The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-15
STATE NEWS.

M.
Candy has invited Gov. Worth to an interview
Orr, also, will be present.
AMERcED.-We learn that, at the term of
Wake Superior Court held last week, judgment
was prayed and obtained against the Sheriffs of
Currituck, Cherokee aud Orange, for non settle
ment of taxes with the Comptroller and Treas
urer, as required by law. They we're mulcted
in the sum of $1,000 each. These were the
only deluauents-Raleiyh Sentinel
A FATAL AcCIDENr-Ou the night of the
Sd inst, Mr. Daniel s. Faggart, son Of Reuben
Faggart, of Cabsrrus county, while out hunting
with younger brother aud a small negro, fell
into a gully some eight feet deep, and was killed
After the fall, the deceased rose up, spoke few
words, and then dropped dead. The physician
found no bruises, or external injuries, and it is
supposed the death was caused by the rupture
of blood vessel.
~ Rev James Gibbons, of the Baltimore
Cathedral, has been confirmed by the Pope, and
will soon be consecrated as Catholic Bishop of
North Carolina, recently created Diocese.
BROKE JA1L-Last Wednesday evening, when
the Jaior, Mr. j. w. Woodward, carried supper
to the prisoners, one of the negroes, confined for
the robbery of j w. Stockton's store, rushed by
him down the steps and made his escape. Mr.
Woodward pursued and locked the door,
to prevent the escape of others. On Friday night
last an entrance was made through the wall of
the JAIL from the outside, it is supposed, and two
white men confined for horse stealing, and a
negro made their escape-four in all. The pre-
stump ton is, that the first negro who escaped,
procured assistance and returned and liberated
his comrades in crime. They are all at large
Statesvae american.
TRINITY CoLLEGE.-We were glad to see
Rev. DR.. Craven 10 our sanctum, on yesterday.
He says that there are about ninety students at
Trinity. He thinks they evince an unwonted
devotion to study. The institution has been
visited recently by an outpouring Of the Spirit,
and most of the students are professors of Re-
ligion. 10 the Theological department, Rev.
DR.. Doub has sixteen students.-Raleigh Sen
tinel
p~Dr VIM. Sloan & Co of CASTOR County,
have imported machinery for their gold mines
all the way from California.
5000 REwARD-Gov. Worth has caused a
reward of $500 to be offered for the apprehen-
sion and delivery of Andrew Skinner, colored
to the Sheriff of the county of Wayne. The
crime alleged against hi" is wife murder.
DRIED FRUIT.
gentleman who has been travelling in Surry
Stokes and Forsyth counties, N. c., writes to the
Raleigh Sentinel as follows:
GAS one travels over these upper counties,
nearly every woman you see is peehng fruit to
dry. The children are at it. 1t is the currency
of this section. They buy dry goods with it, as
readily as they could with Greenbaeks.
Nearly every farm has what is called Dry
House. 1t is usually built of chestnut wood; a
miniature log house, daubed with mud and Sc
curely covered. Underneath is a brick or rock
f1ue for fire, after the fashion of a kiln. Above
is the hot room in which fruit is placed, on boards
Or trays, after being peeled and cut and sun dried
for part of day-the more the better, provided
you keep the lies away. Dry Houses are very
numerous. Take the dried fruit business sup
one side anG down tother" and this section surely
excels.
Few places in North Carolina seems more wide
awake than Salem. All is stir and business; and
when this is the case, there is to be found misth
also. 1t you want to put community into a
good humor, and light up the counenances of
the masses, give them something to do that will
turn out profits.
have heard ola man who was asked if he
dealt in dret fruit, and who answered with some
feeling, "no,' as though it was too much on the
applicant order for gentleman who wore gold
spectacles. But let US see: Mr. E A. Vogler
informs me, recently, that, up to this time he has
shipped over one hundred tons of dried fruit; and
see he is out with circular, "Wan.ed to buy
one hundred thousand pounds of apples alone,
to say nothing of other varieties. ! learn that
he has an order for fifty thousand pounds of ap-
pies from one house in the North. Sometimes
he buys forty thousand pounds day. But does
it pay? Salem would not be Salem without E.
Vogler, and E. A. VogIer would not be
E. A VogIer, but for the immense trade he does
in truit-dried fruit lie has out circular,
every few days, giving the ''prices current y
And he certainly has one of the finest business
houses in this State 1t has every convenience that
could lie desired. 1t is built in fine style, and
was all up in some twelve or fourteen weeks from
the time it was commenced
The Sheriff of the county said last year, that
he could almost tell the day Mr. Vogler began to
pay out money f. fruit, for the people common
ced then to pay taxes. This year he repeats the
same assertion. Is that paying! Fruit is the
main business here and every body seems to be
benefited 10y it. But of all the fruit establish
ments Mr. Voglers is the largest. His store is
like the throat of the funnel, through which most
of The fruit of the region back of this runs
REPENTING OF THEIR FoLLY-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Charleston Courier
writes thai 1.-The cotton tax will probably he abol
ished al the next session, and there will be propo
stions in Congress TO give bounty upon the
| production of cotton or i'll some mode to encour-
age its culture. 1t is aFprehended at the North
that the tax and the uncertainty of negro laLo,
will destroy the system of cotton growing upon