The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-07-27
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
som e FITTINGS THAT ARE HAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA
What Has Happened in the Good Old |
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted |
Its Readers.

What Has Happened in the Good Old
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. I
.... The State Tobacco Association will
meet at Morehead City, August 2Sth.
Street cars are now running in Will
mlngton: thanks to the enterprise of John
ID. Bellamy, Esq
Mr.. Jos. c. Erwin succeeds Mr.. W.
| {. Ivy as editor OF the Rutherford Banner
| The CHRONICLES best wishes are extended
to all parties.
The Sanford Express reports that
eX-Clerk Of the Court, a. II. McNeill, of
Carthage, Moore county, has made an as
slgnment for the benefit OF his creditors.
...- 1927 800 has been subscribed to
build-tae Burgaw n OnSlow railroad On
August 25th the officers of the company
| BurgaW.
... 1t is claimed that the most magnif-
cent ball room of any hotel in the United
States has Just been completed at Battery
| Park Hotel, Ashevile, NC. The opening
ball took place July ~.
- There is litigated controversy
! pending III LenOir county over about fifty
cents worth of land in which the cost al
| raa6V pp I lat pI TO aho
600. 1t grows out of a difference of about
IS inches in the length Of a boundary line
! - kinston Press.
| -. The Tabernacle meeting and local
! ministers conference (Methodst) will be
| held at Rutherford College, commence
ment August II. Reduced rates have
been given by the W. n G. road and over
its branches, good until August 81. Tick
els VII be placed Oh sale at different
| stations on August 10
.. Dr. \. G.. Carr, one of the most
! popular physicians in the state, has do
mated for the Durham Medical Hospital a
/ beautiful plot of land III east Durham,
containing nearly two and a half acres.
! The Medical Society has also given 500
| for this purpose. Now let the hospital be
erected at once - Durham Recorder.
-. The Durham District Conference
| NJ l. AHuECu) met dt belnel cuurCn InlS
week. 1t will meet at Burlington next
year. The following were elected dele
gates to the Annual Conference: C. W.
Bynum, f. J. Parrish, }. A. Johnston,
John Mitchell. Alternates q. P. Aston,
". H. Branson, 7. II. Walker, S. Y Brown
- Mr.. NJ. Schall of York, Pa, has
purchased the \. c. Mill Stone property
in Moore county for the sum of So 300
| The Sanford Express says: Mr.. Schall is
the holder of nearly the whole of the bond
ed Indebtedness of the company, amount
ing to about thirty thousand dollars. We
hope that valuable plat will soon be put in
operation, for it will give employment TO
many hands and help the circulation of
money ia that section.
-. Five thousand people witnessed the
hanging Of VIII Ho4ston at Winston,
July 18th. He was hung for the murder
Of a bad colored woman. They were both
drinking. OF course he professed to be
going straight to heaven. On the scaffold
he said; My friends all l have to pre-
sent is that hope and pray to meet you
all III heaven. | am ready to go, and
| want you TO meet me there. Beware of
whisky and bad women, and look on me
as an example to keep you and all Others
from being brought where | am