The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-11-23
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
ooME THINGS STHAT AREHAPPFN-
IN@ IN NORTH CAROLINA.
N.a. Has Happened in the Good Old
Stdt" since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Renders 7' >''O'''"

CHRONICLE in every section of Tho state
are requested to aid us in making This dc
partment an accurate record. in brief of
the news from Murphy to Manteo Send
rs postal card whenever ANYTHING of
publlc 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.
one hundred and fifty eight new
postoiiices We're established i'll North Car
DINA last Year.
We hear that 10 stamp mill viii
be erected at the Stafford gold mine III
Randolph county,
-. Salisbury has organized Knitting
factory with a capital of $l2 800 Theo
kently, Esq, is President.
-. The Concord Times saws that sea
Democrats in CabarruS county did not
vote in the late election.
-. Mr. NJ. Makeley, who has been elect
ed to the House from Hyde. has sold his
mill property to a Northern firm for 5 90.
600.
IA little SD of Y. 7. Cratch shot
and killed a 222 pound bear near Blount
Creek III Beaufort county this week.
Gazette.
stock company to prospect certain lands
supposed to contain coal. He has option
ed 200 acres.
1t is reported that arrangements
are being made to build railroad from
Ciarksville to Blue Wing and that work
VIII be commenced in 30 days.
Tho editor of the Newton Enter
prise says that since Cleveland was defeat
ed he has decided to substitute a rooster
on Thanksgiving day il stead of a turkey.
The complete machinery for q Knit
ting factory at Charlotte has been pur-
chased in New York by Mr. H. Lockwood
Jones and the mills will be in operation
by New Years day.
~. We hope our citizens will see to it
that another Legislature shall not adjourn
IN this State until we have secured suit
able charter for the operation of a street
railway in Winston Salem = Daily.
Two children, Fred and Silas, were
hunting wild cattle near Beaufort. Silas's
gun hammer was caught by a briar and
discharged, the contents buIyiug them
selves in Fred's back and he died instantly
.., Mr. John P. Hunter of Mecklen-
burg, while blowing few days ago dis
covered that his plough turned up a
''pocket' laden with gold The vein is
y feet wide and is said to be a rich one
The Manufacturers RecorG says that
Capt. Warren, of Charlotte, will have
charge Of the work of the development of
the Southern Bell gold mines in Rowan
county. Boston capitalists viii do the
work.
....M Muse Bros, merchants at Cameron
Moore county, have made al assignment
| to Mr.. John W. Scott, Sr., WI o is the pre-
J fprrpG ,TaIitGr Tho liabilities ora SOn
| 600. We do not know the alue OF the
! assets.
"A man by the name of Dickens
from Davidson county, was arrested at
! Rocky Mount last Saturday n, hit for pass
ing countertit money. He was turned
over to I. 5. Commissioner Pender Of
Tarboro.
A cotton factory-the Reliance Cot
ton Mill Co.-has been started at Staley.
Randolph county. Its present capacity is
1S0 spiudles. The Astboro Courier says
that they want two sets of hands rs they
will run their mill day and night.
-. In Wilkes county the election for
an extension of time on the 500, 900 sub
scripton to the railroad from that county,
was carried on the 9th by a handsome ma
jority That means for Wilkes one of two
things, either the railroad or the $40, 900
forfeit Winston Republican.
The report from the Manufacturing
Record shows that out of total Of 2SO
new roads and ) 5790 miles of new track
the South had 90 roads and 2 ,0S3 miles Of
track-largely over one third in both cases
and of this number North Carolina builds
1 roads and 204 miles.
" Messrs. Warren & Grimes, of Cum
berland, Pitt county, published in the Wash
ingtOn Gazette that Henry Jackson, a
tenant with two mules, made this year
40 barrels Of corn, aud 13, 220 pounds Of
lint cotton the first picking, and the crop
is now ready for the second picking.
, Near Monroe, last week, small
boy Of eight years noticed what he thought
, was large bird struggling with goose,
which in the struggle fell over intoa a ditch.
The boy rushed up and caught it and IT
proved to be a young eagle OF the bald
head kind, measuring q feet inches from
tip to tip.
II is a right strange confidence
The Charlotte Chronicle says that Mr.
Charles Mcdonald, the Democratic candi
date for the House in CabarruS was elect
ed by 1863 majority. His brother, Rober
Mcdonald, was the Republican candidate
= for the Senate from Meckleuburg, and ht
was DEFEATED by 1863 votes.
The extension OF the Halifax ant
Scotland Neck Railroad has been graded
r to it's crossing of the iliamston and Tar
f boro Railroad. The ron is nearly laid Il
that point. From that point 10 Green
vile is under contract. 1t is eXpecte'
that 10y February j the cars viii ru
through to Greeuvile. The cars viii the
:. run from Halifax to tireenyilic instead c
h as now, from Weido, to Scotland Neck.
= At Cumberland court last week Judg
JAS. L. Shepherd presiding, the case
v the town marshal, Flowers, versus sever;
Ii colored citizens, cane up, and was decide
e in favor of the marshal Some time bac
/ a negro ran up to Mr. Flowers in the nigl
and tried to hit him, Mr.. Flowers beiu
. out to arrest negro for whom he had
>, warrant. In the struggle guns were draw
~ On him, and he soon found himself in
very serious position, but finally escap,
u without injury
p. ID. Robbins of Hallsville, Dupl
county, an enterprising and industrio
colored man Of that locality, is here wi
a new steamer which is to ply betwe
this city and points on the Northeast Ca
Us Fear. The boat was built by himself
to sawed the boards al a mill which he ow
en- and put the boat together. He was twel
ng months in completing 1t as he worked
II only at odd fines The little era Fl