The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-12-06
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
SOME THINGS THAT ARE
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

What Has Happened in the Good Old
Its Readers.
POSTAL CARD NEWS. s.-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 I
"A neat Episcopal church is to be
built at Sanford, Moore county.
"A negro boy, aged Is years, com
mltted suicide in Hilsboro on Sunday
night. He complained of being unwell
that day.
We omitted last week to say that
the LumbertOn band received the second
prlze IN the band contest at the Fayette-
vile Centennial
80. tae editor of a New jersey paver
has purchased farm near New Berne.
His partner, a noted New Jersey farmer.
will have charge of the farm.
-. The town of Lenoir has 1 900 in
habltants, and there has not been a single
death there within a year This is a re-
markable record even for as healthy a
town as Lenoir.
-. In recent revival in the Methodist
church at Roxboro some of the bar-rooms
closed at the hour of holding religious ser
vices IN the morning. In Greensboro on
Thanksgiving day all the bar rooms closed.
.., To the Henderson Gold Leaf: We sent
that dollar back, too, without ceremony
<Nf =
Carolina editors next to nothing ought to
be stopped, and the editors can put stop
to it if they will.
-. The Carpenters and Joiners Union,
OF Asheville, N. c., have passed and sent
to hon. ii. u. Ewart resolutions request
ing him to vote for Chicago as the best
point for the location of the Worlds Fair.
-Hendersonvile Times.
-. The work of stringjng the city with
electric light wires is keeping pace with
the waterworks construction, which cans
that things are moving right ahead in
both these lines Of public improvements
in GoldsbOrO. .-Goldsboro Argus.
-. Matthew Banks, ,colored. was hanged
at Eliz sneth City Friday, Nc7 29h, in
the presence of about two hundred people,
OF whom only two were negroes The
crime for which he was hanged was An
atrocous assault on Florence Swain, aged
10, in July.
-, Mr.. j. A. Long broke dirt the first
Of this week for hi warehouse. The buiid
Ing is to be go by 100 feet, and We learn,
is to be on the style of the Globe Ware
house at Durham. This move shows Mr.
Longs confidence in the future of RoXboro.
= Roxboro Courier
-. .Stonewall Jackson, the condemned
murderer now confined in the county jail
at Halifax will be hanged December 10Th
unless the Governor commutes his sen
tence. y petition is in circulation signed
Dy the Juage, Jury, dnc 3o.Iuitor asking
for communication Of sentence.
The Governor has fixed January
10Th, as the day for the execution OF Ell
jah Moore (col.) in Greensboro. He was
convicted of the murder Of a colored wo-
man and al appeal was taken. The Sd
preme Court affirmed the finding of the
Superior Court.
IA twelve-year-old boy was killed
near Falkland, Pitt county, in very pc
culiar manner. He was fastening a house
from the inside, intending to make his
exit through window left open for that
purpose. In getting out of the window
the sash fell, catching his neck against
the window, in which position he stran-
gled to death.
-. "A teacher in Moore county writes:
"Our County Institute conducted by Prof
Chas. d. McIver closed Friday. About
35 teachers attended and much interest
| was manifested in the work. His inotruc
tions were highly entertaining, instruct
i've and appropriate. Five teachers re
ceived first grade certificates"
-. The National Convention of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, embrac-
| ing all the chapters in that order in the
| United State, is to be held in Charlotte on
| December 25th to 2Sth. The last annual
convention CT this fraternity was held at
| Nashville, Tenn. Speaker Carlisle and
| Hon. Lucius O. G. Lamar, who are mem
bers of this fraternity, will be here Char
lotte News.
The Durham street railway was sold
at public auction yesterday at thv court
| house to satisfy an execution in favor of
Ballard and Halliburton, trustees of w.
7. Blackwell. The track, road bed, switch
es, turnouts and franchise brought 81 $50;
the stables $3.50; the four cars $240. Maj.
w. A. Guthrie was the purchaser Of the
whole thing at the figures named. Dur
ham Sun.
- The old officers of the Western North
Carolina railway have all been re elected.
Col. A. B. Andrews, who has done so much
for Western North Carolina, remains Pres
ident. Vice-President Frank Coke is the
| President Of the ''Three g. s" railway. He
says $50 miles of that road are a certain
ty. A large force is at work on the TWEEN
ty-fve miles between Marion and luther
ford. There may be a branch line from
Burnsville to Asheville.
| A Land and Banking Company has
been Organi aed in Rocky Mount with Hon.
| B. H. Bum, President; II. s. Harrison,
Treasurer; E. W. Lyon, Secretary; and w.
Fl. Day, General Counsel. The charter,
obtained at the last Legislature. author
ICES the company to have a capital stock
of $500,00 for the purpose Of selling
lands, inducing immigration to Eastern
n. c., and dong general banking bust
ness. The Roanoke News says that the
company already has control of consider
able property. The main office for the
present is at Rocky Mount, but an office
will be opened on Broadway in New York
city.
"A stock company with a capital OF
$500, 600 has recently been organized to
mine and work iron ore at and near
Kings Mountain, in this State. The com
pany have bought and leased together
| 80, 900 acres of land around Kings Noun
tain; and it will soon erect furnace
there. There are several millionaires in
the company VIM. Wharton, Jr, is
President. The directors are Thos. White