Charlotte home and Democrat., 1881-12-02
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Chapel HILL
Wilmington has calf with white wool
instead of hair.
The population of Weldon is increasing,
not by immigration either.-Neaos.
Beans, cucumbers and Irish potatoes of
a second crop are eaten in Beaufort.
A negro child about three years old
was run over and killed by the West
bound mail and passenger train last
Thursday evening at the section house,
four miles West of Gastonia.
It'll noticeable fact that long forage is
more abundant than ever before at this
season. Large quantities are being daily
offered on the streets. This does not look
as if the drought was so disastrous as re-
ported Oeford Free Lance.
The contracts for fifteen and half miles
of the grading, ETC., on the Western North
Carolina Railroad, Ducktown branch, be-
yond Pigeon River, have been awarded.
They were let at Salisbury. Work will
begin at once-AsheoiHe Citizen.
Miss Gertrude, daughter of Jas. II.
Horner, the well known teacher, died at
Oxford last Saturday from typhoid fever.
She was eighteen and one OF the most at
tractive and refined young ladies in all
that section. ... ...
The Lenoir Topic tells of family in
Caldwell county, consisting of four wo-
men, who, during the past year, have
spun So yards Of thread, woven 1873
Yards of cloth and made up 3S3 yards of
cloth into garments, besides doing the
cooking and housework for large family.
Capt J. NJ. Jones crossed the river some
days ago, above Warm Springs, with his
force Of workmen, and says the line will
be completed within three weeks. Be-
fore the middle of December the line will
be completed oD this line through-Ashe-
vize Citizen.
LATE PEAoHEs.-Mr. b. B. Phillips of
Greensboro, has the latest peach on record.
The tree is Seeding aud has borne for
three years large yellow peaches, equal in
flavor to Eaton's Golden, and very much
like it, This year the tree was full, yield
ing two bushels, which Mr.. Phillips gath
cred on the 18th of November.
Loss BY FIRE-On the night of the
10th ult. the two gins, grist mill and steam
engine of Mr.. Walter J. Ratliff in Gul-
ledge's Township, Anson county, were
destroyed by FIRE. The loss is heavy,
amounting to about $4,000, on which
there was an insurance of some $2,700.
There was some cotton also consumed, but
we did not learn the amount. The origin
of the fire is supposed to have been acci=
dental.--4nsOn Times.
FATAL ACCIDENT-Last Saturday night,
the 19 ult., James Long and Washington
Bradshaw, citizens of No. 4 township,
were handling loaded pistol, when, by
some cause, it was discharged while in the
hands of Mr.. Long. The charge struck
Mr.. Bradshaw in the region of the heart.
He Jumped from his chair and exclaimed,
MY God, I am shot dead and expired in
two minutes This is sad warning to
persons, loaded pistols are very dangerous
things. Concord Register,
A BRILLIANT MErEoR-A corresponds
ent writing US from Stony Point, Alex
ander county, says that large meteor, of
startling brilliancy, was seen at that
point, in the northwestern part of the
heavens, at 40 P. NJ, on Wednesday,
10th ult. Alter it had gone below the
horizon broad fiery tail was seen along
its entire path for over minute. Some
few people, we are told, were much
frightened by the celestial visitor
Stotesville Landmark.
There is a new idea dawning on the
minds of the Midland men, and that is to
go for Charlotte instead of Salisbury If
they fail to get the Western n G. Road
back from the Clyde Syndicate, they can
have but little inducement to 90 on to
Salisbury, and a Charlotte connection
might be more advantageous, as the latter
and business. Efforts are now being mad e
to divert the Midland Road in that direc-
Fayetteville E;raminer.
During the Fall Terms of the United
States Circuit and District Courts at
Greensboro, Statesvile and Asheville just
passed, seventy-seyen civil suits, in which
the e. S. was plaintiff, were tried. Of
these seventy-three judgments were rem
dered for the United States and four for
defendants. One hundred and eighteen
criminal cases were tried, resulting in
ninety verdicts of guilty and submis-
sions and nineteen acquitted. Fifty one
of the guilty ones were punished by i'm
prisonment and the others by fines and
payments of costs and penalties.
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT INEvITA-
BLE.-We did not hear the remark, but we
learn that the Augusta Chronicle admitted
that the Southern cotton mills had not
made or could not make print cloths. This
is mistake. The Wilmington Cotton
Mills have been making print cloths for
long time and of excellent quality. At
least two hundred bales have been sold to
an Atlanta house. They fetch in the
Northern markets readily from to / of
cent more than the Northern goods, and
when there is an advance the Wilmington
goods always get the increase of price
several days ahead of the regular market.
- Wilmington Star.
DEATH OF AUNT ABBY HoUsE.-This
venerable woman, one of the best known
in the State, died last week at the age of
"a. For a year past she had been slowly
sinking, and death has oftentimes before
been very near. Aunt Abby, as people
all over the State called her, was cast in a
Roman mould, she was fast and fearless
| friend. strong in her likes and disikes. For
years she was a constant visitor to the ex-
ecutive office, particularly during the ad-
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