Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-21
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

AT the meeting of the Board of Trustees
of Trinity College, last week, the Rev. Mar
Gus l.. Wood was elected President of the
College. Mr.. Wood is presiding elder Of
the Charlotte district.
On the night of the 18th, one hundred
armed men rode into Kinston, to lynch
Guilford Soon, negro, but the sheriff and
citizens were guarding the jail, and the mob
departed quietly.
Eight Mormon missionaries who have
been at work in the western part of North
Carolina, have had to flee the country, and
are said to have taken refuge in Polk cOun-
ty, Tennessee. The people of North Carroll
ma have decided that they must find other
pastures than in the ''Old North State"
Mr.. r. B. Mikell, of Sumter, S. c., a
student at Davidson College, died on Tues
day of last week, after an illness Of about
week. Hey was lS years ofageand was very
popular among his schOolmates, who ad-
mired him for his genial disposition and his
many good qualities Of heart and head.
The body of the deceased student was sent
home to the afflicted parents on Wednesday.
1t Is generally believed in Charlotte, and
throughout Mecklenburg county, that the
killing of J. G.. Sitton by Shields was foul
and brutal murder. The evidence will prob
ably develop the fact that the accusation of
his sisters seduction was only cover, and
that his real purpose was to annihilate Sit
toms testimony in a case pending against
him for house-burning. The feelings of the
community have assumed dangerous and
restless shape, and fears are entertained that
the slayer may yet be lynched. Efforts OF
counsel will doubtless be made to have the
venue changed, on the grounds that he can
not have fair trial in Charlotte.
THE FRENCH BROAD ROUTE.-The new
Iy opened French Broad route, we are
glad to learn, is already doing big bust
ness, and some rival lines are looking at
it with queer eyes. Heretofore travellers
have been compelled to go round by Chat
tanooga or Lynchburg in order to come
South, and to reach the Northwest from
any of the Southern States. The compile
ton of the Western North Carolina road
down the French Broad River Valley and
the Louisville and Nashville opens a direct
through line by which Florida can be reach
ed for the winter, and by which the Warm
Spring, in Madison county, noted summer
resort, and that portion Of this State, West
of the Blue Ridge, which is the SWitzer-
land of America, and is rapidly growing /
into prominence as place for summer |
travel and recreation, can be reached by all
rail travel very soon. Cars will be put on
at Charleston, S. c., which will run through |
to Louisville by way of Statesville, n. c.,
and over the Western North Carolina Rail
road with out change. 1t now appears that
the French Broad route, through the Blue
Ridge ut the Paint Rock Gap, is the key
to the passenger travel and freight from the
great Northwest to the South, and from the
Southern States to the Northwest. The
Richmond and Danville Company believes
the A miles Of its road down the French
Broad river by Paint Rock is destined, by
come enormously advantageous to the
whole country. Great benefits are expect
ed by the people of this State from this
through line, which has been one of their
hobbies for the past thirty years.-Char-