Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1886-01-09
STATE NEWS.

mere are 5oO uHfeglsttieu HeS
fled in the office OF the Register OF
Dee:s OF Wake County.
Col. w. I. Blackwell, OF Durham,
has thirty fox hounds, and since
August has caught thirty foxes.
Messrs. Blackwell, Duke, Carr,
Morehead aud other gentlemen OF
Durham, have organized an electric
lignt company.
|; is said that once when Greens
boto Feu:ale Cn!lege was III debt,
the la,e Wu,. II. Vanderbilt gave it
$1,000 as a gift.
Brunswick county people are
greatly excited at The appearance OF
an immense bald eagle, TO whose
neck a bell Is attached.
/: is asserted that The railroad
will certainly be extended from
Rocky Mount To Raleigh. The com
pany desires no subscriptions, only
wishing rights-ofway.
David Jones, OF Forsyth county,
bought his first box OF matches last
week. He has kept house about
thirty years, aud the fire has here
died in his fire place during that
time.
Near Durham, Saturday Dec. 90
80
1883, the ea>t-bonnd mail train kill
ell a deat-mnte white man named
Fred. Ostrdger. lie was not seer
by the engineer until the engine wa'
almost upon h!n. .
Asheyiile Citizen Wal LUX;
Chair, an Indian from Cherokee
county, convicted at The las, term 0
the Federal Conrt tor ,liicit retail
ing, died il jail Yesterday OF tyI'hoit
pneumonia. HIS term would hav,
expired OH Monday next.
AT Davidson College, Jan. Isl,
street renconDier occurred between
j. u. Hood, merchant, and j. w
Summers, lawyer, ia which Hoo
was shot, and 1t is supposed fatal.
injured. Hood and Summers ar
bro,hers-in-law aud q%uarrelled abou
the settlement Of an estate Hoo
was attacking Summers with
Ratchet when the latter used hi
pistol.
Raleigh Visitor: It has bee
stated by several newspapers, tina
the Supreme Court IN the cases {
the State vs.. Il. N. Miller & Son,
from Charlotte, declared the az
authorizing the Drnmmer's tax u,
constitutional. This is not true
The case was decided on a defect i
, the bill Of Indictment, and the cor
stitutional question was not RAISED
and was not decided. SO the TAX +,
mains In force.
J Reidsville Weekly An old &c,
t,cnall, with a blue cotton umhrcIl
III his paws, who had imb.bed 20
freely, was in a country churcb~in
neighboring county the other Su,
day when it began raining yer
: bard. The old man heard the raj
on the root and raised his umhreli
But the preacher took in at a glane
the whole situation. He quietl
said Put that Ian OUT doors, T.,
= leave his umbrella inside some
the sisters here may need it."
i Kinston Free Press: There a.
) pears TO be an organized moveme,
: on the part OF the Washington co
t respondents OF the different new
; papers TO injnre Senator Vance an
puff other people. When any me
( OF set OF men make the people
North Carolina cease to love Vanc
= we shall expect to see the old firm
men begin to shake. Old Ze
! Vance is more strongly entrenche
III the affections OF the people tia
is any other man in North Carolin
+ Newbern Journal Every tn
payer should preserve his receipt fl
taxes paid on real estate. 1T
value of such is now being realize
n this county As we learn that
some instances where notice b;
reeen served on parties that the, sta,
holds 4 deed tor their lands they al
able to produce a receipt from tt
sheriff for the taxes for the vel
: year tor which the land was sol,
We don't exactly know how a be
sons land could be sold for tax,
= ami decided to the State without tt
owners knowledge, yet We unde
; stand that such has been done
tins county.
Winston Daily Seventeen co,
5 victs escaped from the s,ockade
o Dalton Sunday night. 1t was p'a;
ned for al to escape. They ha
axes hid for the purpose. and whe
they knew there were only w
!, guards on duly, one at each e
&, trance, they rushed TO one entranc
which attracted both guards to tn
one, AMI Immediately the convic
rushed TO the other entrance, an
= before the guard could interior
{ with an axe he hal picked up, seye'