Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-28
LATE NEWS.

Durham is to have another cotton
factory.
There is a movement to make
MOrehead winter resort.
The University began its present
session with 160 students.-News.
The betting odds in New York are
now ten to eight in favor of Cleveland
There are 347 women blacksmiths
in England. and 9138 nail-makers of
the same sex.
Oxford has three railroads, two
banks, thirty new brick stores, and
electric lights.-News.
The Baptist of Elizabeth City are
building one of the finest churches in
the State.-Evening Visitor
On the 18th inst, negro man
charged with assault on an aged white
woman was lynched at Whiteyille.
Four Italians, who had flooded the
place with counterfeit money, were
arrested and jailed at Portsmouth,
Va, Saturday evening last.
Coleman the Norfolk Murderer OF
James Grant, has been examined
He pleads guilty, and is sent on to
the October term Of the County court.
The largest Touring mill in Min
neapOlis runs On the profit share
system. 1t recently divided forty
thousand dollars among the employees.
Plant
Gov. Scales is preparing to change
his home from Raleigh to Greensboro
He is having his home at Greensboro
put in order, and also the bank he
has purchased.
The Chattanooga, Cleveland and
Murphy Railroad is the name Of
new line to be built from Augusta to
Birmingham, Ala, by the way Of
Murphy, N. G.
Charlotte is about establishing a
factory for knitting undershirts,
socks, stockings, drawers, ETC., and |
expects to get it in operation by the |
10th Of October.
Several cases of yellow fever have
developed at Hendersonvilie, n. c., |
among the refugees from Florida. |
Gov. Scales has ordered that no |
more refugees be received.
Mr.. E. T. Cross, of Nansemond |
county, Va, while fishing il his mill
pond, was killed by falling tree.
during the recent cyclone that
passed through Gates county.
Caldwell county, this State. has
shipped more than 10000 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.
Gov. Scales has made requisition
upon Gov. Lee, of Virginia, for |
negro convict who made his escape |
from the penitentiary some months I;
ago, and who was lately advertised
at Roanoke, Va, and is now in Jail |
there.
The Virginia Midland railway is
paying damages to persons injured in
the fatal Fat Nancy trestle disaster.
The mail clerk, w. n. Parrot, was
paid $5,OOO-others the same, yet !
others less, and some settlements
pending.
DR.. J. NJ. Campbell, prominent
citizen and we'll known physician at
Greensboro, attempted suicide, early
Sunday morning last, by cutting his
throat with a pocket knife. The
wind-pipe was cut in two. His age
is 55 years.
Plans are being perfected for a
more complete and rapid collection of
election returns than ever before.
The United Press will be for the first
time served with the returns for North
Carolina, Systematically and accu-
rately. Heretofore it has been easier
to get the returns from the entire
State of New York than from few
counties in North Carolina.-Raleigh
Letter.
A Raleigh letter to the Virginian
saws: The Norfolk cotton-dealers
will certainly see some queerly- baled
cotton this season The hasUinp is