Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-04
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The Bonitz Hotel, in Goldsboro, fine
and costly building, was destroyed by fire or
Wednesday Of last week. Uninsured.
II. N. Cooper has been confirmed as inter-
nal revenue collector of the Sixth or States.
will district, uice Dr.. Mott, who has held the
position for several years.
ALI the buildings belonging to the Bing.
ham Military School at Mebaneville were
burnt last Monday morning. They were six
teen in number. Loss $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows of North
Carolina will meet in Wilmington next Mon"
day and on the 3Oth instant the Masonic
Grand Chapter of the State will meet in the
same city.
- The Gastonia Gazette reports that OH
Wednesday of last week the picker room OF
]. H. Wilson's cotton mill near that town,
caught on fire, and was consumed, together
with all the machinery. Loss about $3,OOO
uninsured. The machinery destroyed will be
replaced at once.
| = Martin P. Dixon, North Carolina in.
ventor, who went to New York to sell pat,
ent car coupler, was paid 81 800 for the coup
Ter last Friday, and shortly afterwards was en-.
ticed to saloon by a man and woman, and he
alleges that the woman robbed him Of 81 200
Of his money.
- The railroad from Wolf Creek to Paint
Rock, Tennessee, branch Of the East Ten.
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, was
completed last Friday, connecting Western
North Carolina with the Tennessee system,
and giving another line. from the North Caro-"
lima seaboard through the Blue Ridge Noun
tains
A desperate affray is reported as having
occurred at Hickory last Friday. A day or
two previously arrests had been made by the
police of the town of several young men
charged with raising disturbance and resist
ing ali officer. On Friday they returned to
the town and five of them made desperate
assault on Policeman Ed. Bradford. The
attacking party were Pink Rowe, Charley
Rowe, Pink Symon, Howell Parish and man
named Corliss. The policeman was wounded,
but he fired eight shots at his assailants and
wounded Pink Rowe, Howell Parish and Corr
liss. Rowe was shot in the head and shoul-
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Two other men, named Charley Bradford and
Harriss, were shot accidentally"
In it's report of the proceedings of Lin
coin Court last week, the Charlotte Democrat
says: The State docket was quite small.
Nearly all the important civil suits had been
compromised previous to the meeting of court,
including all but one or two of the suits for
Jo,, fho oil
road, in consequence Of the disaster at Indian
Creek, in December, 1880. In the case Of
John Schenck, of Charlotte, versus the Rich
mond & Danville Railroad, which was tried at
the last term of Mecklenburg Superior Court,
returning verdict of $1,000 damages, mo-
tion was argued to set aside this verdict, and
decision was rendered granting the motion.
The ground for thus setting aside was the
fact that the defendant, during the trial, held
conversation with one of the jurors about
the manner in which the accident occurred.
- An alteration in Yanceyville, Caswel
county on Wednesday of last week, resulted
in the instant killing of Nat. Johnston and
probably fatal wounding of George William
son, Jr., besides the wOunding Of Felix Roam,
postmaster at Yanceyville. The affair origina-
ted on Saturday previous between Postmaster
Roam and Col. George Williamson, late MEM
of the North Carolina State Senate Ex-Sen-
ator Williamson playfully twitted Postmaster
Roam about receceiving his appointment as
postmaster from Republican administration,
which gave umbrage to the postmaster, but
no collision occurred then between the par
ties. The matter was renewed, however, on
Wednesday, among the principals of the quar-
rel and their friends, with the above results.
1t would seem that Roam shot Johnston, and
in doing doing so was acting clearly in self
defence. Roam was also painfully wounded.
He gave himself up All the parties are high
ly connected by birth and marriage, and the
affair has caused great excitement in that
section.