Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-02-08
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The Wilmington star says there are
29G, 600 acres of swamp land belonging to
the State, between PamlicO Sound and the
South Carolina line.
"A bill in the Senate to allow a pension
of three dollars month to Confederate SOL
diers who had lost an eye, leg, or arm in
the war, has been referred to the judiciary
committee.
- When the Richmond and Danville SYN
dicate secured the Western North Carolina
branch, they contracted to build an eXten-
sion to Ducktown, and have five hundred
men now at work and nearly fifty miles
graded. 1t is now the intention of the syn
dicate to extend the branch from DucktOwn
to Chattanooga.
- Propositions have been made by y. L..
Buford and others controlling the Western
North Carolina Railroad, to buy the States
interest in that road for S600,00O in North
Carolina four per cents also by Julius A.
Gray and others to buy the States interest
in the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail-
road.
"A fire in Charlotte last Thursday morn
ing, destroyed the old Rock Island Woolen
Factory building. The building was used
as a warehouse and contained Il hundred
bales of cotton, heavy stock of CONNER
cial fertilizers and some groceries, all OF
which were burned. The fire is supposed
Ito have been incendiary. The loss is about
$4,000, mostly insured in Northern and
British companies.
w. d. Alfred, of Randleman, Randolph
county, has invented a railroad switch which
promises to revOlutiOniZe railrOading. The
switch is under the complete control of the
engineer, and he can handle it from his en-
ginc at whatever speed it may be running.
This is the great desideratum in railroad
ing. Inventors have puzzled their brains
for years trying to evolve this problem
which young Alfred seems to have grasped.
The model has been filed in the patent Office,
and application will be made for a patent.
There are forty thousand square miles
of almost unbroken forest in North Carolina,
comprising pine, chestnut, oak, maple,
beech and hickory timber in their finest
growth. 1t is estimated that in ten years
the timber alone in North Carolina. will
exceed in value the present total valuation
of all the property in the State, including
land. The State grows nineteen varieties
of oak, and its pine forests are Of the heav-
lest. The building of new railroads will
rapidly open this region to the Northern
and Eastern lumber markets.
- The Charlotte Observer Of Friday says :
The amount of cotton in the fields yet un-
picked is astonishing. A gentleman of this
place who recently made a trip to Hunters
vile, says that he saw three fields that had
never yet been touched, not a boil having
been picked since the cotton opened last fall.
Mr. Turner Barber has one hundred acres
last October, but has never been touched.
The trouble seems to be scarcity of pick
ers. Farmers have offered as high as 81
per hundred for pickers, but few could be
secured at even that high price. Hundreds
of idle colored people daily lounge around
the city, but they cannot be induced to go to
the country and do little work.
Leopold Whitehead, of New York, a
clothing drummer, while seated in one OF
the coaches of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad, Sunday, noticed that some Of his
buttons were gone and got needle and
thread and began to sew them on. The train
jostled considerably, and, making dig to
hit the button hole, he sent the needle into
his thumb. 1t pierced the bone and broke
off in there. On Whiteheads arrival in
Charlotte, he got into a carriage and drove
to physicians to have the broken needle
cut out. No SOONER had the doctor began
to cut for the needle than his patient tainted
dead away, and it was some time before he
revived The doctor was unsuccessful in
his attempt to extract the needle, and found
that it could not be done without cutting off
the thumb joint.