The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-08-17
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
som THINGS THAT ARE H. PPEN-
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
w hat Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.

What Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
POSTAL CARD News. The friends of the
CHRONICLE in every section of the State
are requested to aid us in making this de-
partment an accurate record, in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
us postal card whenever anything of
public interest transpires in your neigh
borhOod or section of country. You will
aid us and give prominence to your sec
ton Send on the postal cards. : EDITOR.
... The Asheville Citizen says that crop
prospects in the mountains were never
better.
-. The cars now run from Cameron to
Carthage over the new Carthage railroad.
We lift our hat and tender congratula-
tions to President J. G. Black.
-. .ThOs. NJ. Hines, agent of the A. Il
n. c. K. r., who skipped to Chicago with
about $500 of the company's money has
a requisitiOn for him.
-. AT the Methodist District Confer
ence at Mooresvlle, Bishop Duncan coun-
selled the preacher to preachs the gospel
and not to meddle in politics, or to go
'iodHd Stlh otSclllS lOI L IOulDillDil
THE Danbury Reporter Post says
Northern capitalists are negotiating for
the purchase of a site in that section for
the establishment of manufacturing
town. They want from five to ten thou
sand acres of land.
.... The CHRONICLE acknowledges the
receipt of an invitation to the Tobacco AS
soclation which holds its annual session at
Mo-
Julian S. Carr is President of the Associa-
ton.
-. Mr.. A. F. Pages project is now,
not only to extend the Aberdeen ~ West
End road to Troy. but to extend the east
ern end to meet the branch road now
being built from the G. F. IL Y. V. at Red
Springs. Troy will then be connected
with Wilmington Sanford Express.
~ The people OF Durham have invited
the lnterStates Farmers Association to
visit that enterprising town next week,
during its session at Raleigh This is like
Durham-a big. genuine hospitality. Col.
Polk, on behalf of the farmers, has ac-
cepted.
... At lredell Superior Court, James p.
Woods, a practlclng attorney, has been
convicted of forgery and sentenced to
Ciiltt Ntfi9 III tllt IIt Has
taken an appeal to the Supreme Court
His license has been taken from him -
News Observer
"A roOmy, convenient and tasty
school house is to be erected in Franklin
ton. Maj G. II. Scott, of Raleigh has
been elected Principal He stands high
as an educator and the Franklinton Dis
patch says the people are rejolced that
they have secured C0mnntpnt
structOr.
W We hear it stated that proposition
is under consideration by the railroad
authorities to extend the Durham and
Lynchburg road from Durham to Dunn
and connect there with the Atlantic Coast
Line system by means Of an extension of
the Clinton branch road to Dunn Gin
ton Caucasian.
1.-The citizens of Liberty have held
an Indignation meeting and pronounced
as maliciously false the reports now in
circulation to the effect that there is fever
at Liberty. The doctors state that there
have been but two cases Of fever at Liberty
since 1887 and that the two individuals
who had fever at Liberty this Summer
contracted it elsewhere. Liberty is re
markably healthy town.
- The Pharmaceutical Convention met
in Godsboro last week and had a pleasant
profitable session. The following officers
were elected: President, 7. ID. Crawford
of Oxford: 1st Vice President, DR.. j
Groom, of Maxton; End Vice President
Mr.. l.. Richardson, of Selma; 3rd Vice
President, Mr.. II. G. Shannon, of Colds
horo. The Goldsboro druggists gave them
an elegant banquet.
ho b.r nf lot in hf
penitentiary, on the farms, railways anC
turnpike is ,365. The convicts are divld
ed as follows In penitentiary and on its
two farms near Raleigh, 1854; on Murphy
division of Western North Carolina rail
way, 100; in quarters on 1vey Creek OF
that road, So; in quarters at Horse Ridge
78; on Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail
way, 22S; on Carolina, Knoxville an(
Western railway, contract work in Hay
wood county,, 1885, on Wilson Short Cut
81; on the Fayetteville and Wilmington
railway, extension of Cape Fear ant
Yadkin Valley, 176: on the plymouth
turnpike, 80.
One of the most remarkable cases 0
twins on record is at present in this city
Yesterday afternoon a colOred woman OF
| the place of Judge Charles Harris CAV
| birth to a child or children, the like o
which has never been seen here before
| The following description will give tn
readers some idea Of it: The two children
We're attached together at the breast bone
| facing each other, being a veritable pal
of Siamese twir5. From the breast u
they were perfectly formed human beings
Each had head covered with hair, per
feet face with eyes, nose, ears, mouth, AM
every part and feature Of the cOuntenance
Each had two arms and abdomens. The
had three legs, two legs being perfect
natural, but the third leg seemed to b
joined at the left hip of one and the lcf
hip of the other. This third leg was onl
natural from the knee down. On the foo
of this leg were eight toes in row, and
ninth toe on top of the foot. The thir
leg rested fiat against the body. Their
were double hip joints. There seems t
have been only one heart, and the chll
in whose breast it was situated lived abOu
one hour. The second child lived abou
four and half hours, and white it breatt
ed the heart in the dead one continued
beat until the child ceased to breathe
They opened their eyes when born an
one of them cried tle.-Fayettevil
| journal.