The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1883-12-15
PEOPLE OF THE STATE.

Where they Go, What they Do, and
What they Say about Que another.
MIR. G. w. Daniel, of Pitt county, has
removed to Wilson.
Dave Essic, of Davie county, ate an
1Spound 'possum at one time.
DIR. J. NJ. Taylor. OF Wilson county,
has removed to Ke.l-uckytown, Texas.
The Southern Hotel, Halifax, has been
again leased by Mr.. n. 3. Dickens, for two
years.
DR. Samuel H Smith was last week
elected captain Of the winston Light In
fantry.
Rev Moses Baldwin, lately of Win
ston, is pastor of the Baptist church at
PittsbOro.
Mrs. Mary Magette, daughter OF Mr..
J. r. Thigpen, of Edgecombe, died last
week Of typhoid fever.
Mr.. G.. r. Bowles left on Wednesday
for Missouri, where he proposes to settle
down for life.-Da0ie Times.
Jacob Danner, the oldest man in Da-
vie county. died few days ago at the ad-
vanced age of lO5 years -Daoie Times.
DIR. G.. Kearns and daughter of Gov
ington, KY, says the Asheville Citizen, are
at the SwannanOa hotel, where they pro-
pose to spend the winter.
Mr.. Ell Afford, who, says the Frank
linton Weehly, was the last but one OF the
veterans of 1912 in Franklin county, died
last month at the age of 70.
Mr.. n. S. Robinson, of Danbury,
Conn.,, with his family have located here.
Mr.. Robinson has rented the Lander house
on Aspen street.-Linc0Lnt0n Press.
The Wilson Aduance publishes an an
nOuncement of the death of Mrs. Matilda
Barnes, the excellent wife of Gen. Joshua
Barnes. She died on the 5th, aged g..
General w. G.. Lewis has issued a call
for the eX-Confederate soldiers of Edge
combe to meet at the Court House in Tar
boro on January Is to effect an organiza
ton.
-Eighty-three couples procured mar
riage license in Davie county during the
year ending Nov. 3Oth, and in EdgecOmbe
county from Dec 9th, 1882, to Dec. 2nd,
1888 60 whites and l6S colOred couples.
Miss Addie Alexander has entered this
office as an apprentice to learn type-set-
ting. We are glad to see the girls of our
land laying aside pride and showing de-
termination to be independent. nt.-Linc0Ln-
tom Press.
We suggest that Mr.. Raney, of the
Marlborough House, be elected an honora-
ry member of the ''Press Association" :"
having inaugurated a plan for its pecunia-
ry advancement. Press and Clergy 81 per
day.-Charlotte Democrat.
An esteemed friend of ours suggests
that the monument proposed to be erected
! to the memory of Gen. w. ID. Pender in
Tarboro, ought to be in Wilson and gives
| as his reason that Gen. Pender was born
In Wilson county Wilson Adrance
Maj. C. P. Bolles, of the Z. S. Hydro
! graphic Survey Corps, is here on visit to
his family, the first he has been able to pay
them in three years Until recently Maj.
Bolles has been stationed on the Pacific
Coast, engaged in making surveys on the
| coast of Lower California, but is now in
office in Washington City Wilmingto1'
RcUieac.
Mr.. A. Nixon, Jr. has been elected
sheriff of Lincoln county for an unexpir-
ed term. He was, says the Press, the
county's student at the University where
he graduated with homer. Since his grad
uation he was elected County surveyor,
which office he was filling at the time OF
his election to the office of Sheriff. He
! will make an efficient officer.
A Balaam and Two Asses--One Throws
him, the Other Talks about II.
POlkriHe Notes in the Shelby aurora.
We learn that a certain man who is an
ambassador of the gospel, known by the
non-elect as ''sky-pilot," came very neal
passing over Jordan ola the high bridge
near Shelby. It seems he was mounted
on a white she donkey after the manner o1
the Jewish Rabbis, and was contemplating
human depravity and the heaven-borr
mission of the gospel OF peace, when hi
beast snapped at both ends and shed hi
Reverence. and he now testifes he only
lacks sixteen inches of getting killed