Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-30
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- The railroad lines in North Carolina
have agreed to transport the military COM
panies that attend the celebration at two
cents per mile, round trip. Adjutant Gen.
eral Jones has issued circular in which he
says: "At the rate of two cents per mile, and
at this season of the year, it is impractica'
Bile to assemble the State Guard in force at
Kings Mountain. The proposed encamp.
ment must, therefore, be abandoned; and
tents cannot be furnished by the State. Com
panies that attend must 60 upon their own
responsibility, as individual organizations.
1t is out of the power of the State authorities,
under existing circumstances, to afford them
assistance"
Capt. Bell, of the committee of arrange
ments, gives notice that the place Of debark-
alton on the Airline Railroad is way sta.
ton called "Weaver's," Eve miles west of the
village of Kings Mountain and four miles
from the battlefield where the celebration is
to be held. Hacks, omnibuses, wagons. ETC.,
will be in waiting at Weaver's upon the ar
rival of every train, to transport passengers
to the battle. field Rates from so cents to
one dollar, according to conveyance, for
round trip. The local committee on transpor-
tation have engaged all the hacks and omni'
buses they could get from Charlotte, Chester,
Newton, Spartanburg, Hendersonville, Green
vile and Asheville, and it is thought the sup.
ply of teams will be ample
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Colored Peoples State Fair opened
in Raleigh last Monday. Fred Douglass is
the orator for the occasion.
On Wednesday of last week an unknown
man was found dead four miles north of
Shelby.
William Parker, white man, and he
gro, name unknown, have been arrested on
suspicion of being the assassins of General
Bryan Grimes. They are confined in Wash
ington Jail, Beaufort county.
w. w. Pegram, of Charlotte, has sued
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road, for failure 10 furnish cars and engine
for two excursions which the road agreed to
let him have. He received $775 in one case
and the other was not tried, owing to some
technical informality in the papers.
- Tarboro' has colored woman who wa.
raised as boy does not recollect when she
began to wear male clothing; still dresses
and acts like man does a m. MS work, and
bears mans nane She has an aversion to
being with women or doing their kind Of
work, and says she would 60 to the peniten
tiary before she would wear bonnet. She
is a mother, but not at all motherly, and hel
child calls her papa.
The Charlotte Observer of Tuesday con
tains a long and thrilling account Of the
pranks of mad elephant belonging to Rob
inson's Circus, which arrived in that city on
Monday night about o'clock. The elephant
exhibited signs of anger Immediately on the
arrival of the train, around which large
crowd was standing, and his keeper, John
King, warned those who were gazing at the
infuriated animal that they were in danger
Immediately after giving this warning to the
bystanders, he stepped around to the ele'
plants head, and was in the act of turning
him around, when the enraged beast turned
against his keeper and crushed him against a
car. The keeper received severe wound in
the head from which he died three hours
later. The ELEPHANT, after the fatal attack
upon his keeper, started at a brisk pace up
the railroad track, and was recaptured with
| great difficulty.