Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-01-17
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

NORIH CAROLlNA NENS.
DIR. J. M, Miller, dealer in groceries and
country produce in Charlotte, has failed. B..
r. Smith g. Co., late of Charlotte, but more
recently doing business in New York, have
failed for $l5O,0OO.
- Capt Chas F. Harrison, Chief of Police
of Charlotte, has been suspended, the Com
missioners finding him to be too good a fel-
low and too warm hearted for the position.
f. A. McNinch has been elected to succeed
him.
Shelby 4WOru: One Of our promising
young men, Jasper Gardner, moved to Tex
as three years ago and was doing a prosper
Gus business in Paris, Texas. Three weeks
ago he was severely wounded by pistol in
the hands of a ruffian, the ball penetrating
his side. Pneumonia attacked, one week
afterward, the wounded man and the strug-
gle for life and death began. On Sunday
he breathed his last and his body was sent
home. Many friends regret his untimely
death.
One day last week a neatly dressed man
giving the name of j. G. Leak, succeeded
in sWindling two Charlotte merchants with
forged checks, realizing about $ll5, and
made good his escape before the swindle
was discovered. He has since telegraphed
from New York to one Of his victims, say
ing: 81 will see you later in regard to that
check" This would seem to be adding in
suit to injury, though the promise may yet
be verified, as the merchant is determined
to secure the forger's capture.
- The three men from Spartanburg coun-
ty, S. c., Burns, Mccall and Parks, arrested
some weeks ago at Kings Mountain for an
attempt to abduct the children of George f.
Coolidge, and sent to Shelby Jail in default
of bail, were brought before Judge Shipp,
in Charlotte, on Wednesday of last week, on
a writ of habeas corpus, and the Judge dis
charged the prisoners on the ground of the
irregularity Of the arrest. Coolidge applied
for a bench warrant for the re-arrest of the
parties, and the Judge issued the warrant,
but the men had taken leg-bail. They are
now being pursued by the sheriff and depu-
ties, with small hopes of re-arrest, as they
are old birds.
Charlotte Observer: Mayor DamrOn, of
Shelby, met with a singular and terrific
mishap on the Air Line Road a few nights
ago, from the effects Of which he has proba-
bly, not yet recovered. He was on the Char
lotte bound train, which was speeding along
when he rose from his seat, walked down
the aisle, opened the door and stepped off
the platform. He did all this in his sleep.
The somnambulStic Mayor tore through a
brier thicket on his back and plowed up the
earth in vigorous manner, but walked with
no bones broken, though in bruised and
demoralized condition. The train was out
of sight by the time he regained his feet and
he tramped to house about a mile and a
half distant, where he was taken care Of dur
ing the night.
"A Raleigh dispatch of Thursday says:
An entire family Of negroes, VIM. Groom
and his wife and six children, were burned
to death Saturday night on the plantation
of w. q. Taylor, in LenOir county. That
night the weather was the coolest it had
been for twenty years. 1t is supposed that
a large fire was made before the family re-
tired, and that the house caught fire from
the blazing brands rolling on the floor. No
news of the catastrophe reached the neigh
bors until Sunday noon, when Il visitor to
the place found nothing but the ashes of the
house and the charred remains of eight hu
man beings. The skeletons of the father
and mother were found near together, with
that of an infant between them, where the
bed had stood. The skeleton Of one child
was between this spot and the door, and
those of the others in their usual places of
rest. 1t is supposed that nearly all of them
died from suttOcation.
TEMPERANCE IN THE STATE.-At the
election in Blythewood, Fairfield county,
on the Sth instant, for Intcndant and War
dcns, the Prohibition ticket was elected
without opposition.
Speaking of last sales-day in Barnwell,
the Sentinel says: "The day was the coolest
we have experienced in this section for three
years, and visitors suffered terribly. There
was no liquor except that brought here from
remote parts Of the county, in TASKS, and in
consequence there was no drunkenness at all.
The town marshal's business generally
fair on such occasions,) amounted to moth
ing, as arrests for disorderly conduct were
unnecessary. No doubt a number Of people
who have been in the habit of taking some
thing to drink when visiting here, missed
the ''serpcnt" greatly but who of us can
doubt that some lives have been saved by
the absence of whisky on this OCCASION"
The Pee Dee MHer, printed at Marion,
says, under the heading, "Results Of no
license:"
l. Six days have elapsed since the bar
rooms were closed, and not a man seen
under the influence of whisky.
>. Mud, rain, sleet, ice, snow on Satur-
day, but not Il man seen under the influence
of liquor.
3. One Of the most influential and intelli-
gent men of the county told us during the
past week that he would now send his son
to school here, but would not have thought
of doing so before the bar-rooms were closed,
yet this is gag law"
In the municipal election at Laurens c.
H., on Tuesday of last week, the question