Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-10-27
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Saws the Gastouia Gazette "Work will
soon commence for the erection Of another
100000 cotton factory at Cherokee Ford"
Rev. Stephen Lyons, of St. Marys
(Catholic) school, near Garibaldi, in CASTOR
county, has been removed to Creston, Iowa.
where he will act as missionary priest.
- In the section of North Carolina suffer
ing most from drought-the central part o!
the State-it is predicted that corn will not
average over 60 cents per bushel this winter.
1t has been asoertained that very large
amount of old corn is on hand in the western
grauaries-more than enough to supply the
demand:
"A special dispatch from Pineville to the
Charlotte Observer, says that a negro by the
name of Davis, living in Union county, near
Heath's store, ravshed a young lady of that
on Sunday morning Of last
week, at l o'clock. A party of men in the
neighborhood followed the negro into Lam
caster county, S. c., and arrested him. He
was given preliminary examination that
night before Justice McIlwain. The next
day party of men of both colors numbering
three hundred and tweutysix, took the negro
and hung him to tree near Heath's store.
The Gastonia Gazette says, Of work pro-
crossing on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad: :
Capt. Waddill is grading at Lincolnton with
force of about thirty hands, all of whom
are excellent workers. He expected to have
the track laid to Main street by last Saturday
A bridge has recently been erected over Long
creek instead of the old trestle Mr.. George
Morgan superintended its erection, and de
serves credit for the skllful work done. This
road has its own officers and mechanics, and
does nearly all its own repairing with home
born and reared men,
- Two men, prominent in the reconstruc
ton era of North Carolina, have died recent
ly, viz: j. G. Abbott, of Wilmington, and
Sam. NJ. Watts, of Smithfeld. Abbott was
lieutenant,colonel of the 7th regiment New
Hampshire volunteers, and settled at Will
mington, after the war. He was member
of the n. G. Constitutional Convention and
of the Legislature, was collector of the port
of Wilmington, and served full term as
United States Senator. More recently he
was engaged in the lumber business. Watts
was elected to the -. 1T bench, and served a
term of four yeas as Judge of the Superior
Court.
Says the Goldsboro Messenger "The
work of grading on the Midland N. G. Rail
road, was temporarily interrupted on Friday
by strike of the laborers. The force had
been largely increased this week, numbering
over AGO. The report spread among them
that hereafter they would be paid only at the
end of the month, instead Of weekly as had
been agreed, when about 400 of them quit
work, and soon after, this city was filled with
negroes con the loaf" We were unable to
see any of Mr.. Best's managers and ascertain
what they will do about it, but suppose that
satisfactory arrangements will be made and
that new force Of laborers is expected. The
strikers were paid off in full.
The bridge Of the G. c. g. A. Railroad,
across Big Sugar Creek, near Pineville, N.
c., was burned completely last Friday. The
fire was discovered in the afternoon about 6
o'clock. A freight train had passed over
about twenty minutes before, and it is posi-
BILE that the fire originated from the sparks
of the locomotive. This is mere conjecture,
however. This was the only covered bridge
on the road, except the large one over the
Savannah river. 1t was very close, and a
new one would, in all probability, have been
even if the fire had not occurred.
Numerous small accidents, such as the scrap
ing of car tops and smoke stacks have occur
red. The new bridge will be completed in
few days, as operations have already been be-
gun. Passengers will be transferred at Sugar
creek in the meantime, so there will be no in.
terruption to travel.