Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-20
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
A railroad meeting will be held at Cas-
tonia on the 3rd of February to take some
action in regard to the extension Of the Vir'
ginia Midland Railroad into CASTOR county.
- Michael O'Donnell, the engineer who
lost his life by the railroad accident near
Lexington, on the 7th instant, was member
of Greensboro Lodge Knights of Honor.
Quite number of laboring men, mostly
colored, are leaving the Wilmington section
for the turpentine lands Of South Carolina
and Georgia.
The census gives North Carolina popu'
lation of 100000, divided as follows: Males
6SS,l64; females, 1885; natives, 1896,
322; foreign, 3,67S; white, 867, 7,467 ; coored,
1888.
- Engineer Butler, of the Carolina Central
Railway, had both his legs crushed below
the knees, while coupling cars at Shoe Heel
last Saturday. Amputation was necessary,
from the effect of which he died.
Commissioners from the Indian Territory
are visiting the Cherokee Indians in the ives.
tern part of North Carolina for the purpose
of trying to induce them to move to the In
dian Territory. ...1.
- R. A. Cobb, of Morganton, with a spe'
cal revenue force, made raid into Madison
county last week and captured 700 gallons ot
beer and the fixtures of a still house, on Big
Ivy, the property of Jacob Collins. He i:
said to be an old offender.
The Raleigh Observer says that G. W
Artemus, North Carolina inventive genius
claims to have discovered a process by which
cotton stalks can be used with the hap
piest results in the manufacture of paper
having twenty per cent. more fibre than tht
wood pulp now used.
The Inauguration of Gov. Jarvis and thu
induction of the other State officers into thei
respective offices, took place on Tuesday
last. Owing to the recent bad weather, ant
the muddy condition of the streets Of Raleigh
the contemplated military feature of the cere
monies was abandoned.
- In the North Carolina Legislature, Mr.
Bunting, Of the House, introduced resolution
of instruction to members Of Congress to ob
tain the relief of the disabilities of Jefferson
Davis and others. Also, to expunge from
the State records the impeachment trial o
ex. Governor Holden.
On Friday morning last, Durham hat
another destructive fire, the third one sine
December. By the last fire twenty two store
were burned, though most of the goods wer
saved. The fire originated in a furnitur
store, and is supposed to be the work of al
incendiary. Loss $4,000.
A Raleigh dispatch of the 18th says
The State Prohibition Convention met here
yesterday at 230 p. m., and was called to or
der by Hon. E. G. Read The members o
the press were made secretaries and Capt
H. A. Gudger was elected permanent chair
man. A committee was appointed to pre-
pare an address to the Legislature. There
large crowd from all parts of the State
The Legislators all favor the movement, ant
the only question is the method. A prohibi
tory law will probably be passed without sub
mitting it to vote of the people.
- Engineer Wisenbery and Conducto
Lockman, of the Line Railroad, VIII
were in charge of the first section Of tn
freight train that collided near Paw Creek Of
the 9th ultimo, have been arrested on tn
charge of murder, in accordance with tn
verdict of the coroner's jury. On Thursda.
last they had hearing before Judge ScheucI
at Lincolnton, on writ of habeas corpus, ant
he admitted them to Wisenbery in
bond of $4,000 and Lockman in bond y
$4,000. The charges against Lockman ar
to the effect that he violated rule Of the Air
Line Railroad Company requiring all train
to be supplied with bell cords, and furthe
that he was not riding in the cab, where h
should have been, but was on the engine
Van Arnold, the conductor of the secon'
section, whom the jury in the inquest owe
Whisnant directed to be bound over, ha
not yet been arrested. Suits for damage
have been brought against the railroad com
pany by the families of those who were kille'
by the accident.