Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-25
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| The cOlOred Baptist Convention or North
Carolina met in Charlotte last Tuesday.
j. NJ. Reece, Postmaster at Sandy Creek,
Randolph county, was brought to trial in
the Federal Court on Friday last charged
with robbing the mails, and acquitted.
- Mrs. Belva \. Lockwood, the female
lawyer of Washington City, is to appear for
the defendants in three cases to be tried at
the coming term of the U. S. District Court
at Statesville.
- Stevens and Ringstatf, on trial last week
at Monroe, in Union county, for the murder
OF young Clyburn, two years ago, were ac-
ouitted. Tie trial continued Several days
and attracted great deal Of publicinterest.
- The meetings of the Eastern Field Trial
Club will commence at High Point on the
10Th of next month. The Club numbers
eighty members nearly all of whom live in
New York.
- The North Carolina people are moving
ahead in their efforts to establish Confed-
crate Home. The Wilmington RecieWstates
that the fund for this purpose now amounts
to $1,000.
| - Lincolnton is excited over a child we'd
ding. Robert Robinson, aged 1G, and Jen-
| ME Costner, aged II, ran off to Chester
and were married. Rev. NJ. w. Pressly
performed the ceremony for them.
- The exhibits at the State fair, held in
| Raleigh last week, were not as good as last
year, while the attendance was larger. Col.
r. NJ. Holt was reelected president of the
association.
"A convention of Northern gentlemen
will be held in Wadesboro, on November
14th to take such measures as shall be
deemed best, to place North Carolina cor
rectly before the people of the Northern
States.
- The Lenoir Topic says that on Saturday
Of last week, Grant Moody a ID year old boy
living in Globe township, bought - cali
bre pistol, and within three hours after he
bought it, it was accidentally discharged,
wounding Clifford NIcLane, aged IS, so bad
ly that he died on Sunday morning.
Henry G.. Hail. of Shelby, has invented
machine for packing bran that will COM
press 100 pounds into space Of fifteen cubic
inches. \ Cincinnati miller offered pre-
MUM of 81 900 for such an invention, and
in addition to this, Mr.. Hall will receive a
royalty on the sale of the machines.
- The Charlotte Observer of Tusday says !:
Mr.. J. Vanderburg, young man Of Alex
ander county, was in the city yesterday
and called to tell us that after seven years
study, he has succeeded in inventing and
putting into successful operation a perpetual
motor machine. He has applied for Il pat
ent and is sanguine of success. The ma
chine was completed in August last, and
Mr.. Nanderburg says there is no mistake
about it-he has got perpetual motion. The
machine starts itself when the brakes are
removed and will run until the end of time.
He is a more sanguine man than keely
ever dared to be.
- In New York, last Monday, an injunc-
ton was granted by Judge Barrett of the
Supreme Court in Chambers in a suit
brought by VIM. l.. Denny, as treasurer
cf the Midland North Carolina Railroad
Company against VIM. j. Best its president,
restraining the sheriff from parting with
the possession of certain books of the COM
pany which, it is alleged, Best illegally OBJ
tanned and retained possession of until they
passed into the custody of the sheriff. 1T
is claimed by the plaintiff that about ST.
COO has been misappropriated by some per-
son and that the books in question may
reveal who that person is.
Circus day in Statesville, on Monday OF
last week, was productive OF more than
usual disorder, for the whisky crowd in
dulged in numerous fights with fatal conse-
uvences. John Redman, son of John Red
man, who was murdered by his nephew,
last April, got into difficulty with negro
man named Campbell, who killed Redman.
Campbell was arrested and carried to Jail.
AT nj ght Redman's friends surrounded the
jail and took the negro to the suburbs of the
Town and hanged him. None Of the citi-
zens were aware of the lynching till the
body was found the next morning. There
were several fights. One white man was
severely injured by a col0red man, and it is
feared will prove fatal. The colored people
are quite indignant at the lynching Of Camp.
bell, and have threatened retaliation, and
the eXcitemant has caused the citizens to
prepare for any attempt at violence.