The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-04-13
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
SOME ETHINCSTHAT AREHAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
What Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.

are requested TO alQ us III making tnlS de-
partment All accurate record, in brief, OF
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
Us a 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 Vance County Guard is the
name of Henderson's new military. Our
friend, Col. W. II. S. Burgwyn, was elect
ed Captain.
.... The L. S. Senate has passed bill
for the construction Of bridges across the
Cape Fear, Black, and Northeast rivers in
North Carolina.
-. President John F. CrowelI, of Trim
ity College, is to deliver an address to the
Graded School and people of Winston, at
the close Of the session, May 9TH.
... The Franklinton Dispatch says that
Mr. John Polk, Of Vance county, was run
over by the train last week and killed.
The Dispatch thinks he was full of whiskey.
The Governor has commissioned the
GDllford Grays. The officers are: Captain,
Mr.. r. P. Gray; 1st Lieutenant, Mr. S. l..
Alderman; end Lieutenant, Mr.. Ellison L.
Gilmer.
The Winston Sentinel reports that
a "moonshiner" in Stokes county recently
made forty gallons of corn whiskey from
four bushels of corn and ten boxes of con-
centrated lye.
The Goldsboro Argus appeared Sun
day in a handsome eight page sheet, in
honor of its third anniversary. The Argus
is credit to Goldsboro. May it IAN
eternal vigil keep"
THE hands laying the track upon
the Carthage Railroad struck last Monday
for higher wages, but the wages didn't
rise, and work on the road was suspended
One mile of the railroad has been finished
Stanford Express.
The Ladies' Memorial Association
has selected General Robert Ransom to
deliver the address on the 10th of May
Rev. Il. w. Battle is appointed Chaplain,
and Captain Samuel r. Street, Chief Mar
shall New Berne Journal.
80. The annual games of the Davis
School Athletic Association will take place
at La Grange on the afternoons Of Thurs
day and Friday, April 10th and Goth. The
medals will be presented by Mr.. Henry
Blount, of the Wilson Mirror.
Governor Scales has been notified
by the State Shell fish Commission that
they have decided to throw open the en-
tire Pamlico Sound public oyster grounds
Oh the first of June. Those of Hyde and
Pamlico counties were opened the first of
April.
We learn of a woman who has a
double row of teeth, when one of her sons
has no teeth at all. A daughter has head
of hair black on one side and red on the
other, and the watch dog that guards this
variegated family has one artificial eye
and was born without tail Mt. Airy
News.
The editor of the Greenville Ref1ec
tor had a bad cold, and a friend presented
him with handkerchief; he had a sweet
heart, and friend presented him with AT
Easter card to send her;he was hungry and
a friend presented him with pair of shad
Verify, Pitt is great county and its edi
tors fare well.
-. A sad death occurred last week
Miss Lucy Cockrell, daughter of Johr
Cockrell, who lives in the edge of Johnston
county. run away and married Mr.. Jesse
Brewer. In running away from her father
| (who kept a close watch on herr she tOol
deep cold, from the effects Of which she
died in less than week. Wilson Ad
vance.
The dwelling house of Mr. John Nc
LllluSlOIl oSSOOd SCSt uOUSC IL
| the place-was burned on Monday nigh
at two o'clock. Two negroes, setting III
with corpse, saw the fire in time to wake
| Mr. Eilington's son-in-law and family
| They escaped, but nothing was saved
| There was only $500 insurance on tn,
| house.
| Little Norma Clare Lindsey, of ker
nersville, n. g.. sent a photograph of her
self to Mrs. Cleveland and asked that lad.
| to send her some scraps" to put in
| quilt her mother was making. Mrs Cleve
| land sent a piece of her wedding dress
ribbons from her bOnnets and other beau
tiful pieces to go into the Cleveland square
Miss Lindsey and her parents are yer,
happy and are strong for Cleveland.
IA friend at Wilkesboro writes: A
result of our railroad prospects, rea
estate is changing hands to some eXten
in Wilkes. The boom is just beginning
and why shouldn't it! We have count.
embracing broad fertile valley of twent.
to thirty miles, sheltered on the south
west, and north and partially on the eas
by mountain ranges, thus making Wllke
county safe refuge from the cyclone
and blizzards that are playing havoc wit
the country at large.
The Buford House, in Charlotte
now under the management of the Bufor
Hotel Company, the articles of incorpora
ton having been filed with the clerk c
the Superior Court yesterday. The name
of the incorporators are: Col. VIM John
ston, 4. NJ. Miller Sen, d. A. TompkinS
and Fred Oliver, of Charlotte, and Co
A. B. Andrews, of Raleigh, and such oti
ers as they may associate with them.
is said that the intention Of this compan
is to own and operate hotels in other places
:. Prof Henry E. E.Shepherd LII. D., Pres
dent of the College of Charleston, S. G
has accepted the position of Superinter
dent of the Asheville Summer Norm;
School. He is the most accomplished GN
ing native North Carolinian, and tn
CHRONICLE congratulates the people {
Asheville upon their good fortune In 81
curing his services. Prof. Shepherd wi
be assisted by Prof. B. K. Atkins, Prof. ]
P. Claxton, and Miss Kate Millard, an
Mrs. Hannah NJ Davidson. The scho
will open July 3rd, and continue thrt
weeks
AVERSE BY Il. s. NEY.