Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-14
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The Southern Telegraph Company prom
ises to have an Office open in Charlotte with
in six weeks.
Fifteen car loads of steel rails for the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad passed through
Charlotte last Saturday.
Gen. A. J. Dargan, of Wadesboro,. a
prominent lawyer and one of the landmarks
of the Pee Dee country, died last Friday,
aged about 63 years.
According to the report of the directors
of the mint, the mines of North Carolina
produced last year $19O,OOO in gold and S25,-
900 in silver.
- -Gastonia Gazette: A very bad type of
disentery has existed in this section for sew
veral days and has proved fatal to many of
the little children. The disease is mostly
of typhoid form which makes it difficult
to control.
Heavy rains are reported on the Western
North Carolina Railroad. A Washout near
Salisbury, surprised freight train, but no
serious damage was done. The locomotive
had been detached from the train and was
feeling it's way carefully along, when tWent
down. Very little rain fell about Concord.
- The Charlotte Journal Observer of Mon
day says: The two fast trains are to be put
back on the Air Line Railroad to-day. The
schedule of the trains will be as follows:
No. 50 leaves Charlotte at 2 a. M, and ar
rives at Atlanta at 2p. m. No. 81 leaves
Atlanta at $40 p. m, and arrives at Char
lotte at $40 a. m. No 81 leaves Charlotte at
2.1O D. m, and arrives at Atlanta at l.2O a..
m. No SO leaves Atlanta at 4.50 a. M, and
arrives at Charlotte at 4 p. m.
- Rufus Reed, a colored man of Charlotte,
stimulated by the apparent success of the
,scl, lc 40 mo
southern tour, bought bear a few weeks
ago and started out through the country
with him. On Sunday, Rufus or so much
as was left of him, returned to Charlotte for
repairs. He and the bear had had O. fight
and the colored man only saved his own
life by cutting the bears throat. Reed was
terribly mangled. His fingers were bitten
off, and part of one foot and one entire
heel, together with big piece of meat
from his leg, were missing. lie states that
himself and the bear were in room to-
gether, when, for some unaccountable cause,
Bruin became enraged and jumped on him.
The two fought around the room for some
time, when finally the bear got the man
down in corner and was about to make
short shrift of him. Already one of Reeds
hands had been torn into fragments, and
the bear had the other hand in his mouth.
Reed managed to grasp knife IN his lace
rated hand and drove it into the bears
throat, when the beast rolled over dead and
the battle was ended. But for the knife
which Reed fortunately had with him, the
bear would undoubtedly have killed him.
REsURRECTED CORRESPONDENCE
Columbia Register of Sunday has been let
into the secret of rich correspondence
which took place just after the last election,
but which was never laid before the public
until now. The exact wording OF the cor
respondence is not given, BUTT is accurate
in substance. The first letter was dated at
Aiken, S. G.. and read as follows:
j. Headrir 1NcLnae, Columbia, s. c.
DEAR SIR: Who is Governor? Some
people say you are, some say Thompson.
Please let me know. Yours truly,
/. D. DURHAM.
The reply was short, sharp and, as Arte-
mus Ward would say, "sarkastic." 1t was
dated at Columbia and signed by friend OF
the would-be Governor:
Rer. l. ID. Durham, aiken, S. C.
DEAR SIR: Who is State superintendent
of Education? Some people say you are,
some say Coward. Please let me know.
Yours truly, J. HENDRIX MCLANE,
per-.