The state chronicle., 1889-10-11


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 oi
publlc interest transpires in your neigh
borhood or section of country. You viii
ala us and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR.
..,.A new jail is building at Elizabeth
City.
The cotton crop in Catawba county
is very good, says tho Newton Enterprise.
49,. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
will meet at Potecasi, Northampton county,
December 4th and 5th.
The Enterprise says that one thresh-
ing machine at that place threshed 90, SO3
bushels Of grain this past season.
One firm in Winston, as the result
of a part of their seasons operation.
shipped from that place the past week
15O, 900 pounds of dried fruit.
-. The CHRONICLE is glad to hear that
Davidson College has opened we'll. There
are as many students on the ground as were
enrolled during the whole of last year.
AT the civil service examination at
GOldsboro, Thursday of last week, there
were forty eight applicants for positions
as route agents. Twenty-six of them
were colored. ...
"A young man from Henderson re-
Gently rode bicycle from that place to
Newark, N. J. The distance is 533 miles,
and he made it in 16 days, at total cost
of $1,000
1.-The Oxford Ledger records the
fact that Col. r 0. Gregory has undoubt-
edly struck a bonanza on his plantation,
near Stovall, in the shape of anthracite
coal. The samples burn splendidly.
We see it stated that over fifty
young men n North Carolina have
pledged themselves to 20 as Forai-n Mis-
sionaries The l. Il G. A has ', .,rought
"A good work IN thIs line.
. GOV. Holt, who Was acting as Gov
eruoT IL the absence tf Governor FoWe.
ha, retrieved Sam Scales, of Rockingham
county, s,n+e encad to te hanged OF. p h.
for aI-on- 4. .,rleve Wan granted III -,
cemb@i 9th.
IA stock company Las been formed
iE Rocky Mount ana three new large to
n'cre prize 10 acS W'l I'd erected at once.
Roc "t7at IS going forward AMI is Cas
II nI ~ q .ar7s raEous tobacco ne-i BIT
- = - 'tff lj- "a = lt7iN4CtIL "a ti-t-
compau- proposing ,c buns tLe railroad
from Southport TO Cincinnati, was with
Mr.. Joseph 4 Stonebroaker, one of the
Directors, at Wilmington Monday. They
are having the surveys made.
" Mr. Lowery, editor of the Mt. Airy
News, says he will suspend his paper un-
less it is better supported. The people
should not let so good paper suspend.
1t would be a positive loss and injury to
the thriving town.
I'VE learn from the Reporter and
Post that at the recent election of the
stock law ''in all that portion of Stokes
county not before in the bounds of the
stock law fence was carried by a major
ity of $50.
lit is now an assured fact that
GOldsboro will have her electric lights full
ablaze fy the opening of the big Fair OH
the 22nd of this month 1t will be a gala
time in our city, which will be overrun
with visitors on that three-day occasion
of brilliant sight seeing and industrial dis
play. -Goldsboro Argus.
An election has been called by the
town commissioners to be held Nov. 7th,
when the question of issuing town bonds,
to the amount of $4,000 for the purpose
of building town hall will be voted on.
The bonds are to run twenty Years, and
DO part of the principal will have to be
paid under ten years Times.
-. 1t is learned to-day that Bingham S
School and Davis School, of LAGRANGE,
will attend the Centennial Celebration
here in November in body. 1t is to be
hoped that Oak Ridge Institute, Thomp-
sons School, of Siler City, Fremont Mill
tary- Institute and the other military
schools of the State will do likewise
Fayetteville Observer.
" Henry Blount saw the young circus
woman Miss Josie Demott (who was mar
ried at Selma and wouldn't live with her
nusbandl ride and be says: "The bareback
riding Of Miss Josie Demott was as grace
ful as wIeathing smoke, and made her
seem like the poetry of motion" She may
be success as ''the poetry of motion,
but she is a huge failure as a wife.
-. Fayetteville is enthusiastic over the
approaching Centennial and the enthusi-
asm is spreading. A few nights ago Mr..
J. S. Carr, the Chief Marshal, went tC
Fayetteville on business connected with
the Centennial. He was met at the depot
by brass band. An address of welcome
was delivered by Henry L. Cook, Esq, and
Mr.. Carr responded. A general reception
-. The Press and Carolinian says OF
the Hickory Fair, held last week: Every
body knows it was a success and We dc
not care to conceal the fact. 1t was
success beyond our most sanguine eXpec
tations. We said we were going to have
a big fair but who expected such a crowd
and so much fun? We want to convey al
idea Of what the Hickory Fair was to oul
many readers but we don't WELD per
that can write the words.''
-. Prof. L. E. Shuford, of Mcdowell
county, is out in card in which he says
that the charge against him of a nameless
| crime is untrue and MALICIOUS, and thai
the prosecuting party withdrew the char
ges because he knew they could not bS
| Subsrantiated. He refers to the Mayor O.
Marion and to Rev. NJ. L. Kaylor or any
other honorable man in Marion. We
! hope that this is so. We would not like
| to believe that there could exist anywhere
in the State such a travesty upon justice
as was representt in the statement thai
Prof Shuford WAS let off upon his prom
Use to leave the county.
-: Among the enterprises that Mur
| ply seems destined to have, is a mammoth
coffin manufactory, which is to be {
branch factory of the Nashville, (Tenn.
| Burial Case Mandatory, which is said K
be among the largest in the country. Mr.
| G. A. karsch, the general manager O
this company, has for several days beer
investigating the advantages Of locating ;
factory at this place and has come to tb'
conclusion that Murphy's prospect of be