Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1882-07-22
STATE NEWS

:. NEWA
Best's Midland ra,lrosd i now
and the trains running
rom Goldsboro to Smith6eld.
Wilmington Star A correspond.
ent writing us from Magruder, Bla-
den county, says the cotton crop off
that section is very fine and is very
much larger than yer before, al
great deal OF it being waist high.
The corn crop is generally good.
Newbern Journal: The largest
of wheat reported from La
Grange are : NJ. H. Wooten, 9s6
bushels from 81 acres Lovet Hines,
in Institute township, $50 bushels
20 bushels sown; A. D. Par.
rott, Failing Creek, 1872 bushels
from Is acres.
Weldon News: Every Democrat
in the Sta,e owes a duty to the
party which he can only properly
by doing his utmost for
the par,y's candidates. He should
persuade his iukewarm neiehbor, If
he has one, to 30 to the polls and
vote the straightout ticket. There,
is work ahead and it must be done.
Candidates are not elected without
it.
Wilmington Star !: We have be-
fore stated that North Carolina has
a large voting population who never
60 to the polls. We have estima-
ted that the Democrats had at least
10000 majority on q full vote. It ie
now known that in 1880, according
to the census, there we're 294,75O
voters, of whom 105,O18 were ne
groes. The vote in 1880 was but
237,417. This shows that 1888 re.
NAMED at home. Let all the whites
vote and the Democrats can carry
the State by q large majority.
Winston Leader: Attention is
called to the fact that Shere will be
a wheat fair held for the interest of
farmers IN this county, on the 26th
OF: August. Everybody is invited.
We shall have something to say on
this subject next week; in the mean
time, the praise is due Messrs. f. &
Fl. Fries, Of Salem, sud Hinshaw &
Byuum, Of Winston, for putting
this movement on foot. It is to be
hoped that every one will take On in
terest in this work md make it a
grand and. p~eruaanent saocess: !.
Raleigh News and Observer At
the North Carolina Car Mandatory
here most Of the admirable machine
~ has been placed in position. They
have just put up the fast flooring
machine, the second one of the kind
ever built. 1t is lightning and
nothing else, for a day or so since it
dressed $500 feet, liueal measure,
in Al minutes. 1t has q feed speed
of ninety feet per minute. Thus far
the shops have turned out about
1900 peach crates for shippers at
various points in this vicinity
The roof is being put up OF the east
wing Of the penitentiary cell build.
ing. The brick work of the hos.
pi,al addition goes up rapidly. To
give some idea of the size of the i'm.
mense building we will state tha,
abou, 5000, 600 brick have already
been laid.
| Greensboro Patriot It is An.
nonnced in a three line paragraph ir
the Leader that Winston scores it.
twenty-one tobacco factories. Oh
scure as the paragraph appears i,
tells the graphic story of Winston,
magic growth, and its future Of de
velopment. A dozen years ago tn.
now thrifty and progressive towr
with its banks, opera house, hotels
handsome private residences, capa
cious business houses and waite,
works, was only a town in name
i Tobacco has done the work. TWEEN
fty-one tobacco factories! The tai,
is told-Late yesterday evening
Col. Douglas, United States Mar
shall, and Col. Hoskins had a set-t.
in the marsbal's office, and both par
ties to-day show artis,ically frescoet
faces. The dispute grew ont Of