Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-05-07

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LIS, iii. ~. y" !h:i.n csn,sii-
ate. "as ciec;c.! M,y"r OF Charntic,
Monday, hy ,hir,ysix majority.
Plant There viii be ,w-n,y-twn
l~an,lspne brick stores erected in
Durham this summer exclusive Of
those in course 1T construction and
those recently finished. No doubt
rs to the future of Durham.
Salisbury Waterman: Maj. Jas.
Wilson, general superintendent of
the Western North Carolina Rail
road, has orders to advertise for five
hundred hands to- be placed on the
Duck,own branch. This looks like
business.
The G%oldsboro Messenger has
been offered 800 Subscribers by a
Baltimore wholesale liquor house if
that paper would publish "good
matter in opposition to prohibition,
TO be furnished by them" The
Messenger declined.
Hickory Carolinian Ex-rresident
Hayes is the only man ever thrice
elected Governor ef Ohio, and Zeb.
Vance is the only man ever thrice
elected Governor Of North Carolina,
and this is the only similarity in the
Two men that we know of.
Statesville American A CORES
pondent Of the Observer states that
81 900 has been subscribed in Char.
lotte to purchase votes for prohlbi
ton candidates! Can that he pos
sible? Success in that manner would
be worse than the evil sought to be
removed.
Goldsboro Messenger: The Car
loads of ripe strawberries carried
through this city from Florida and
South Carolina to New York, carry
a very pleasant and fragrant odo,
along with them, suggesting the ides
that a taste of the fruit, would be
agreeable.
Newbern Nut Shell: The Irisl
potato crop in this section bids fai1
to be by far the largest that wa
ever housed. Hundreds Of acre,
have been planted in potatoes, an<
the indications now are, that tn,
yield will be enormous. In 8 fev
weeks, if not days, We expect t
chronicle the first shipment.
Greensboro Patriot Miss Leli
Lee Cash, Of Salen,, n. c., who ,
only four years old, passed throug1
Greensboro on Friday, 22d of Apri
on her way to Minnesota. The onl
escort she had was the conductor O
each successive train. She is tn
most youthful passenger who ha
undertaken to travel alone that "
remember ever hearing Of:
: Fayetteville Examiner There
4 colored man on G.. M. Rays plar
tation, on kockfsh, who is a res
wonder to his neighbors. He ha
lived with his old master ever zinc
tie war. and has never asked 70
any money, has never missed a day
work, has never left home, has neve
associated with his own race, an
has never been known to do q Gu
pable act.
Raleigh News and Observer: Ac
ju,ant- General tombstone Jones ha
written to Senator Johnston as TO
lows I'VE expect to carry 1920
troops from this State to yorktown
One detachment will 60 by rail t
West Point, thence down Yor
River to the point of debarkatior
Another will go by rail to Port.
mouth, thence by water to York
town. \ third and smaller detact
men, will, probably go by steame
!, from Ne~bern through the sound
and canal to Norfolk, and thence t
Yorktown. We shall want ground
for not less than 800 tents.n
R.idsvi,lc Times There shout
!. he little mercy for seducers. The
should be made to marry their vi,
Tins, or else the law should viii
them naked through the land. Their
was a sad sigh, y, a poor old fa1
! mers house, in this county, abor
six miles out, last Friday-hi
daughter, in the agonies of a moth