Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-12-26

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list churches IN Johnston ccDty.
Col. D. W. C Benbow Chair
man OF the Sue Execute Com
mi.tee OF the pphihItion pity.
John Lee Observation-Disclosures
Welsh in Richmqd county \. C.,
was taken from ROCKINGHAM jail
and banged by msked me-.
Preston /. Brid,ers, of Whining
ton, the newly appointed Consul TO-
Montevideo, viii all tor his new
post Of duty about the middle ot
January.
The old hotel at l;,trelI Springs
was bnrtel last Midday. i vas
built some years beore the var
and was at one tine A @tavu.Itc
resort. Loss about $4,000 no-'n-
s%uTance.
\ fire al Henderson lst week I:c-
stroyed $4,000 worth q pro,erty.
The handsome house Of Mr. Claude
Hunter, which was almost com
pieted, was burned. TIT was val
PsaI at 551o'9S 81 VT! i wy w u burned the
valued at $4,000.
The Greensboro Workman 3 Y
Miss Jones, a young lady who liyee
about Two and a half miles tron
High Point, while on a visit 20
"2;guuor, Mr.. Meredith. accidental,
shot and killed herself while han
ding a pistol. The ball took ctfcc
just below the left eye and dealt
ensned almost Immediately.
Wilmington Star The growth Q
some dozen or more North Carolin
towns within the last four or fix
years is something remarkable 70
our State, where people are no
much given to living in masse.
The growth of Durham, OXFORD
Henderson, Winston and perhap
others is phenomena. They hav
doubled or trebIed Wi5hfpa fg'
years.
Raleigh News-Observcr: Ne,
fall superior superior court judge
are to be elected for the ;hir,
fourth, sixth, eighth, nintlr, tent
and twelfth districts. Solicitors Al
to be elected fer all the twelve di
%tricts. There will be no e~lectio
for judges from the first, secon,
fifth, seventh and eleventh district
All the justices Of the supreme cou
; will be elected at the same tin.
} Members OF Congress and OF II
: Legislature Will be chosen at Il
: same time.
The Goldsboro Irg4s tells thattj
sad news that Mr.. Nathan tStaul
formerly q business taan in III
place, had been killed in a raiIro:
accident Monday nigLt, near A;i%
ia, reached that place Tuesday.
little later, on the Raleigh train, II
I Stanly, wife Of the deceased, and /,
little girl, arrived at Goldsboro, a
their way to spend Christmas VI
her father and mother and u
Stanly's relatives. When She q
Oft the Raleigh train Capt. Hanco1
Of the \, & n. c, II. r., met liz
aud being we'll acquainted "ish liz
he saw from her pleasant greet,
that She knew not OF the sad -,
dcnt, He told her the TERRI
story and tie shock We'll nigh XII
her, the 1rg"s says.
\ Lone Freight TRAIN.-Ne
Orleans, December 7th.--The large
freight train and the greatest maj
Der of loaded railway cars e
hauled to this city and perhaps Al
other city by a single iocotaoti,
q came in oser the Mississippi Val,
railroad. There were 100 ,oadt
: freight cars, two cabooses and o.
G locomotive 13S cars were loale
with cotton. The length Of Il
4, train as coupled Together was Il
mile and ninety feet, or 1899 ya:,
{ long, and when drawn out the slal
or play Of the coupling links al
dra"heaIs made it 30 fee, !onet
The total weight of freight cacli,
was l,s44,o31 pounds, while II
gross weight OF the freight al
train was 5,422,o31 pounds. The
: were f,62I bales OF cotton on hoaF
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