The banner-enterprise., 1883-10-27
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about all returned.
.....General Grant has been invited
to address the people during the Fair.
49,. The election in the first district
will be held on the Goth of November.
.....Hon. J. C. Dancy editor of the
Sentinel, spent a few hours in the city
last week.
IAN interesting letter from Mr..
J. II. Skinner, of Fremont, too late
for this issue.
......Prof. ID. A. Straker of South
Carolina will deliver the Annual Ora
ton at the Fair.
......Mr. S. N. Vass leaves for the
East this week to canvass in the in
terest of the Fair.
......Hon. l.. B. Abbott paid us a
flying visit last week. Hereports the
Fair as booming in his section.
......Parlor Literaries and Musicales
are to form pleasant features of our
long winter evenings. Why not?
1.-THE colored people of Georgia
have issued a call for a State conven-
ton to cOnyene in Atlanta on the 18th
of December.
The general health OK Raleigh
was never better than at the present.
No contagious diseases of any kind
have been reported.
1--WE were pleased to meet Mr..
Day Of Durham, the only colored to-
bacco dealer in the State. He speaks
in encouraging terms of his business.
......Mr. Q. D. Dunn, an ex-colored
soldier of Greene county, raises %
bales of cotton on 30 acres of land.
and on 10 acres from GO to 20 barrels
of corn.
......Miss Sarah Martin leaves for
BoydtOn, Va, this week, to attend
school. We guess some fellows will
cease to build "Martin houses'' for
awhile.
1.-THE young men of Franklinton
gave grand entertainment in the
14th at the Normal School building.
A large and appreciative audience
were present
......Miss Lula Black of Greensboro,
Misses Lena Newton and George
Chapman of TarborO, and Miss Ada
Reid of Wilmington, write that they
ire coming to the Fair.
Mr.. j. B. Hutchings, of Wash
ington, ID. c., is spending a week or
so with old friends at home, much to
their satisfaction. lie is accompanied
by his amiable and accomplished lady.
when yeu come to the Fair
go and see Charlie Hoover at the Old
North State saloon, on Wilmington
street where you will find billiard and
pool tables and the best of wines and
liquors.
......Our next State Fair promises
to be the most successful of any yet
held. Letters have been received
from every portion of the State, stat
ing that their respective counties will
be fully represented.
49,. We were pleased to see Mr.. Al
len Mason, a former resident of this
place, but now of New York city; he
has been spending a week with his
relatives in Oberlin Village. He leaves
for his new home in a few days.
1--WE learn, through the Aflico
american Presbyterian, that the Messen-
gerr of Charlotte has made an attack
on secret societies, and that Rev. &.
S. Brown proposes to make it take
water. Drive slow brother Messenger.
......Those desiring to purchase dry
goods of any description a do no
better than to visit A. Creech on Fay
%ettevillc street. Mr.. Creech has re-
Gently returned from the north with a
fine stock of goods which he is selling
at bottom prices. 1t will pay you to
read his advertisement elsewhere in
this paper and examine his stock be-
fore purchasing.
Our merchants are returning
from the northern markets bringing
with them large and elegant selections
of dry goods, wares and general mer-
chandise, and are now kept busy un-
packing. We offer the columns of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with its large
circulation as a fitting medium for &C.
quainting the public with the advan-
tages offered to buyers.
1.-THE Africo American Presbyterian
Of the Goth inst, administers a scath-