Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-13
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


The papers report that the small grain
crop throughout North Carolina was never
more promising.
Two extensive veins Of steel making ore
have been discovered recently on the property
of the Cranberry Iron Company, iii Mitchell
county.
i Rev. DR.. Tamage, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
will preach the sermon at Trinity College
commencement on the 7th of June, and deliver
the commencement address on the following
day.
-Currituck county, last year produced 50O,-
600 bushels of corn. The best lands in that
county yield 1s and 20 bushels to the acre.
The same county sells $500, ,Oo0 worth Of wild
fowls annually.
DIR. Canedo, who was negotiating for the
purchase of the States interest in the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad, and was
to have paid, on the 1st instant, S100, 900 to-
wards the purchase, has asked for an extern
sion of thirty days. '.. ...
- The sensational telegram that Sheriff
Estss, of Stokes county, had been shot while
robbing his own safe, proves to be cruel and
senseless hoax, perpetrated as an April fool
story. The dispatch was sent from Danville,
Virginia.
- Col. Vim. Johnston, of Charlotte, is re-
ported as having made declaration recently
that while he is not candidate for any Office
within the gift of the people, he still proposes
to canvass the State in the interest of the
Liberal party.
A NV nf OF 7,
one of the shafts of the Hoover Hill Gold
mine in Randolph county, was taken suddenly
i'll and requested to be drawn out in bucket.
When he was near the top Of the shaft he lost
his balance and falling distance Of 200 feet
was crushed into jelly.
- The Goldsboro Messenger says that the
work of track laying on Best's Midland N. c.
Railroad is progressing. The iron put down
is of the best quality of steel rails. The Mid
land construction trains are now crossing the
track of the Wilmington and Weldon Road
and follow up the work which is now on the
other side Of the river.
- The Gastonia Gazette details the particu-
lars by which gang of robbers which has for
some time been infesting CASTOR county, was
through the shrewd management of Chief of
Police J. B. King, of Spartanburg, who went to
Gastonia for the purpose Of playing detective.
The thieves are all colored, and to South Car
olinas humiliation, the majority of those ar
rested hail from this state.
= The Republican State executive commit
tee has been called to meet in Raleigh on
ov+ Dol oh f1to
committee will issue a call for convention
to meet early in July. A candidate for Su-
preme Court Judge, and for Congressman-at-
large, will be nominated. 1t has been deter
mined to make a vigorous and systematic
fight to carry majority of the popular vote
and to elect majority of the Legislature.
Immediate steps will be taken to establish a
Republican newspaper at the capital of the
State.
AT the convention of colored men assem-
bled at Goldsboro, composed Of delegates from
all the heavy negro counties of the State, reso-
lutions were adopted to the effect, sThat
while we do not favor the abandonment of
any Of the principles of the Republican party,
and while we endorse the Administration, we
of liberal movement in North Carolina, and
we will support such liberal movement, and
will join hands with liberal men, who have
heretofore acted with the Democratic party
and who are willing to bury the dead past in
an earnest effort to build up the State and
guarantee to all equal rights and privileges"
MERE.MENTION. I'D, ,l..u
Senator Hampton refuses to speak to John
Sherman and treats him with the most mark
ed contempt. Corn planting in Southern
Kentucky is three weeks earlier this year than
usual 1.-THE people of the Pacific slope
are indignant at the Presidential veto of the
Chinese bill. In some localities the President
was burned in effgy''' The Bankers Mag
azine estimates that the cotton crop of 1881
was sold through speculative purchases one
hundred and seventy-two times, wheat crop
ten times, and corn four times. 'Mmi-
cipal elections throughout the West last week
show Democratic gains Cincinnati elected
Democratic ticket for the first time in several
wears. 49,. There are bills before Congress
asking for the erection Of one hundred and
twenty-five public buildings, at a cost of
s17, ,OOO, ,OOO. The visible supply of cotton
for the world, as reported in New York last
Saturday was as follows: Receipts at all inte-
rior towns, 20,33O bales; receipts from plan
tations, 27, ,229; crop in sight, 5,090,099 The
total visible supply Of cotton for the world is
2, ,929, ,469, of which 2,071 ,525 is American,
against 3'O5l, ,e7Oand ,479, $40. ....' Congress-
man Allen, Of Missouri, who has been i'll at
the Arlington Hotel in Washington for sew
eral weeks, died at O'Clock last Friday morn
ing. .....Texas used to feed her pecans to
the hogs. Nowshe sells the crop for 81, 600, 600.
The nut is good for torpid livers. % Three
attaches Of the Atlanta, Ga, post office have
been arrested recently, all charged with stealing
valuable letters '.... The President has nomi-
mated Senator Teller, of Colorado, for Secre-
tary of the Interior in place Of Kirkwood, and
w. f. Chandler, as Secretary Of the Navy, in
place of Hunt, who will go to Russia as min
lister. This completes the Arthur cabinet by
the displacement Of all the Garfield appoint
ments save Lincoln, Secretary of War, who
will remain. - Five men boarded train on
the Santa Fe Railroad in Texas, last Saturday,
by action of it's city council, endorsed by a
popular vote, has determined to issue 81 ,OOO,-
0O0-5 per cent. coupon bonds-tO be given to
the State on condition that the seat of govern
ment is permanently located in that city. In
the Criminal Court of Washington last Mon
day, Judge Wylie refused the motion to quash
the Route indictments, holding that the
jurisdiction of his Court is complete, and that
the cases of conspiracy are sufficiently clearly
defined to warrant the Indictment.
CHERAW AND CHESTER RAILROAD.
Of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad diff
culties the Lancaster Rerie,o of the 9Th instant