Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-02-05
North Carolina News.


North Carolina News.
Siatcsville items in the Chari"t,c
Observer The su,n for which Mrs.
Goodson, widow Of $. w. G"odson,
no was killed by the falling in OF
the Indian Creek %tres,le, will sue the
road, is Sl5,OOU. Robbins & Long,
OF this place, have been retained as
her counsel in the case.--Prohibi-
lion is exciting the people here more
than any question that has been
sprung on them for quite a while.
Wadesboro Times Last Sunday
a bloody and fatal affray took place
upon the plantation of Mrs. Jane
Watkins, near AnsonviIle, in this
county. The parties were all COL
ored. 1t seems that Ilarb. Wall
and his son Vest got into a dispute
with Charles Carpenter, which soon
eliminated in a fight. During the
melee Harb. drew a knife and in
f1lctcd a mortal wound in Carpen.
ters neck-severing the left juglar
vein Before Carpenter fell, young
Vest Wall dealt him a blow on the
head with a fence rail tina, fractured
his skull. OF course death immedi.
ately ensucd. Harb Wall is now
behind the iron bars Of the Jail, but
Vest has made his escape.
Wilmington Star 4 correspond
tnt on the seacoast Of old Onslow
reports that DR. +. w. Ward, at
Cedar Point, New River, cultivated
part Of his farm with only four
plows, made 400 barrels Of corn, fl
stacks of fodder, averaging 500
pounds to the stack 26 bales Of cot
ton, averaging 500 pounds to the
bale !; 500 bushels Of peanuts, &C
bushels OF rice; and had four acres
in sweet and n in. IRISH potatoes
70 say nothing Of melons, pumpkins
and garden vegetables sufficient It
feed a regiment. This was all made
with four plows and thirteen hands
five of them not half grown, anG
without the use of any commercial
fertilizer whatever. He also LAID b,
$500 pounds Of pork. Our cores
pendent adds :'"Score this tor tn,
sound lands of Onslow."
Raleigh News and Observer : DR.
Pr;,chard, President of Wake For
est College, was in the city yester
day. He reports 100 students a
that instituti"n.--The receipts O
cotton in this market last week wer'
Col bales. For the correspondent,
! week last year they were S42 bales
showing a decrease Of 241 bales
! Total receipts this season to dat
56,539 bales. Up to the same dat
last year the receipts were onl
e 3S,73O bales. This makes the ia
t crease 1850 bales in favor of thi
0 season.-Wake leads all the Stat
in the amount of her taxes. Yeste,
:" day Sheriff J. J. NOVEL; paid int
the State Treasury S25,224.60 TO
: taxes due. The various items wer
as follows Public tax, net, $40
q 1853 95; special tax tor Insane AS,
lum and P%eniten,iary, S~10,31S.16
. 10 pay interest on State debt ia
on incomes s446.SS. and merchant!
. s2,7S6.S2; "a taxes on purchase.
s1,ol3.79.
RELIGIOUS NEws.-Mr. Ingerso
= delivered sermon" at a promineu
y theatre on the topic, "Wha, must
5. do t. be saved?" The Yeun
Mems Christian Association station
ed q band at the door, aud as eac
qne entered handed him or her
card on which was inscribed, "B'
t. lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ an
,hou shalt be saved"
Tile total number OF Methods
commandments in the United State
< according to the Methodist Altman;
n, tor 1881, is 3.4S5,9 99. Total in II
r. world. 1905 900. The grand to-,
< OF i,ineran, ministers IS 3l,131,
whom 2i.30i are in this country.
There are no less than 80 studen
il the Baptist Theological Seminar
= a; lsamapatan, India. Tho are in trai
; ing tor the Christian ministry. Son
= II the students are married aud the
wives are obliged TO spend a part
Their lime in s,aldv. and some OF tie
y Keep up with their husbands in Il
= full course.
~ The Mormons are still working
! their new temple |, is now TWEEN
: years since il was commenced, s
'o 00o,o0o have been expended and
III is one-iour,h completed. The bull
~ ing is being constructed of u:
n. granite, and when finished will
the finest church edifice. if not Il
finest building, in America II "
as require 5000 900 to complete Il
q temple.