The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1883-10-03
SsOTT's HILL, Sept. 1873:

EDITOR SUN:-To-day it rains.
Last Wednesday it rained. Monday
and Tuesday one week before we
had a severe storm accompanied. with
much rain. This is truly an era OF
wet. The weather has been so muir
ky for the past three weeks, that
the opening Of cotton through this
section has almost been stopped.
Business generally has been very
seriously retarded by the quantity Of
water that has fallen, and now being
upon the ground.
We are soon to complete our new
Court House, which is now being
RAPIDLY constructed by Messrs. Ell
lington. Royster, Allen & Co., Of Raj
eigh, architects and builders. The
work is under the immediate super
vision of MI. Allen, who is pushing
it with great assiduity. 1t will be
constructed Of brick, and will con-
tain a fre-proof vault, for the safe
keeping Of important papers. Judgg-
ing from what can be seen, the
building will be a handsome n
and one Of credit to our county.
see from the papers that North
Carolina is second to none at the
Boston Fair that she is actually
leading in the variety and excellence
of her exhibits. Our State owes
much to Mr.. McGehee and DIR.
Dabnev. for the efforts they have
put forth to bring out and show to
the world what has been and is pos
sible to be done in our grand old
State. A new light was thrown out
at Atlanta. and the world then, tor
the first time, began to realize the
true worth Of North Carolina. we
NAV expect a great future.
There could be very little comfort
to the New England Yankee IN
what Gov. Jarvis said in his speech
at Boston. of the rapidly increasing
manufactures of the Southern States
There is no reason why the South:
, ern people should be so d~epehden,,
upon other sections for supplies. A
. little more exertion-a little NOR
experience, will place III our mlds
f in abundance. many articles that ar
brought here from other parts.
, Connecticut has lately become no
torious from the number frequenc..
, and character Of the murders com
mitted within her borders. Onl.,
about three years have elapsed sine
= the papers were teeming with an &C
r count of the Mary Stannard murde
! and the trial and acquittal OF tn
Rev. Herbert H.. Hayden. as tn
+ murderer. Then almost before tn
excitement produced by it had ceased
| the beautiful Jennie Cramer wa
found in a pool of water where sh
;. had been thrown, after first havln;
!, been strangled by her seducers. NOV
we hear of another innocent Womal
falling a victim to the assassin 10
no cause whatever worse than TIA
she was a uon,an with a pretty face
What will be done in the last name
case, remains to be seen. The mul
derers in the two first cases are a
q free to-day, so far as those tw
9 crimes are concerned, as any men L
y America. Truly this is a bad stat
- of affairs. If the murderer OF Ros
), Amber is not caught and hung,
will be dangerous for a pretty woma
al to live in the State Of C~onnectlcu
IS Since writing the above, tn
Is clouds have disappeared, and clea
IS untarnished sunlight gladdens a
) places. What a good time for co
,e ton-pickers! If all accounts o 20 y
t. the present crop be true 1t Will eaf
ID over forty million dollars to hou'
D. it in the end. b. JR.