The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-07-06
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

- The Local Preachers Conference
ON. Z. Church,, will meet at Rutherford
College on the 9TH of August next 1t will
continue until the 27th.
-. Mr.. J. G.. Walker, OF Cary, N. G.,
desires us to ask through the CHRONICLE
where he can get book entitled 'Fanny
Dale; or A Year After Marriage"
... Asheville leads. An Electric Street
Railway Co., has been organized. The in
corporators are: DIR. S. W. Battle, Talbot
Penniman, W. r. Penniman and Thos. A.
Jones.
-. The Governor pardOned Aaron
Rocker, of Mecklenburg, last week, be-
cause of extreme illness. The pardon
never reached Rocker, for three days be-
fore it reached its destination, he was
dead.
" The Hillsboro Recorder says that
Lambert w. Hall, Esq, of Orange county,
an influential and useful citizen, Justice
of the peace and an elder in the Presbyte-
rian church, committed suicide last Mon
day week by hanging himself. His mind
was deranged.
a meeting has been held in Will
mington, and resolutions adopted protest
ing against the running OF trains on the
railroad to the sea coast, and the opening
of saloons at our seaside resorts. Mr..
W. NJ Poisson presided at the meeting.
-. Mr. w. D. Cole, of Chat than, hanged
himself last Friday. About Il year ago he
was sent to the Asylum at Morganton, and
was discharged, mentally wei, but physi-
cally weak. He was afflicted with melan-
choly; and in a moment of insanity hung
himself.
10 AloxonIoy
occupied the attention of the court yester-
day. We understand that there are about
acres of land involved in The suit, and
that the land is not worth more than IS
per acre. This suit has been in court
several years and the cost amounts to
more than $500 Asheville Sun.
-. Mr.. Bob. G. Smith, of Charlotte,
shut up" a loud mouthed Harrison man
by proposing to walk from Charlotte to
| New York if Harrison is elected, the Har-
rison man agreeing to walk from New
| York to Charlotte if Cleveland is elected
There is walking ahead for that Harrison
man.
A special to the Charlotte Chroni
Gle contains the information that stran
ger entered saloon in Hickory on Friday
greatly intoxicated, and demanded pin,
of whiskey Being refused, he drew 6
revolver and said he would have liquor OF
blood He got neither but, after much
trouble, was arrested and lodged in the
calabOOse.
1t is said that the Seacoast r. X
cost about 800, 900 and that the company
will spend about $50, coo on the hotels
and grounds at the Hummock. We men
ton this merely to show our cOuntr.
friends how much in earnest the compan,
are in their determination to establish ;
seaside resort second to none on the Soutl
Atlantic coast Wilmington Review.
We learn that through the exertion
of Senator Ransom in furtherauce of tn
petition of the Board of Agriculture o
N. c., the U. S. sloop Scoresby has beel
authorized to continue its aid to Oyste
Culture in the waters of Eastern Carolina
Lieut.. Winslow in command of the Scores
by has rendered valuable aid to us in con
nection with the survey of four oyste
grounds. Elizabeth City Economist.
. A committee of experts examiner
W. A. Potts, Jr., of Beaufort county, a
the request Of the Governor and pronounc
ed him sane. The experts were DR.. Girls
som, DR.. Miller, and DR.. Murphy. Tn
Governor declined to interfere and Pott
will hang July 18TH The readers of th
CHRONICLE will remember that Potts kille
one Lincke in Beaufort county. Lincke
wife and Potts had been too intimate, an
Potts killed Lincke without provocatio
and in cold blood.
- Thursday night Chas. A. Mcneil
Esq, while in company with Mr.. Charli
Graves and Mr.. II. A. Foote met a negr
named Barrett upon the street of Carthage
For some cause or other difficulty Of
Cured between MI. Mcneil and the negr
and McNeill dealt the negro blow upO
athe.head with base ball bat, crackin
Drum skull. The negro was not dea
(ast report, but the lick is regarded ;
fatal Mr.. McNeill was arrested an
bound over in the sum of 81 ,00O.-SaI
ford Express
-. There is a man by the name of d.
! vid Rigney who carries the mail fro
Fancy Gap to Mt. Airy, a distance of
{ miles, and back, on foot, making 26 mill
t day. He is small man, weighing II
] pounds. He has not missed trip in thr'
e years, except from three weeks spell
: sickness. He leaves Fancy Gap at $50
: the morning, gets to Mt. Airy at 10, al
leaves at II a. H., arriving at Fancy Ga
at 2:3O p. m. He has never beepSkpQv
. to be behind and is often from fiStse6Ar,
D minutes ahead of time.