Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-11
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The State nemocratlc COnVenClOn IS CalleQ
to meet in Raleigh on Wednesday the 5th Of
July next.
Kemp P. Battle, Ill. D., president of the
North Carolina University, will deliver the
commencement address on the 9th of June
before the Alpha and Delta Societies of the
Kings Mountain High School.
- J. G. Buxton, Esq, Of Winston, was
stung on the neck, one day last week, by a
spider. The wound commenced at once to
swell and give great pain. Mr.. Buxton
hastened to a drug store and swallowed pint
of whisky, which had no intoxicating effect,
owing to poison in his blood 1t is believed
that the whisky saved Mr.. Buxton's life.
A preliminary trial was held at Yancey-
vile, on Tuesday of last week, and Felix
Roane, who killed Nat. Johnston and wounded
George Williams, Jr., in the Yanceyyille
tradgedy, was discharged, it having been
shown that he acted in self defence. William
son was held to trial, and was bound over in
a bond of 81 800.
= E. +. Martin, colored man, is engaged
in the construction of a railroad to be known
as the Wilmington, Wrightsville and Onslow
Coast Railroad. The last Legislature of North
Carolina granted him charter, and the people
all along the proposed line have decided him
the right of way. He proposes to build the
road entirely with negro capital and negro
labor. Eleven miles of the road bed are grad
ed, and he is meeting encouraging success.
- The Anti-Prohibition Executive Commit
tee met at Raleigh on Wednesday of last week,
and elected Col. VIM. Johnston, of Charlotte,
chairman. An address was issued inviting a
mass convention of liberal independent voters
of the State without regard to former pOliti-
cal opinion, to be held at Raleigh on June 7th
to adopt platform and nominate candidates.
The committee announce that their purpose is
to restore to the people local self-government,
to diffuse more general education among the
masses, to purify the ballot box and to settle
the question of prohibition.
- The origin of the fire that destroyed the
Bingham School building, last week, is said
to have been from an attempt on the part of
some of the cadets to drive flies from their
room. They lighted pieces of paper and waved
the flames around the room. The ceiling ghada
crack in it and through this crack blaze was
drawn and set fire to pile OF rubbish above
the ceiling. This was not noticed at the time
and it was not until after the cadets had been
called to recitation, at few minutes past
O'Clock on that morning their attention was
attracted to the smoke issuing from the roof
of the barracks. The fire had gained cOnsid-
erably by this time and the fresh morning
breeze soon famed it into blaze beyond all
control.
- The Greensboro Evening Ne,cs says: The
Richmond and Danvile Terminal Company
has acquired the ownership of the Spartanburg
& Asheville Railroad, which has been run
ming for two years from Spartanburg, S. c.,
to Hendersonville, N. G. The distance from
Hendersonville to Asheville is eighteen miles,
one.half of which is graded. Between these
points the country is nearly level, and the cost
Of completing the road to Asheville will not
exceed $40, 900 per mile. The Terminal Com
pany has just announced that work will COM
mence at once, and that the road will be fin
ished in few months. Connections will then
be made at Asheville with the Western North
Carolina Railroad, which the Terminal Com
pany recently completed to Paint Rock on the
Tennessee line, and with the lines of railway
from Chicago, Cincinnati and the Northwest.
- The Asheville Citizen gives the following
exploits of youthful mail robber: Jos. G.
King, a lad about II years of age, was put on
the mail route between Pigeon River and
Asbeville, or the 18th of April. He brought
the mail in, but abstracted from the bag sever
al registered packages. He delivered the mail
at the office, but instead of calling for it
next morning took the train for the east COLI
seuuentlv no mail went ont the next day.