Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-11-12

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earn that the number OF students is
.arger no. than at this time last
year.
Chatham, county is having a new
court house built. The Chatham :
Record says that when completed
he court house will be one OF the
best in the State and a credit to that
county.
A.hcboro Courier Our farmers
tell us that the corr crop is panning
out much better than they had ex-
Icc,ed. LII some sections of this.
County, particularly on the streams,
there will be a fair crop.
On Saturday las, two box cars
jumped the track on the North Car
Dina Railroad four miles West Of
Morri.yi..e. The tender and six
cars were dragged off. The engine
and tender were not hurt. A negro
train hand received injuries from
the effects of hich he died the same
lay.
Salisbury Waterman An old far
mer who has seen Mr.. VIM. Muir
docks crop of corn on the Macy mill
pond lands says he thinks it is good
Tor fifty bushels to the acre, and will
not be surprised if it yields sixty.
We saw it six weeks ago and esti-
mated it at forty to the acre. There
are about eighty nine acres in the
field.
Goldsboro Record At a. negro
church near Egypt, a negro mar
named Mike Cook. was dangerously
shot, one night last week. A wo
mau was arrested on suspicion bu'
sufficient evidence could not bt
found against her 10 bind her owe,
to court. 1t was said she was a vic
tim of unrequited love and took be
revenge by shooting.
Wilmington Review Peculiari
ties OF journalism Newspaper mel
don't go into business places am
say "See here, | don't like the wa,
you arrange your show window. an'
I'm going to have it fixed" Not a
all. But other men are continual
coming into newspa! er Offices wit
very similar complaints. Isn't
about time that pc. pie looked upo:
a newspal err as a business operation
REPORT reaches this place, say
Wilkesboro Witness, that a youn;
a named Robertson, employed a
the still-house Of David Dancy, i
Allegheny county, was attacked b
five men and by way OF defendin
himself shot down three Of the:
when the other two retreated. G
the three shot, Jim Warden wa
killed, jim Baker mortally wounded
and John Woody seriously if nc
MORALLY wounded.
Lenoir Topic On the End instar
f, two sons Of Mr.. Ahart Halsey, t,
yether with one Isham Cox, sht
and killed 4 man by the name
Henry Robinson, in Grayson count,
Va, near the North Carolina lin
The three young men are now i
Jail AT Independence, Va. An oil
lady by the name Of Cox, who W:
in feeble health at the time. and WI
Was related TO some Of the parti,
concerned in the murder, died fro
the effects Of grief and horror at IL
murder.
Newbcrn Nut Shell !: The colore
people who have made James CT
on the South side OF Newbern, the
home for many years, are becomir
dissatisfied, and q movement is no
on foot among the leading met
:hc place 10 leave 10 a body and e
,abli>h a colony elsewhere. w
have not learned definitely what b
caused the dissatisfaction, but urde
stand ,ha, high rents have somethin
to do with il. High rents will rui
: any city, town or village. especia
Is when lanAlords expect those WI
ren, from them TO pay enough in
G year or tw" - buy the proper,
/ rented. besides being expected
live in a house that masters woul
no, have required their slaves a,
.l!yr in before Tie war Those vi
'ant property IN llillsboro would d
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