The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-04-26
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
SOME THINGS THAT AREHAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA
What Has Happened in the Good Old
state Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.

are requested to aid us in making this de
partment an accurate record, i'll brief OF
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
US postal card whenever anything OF
pubic interest transpires in your neigh
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ald us and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards ~ EDITOR
---. Charlotte is being disturbed 10y bur
glars
Monroe will again vote on the local
option question Oh the second Monday in
June.
-. Henry Williams (col) has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Tllery, Halifax
county.
One hundred and fifty convicts VIII
shortly go to work on the Roanoke and
Southern Railroad.
-. Shelby voted by a majority OF forty
to issue IS, 900 worth of bonds to build a
new public school house.
We are in receipt of very tasty in
vtatlOn to the commencement exercises of
Nahunta Academy, Pinkney, Wayne coun-
ty, Y. G.
..- The name of Thrower post office has
been changed to "Dockery,' and Mr. b
F. Dockery succeeds Mr. NJ J. Thrower as
postmaster.
The Democrats of Asheyille nomi-
mated Mr.. Charles d. BlantOn for Mayor
and G. b. Leonard, Lawrence Pull
am and J. Hamp Mcdowell for Alder
men.
E1 President Cleveland and Mrs
Cleveland ale expected to spend IA week at
MoIehead City during the session of the
Teachers Assembly this summer.-Ca
-. In Cleveland county Judge Clark
directed the grand jury to indict the Com
misSioners for not building a new Jail for
the health and safe keeping of the pri-
SOnerS.
.. The railroad station at New Berne
on the a. Il n. c. K. K. has been burned
Preparatio are already making to erect "A
handsome new depot in the park which
adjoins the old depot
...T The Directors of the Penitentiary
have closed a contract with the GREY stone
Granite and Construction COMPANY for
one hundred cOnvicts to be worked at the
plant OF the company.
... Friday the ',Conetoe Oil Mills" was
organized with capital stock of SIC, 600
ii. l.. Station was elected President, and
N. b. Dawson, Secretary and Treasurer
| ldfUOrO SOutnernor.
The Greensboro Workman saws that
the enthusiasm in behalf OF the Battle
Ground Celebration on the tth of MAY has
grown to be intense, and the Dimensions
OF the affair seem daily to grow III every
direction.
~. The Live Oaks, of Oak Ridge Insti-
tute, won fine game of base ball at Oak
Ridge over the celebrated Winston club.
by score of ID to 2 Thomas Boyd, Um-
pired Eight hundred people witnessed the
game.
80. 1t is said that the Jesuit Fathers. a
Catholic order, have decided to build I.
church in Mitchell county, near Bakers
vile, and in connection with it Il school
which is intended to be the nucleus Of a
college.
80. The contest for Mayor in Charlotte
was between Mr.. F. NJ. Mcdowell, present
Mayor, and Mr.. j. 9. Long, who repre-
sented Mecklenburg il the House Mr
Mcdowell was victorious by d large ma
Jorlty.
\ beaver, weighing thirty two
pounds was caught in Stokes county lately
The Reporter says that until within the
last ten years these animals have not been
seen in that section for upwards of one
hundred years. Winston Repub lean.
"A new cotton seed oil mill Will be
built at once at COnetOe. "A town eight miles
below TarborO on the A. Il K Railroad.
Mr., H. l.. Station is president. The stock
is composed of strong men, and
the enterprise will be I. success, of course.
In Whiteville few days ago the
Columbus Society Of Industries was organ
lied with the following officers: President,
A. f. Powell; Vice President, Rev T. "
Wooten; Secretary and Treasurer, Josh
Smith; Assistant Secretary, Edward Troy.
" The people of Tarboro have deter
mined to have another Fair this fall Dr.
T. II Speght has been elected Presidents
Frank Powell, Secretary; and W. l.. Bar
low, Treasurer. The exhibition viii be
held Nov. 9TH, 9th, 9TH and 9Th.
49,. The Greensboro Workman learns
from DR.. Crowen, President Of Trinity
College, that the Baccalaureate Sermon to
the Senior class Of Trinity will be preach
ed in June by Rev. 0. T Fitzgerald, ID.
D editor of the Nashville Christ AN .Ad-
yOcate.
80 The Kerr Bag Manufacturing Com
pany has been organized at Concord with
the following officers President, J NJ.
Odell; Vice President, 5. Carr Secrc
tary ana treasurer, w X. OdelI: DIrcc
tors, J. a Odell, d. F. Cannon, J. W
Cannon, w. II Kerr and W H. Branson
. Violating the Local Option law in
some North Carolina towns is getting to be
an expensive luxury. a doctor in Mount
Airy last week was fined 300; one man
800 and another man $50. People will
learn after awhile that when a Law is
passed it will be enforced
. In the matter Of the controversy be
tween the Richmond & Danvile X. r. Co
and the Raleigh 4 Castor T. r. Co, con
cerning the track Of the oxford Il Hender-
son K r. Co., at Henderson, Judge Con
nor, last week, decided to continue the in
junction order until the trial of the case
upon its merits.
-. The sermon before the graduating
class Of Greensboro Female College Will he
preached on the las: Sabbath of May, by
Rev J. II. Gordon, Of Edenton Street
church, Raleigh. The literary address will
be by Prof. J. Coke Smith of Woiford
College, Spar anburg, $. G. Diplomas
Will be conferred by Governor Fowle, on
commencement day.
-. By Christmas of this year Person
county, hitherto without mile Of railroad
will have two lines. One is the Atlantic
IL Danville, running from Danville to Nor
folk. This cuts the northwest corner Of
Person. The other is the Lynchburg &
nurbam rupnipu from Iyuchhurp With