The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-11-30

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aid US and give prominence to your sec
ton send on the postal cards EDITOR.
The Herald says that work on the
cotton factory at snliIhtield is progressing
finely.
-. Garnet has been discovered in Ale
ghany county and preparations are being
made TO mine for it.
-. The RedsyiIle Light Infantry won
the second prize of $50, at the Danville
Tobacco Fair
Give its ''parient' an office. a ne
gro baby IN Chatham county has been
named Ben iamin Harrison.
IA child in Dupiin county found
cup with a lot of potash in it, drank the
contents and died in great agony.
-. Captain Tom Emry has a colt whose
running qualities equal those of its owner
for the Legislature. Tarboro Southerner.
Marks Bernstein, of Durham. has made
an assignment for the benefit of creditors
J. Swartz is assignee. The liabilities are
- 200
-. Seventeen boxes of green peas were
shipped from New Berne last week. That
was big money to Mr.. Hardison who made
shipment
The new steel rails are being dis
tributei along the line of the Atlantic &
North Carolina Railroad between More
head City and New Berne
- 1t is thought that the Wilmington
& Weldon Railroad will sometime not long
off extend the Plymouth branch down in
Hyde county Washington Progress.
The Carolina, Knoxville and Wes-
tern railroad track has been graded to
within nine miles of Brevard aud the iron
laid as far us Marietta in South Carolina.
- Asheville Citizen.
1.-The Wilke> boro Breeze says the op-
position to the Winston WilkesborO Rail
road have, through their attorneys, en-
tered protest against the recent railroad
election in Wilkes.
Daring the sitting of the grand jury
at the recent term Of the Superior Court,
J B. Connolly, la,e clerk Of that court,
was presented for embezzlement and forg-
cry Statesville Landmark.
" Mrs. &athan Griggs, OF Turkey
Cove, this county, gave birth last Satur-
day TO triplets two boys and one giri.
| The mother and children are said to be
doing we'll Marion Bugle.
-. Work on the new railroad to Ply
mouth begins this week. The people in
of fruits, and it will be good addition to
/ their present sources Of Income.
| ..The Statesyille Landmark records
| that four negroes boys were ordered
| thrasned at the last term of Iredel court,
and says this IS the good old plan and is
! cheaper and more eff ctive than keepine e
| them in iail.
-. Henderson Gold Leaf says that if
any negro must represent the Second Dis
| trct in Congress, Cheatham is the man.
1t SAYS that has the confidence and re-
/ spect Of all who know him without regard
to race or party.
-. Yesterday's Lancaster, 5. c., Ledg-
er takes up the idea Of building a road
from Charlotte to Camben via Lancaster
in a manner that indicates sincerity OF
purpose and substantial aid for the pros
pect.- Charlotte Chronicle.
The earnings of the Ashevilie &
Spartanburg road for September, 1888,
were S11 Alb Is, as against 50 ;l3S 7:' fol
| September, 1887, an Increase of s., i15. A
or % 81 per cent. our Western North
Carolina roads are improving steadily and
most encOuragingly.
Merchants tell the Newton Enter
prise that the Catawba farmers are il
better condition financially this fall thar
they have been for several years. They
have money III their pockets. are trading
freely and are taking up the old notes tha
are held against them.
Mr. Frank Van Eaton. of Davie
was drowned in South river, IA few day
ago Reason: He was very much unde
the influence Of liquor and did not know
well what he was about The ferry boa
was on the opposite side Of the river an'
| he forced his horse in water twenty fee
deep.
- The jury in the case of ]. 7. Ed
munGson against the r. IL d. K. r., 70
, damages by reason of injuries sustalne
in the accident on the ". \. c. Road
while with the Goldsboro Rifles, en- rout
, to the AsheNille encampment. and Wh1c
5 | has been on trial at kinston for som
p time. returned a verdict in favor of $40
: 00o damages.
5 1t is now promised that the Scot
e land Neck railroad shall certainly be e>
tended to Greenyille The Atlantic Coas
e Line, which is building it, gives assurano
$ of the extension being completed i'll 81
= months 1t is graded to the point whel
= it viii cross the Albemarle and Ra:eig
railroad aud that section W Ill be in oper;
| ton by the end OF this year.
q The Wilmington Star, speaking
u the Wilmington x Weldon Railroad, say
{ This Company has agreed with the Rlci
q mond x Danvile Railroad Company
! furnish one half the money necessary *
S building the Chowan & Southern Railroa
z from Portsmouth to Tarboro, with tern
't inal in Norfolk, for which large expend
/. lures have been made.
New Berne beats he State on sa
. mills. 1t is estimated that between 20C
00a arG 200 600 feet of lum bpr is save