Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-05-12

Greensboro Patriot Tie black
well Manufacturing Company, Dur
ham, Will ship one million pounds OH
smoking tobacco this month and
have orders tor two million pounds
more.
The principal participants ae9the
cooking main in Raleigh last week
were arrested and carried before
Jude Ruf1in, of the Supreme Court,
who, after Investigating the matter,
bound them over TO court in $1,000
bond each.
Wilmington Post 1t is claimed
BY parties that there is a man 10
eastern North Carolina who has SO
many children that when n leaves
the table he marks bis name SO that
the child cannot come back TO the
same meal without his knowing it.
Strange TO say, this is a farmer and
we'll off.
Raleigh Visitor We regret to
learn that the residence OF Rev. DR..
Solomon Pool, OF Cary, was destroy
ed by fire about l O'Clock this morn
ing. The house was one of the most
costly in Cary, and was valued at
$4,000, on which there was $1,000
insurance. Mr.. Pool saved very
near all of his furniture. The fire
was caused from the burning of some
old papers in an ~unoccupied room.
The third session Of the Newton
Normal School will open June 26th.
and close July 9th. The Board oil
Managers have secured the services
of an ablo corps OF instructors, and
can assure teachers in every part OF
the State that the Normal of 18S;
will be of a very high grade. Prot
n. c. English, Superintendent Of the
Greensboro Graded School, will bt
superintendent, and the faculty vii
include Prof. n. G. S. Noble, SUPER
intendent Of the Graded Schools 0
Wilmington.
Louisburg Times The question
has been raised when the magistrate
appointed by the Legislature at it
recent session will qualify and go in
to Office. The terms Of those VIII
are now in Office but whose succe
sors have already been elected, vii
. not expire until the 1st Thursday i
/, August next, and the best inform;
ton we a get is that the ncwl
| elected magistrates must qualify o
! the 1st Thursday OF August or i
. ten days thereafter. The Raleig
. NeacS. Observer says the Attorne,
General has reached the same COZ
, clusion.
0 Goldsboro Messenger: The r,
e publican programme for next yea
n in this State has been mapped GU
s They propose to resort to "coalitior
J. again, and Chas. Price is to be the
: candidate for Governor. 'Indepen.
emit Democratic candidates are t
be brought out in all doubtful {
Democratic counties, and ~'indepen'
{ ent newspapers are to be eDcou
aged all over the State for the pu
F.? pose OF making 'independentisms' r
o spectacle. Let our Democrat
> friends prepare to meet the issue c
that line OF policy by standing t.
y gether. "In unity there is strength
: For the Observer.
E air. Edttor: AS a good deal
being said in your paper about tt
.. bad condition OF the public roads,
e want to ask, through your column
what has put the roads in bad cond
ton 1t is not neglect on the pa
= of overseers or hands, for betol
IS winter set in the roads we're gene
d ally in better condition than ev,
K before. We should take into co
# sideration the cause Of their bad CO.
dition. Rain, snow, sleet ana free;
! came, and as there was no roof ov,
Is the roads to turn the rain off, the
got wet, travel kept moving, and
the rain sottened the ground
!, wagon wheels would sink and c,
No. vA,l. a.. "