Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-07
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


J. B. Turner, 2O6. Total vote cast, 1,445.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Two negroes in Edgecombe quarreled
over game of marbles last week and one
stabbed the other to death.
- The railroad to connect Chapel Hill with
the N. C. Central, is graded within half a
mile of the corporate limits of the town.
In the trial of murder case in Halifax
Superior Court last week, the jury was out
four days before rendering verdict, which
was for the acc littal of the accused.
"A special agent of the post Office depart
ment, after investigating the condition of the
post Office at Greenville, reports the postmas-
ter, H. E. Nelson, defaulter to the amount
of near s2,OOO-a pretty good steal for a
small Office.
The Colored Peoples State Fair, held in
Raleigh last week, is pronounced to have
been decided success On Wednesday Bish-
op Hood, colored, delivered sensible and ap.
propriate address, in which he counseled the
colored people to cherish proper self'respect
to cultivate temperance and the domestic vir'
tues to acquire property, and most important
of all, to educate 10th the minds and hearts
of their children. He spoke of the exodus
movement, aud condemned wholesale colo
nizing, while he considered that with regard
to emigration it should be left to the choice
of the individual Fred Douglass, as the or
ator of the occasion, delivered the principal
address on Friday.
- The Charlotte Observer of "Wednesday
gives the following account of the burial OF
the elephant keeper, killed by one of his ele'
phants in that city on Monday evening OF
last week: "The funeral cortege which follow
ed to the cemetery the remains of John King,
the keeper of animals in Robinson's circus,
whose tragic death has been recorded, was a
somewhat remarkable spectacle. The body
lay in a magnificent casket and was carried
to the graveyard in hearse to which was
attached four handsome white horses. Close
upon the heane followed the two pet elephants
of the dead keeper, "Mary" and "The Boy"
whose stately tread in perfect time with the
drge which the band was playing, seemed to
indicate that the intelligent animals felt the
solemnity of the occasion. The funeral cere
monies took place in the Catholic church, and
the scene there was likewise solemn and i'm
pressive The performers and laborers, fresh
from the shouts and glare of the circus, in
their rough everyday clothes, but with faces
respectfully cleansed of the dust and paint Of
the arena, were all present. The rites were
said by Rev. Father O'Connell and the body
was inferred in the Catholic burying ground
CENTENNIAL NOTES.
Richmond, Va, contributed 1903 to the
centennial fund.
- The senior class of the University OF
North Carolina will attend the celebration in
in /, body.
The Cadets of the Kings Mountain Mill
tary School and the jenkins Rifles marched
to the battle ground and pitched their tents
asst Monday.
- The local committee have procured TWEEN
ty horses for three artillery companies expec'
ted, and have made arrangements for taking
care of the baggage of the military companies
The Iredell Blues, of Statesville, N. c.,
will attend as an "independent organization.
They will take with them the Statesville
Band, one of the best musical organizations
in North Carolina.
The monument will be unveiled on Thurs.
day by four young ladies representing the
States of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee, assisted by the re-
spective Governors of those States.
Maj. w. J. Houston, of the Airline
Railroad, and chairman of the committee on
transportation, to whom was delegated the
work of properly advertising the Centennial
in other States, writes under recent date that
"letters received from all sections of the
country indicate that the attendance at the
centennial will be larger than anticipated"
The orators who are to represent the
States on the first day of the Celebration,
(reunion day. are Hon. D. G. Fowle, of
North Carolina; Gen.. John S. Preston, of
South Carolina; Gen. Alexander w. Camp.
bell, of Tennessee; Gen. David E, Butler, of
Georgia. The orator from Virginia has not
been named.
In the drill for the Centennial prize on
the last day, the companies entering the con-
test must have "a men, exclusive of the COM
manding officers and sergeants, and the drill
will be in accordance with Uptons tactics.
Capt Evans, of the United States army, sta
toned at the Carolina Military Institute,
Charlotte; Capt. Patrick, of spartanburg
and Major Hugh Thomson, of Columbia, have
been selected as judges of the prize drill.
The absence of the Georgia State troops
will be source of regret But about that
time, says the Atlanta Constitution, "they,
with the other people of the State, will be
engaged in elevating to the chair of State a
gentleman who keenly sympathizes with the
spirit and purpose of the celebration, and in
teaching to the politicians and office'seekers
the much-needed lesson that neither the pub
lie record nor the private character Of citi-
zen of Georgia, can be broken down by anon
ymous and malicious SANDERS"
Notwithstanding the failure Of the Ad-
iutant General of North Carolina to make q
requistion for tents, when by special Act of
Congress 400 we're at his disposal for the use
of soldiers visiting the Kings Mountain Gen.
tennial, several North Carolina companies