Charlotte home and Democrat., 1882-04-14
N. G. N E w s.

N. C. NEWS.
There are eighty cotton and woolen mills
in this State.
Concord Presbvtery will meet in Con-
cord on Tuesday, 25th inst. The opening
Sermon will be preached Tuesday night
by the retiring Moderator, Rev. A. L.
| Crawford.
1t is rumored land we hope the rumor
will prove true) that the authorities OF
the Carolina Central Railroad will visit
this place, at an early day, for the pur'
pose of locating a route from Shelby to
Spartanburg, S. C.-Shel6y aurora.
~ The following North Carolinians
graduated in medicine at Jefferson Col
lege, Philadelphia, last week: T. j. Cost.
ner, Ell. B. Jurgerson, J. B. Gunter, Geo.
J. Robinson, j. r. Strickland, A. r. Viii.
son, A. p. Keever.
Mr.. B. E. Webster, of Hickory Noun.
tain township, informed US week before
! last that some stalks Of his wheat and oats
were heading. Whoever before heard OF
wheat or oats in this county heading In
the month of March?
The work of track laying on the Mid
land N. G. Road is progressing. The
iron put down is of the best quality OF
| steel rails. The Midland construction
| trains are now crossing the track of the
". & W. and follow up the work, which
| is now on the other side of the river
Goldsboro Messenger. "a.
The Newton Normal School, among
other teachers, elected Mrs. John A. NC
Donald of Raleigh, to take charge of the
Kindergarten school; Prof. D. Matt
Thompson of Denver Seminary, the Mathe-
matte; aud Prot. W. T. r. Bell of Kings
| Mountain, the Grammar and Elocution
classes
a. The Cranberry Iron Company
| have discovered on their property in
Mitchell Co., N. c., two veins of the finest
magnetic ores, one eighteen feet and the
led through the veins in building the RAIL
road. There is much rejoicing among the
iron men as it insures to the Chattanooga
mineral district an abundant supply of
steel-making ore.
| On Monday morning three passenger
trains left Asheville depot at nearly the
same hour, on their regularly appointed
schedules, on three distinct branches OF
the Western North Carolina Railroad,
to-wit: the train, as usual for Salisbury,
at s a. M, and the train to Paint Rock at
7 a. m, and the train to Pigeon River at
the same hour. This last is the first pas
senger train on that branch and marks
the opening of a grand era to us and to
the people Vest OF us.-AsheviUe Citizen.
| We direct attention to the advertisement
in the Citizen Of Col W. r. Young, Sheriff
of Buncombe, of the sale of fall the interest
OF Thos. D. Carter in and to the property
and franchise of the ". N. q. Railroad to
satisfy sundry executions in his hands
against the said Carter. AS this road is
already burdened with owners, or would
be owners, we suspect the bidding at these
sales will be lively, more particularly as
Mr.. Carter's "claim'' to ownership is pro.
miscously energetic and aged.-AsheoiUt
Citizen.
A CHILD SWALLOWS Two HALF Dol
LARs.-One day last week ten-year old
daughter of MIR. 5. N. Thomas of Shiloh
Township, was playing with two silver
half dollars, and, having them in her
mouth, they accidentally passed into hel
throat. The child at once began to gasp
and turned black in the face. 1t was evi
dent that the coins had lodged upon the
wind-pipe, closing it up and rendering
breathing impossible. Mr. Thomas, who
was fortunately present, thrust his fingers
into the child's throat, and in doing sc
dislodged the money. The pieces passed
into the "swallow' and thence into the
stomach. An emetic was given and the
child threw up both coins. The throat
was considerably lacerated and bled q
good deal, showing that it was with diff
Guilty that the pieces passed through the
canal-StatesviNe Landmark.
A correspondent of the New York Post
who recently visited Martin county, il
this State, and witnessed the work done
by an English colony in the swamps and
ljungles of that county, states that the re
suits which accrued from the reclaimine
of some of the waste lands by the colony
surpassed the most sanguine expectations
On tract of some fifty acres, cut int
plats of four acres, with central drain Of
ditch eight feet deep and six feet wide
connected with drains surrounding eacl
of the four acre plats, were raised corn
millet, garden vegetables and fruits. o
corn fifty bushels to the acre were raised
and of millet five tons. Sweet potatoes
weighing five pounds each were produced
and turnips, cabbage, beets and othe
vegetables in proportion, all withou
manure or special cultivation. The Cor
respondent states that in young orchard
of apple, pear and peach trees be saw al
apple tree of six years growth, who's
trunk was as large as mans leg, Will
one of the trophies is pear weighing
eighteen ounces, the product of a tree onl,
five years from the seeding. Strawberrie
and small fruits, including grapes, fonrisl
luxuriantly.
} SOME SPLENDID WHEAT.-Mr. w. B
Smathers, of Pigeon River, Haywood
sends US some of the finest specimens O
wheat from his farm we ever saw at thi
season of the year. Mr.. S. failed to enclos
part of his letter, but from what he di'
send we learn the "wheat was sown on tn
Goth September, on light sandy soil whic1
had been in clover two years. The Glove
: was plastered last May, cut in June, turne
goth August. Samples sent are an averag
Of four acres, and each bundle represent
one grain of wheat.
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