The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-11-16
FROM MURPHY To MANTEO.
SOME ETSIINGSTHAT AREHAPFEN-
ING in NORTH CAROLINA.
What Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Renders.

What Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
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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 a 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.
-. Some farmers in Stokes are feeding
their hogs tobacco as a preventive of
cholera.
THE Synod Of the Southern Province
of the Moravian church assemblies in Salem
on November goth.
80. The North Carolina and Virginia
Conference of the Christian church is in
session at GOungsville. Rev. J. e. New
man preached the opening sermon
49,. Granville county has now seventy
four miles of railroad There was not an
inch of track IN the same territory less
than ten years go.-[Oxford News.
IA boiler exploded at the Durham
Monday. Four persons were injured
though none were dangerously hurt.
-. Miss Molly Bethune, young lady
brought to bay by lack of dogs near her
house and killed it with case knife.
-. Governor Scales respited Milie Po-
teat (the negro woman who was to have
been hanged at Yanceyville yesterday, Jun
hon hnr
full blooded Cherokee Indian was
last week put in the penitentiary. He is
Tom Chicalbilla. and he both murdered
and robbed another Indian. He gets 30
years at hard labor.
" A small mill run was made at the
Mann Arlington mine a few days ago
which returned at the rate of 81 900 a
day The ore run was above the average.
i Nashville Argonaut.
" Fairview Academy, w. I. Whitsett,
Principal, is enjoying the most prosperous
session in the history of the school The
attendance is unusually full. This school
is near Gibsonville, N. C.
% The Fayetteville Observer an
nounces that several Northern parties
have engaged rooms at Hotel La Fayette
for the winter There is no reason why
many of them should not spend the win
ter in our State.
-. The Progressive Farmer says: THE
Durham Fertilizer Company is the first to
offer its guano in cotton bags. 1t makes
a neat package. The farmers all over the
South are calling for cotton baling and
cotton bags for guano, corn, oats, &C. :,
and they are going to have it,
- The abundance of partridges in the
country this season has attracted the at
tention of Lorrilari and party of New
York friends, who will be down this way
in a few weeks and make Stovall their
headquarters. They have had about thirty
five hunting dogs in training there for
some time Oxford News.
Durhams tobacco business is stead
lily on the increase. This is clearly shown
by the revenue receipts at the Durham Of
flee. Mr.. Foster has kindly furnished us
with the receipts for October and they
of very nearly 50, 900 over last month, the
receipts for September being $63, 1882. Z. -
Durham Recorder.
49,. The Orange county Observer says
Mr. Archibald Andrews, of Orange, voted
the straight Democratic ticket at.Cates' PIE
cinct on the 9th. The old gentleman is
1O1 years old He is an inveterate pos
sum hunter and spends, or did spend, a
few years ago, half his winter night in the
woods, his catch during the season amount
ing to between 80 and 1870 'possums.
80. The Augusta Exposition will be
held Nov 9th and Dec. 18th inclusive
Ten day tickets can be bought at the fol
lowing rates: Greensboro, N. c., $1O.7O
Salisbury, SO. 90; Charlotte, ~, 45; States
vile, 50. 90; Asheville, 50. 20; Henderson
vile, $40; Hot Springs, 50 15; Hender
son, $136 Goldsboro, $l3 40; Selma
S13.4 Raleigh, 12.45; Durham, $12. AS
... Samuel c. White has been released
from Wake jail His bondsmen are Messrs
H. L Fentress, J. p. Sorrell and E. NJ
Nadal Both Cross and White will apply
to the Supreme Court, so it is said, for {
writ of error. The CHRONICLE thinks tn,
wisest thing they could do would be t.
submit to their sentence and go to tn,
workhouse. They will be out all the soon
er than by these legal delays, for there i
no hope for their escaping punishment.
Mr.. Gavin Hyman, Clerk of tn
Inferior Court of Halifax county, wa
found dead and burned to a crisp in hi
office in the Court House at Halifax on tn
morning of Nov 10Th. 1t is supposed
| that he had retired, leaving his lam
| burning, and that the bed clothing ha'
| caught fire therefrom. The fire burne'
through the plank floor, but the fact tha
the house is of brick. with a brick foo
beneath the wood, saved the building fror
| destruction.
| Mr.. W. A. Crowder in calling t
pay for his Aurora, remarked to US tha
he has a wife and six children, yet b
never bought in his life any supplies fo
his family, makes his own hog and hom
nv. He stated that he still retains tn
first little coat that he wore when a littl
boy, thirty six years ago, has his weddin
coat which he wore seventeen years age
keeps as souvenir the first gold dollar /
ever had as it was given to him by h
father for catching moles at five cents
head. Shelby Aurora.
A High Tribute to True Man.