The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-02-02
WE TARHEELS.
LET US TAKE A WEEKS VIEW OF
OUR DEEDS, AND THOUGHTS.
And Plans and Amusements and Yarns
and see if it don't Make Mighty Inter-
asfinp Rpadinn

And Plans and Amusements and Y arms
and see if it don't Make Mighty Inter-
esting Reading.
On Monday Messrs Bell & Co., OF
New Berne, received from Morehead City
1920 robins, which were caught in nets
AZ The mountains around Asheville are
\ covered with deep snow, they look chilly
these cold mornings.-AsheyiUe Register
The Industrial and Statistical Pub
lshi"g Company have begun to collect
material for statistical and industrial his
tory Of Wilmington.
The officers Of the Durham Light In
fantry are E. j. Parrish, Captain; W.
A. Gattis, 1st Lieut.; J. II. Southgate, I'd
Lieut.; g. 3. Webb, Jr. 2nd Lieut..
-Toisnot is sadly in need of good ho-
tel-one that can furnish adequate accom-
modations to the public and offer induce
ment to travellers to stop over in our town.
Sunny Home.
Mrs. Pinkney Lineberger, OF Noun
tain Creek township, presented her hus-
band last Sunday two girls and one boy.
All were alive and are still doing we'll
Newton Enterprise.
Henderson has recently acquired two
families from the North-Mr. and Mrs. L.
l.. DuntOn, OF Boston, who will open a
bakery, and Mr.. E. S. Stevens. of Newark
n. j., who will have bookstore.
-Ashevlle demands market house.
Market supplies for the table in that CEN
tre of the garden Of plenty are frightfully
costly simply because the retail trade is
scattered and buyers get no such benefits
as come from competition.
The boiler of the gas works at New
Berne exploded on Monday night. The
boiler was lifted out of its bed and sent
through the roof of the building. 1t land
ed in the porch of house about thirty
feet off, knocked the door down and
slightly injured woman and child.
Preliminary work has begun from
Hamlet on the Southern end of the Vir-
ginia and North Carolina railroad which
when completed will run from Cheraw to
Hamlet, thence to Raleigh, thence to
Ridgeway (using the r. & A. and the r.
& G. roads, and thence direct from Ridge
way to Richmond. The latter end is pro-
crossing rapidly. This will be the shortest
route between the North and the South.
Peter Hufham, of Rockfish township,
Duplin county, is 93 years old; is living
on the old Huf ham homestead, where he
has lived since childhood; has bought a
small piece of land from his former ow ner
on which he is building a comfortable
house in which to pass his old age; has
been the husband of four wives and the
father of fifty-three children was always
noted Tor truth, honesty, and many OF the
nobler virtues; walks erect without stick
and can grub an average task any day
Clinton Caucasian.
North Carolina drew, by the census Of
1880, from South Carolina 16, 121 persons;
Virginia, 49, 1884, North Carolina gave to
Tennessee Al ,9lS; Georgia. 24.156; Missis-
sippi, 23.12S; Alabama, 1929; Indiana,
&C, ,SS4; Virginia, 22,5O South Carolina,
1927; Missouri, 1926; Arkansas, 1927;
Kentucky. 9,73S; Illinois, 9.27O; Louisiana,
1902. These North Carolinians. tar-heels,
have been a prodigiously migrating breed,
scattering all over the Union, in absolute
condition Of servitude. The large quota
l. W. 4yery in Munuf facturers' Record.
-Asheville enjoys what few other towns
in the State can boast of-a club at the
meetings whereof number Of gentlemen
of note from half dozen other States
can on almost any day be entertained.
At the meeting on Wednesday of last
week DR.. Kearns, Of Cincinnati, Mr.. Van
deventer, of Iowa, Mr.. Hayes, of Mem
phis, son-in-law of Mr.. jefferson Davis,
Mr. McComb of New York, Mr.. Ogden
E. Edwards and Mr.. McCrary, of Ohio,
were among the guests. The following
gentlemen were elected officers for the
ensuing year Mr.. Jas. G. Martin. Presi-
dent. Mr.. Fl. III. Lyons, Vice-President,
Mr. T. w. Patton, Secretary and Treas
urer, and r. F. Davidson, A. L. Lyman.
J. G. Hardy, w. r. Penniman, Jr., and
J. E. Rankin, Executive Committee.