Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- lhe State journal has been revived al
Raleigh, by Mr. John Spelman, and is pub.
lished as the organ of the antiprohibitionists.
The grand jury of Rowan county have
found an indictment against Moses Benceni,
Jr, Of Salisbury, for the killing of negro on
election day last November.
- The Kings Mountain gold mine, with all
its machinery and appurtenances, lying in
CASTOR and Cleveland counties, will be sold
at public auction by virtue of deed of trust
on the End of July.
The aurora says that the prisoners in
Jail at Shelby made an unsuccessful attempt
to escape last Saturday night. They had
rubbed off several bolt heads, with the pieces
of broken crock, and broke piece of a
bar from the cage, but the work was discover.
ed in time to prevent their escaping
- Raleigh has made step towards temper.
ance reform by closing the bar-rooms of the
city on Sunday, to which the Neus and Oh.
server says: "The closing of the bar-rooms
on Sunday is having an admirable effect up
on the morals of the city, say the police. If
closing them for one day in the week has
such good effect, wouldn't the effect be bet.
ter if they were closed seven days?'
The wholesale liquor dealers of Charlotte,
says the Democrat, have sent an application
to Judge Gudger, at Rockingham, asking a
restraining order against the recent ordinances
of the board of aldermen ordering all engaged
in the liquor business to close their houses on
the 1st of June. The order was. granted,
and is made returnable before Judge Shipp,
at chambers, on the 10th instant, when
final settlement of the question will be made.
- The first "dry" day in Charlotte is thus
noted by the Observer of the End instant:
"It was no doubt thought by some that vio-
lations. or evasions of the liquor law would
occur yesterday ; but it is pleasure to be
able to state that, with an extra police force
on duty, not q single case was detected. The
general good order of the city throughout the
day and night was subject of remark. The
proprietors of the late bar.rooms generally
opened their places of business or sat around
the doors, holding kind of "wake," as it
were over the remains. One man was having
his house secured out, and when asked what
he intended doing in there, replied that he
was going to give dance to the leaders of
the prohibition movement"
The State anti-Prohibition Convention
was in session in Raleigh on Wednesday of
last week. R. G. Badger was elected perma.
nent chairman. Two resolutions, preceded
by lengthy preamble, were adopted, the
resolutions declaring that 1--WE, the real repre-.
sentatives of the cause Of temperance in
North Carolina, the prohibitionists, here
in convention assembled, find the said bill is
unworthy the support Of enlightened freemen
and good citizens;" and that "we pledge our
selves to resist its adoption by every worthy
means at our command, and call upon our
felow.citizens of every creed and race, of ev.
cry shade of religious and political opinion,
to join with us in condemning at the ballot
box, this most unjust, unworthy and improper
law"
- The Star of Zion, published at Concord,
by A. S. Richardson, colored, formerly post
master at Chester, S. c., gives the following
advice to the people in whose interest it is
conducted: "The immigration movement
southwark should teach the colored people
that new conditions and opposing forces to
our race are springing up which will require