The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-12-20
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
som E THINGS THAT AREHApPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

ING IN NORTH CAROLINA
What Has Happened in the Good Old
Its Readers.
POSTAL CARD NEws.-The friends of the
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 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. !
-: Jessie Brown, Craven county
murderer, has been sentenced to be hanged
Jan. z.
| The Richmond & Danville railroad
| now requires conductors to receipt pas
sengers for money paid for fare when they
get on at stations where there is no agent.
| "A handsome monument is to be
erected by the officers and employees to
the memory of Colonel l.. O. Jones, late
superintendent of the Carolina Central
railway.
! Oak Ridge Institute has enrolled
253 different students during the year
| Just closed. The school is to have a new
Y. NJ. q. A. Building and Gymnasium to
| cost about $4,000. 1t is to be built in
the coming spring.
80. The Wake Forest foot bali team
| went to Richmond last week to play a
match game with the University of Vir-
ginia team. The game was played with
| the Richmond College team, and the Wake
Forest boys won.
The Ladies' Memorial Association of
wilmington; have decided to take steps
looking to the early erection of bronze
statue of Jefferson Davis in that city.
These ladies were the first in the South to
erect monument to the memory of the
Confederate dead.
| .... The Charlotte Chronicle notes: "An
emigrant train, containing fifty families
of negroes, numbering in all $50 people,
passed through the city yesterday for Lou
,lslana and Mississippi. The emigrants
were from the eastern part of the State,
and were in charge of ''Peg leg" Williams.
| The literary societies of Wake For
est College have invited Henry W. Grady,
of Atlanta, to deliver the annual address
before them. Governor Fowlo has written
Mr.. Grady urging him to accept this invi-
tation. Editor Grady has also been invi-
ted to deliver an address at the State Uni
versity.
-. In Tyrrell county an old and es-
teemed farmer, Green Brickhouse, fell
dead while ploughing near his house. His
wife ran to him, held his hea and closed
his eyes. 1t was an hour before any one
went to her aid. Mr.. Briekhouse's sister
finally went and was so pros rated by ex-
citement that her death is eE .)ected
49, A party of land owners at German
ton, Stokes county, have sold to the Bes-
semer Steel Company, of Gre ensboro, the
right to work the limestone OF their prop
erty. 1t is said that beneath the bed of
limestone there is silver an zinc. The
limestone is fine in quality. A branch
railway will be construct, to the bed.
-. The people of Warren county held
meeting on Friday and passed resolu-
tions asking the Governor to assemble the
Legislature to provide for relief on the
same lines suggested by the meeting at
Halifax and it Is very probable that other
counties which are similarly ituated will
take similar action.-RoaDoko News.
-. The Supreme Court last week de-
cided in the case of the State VS.. j. B.
Connolly from Iredell, that there was er-
ror in the charge of the Court below. The
decision is to the effect that at the time
| Connelly's o1ense was committed there
was no statute making it embezzlement
for Clerk of the Superior Court to mis-
apply private funds that had been COM
mitted to his custody.
-. The building of a railroad from Eu-
tawville, S. c., via. Darlington, to Mon
roe, is one of the probabilities of the fu-
ture. Darlington, we learn, has offered
the projectors of the enterprise 5000, 900
provided the road is brought to Monroe
This, we suppose, is with view to con
nection with the Roanoke 81 Southern,
which will ultimately be extended to Mon
roe. We do not doubt that in ten years
| Monroe will have railroad connections in
all directions. Enquirer and Ex-
press.
49,. AT special session of the Vance
County Farmers Alliance, held at Hen
| derson, n. c., on the 10th inst, it was
unanimously decided that the best inter
ests of the order demand the prompt call
of a convention of Alliancemen residing
in the ''bright tobacco belt" of Virginia
and North Carolina. In accordance with
this decision, the Secretary was ordered
to issue call for a convention to be held
at Oxford, N. c., on Tuesday, January
Sth, 1S9O.-Progressive Farmer.
Col. Olds writes to the Richmond
Dispatch: A gang of negroes in Edge
combe county a few days ago created
and making threats to kill every Demo
cratic negro to be found. They attacked
negro named Taylor. While one of the
gang held a revolver at his head and told
him that if he spoke word he would
shoot him the others whipped Taylor until
they were driven off by other negroes.
Arrests and indictments by the grand
jury will follow this outrage.
80. The distress in Northampton and
Halifax are very great. One farmer who
planted 1875 acres made one bale of cotton.
Another who used four tons of fertilizers
and planted for twenty bales did not make
rent, and abandoned his farm and left tho
State. The landlord had to go, and with
sack-bags, pick out what he could find to
save his rent. Another large farmer near
here who expected to make 100 bales got
about eleven. AS result of these hard
times 2. n. Stainback e. Co., of Weldon,
have MADE an assignment to W. E. Daniel.
Liabilities $50, 600; assets $50, 900, but only
about one half of assets available, owing
to the condition of the farmers whom
they furnished. J. S. Moore, of Garys-
burg, has also made an assignment with
$6, 600 liabilities; assets unknown
| Happy HOOsiers.
VIM. Timmons. Postmaster of Idavile,
Ind, writes: Electric Bitters has done