Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-23

Unlted StateS was TAKEN Dy tne stOcKnOlders
In the United States Circuit Court at
Charlotte, last week, the report of the.recent
sale of the Spartanburg and Asheville Rail-
road came up for confirmation. Exceptions
were filed by Messrs. Merrimou and Coleman,
attorneys for defendants, which we're argued at
some length. The exceptions were overruled
by the court and the report of the sale con-
frmed.
w. T. Yarboro, for killing policeman M.
A. Vanderford, in Salisbury, last Winter, was
convicted last week of manslaughter and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years.
One point made in the case by counsel for de-
fence, and which seems to have been sustained,
was that policeman is not recognized by the
statutes as lawful officer, and hence the de.
ceased had not the authority to make the at
tempted arrest
- The Charlotte Democrat learns that a
most horrible murder was committed four
miles from Taylorsville, Alexander county,
last week, by an unknown person or persons.
A Miss Caroline Thompson was killed in her
fathers house while the father, James
Thompson, an old man, was in the field
blowing, and the house robbed of six or eight
hundred dollars. When Mr. Thompson went
to the house from the field about sun down,
he found his daughter lying in the yard dead
with her skull crushed, and the house plunder-
ed Another warning against keeping money
in dwellings.
- Says the Lincoln Progress of last Satur
day: "The Lee Light Infantry, of Chester,
S. c., visited our town last Thursday and were
Hospitality entertained at Burton's Hotel by
the Southern Stars of this place. Captain
Michael Hoke, as spokesman for his COM
pany, welcomed them in few we'll chosen
remarks, which was responded to by Major
Hamilton, of Chester, in behalf the of Lee
Light Infantry. The Yorkville and Sandy
River Silver Cornet Bands and the Gastonia
Brass Band furnished the music for the occa-
sion, and where all played so we'll, it would be
hard to discriminate between them. The day
was pleasantly spent, and, in the afternoon,
they returned to their homes over the Narrow
Gauge Railroad. We trust they will not
make this their last visit"
- The cotton mills, known as George w.
Swepson's mills, in Alamance county, four
miles from Graham, were destroyed by fire
early on Thursday night of last week. The
mills, which were the property of the Falls
of the Neuse Manufacturing Company, were
of wood, lined with brick, 32l feet in length,
two stories in height. They were built in
1876 and contained 1000 spindles and 1853
looms; 107 operatives were employed. The
total value of the whole property was about
100000, but it is understood that the cotton
house, boiler house, store house, and the
houses of the operatives, were not destroyed.
The fire is supposed to have been caused by
the explosion of an oil lamp at 6 o'clock
Thursday evening. The lamp was in the
centre of the mill. The fire ragged till 5
o'clock next morning. The property was in.
sured in thirteen different companies for
$4,000.
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MERE.MENTION.
There is a great locust scare among the
farmers in sections Of the West. "''''"' Within
the past three years $4,000 miles of new rail
road have been built in this country, and the
stock increased S72O,OOO,OOO. .'"''.".Another
victory for the American horse, Iroquois, be.
longing to Mr.. Lorillard, has been gained by
his winning the Prince of Wales Stakes, at
Ascot, on Tuesday last ''''''.'A satirical inn
keeper in Wytheville, Va, advertises his
house as "the only secondclass hotel in the
world." ."''''''''Dr. Langfelt says citric acid
destroys, in from one to two minutes, the lar
ger portion of animalcula that infest water,
and hence he recommends lemonade as a
drink. '''''''''Jew boys are preferred to any
others as Office boys by numbers of Christians
in New York. They are found to be excep-
tionally intelligent and trustworthy. .'''''"'A
one hour old calf sold in New Jersey, last
week, for $4,000. ''''.''''La Grange, Texas,
has full grown cotton boil. .'''''''''The Mex.
lean Congress, at it's late session, passed an
amendment to the Constitution forbidding
that persons born in the United States should
be eligible to the Mexican Congress in either
house. '''''''The site of the old Spotswood
Hotel, in Richmond, Va, is again to be built
upon as a hotel. The building is to cost
$25O,OOO." O."....'''.Senator M. G. Butler, of
South Carolina, is rusticating at Fort Smelling,
in Manitoba. '..'.''.'John King, Jr., first vice.
president, and VIM. Keyser, second vice. presi.
dent, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
have resigned.
1t is said that Colonel William B. Johnston,
of Macon, Ga., has not cleared less than
100000 out of South Carolina and Central
Railroad stocks within the past twelve
months. ''''''''Judge O. A. Lochrane, Of
Georgia, predicts that Robert Lincoln, the
son of Abe Lincoln, and at present Secretary
of War, will be President of the United
States He is said to be man of great per.
sonal magnetism and possessed of much of
the good sense for which his father was ia.
smous '.''''''Two rubber bags, filled with $50
pounds of dynamite, were recently discovered
under the Catharine bridge, at St. Peters
burg, Russia. They measured twenty.one