Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-03-31

NORTH. CAROLINA NEWS.
One hundred colored people left
Charlotte for Californ;a, Monday,
March 10th.
The North Carolina crop report
indicates that the usual crop of to-
bacco will be planted.
The corner stone of the Teachers
Assembly building at Morebead City
will be laid on May 1s,, and not
April 2nd, as first agreed upon.
Dr.. Kemp 2. Battle, President of
the State University, has accepted
the invitation to deliver 40 address
on tue Organization OF the Supreme
Cour. and its History.
The time of the meeting of the
North Carolina Dental Association
at Raleigh has been changed by or
der Of the President, Dr.. I. NJ.
Hunter, to June 18th, 18th and 14th.
DR.. 3. T. Dixon, Superintendent
OF the Oxtcrd Orphan Asylum, has
bought the Gollsboro broom fac
tory and will remove it TO Oxford,
where it will be operated as an in.
dus,rial feature of the Asylum.
Asheville Citizen An old gentle
mao told US Yesterday that on April
18th, 1859, a snow fell IN this county
that lasted two weeks. The depth
Of the snow, in places, was nine
inches, aud stock that was on, on
the mountain sides had. to be fed
with food from barns-not a sprig
of grass to be found during that
time.
Raleigh Visitor AT a meeting of
the Executive Committee OF the
North Carolina Agricultural Society
held on Friday evening last, they
decided to hold the State Fair this
year, commencing on the 10th and
continuing 10 the 10Th of October
next. Now lets go 10 work to make
it one of the grandsst fairs ever held
in the State.
Tarboro Southerner: The Su.
preme Court has just rendered an
opinion in the case of the State VS..
Ivy, which is important. It is held
that in finding a true bin the grand
jury must act on legal, sworn testi.
nony taken on the bill, and tina,
where a true bill had been found
and quashed, and Immediately a new
bill sen, on which the grand jury
returned "a true bill" without exam.
ming the witnesses again, the sane
must also be quashed.
Webster's Weekly The editor
OF this paper spent last Saturday III
Washington and regrets not a little
to be compelled o say that it is the
opinion OF the knowing ones 10 tina,
city that no action will be taken a,
this session of Congress looking t,
any change in the tariff or in,erna'
revenue laws. He is indebted tc
several members of the North Ca,o
lima delegation for pleasant and dis
eliminating attentions. The plivil
eye of talking and shaking hand,
with Randall, the great Penn>ylva
MA leader, was richly enjoyed. How
we would like to vote tor him fo1
President of the United States.
Charlotte Chronicle Col. Wm
Johnston, of Charlotte, is a prett,
good farmer, and has been particu
larry successful in bis experiment.
With clover and rye. His cows Jut
horses have green feed all tbroagf
the winter, and i, IS supplied bY ;
halt-arrc plot in Col. J~ohnston's gar
den. He sowed the land in Glove,
and rye on the 18th OF last Septem
Der, aud he has just moved ,ht
held tor the first time. He will ye'
two more cuttings of rye, one i,
FEBRUARY and one IN April, and ate
that ne will get three cuttings o
Cover. He sowcd the rye ane
clover 81 the same time The i've
at the first cutting, wa> eish,ee,
inches high, and furnished AN abund
ance OF tie best kind of teet@ Col
J"itn>ton advises farmers 10 ,r,
this plan Let them plan, a halt
ac't lot near their barns, where the,
can cut the grass as they need II. |
is Il good plan. and should be rive,