Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-02-04
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The passenger car Of the Milton
x. X. was burned last week. Ii
caught fire accidentally. \ new
Que will soon he put OIL the road,
says the Chronicle.
The Western North Carolina Rail
road has been completed to Paint
Rock and Pigeon River. The first
train TO the latter point went
through January 9th.
Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic F.:
Col. VIM. Johnston has published q
card denying that be has deserted
the Democracy, but declaring that
he holds himself independent Of par
~ d~icta,ion, etc.
John Morris, a negro murderer,
was hung at Shelby last Friday, for
killing another colored mar named
Joseph Roark, in Lincolnton, in the
month Of August, 1880. The execu
ton was witnessed by w 5000
people. The body dropped about
FIVE feet, causing death by strangula-
ton, while blood flowed freely from
the mouth, s and ears.
At a meeting Of the Trustees Of
the State University held in Raleigh
las, week, the following gentlemen
were elected as the Executive Com.
,%ui,tee tor the ensuing year: Paul
G. Cameron, VIM L. Saunders, Ju-
liam S. Carr, A. NJ. Lewis, r. H.
Battle, Jr., Z. Grissom and Geo. '.
Strong. Gov. Jarvis was authorized
to appoint q committee OF FIVE to
visit the University and inspect its
condition.
: Greensboro Patriot We are
panied to learn that the Impression
is current among a certain class OF
our subscribers that all editors die
. millionaires. 1t is our melancholy
; duty to correct the impression. We
I are now sending out a number o.
bills, and trust that every subscriber
who receives one will not become
offended, but will treat it as an EN-
phatic contradiction Of the repor,
. above mentioned.
Concord Sun !: An old add ex
ceedingly popular conductor on thu
Richmond and Danville Railroad
has been retired for running his trair
into a station seven minutes aheac
of time. The engineer was dis
!, charged also.--The slaughter o
;, mad dogs has commenced in town
!; In the past two weeks eight have
been killed. Esquire Hill and Mr.
Hoover, each killed one in their
yards last Tuesday.
e Raleigh News and Observer One
Of the curiosities of the p%enitentiarJ
is a white MAJ named Lewis Sheror
0 who has taught some little mice Il
n perform remarkable feats in ascend
ing and descending miniature lad
ders and ropes, standing in thu
stocks, balancing, &c. He is q half
witted man and becomes sometime,
!. perfectly wild. Yet he is always
gentle to his little pets. and they are
r neither afraid of him nor others, bu,
h live in the cell with him.
Weldon News: \ number O,
Democratic papers, some Of them II
the east, have declared in favor o.
the election Of magistrates and
county commissioners by the peo.
{ pie. There can possibly be but two
reasons fer their advocacy Of this
mca>n'" and the only one which viii
l.. publicly urged is that policy re
+. 1nir.s it.. Indeed one Of these pa
per~, the Charlotte C~bserrer, has de
/ clared it to be n burden which The
, party caunot carry, In short the
Il pe,n"c: attic Iar y, III order TO keek
! the S'a.e government, is going te
/, sacrifice the eastern counties, ant
:hink> j, a only gain the mex cleo
,ion t.y SO 'iniry.
!, W:rn Planters can buy
true .Amm",ia'cd super PhospEa,,
ma,iv I'll III. from Slaughter Hous,
= Ma, ni.l nnn,. i"r So per ton a
tt.,. factory cash ~ iS t.liv ~ 10