Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1886-05-08
STATE. NEWS.

S"pefN'o
Western North Carolina Will have
a fine apple crop.
-Four mad dogs were killed a,
Fayetteville las, week.
Wilmington has received this sea
son 99,379 bales of cotton ; a de
crease of 5,753 bales.
Bill Arp lectures a, Tarboro next
Monday, May lU,h, for the benefit
of the Edgecombe Guards.
a Cleveland county woman
brought snit to eject her husband
from a tract of land which be had
decided her. The court drove HIM
off.
Charlotte has 9sO76 population,
by a census just completed. There
are 2,437 white males, 2,368 females !;
total 1895; 1904 colored males,
1857 females total 4,271.
Durham Recorder The question
arose in an assembly Of persons this
week who should represent US in
the next Legislature. Col. Eugene
Morehead was unanimously nomina.
ted for Senator and Mr.. James S.
Manning was unanimously nomina.
ted for the House.
Raleigh Visitor 1t is stated up
on what seems to be good authority,
that Colouel John, A. Sloan has dis
posed of his manuscript of the his.
tory of North Carolina during the
late war and that the book will be
republished. The publication will
be of general interest, although it
may not prove a pecuniary success.
Winston Republican The COL
porteur of Rowan county found 800
families out OF 1880 without a copy
of the Bible. A recent anvass in
Forsyth shows about the came nun.
Der. While it is to be regretted
that every household in the State is
not provided with a copy OF Holy
Writ, yet a still more blessed state
OF affairs would exist it those who
have a Bible would read it more
closely and practice it's sacred teach.
ings.
Raleigh News.Observer: The con
tract for placing seats in Edenton
Street Methodist Church, OF this city
was last evening awarded to Messrs.
Alfred Williams & Co. The chairs
TO be used are the "~inproved fold
inS church chair" made by Messrs
A. Fl. Andrews & Co., of New
York and Chicago. This is the
largest contract for seating a church
ever gwen in the State and the
chairs selected are exceedingly com
Portable and handsome.
Raleigh Visitor The following
have been appointed delegates fron1
North Carolina to attend the e
ing Of the Southern Baptist Conven
tior, which will be held in Mont
gomery, Ala, May 7, 1886 Rev
1. Whitfield, d. D., Rev. A. G. Nc.
Manaway, Rev. c. T. Bailey, D. D.
A. n. Daniel, Rev. T. E. Skinner
d.. D., J. NJ. Heck, Rev. W. II
Strickland, Rev. J. F. Moore, Rev.
{. Durham, Rev. John Mitchell
d.. D.. Rev, w. L. Wright. Rev. ]
{. Wilson, Rev. c. c. Newton, and
R.. McBrayer.
Charlotte Observer Capt. r. P
Waring, Superintendent OF the Char.
lotte assay Office, last Wednesday
shipped $500 in gold bullion ,o
the Philadelphia mint. The ship.
ment OF gold from the assay office
last week was $4,000, making q
shipment of S16,5O0 in two weeks.
The Charlotte assay Office has lately
been vested with authority from the
government to make assays OF gold
ores for all parties desiring such
work. A fee of s. is charged by
the government tor each assay OF
ore. The Charlotte mint is the only
one in the South allowed to ASSAY
ores.
A negro woman was accidentally
shot at Salisbury. The Charlotte
Observer says she was taking part in
3 private theatrical entertainment.
Another girl who was acting 10 the
tableau was required, in the fulfil
ment OF Der part, to FIRE a rifle. The
rifle used was a Flobert parlor gun,
and blank cartridges had been pro-