Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-27
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The silk culturists in Moore county re-
port satisfactory progress in their enterprise.
Miss Annie Laura Alexander. who
lives near Charlotte, was recently graduated
in medical college in Philadelphia, and is
now full fedged physician, the first of the
kind ever known in North Carolina.
-Enoch Brown, the wife murderer, who
was sentenced to be hanged at Halifax
court house last Friday, has been reprleved
by Gov. Jarvis until April 18th. This is
the third time the condemned man has been
reprieved.
The largest amount of revenue raised
from any one source in North Carolina dur
ing the last fiscal year, as shown by the
State auditors report, except by public tax
es and by the sale of the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railway, was by the license
tax on commercial travellers, which was
$4,000.
A Charlotte gunsmith has recently made
a novel gun. 1t is made for man who is
blind in his right eye and who cannot shoot
from his leftshoulder. The stock of the gun
is curved 50 that when the butt is placed
against his right shoulder, the gun barrel
falls in straight line with the left eye: 1t
looks very much as if it was made to shoot
around a corner.
Col VIM. Johnston, of Charlotte, informs
an Observer reporter that in the coming cam
paign in North Carolina, he will be an out,
and-out Liberal, but he wants it understood
that he is not, never was, and never expects
to be Radical. He says the chances for
Democratic defeat were never brighter and is
sanguine that the Liberals and Republicans
will carry the State by an overwhelming
majority.
THE North Carolina Republican State
Executive Committee have called q State
Convention of the party, to meet in Raleigh
on the first day of May. The Liberal COM
mittee have also issued call for mass
Convention to meet on the same day. This
call is understood to include all who are
opposed to Democratic rule. This means
a coalition of the Republicans and Liberals,
and it is not improbable that the nominee
for Governor will come from the Liberal
side of the house.
The Charlotte Observer says that there
appears to be fatal disease raging among
the horses in that city at present, seV-
eral deaths having been reported. The
animals are afflicted with a type OF lung
after being attacked. While suffering from
this disease they have a cOpiOus discharge
from the nOstrils of blackand offensive mat
ter. When horse is once attacked there
seems to be no help for him, so fatal does
the disease prove to be.
Charlotte has salvation army compos-
ed of twenty-five or thirty colored women,
who are endeavoring to regenerate the Log
town and Buzzard Roost settlements OF that
city. Last Friday their singing on the pub
lie thoroughfares was so boisterous as to
render it necessary for the police to call
halt and request the army to cease giving
voice to its battle songs. People living
along the line of march complained about
it, and the police found it necessary to in
terfere. The army, on receiving the admo-
milton from the officer, resumed the march,
singing and praying in subdued tones. AT
the corner of Trade and G streets 1t was
ioined by another detachment, and thus re,
inforced moved boldly on to the haunts OF
vice in Logtown. This was about 10 O'Clock
A. NJ, and the sight was viewed with in
terest by large numbers of citizens. The
Observer says the army has been in eXis-
tence about five weeks, and is gaining ac-
cessions every day. The religious excite
ment now rel gning among the colored peo-
ple is unprecedented. Meetings are being
nightly held in all parts of the city and the
singing and shouting are heard the livelong
night.