The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-22
North Carolina Chat.
Asheville isvery orderly.
Tarboro wants electric lights.

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Tarboro wants electric lights.
Hog cholera is raging in Rowan.
| A bucket factory is talked Of in
Goldsboro.
+ Chatham Supefior CouNts going
on this week. -
a Racket store ia talked Of for
High Point. !
John A Moore. . prominent law
yer Of Halifax, is dead.
Charles dickens isto appear in
Raleigh in the near future.
Thirty-eight prisons are in the
Guilferd Jail ; mostly colered.
Granville Court'H House is. undergo
ing repair. It certainly needed it.
Success is the name of another
new post-ofice just established in
Buncombe.
William Davis escaped from the
penitentiary Tuesday. He was res
captured the next day.
More people are interested in the
fiihing business in Elizabeth City
this year than eve before.
Winston is voting to day on q
Subscription of $780, 900 in bonds to
the Roanoke & Southern Railroad.
There are twenty six life. and for
tysfve fire insurance companies or
ganized to do business in the State.
The Watauga Enterprise believes
an oil well could be found on the
lands of ]. 2. Combs, Of that county.
Duncan Bros. grocers Of Charlotte,
have made an assignment to g. H,
Duls for The benefit of their crsd-
itors.
Oxford is to have savings bank
in the very near future. Oxford ID
moving right on, we are pleasedtc
note.
A stock company with aa capital Of
ls25- 600 hos Asen, .fe,aaaa.:---0 0xl.ta
fCr the turrose soy efeetlDg new
hotel.
The valuation for taxation of al
property in the State foots up s210,'
035 ,453, an increase over 1886 o
s9,11l,45s.
An Arabian woman, ! member O.
band of strollers, was run over and
killed by a train on Sturgeon trestle
in Brunswick county. Monday.
A good many OF the oxford young
men are beginning to wear silk hats
and the Torchlighs says this IS q sure
sign that Oxford is about to be city
The Lumberton RQ5esonian learns
that Robert Ivey. q 3 year-old son
of MIR. B. A. Ivey, dropped dead
while plowing last Monday afternoon.
The Fayetteville Independed Light
Infantry will celebrate the 22nd inst.
This Grand old organization is still
aourishing and is the pride of Fay
ettville.
J. +. Harris, dealer in general mer
chandise. Winston, made an as
signment Tuesday to Watson q Bux'
ton, attorneys Liabilities 81. ZOO; as
sets $780,,
| The Ashevile Courier tells its
readers Of a tree recently cut neal
Trinity that made sS6 worth o.
slaves and eight cords Of wood. A
right coed tree.
The Hornet says a gentleman o.
Charlotte has a clock that loses TWEEN
ty minutes a day, and he is figuring
to see how long it will take the clock
at this rate, to loose itself.
There is almost q coal famine il
Greenville. The Reflector say
those who fortunately secured a sup
ply befors all was sold are hayinl
many calls from the borrowers.
The Greensboro Ho, kman says on,
Of the students Of Bingham School j
q justice ofthe peace in Johnston
county, and goes down occasionally
10 pour oil on the troubled waters.
The petition asking for q appropri
alton from Congress to clean out
part Of Tar river and Fishing creel
has been signed by nearly every lane
owner whose property touches eithe
these streams.
; Bro. Webster, Of the Weakly, say
! that as this is leap year he wishe
some girl would leap in his directio
but warns them not to look befor
; they leap. This is a chance for som
> Of The Reidsyille bellies.
The oldest Moravian settlement !
J the South was made Nov. 18th. l75
i at the Old Town, afterwards calle
Wachovia, FIVE miles north OF Wiz
ston, N. G. by emigrants from Penn
|, sylvania. There is q stone church
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