The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-06-28


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ton. Send Oh the postal cards EDIroR.
" The outfit of the Watauga Enter
prise, Republican defunct concern, wa
sold at Boone, week before last for taxes.
and brought S4.43.
Webster's Weekly, of Rcidsyille.
tells of Primitive Baptist preacher who,
IN the early part of his ministry, preached
over 365 sermons a year.
The Durham Daily Sun of Friday
reports the death of Bedford Mclean, an
industrious colored plasterer and brick
layer, from sun stroke
The G. E. Graham Manufacturing
company at Asheville, has doubled it cap
ltal stock. 1t will be one of the largest cot
ton factories in North Carolina.
IA reward of 5000 has been offered
for Amos Aston, a white man who on the
18th instant, i'll Iancey county, shot and
instantly killed Henry T. Ledford
"A Moore County Confederate Vete-
ran Association will be organized at
Carthage July 4th. 4. d. Jones, Esq,
of Wake, and others will speak
"A new cotton factory is to be built
at Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus county The
concord Times says that sufficient stock
has been taFen and the site purchased.
The next session of the University
of North Carolina will open the first
Thursday in September, the Trustees hay
ing ordered the change at their recent
meeting.
-. The Carolina Rice Mill at Colds
boro has been OrgaL zed with the follow
ing officers: Messrs. E. b Borden, Presi-
dent; Pembroke Jones, General Manager;
Norwood Giles, Secretary and Treasurer
-. The town commissioners of Durham
have passed an ordinance prohibiting the
saloons from having screens, curtains,
painted or frosted windows or doors, and
requiring all saloons to close at eleven
O'Clock at night Good
-. License in Monroe has been fixed at
$500 in addition to the State and county
tax. The town commissioners also order
ed that any person found on the streets
intoxicated SO as to stagger should be ar
rested and fined not more than fifty dol
lars.
-. 1t is desired by the faculty of Ruth
erfOrd College that every old student of
the college send their names and address
to K. l.. Alternately, President 1t is pro
posed to make out complete list of all
students who have attended this college,
in the 36 years of its existence
-. The Salisbury Herald says that the
card We published last week, signed by
Rowan county farmers, asking for help
because tier crops We're ruined by hail
stone in the Bear Poplar neighborhood
was i'll advised. 1t says thai the DAMAGE
was exaggerated and that the people of
Rowan will see to it that no one suffers
1t says that no outside help IS needed
Speaking of fine crops, remarked
a gentleman the other day ''John A.
Davis has one of the prettiest crops that
have ever seen. He has ninety acres of
fine cotton that Will average ten inches
nigh He also has ,ighrl acres o
- q corn "a | htve,v eH .Oly
'- g. Inu 4, "uth ,NR..
So, good crops al oN.l + -,rouD,, ii,
opi'e Of the recent heavy rams
-. Two brot Sidney and George
Sutton, aged II and 81, who live near Glib
sOnville, Guiford county, left home las
week to get some whiskey 'to use in hart
vesting wheat Sid got drunk and got
into difficulty with a man named Cobe
George took Sid behind horse to get him
quiet. Sid was furious and cut his broth
er in his groin and lower abdomen and
killed him. The murderer is in jail, says
The Burlington News
... Fayetteville is prospectively the
greatest railroad centre of the State The
road from High Point to Asheboro is ex-
pected to ext end to Fayetteville to come
in connection with the Atlantic Coast
Short Line North; and the project is in
contemplation for a connection direct
from Salisbury to Fayetteville. The idea
of extending the Atlantic Road, once urged
in this community, should take tangible
shape now.-Goldsboro Messenger.
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