the Sky generally.
- Patrick Brien, very poor man, citi-
zen of Raleigh, and brother of the Califor-
MIA millionaire, received 100000 from the
dead mans estate, but died just twenty-four
hours before the money was paid over to his
wife and daughter.
- John M. Boyce, Esq, the mayor Of Pine
vile and justice of the peace Of the town.
ship of the same name, died at his residence
in the village Tuesday morning at o'clock,
aged 81 years. Mr.. Boyce was a leading
and much esteemed citizen of his section Of
the county.
&C. w. Walden, of Beaver Dam, Union
county, confined in Charlotte Jail some weeks
ago, under the charge of counterfeiting, was
released Saturday on a justified bond Of ST.
900 for his appearance at the next term of
the United States court to be held in Char
lotte. 5a'
Edward Matthews, representing the first
mortgage bondholders of the Carolina Gen.
tral Railway Company, has brought suit
against the company and trustees for the first
and second mortgages, for the foreclosure
and sale of the property and franchises of the
defendant corporation.
Says the Charlotte Observer: Mrs Jack
son and daughter (widow and daughter Of
Stonewall Jackson) leave to-day for the Buf-
falo Lithia Springs, Va, where it istheir pur-
pose to spend the summer. Mrs. jackson
will spend next yearin Baltimore with her
daughter who will be pupil of Mrs Carey's
school.
- Wilmington, as we learn from the Star,
was the scene of terrible tragedy, murder
and suicide, Saturday night of last week. A
man by the name of James Heaton, who had
for several years been somewhat notorious
about Wilmington, aged about 80, and son of
Hon. David Heaton of Ohio, shot Mary
Radcliff, quadroon, who had been his para
mour, dead in the street, and afterwards while
being pursued by the police, shot himself, in
an open lot, through the temple, from the ef-
fects of which he soon died. The two corpses
were laid out in the same house. Heaton is
represented as having been wild and dis.
solute man when drinking, and genteel in ap-
pearance when sober.
The Asheville Journal states that Amos
w. Owens, in whose yard man was killed on
Cherry Mountain. Rutherford county, six
weeks or two months ago, was arrested last
week by the sheriff of Rutherford, but upon
examination before three magistrates he was
discharged. AS soon as he was released, a
deputy United States marshal took charge Of
him upon a warrant for retailing whisky on
that memorable day, when the soul of an un-
fortunate man was hurled before its Maker
unprepared, After an examination he was
held to bail, and now lies in jail at Ruther-
fordton. The Journal says he has been ar
rested no less than twenty times for block
aiding.
OF Senator Vance's movements, the Char
lotte Observer of Monday says: Gov. Vance
left Charlotte last week and expects to spend
a few weeks in and around Asheville. 1t
will be remembered that he was appointed
on the committee to investigate causes lead
ing to the election of Senator Ingalls,, of Kan
sas, about the adjournment of Congress, and
he expects the chairman of the committee to
call the committee together between the 1st
and the 18th of September. Mr.. Salisbury,
of Delaware, is chairman of the committee
and its sessions are expected to be held in
Topeka. As soon as it closes its labors, Gov.
Vance expects to return to Ohio, and take
part in the Ohio Campaign, whichis expected
to get up to fever heat about the first of Oc-
tober.
KINGS MOUNTAIN IN 1855.-Our friend,
Mai. Watson Reid, of Steele Creek, who has
carefully collected and preserved many PAM