Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-07-14
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

and WIi,e, have been act tor trial
in the Wake Superior Court at kal'
eich next Monday 10th inst.
Greensboro Patriot Judge Gil
mer who has been confined to home
limits Tor the past week is threaten
ed to day with paralysis. The 1>d-
triot in common with thousands OF
Others wishes the Judge speedy re-
covery, and a complete restoration
to his former good health.
Wake Forest College now has an
endowment fund Of Sl69, $40 VI.
The total receipts last year IN inter
es,s and rents were s10,8l673; TO-
.al receipts for Laboratory building
were $4,000. Of this amount Mr..
S. S Lea, of Caswell county, gave
$4,000. This is perhaps tie bes,
chemical laboratory building in the
South. Two hundred and fourteen
students were in attendance las,
gear.
Fayetteville Messenger: A bushe'
of corn makes four gallons of whis
KEY. The whiskey sells for S4.0(
per gallon, making SIG for the tou1
gallons. OF this SIG the farmer gets
s1.6O; the government S3.6O tbt
railroads $3.50; the manufacture
$3.50; the vender $3.50; the use
gets the devil and in all probabilit,
SO and costs in the mayors court
while the producer ard tax payer
foot the bill.
The Concord Times publishes al
account Of an occurrence which ha
stirred up the neighborhood of No
IL Township, Cabarrus COZ MY. !
grown daughter OF Mr.. Henry Pop
lin, Of that township, fecently be
came dea,hly sick, and ih a few NC
men,s vomlted a full gyown frog
In the meantime a physician wa
sent for, but arrived only in time t
see the frog hopping lively about o
the ground The girl stou,ly affirm
that she vomi,ed the animal, an
every member OF lne family bear
out her statement.
In the last Salem Press is a sketc
OF Washinglon's visit to Salem. whe
he was President Of the Unite
States. It was in 1892. He W,
accompanied by Hon. VIM. Smit'
member Of Congress from Sou,
; Carolina. Washington Travelled in
soIky from Richmcnd by way
Prince Edward Court House, eros
; ed Dan River at Dix's Ferry ar
came by Troublesome Iron WorI
aud Dobson's, (Kernersville) whe'
4, he spent a night and got a very GOO
breakfast before putting out over
billy road to Salem, a Moravi;
> town Of about 800 inhabitants
: that time.
Active buying Of land arcur
A~heville has been attracting ate
!, ton several weeks, and it now a
pears that WIN K. Vanderbilt,
!, New York, has bought over a tho
!, sand acres just below the city at Il
!, confluence of the French Broad al
!, Swananoa rivers. The land lies
one tract, which was held by ov
q twenty persons. 1t is said to
!, the finest property in Western Nor
! Carolina. Mr.. Vanderbilt has wr'
.. ten his agents to say that landscal
gardeners VIII soon come on to pr
pare the land and that he inten,
erecting a handsome residence 10
ready tor next summer.
Durham Tobacco Plant Tb
Ii great and greatly deserving chart
: ;Ee Oxtoid Orphan Asylum. nee
and ought TO have more room al
NOR money. From the Orphn,
Ffleod We clip this Every d.
G he mails bring us letters calling o
aitent on to destitute children
$ d tferent sections of North Carolir
: who ought, by all means, TO be
this asylum. We now have 2,
chi dren here, and every one has
splendid appetite, and we ha'
about 81 anne on our list OF app
,, cations who will be received as so,
! As there is room for them. Bre,hre
= please don't forget that i, tax
nohey I" buy ra,ions and clothil
Tor all these homeless children"