National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-05-22
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.


basket factory has been started at
jamestown, n. g.
Five thousand people took part In the
memorial exercises lately at Fayetteville.
Rev. j. A. Hoyt, of Catawba county, has
made 500 converts to the Baptist Church.
A. $. Iladaway is opening and will at
once develop his mineral paint mine near
Murphy.
Northern capitalist ehave purchased the
new silver mine In Ashe county and will
develop 1t fully.
The Sentinel Of Winston, N. c., has been
enlarged from four to eight pages and is
deseryedly prosperous.
The North Carolina Press Association
-. hold - nS..s s...i INJECTING un JiuS
II, at Morehead City.
The Vein Mountain mine, In Mcdowell
county, is still keeping up its producing
record. The company have recently bought
more land, which now makes their property
about 5000 acres.
The Granite Falls Manufacturing Com
pany of North Carolina have Just declared
a 10 per cent. dividend, and have applied
| D per cent. to the purchase of new
machinery, their net earnings for the year
being Is per cent.
The Sam Christian gold mine, In Mont.
gomery county, produced sixteen pounds
of nugget coarse and float gold In the last
twenty-seven days. The nuggets were very
fine, rough, and angular. That quantity for
| twenty.seyen days run Is considered fairly
paying placer ground.
Asheville Is a beautiful city, having Il
| splendid location for health, pleasure, aud
business, and is the most important place
| In the western North Carolina mountains. A
bureau Of information has been established
at Asheville for all who desire to learn OF
| the resources and attractions Of western
| North Carolina.
A little child about years old was feed
| ing bread to soTe logs. at Townsville q
child's finger, when 1t began to bleed.
| When the hogs smelt the blood they seized
| the child and began devouring II, and only
| stopped when they had eaten nearly all of
Its body but the head.
Brevard, the county seat of Pennsylvania
| county, is In the heart of the Alleghanies;
| near the headwaters OF French Broad river,
| thlrty-five miles southwest Of Ashevllle. 1t
| overlooks the wide and lovely valley OF the
| French Broad. The valley here Is about
| twomiles wide. and is regarded as the garden
spot OF western North Carolina.
The Southern Improvement Company has
| purchased the Warm Springs, In Madison
| county, and is erecting a new hotel with
| $50 rooms. The celebrated hot baths are
being sunk down TO bed rock, Enclosed and
lined with marble, and they are now equal,
| II not superior, to the Hot Springs of
| Arkansas, while In the natural advantages
Of the country and ease of access they are
beyond comparison.
| The eastern counties of North Carolina,
including Onslow, Jones, Dublin, Pender,
Wayne, Lenoir, Craven, and Carteret, have
| never received that attention from capital
| lists and settlers to which they are entitled.
| Astounding IN natural resources, with a
| healtLful climate and prolific soil, with
| two.t thirds Of their lands covered with
| virgin forests and with It's sounds, rivers,
bay, and inlets aiTordng the most UNI
| limited faculties for fishing, there Is no rea-
son why all this section should not become
| the most populous in the state.
~ WAS most ready to return II blow and
wOn.d not brook at all this sort of thing" for
knew could cure all damages with SALIVA.