The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-09-14

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ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR.
-. Reuben Thompson. a colored con
v'ct. was instantly killed by a. slide at
Red marble gap on Sunday.
Twenty five miles of the G. +. n Y.
X X between Fayetteville and VII
mington is ready for the cross ties
On account of the weather the Fire
mems Tournament at Greensboro has been
postponed until Sept. 26th and 2.th.
The Sier City Agricultural Society
has resolved to hold it's Fair this year on
the cath, 25th and 26th days of October
-. The Elizabethtown Enterprise has
changed its name to the Beacon. ALWAYS
good, it has improved and is now all home
printed.
The Express says that Makepece
and Johnston will shortly establish a chair
factory at Sanford which will give employ
ment to several hands.
Three stores occupied bv j. W
Vaughan, Florence, Harrelson Il Co.,
and Geo. o. Wilson Il Co.-were burned
Sunday morning. Loss $4,000: insur-
ance $1,000.
80. Monday, September the 10th, regu-
lar trains began to run from Durham to
Richmond. leaving Durham at 9 a. m,
arriving at Richmond at 3 p. m arrive
in Durham at y p. N.
Caldwell county has shipped more
than 90 900 bushels of corn this year and
there is said to be plenty of old corn yet
in the county, with the prospect of one Of
the most abundant crops for years.
-. We are glad TO add to our exchange
list the News of Oxford, edited by Mr.
Abe Venabie. Mr.. E. E. Paschall is Busi-
ness Manager. 1t is a clean paper, print
ed on the best paper, and is we'll edited.
.Caswell county will vote upon
proposition to subscribe 500, 900 towards
the building of railroad from Reidsvilie
via 1anceyville, to some point on the
Raleigh q CASTOR Rsiroad. Reidsville
will b. asked to vote 500, 900.
Il D. Johnson has been convicted
of bigamy in Robson county and sen
fenced to five years in the peniteutiary.
He confessed in open court that he had
fifteen wives, and said further that he al
ways found it cheaper to marry than to
move family.
-. The business men Of New Berne
have formed an organization known as
the "Winter Resort Association of New
Berne" for he purpose OF trying to secure
winter visitors. Washington Bryan is
President: T. A. Green, Vice President;
and Geo. Allen, Secretary and Treasurer.
Two hundred and fifty refugees
from Jacksonville will go to Henderson
vile this week, having accepted the invi-
tatlon of the Mayor to go there. Already
there are number Of Jacksonville people
at Hendersonv!le who went there with
the first breaking out of the fever.
go. Capt. Bum may yet appoint the
cadet from this district to West Point
Nichols appointed his own son last year;
but he was unable to pass the required eX
animation. His alternate was Master
Lonny Merritt, OF this place, who went to
West Point last week to be examined but
was rejected because of physical disabil-
ity.- Chatham Record.
. The yellow f, yer continues to rage
with violence in Jacksonville Murphy,
Cherokee county, has opened its doors aud
iHNiteu yelioW leNeI IeiuScca 10 toHt III.
Hendersonyille has done the same The
Governor decided that he had no right to
grant or refuse permission-that each
town and county would have to act for
itself.
-. The rains this week have been gen
eral, and generally damaging. The most
damage was probably doEe in the section
of which Greensboro is the centre. Two
miles of the track Of the X e. d. H. r. twelve
miles above Greensboro was submerged in
consequence of an overflow of Reedy Fork
Al Haw River the stream was 2G feet
above the usual water mark Miles of the
track of the G F. & Y. Y. were submerged
On the Western N. G. r. r. there WAS a
delay owing to a slide on the Swannanoa
tunnel.