Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-06-04

will sit with Judges Bond and
Brooks.
The Governor has issued his pro.
ciamstion declaring that the county
OF Vance has been established aud
is now one Ut The counties OF the
State.
The small pox scare in different
p%nr:ions Of the State seems to- he
about over. It is a good idea to be
vaccina,cd, AMI We advise all per-
sons To have ii, i done.
Winston Sentinel The oldest
man IN DAVE county is Jacob Dan
ntr, who WAS ninety-niEc years old
a. the time the last census was
taken, and was seer some time after
wards blowing a small buI. calf
Treasurer WORT. has jus, render
I'd := following dcc.-ion, which is
ii interest 20 the sherifs in the
State Since the ratification of the
present machinery act, March llth,
1881. land sold for taxes and bid in
Nv the sheriff must be bid in for the
county, and not for the State as for.
mcrly. The committee which per
iec,ed the present act no
doubt deemed this a change for the
better, AS did also the Legislature
which passed it.
Charlotte Observer It is now
certain that the houses Of business
tor the retail of spirituous liquors in
this city will be closed on the 1st
day of June, and Charlotte will, in
fact, be a "dry" town. The retail
ers perforce Sentured their all on
the result of their application for an
injunction, aud when an adverse de-
cision was announced they recog,
nized the fact that they had met de-
feat. Tho appeal from Judge Eure's
decision was entered merely as q
matter of form.
Lenoir Topic A Watauga cor
respondent says that while Mr.. Dug
ger was watching his horse ea'
clover on the bank Of Brushy Fork
in that county, he fell asleep anc
was walked up by a cold, throbbinf
sensation in one of his fingers. II
his utter dismay he found that
large. water moccasin had actual,
swallowed bis finger 10 the secont
joint, and was making vigorous et
forts to take in more of it.. It was
very interesting ceremony, but MI
q. however had business elsewhere
and he could not stay to see it out
Enfield Sentinel A man in tn
Whittaker's Mill section. IN Nasl
county, some time ago. set a turtl'
hook in a certain pond OH a certain
night; going the next morning t.
see what he had caught, imagine hi
establishment to see on his hook
large catfish, a hawk and an owl
lie accounted for the strange Incl
dent in this way The hawk seein,
the fish, swooped down, thinking t.
catch the fish and himself wa
caught the owl coming along an
seeing the hawk, bounced upon hin
and va. caught and held by tn
Aawk till all were IN the hands G
the successful fisherman.
Asheboro Courier: In this count
is a man Sc years old, walks fv
miles to mill twice a month and cal
ries one bu>hcl corn, has fourtee
chisdrcn, whips eight of them wher
ever they need it, has now a wife 2
years Of age, has been married fou
times, has used tobacco for fit
years, gets drunk regularly at ever
court and every Christmas, neve
cursed but once in his life, loves t
hear good preaching, goes to churc
regularly, votes the Democrat
ticket, can whip any man of hi
weight and years in the State in
fair fist and skull rub, never paid
lawyers fee nor a doctors bill.
News aud Observer MI. Ei
ward J. Iale writes TO khe Wi
mings"n Star that it is his opiaio
that the Raleigh Register was estat
lishei in 1895. He says the eide
Gales fed To Holland on account
poli,ica; reasons that his wife ID
, children followed him, and that the