The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-18

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..,. The Farmers Alliance will build a
tobacco warehouse at Henderson.
80. DR.. Abernathy says Tell the world
that Rutherford College is tlourishng and
still they come
49,. The Scotland Neck Democrat says
that Mr.. J K. Warren, of Pitt county,
made a net profit of $532 on three acres
of tobacco.
49,, The New Berne journal says that
the most of the people of that city think
that Boyle has met just fate that he
deserves TO swing.
49,, The North Carolina Annual Con
ference of the NJ. f. Church, South, will
convene in Greensboro on the 2Sth of No
vember, Bishop Hargrave presiding.
... Chatham and Alamance are racing
on old geese. The Chatham Record has
fc und one % years old, and the Alamance
Il amer confesses that the oldest goose it
ca. find is 80 years old.
49,. The Democrat says that Mr. J. W.
King of Crowell on two horse farm has
made {. crop worth $1,100. lie did not
hire single days labor, and the cost of
making the crop was $3.50
80. The Governor, in response to a pc
tition, has ordered a special term Of court
in Cumberland county for criminal cases,
to begin December 9th, and last two
weeks. Judge James &. MacRae will pre-
side
49,. A joint stock company y has been
formed III Waynesville for the purpose OF
establishing at once cheese and butter
factory. No better country on earth can
be found for such an Enterprise -Ashe-
vile Democrat.
... The contract for building the three
C's road from Rutherfordton on to Marion
and on to the Cranberry iron Works and
Johnson City, has been signed. The
work is 10 begin by February 1890 and is
70 be completed by February 1898.
-. The S!ler City Fair takes place Oct.
%, p, % Thurspay the Gath will be
"Confederate Day" ou which day there
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Nhatham county. Ex-Gov. Jarvis, Col.
Morehead, Col. Beasley and others are
expected to make short addresses.
=. The Egypt Coal Mining Company has
purchased the stock of the Gas and Elec-
trio Light Companies of this city. Both
systems are to be extended. A new dy-
namo will be put in, and coal will be used
in making gas instead of rosin as now
Fayetteville Cor. Lumberton Robesonian.
-. Watson & Cecil have taken CON
tract to erect bleachery at Concord for
the Odells, who are among the largest cot
ton manufacturing firms in the State,
having extensive factories at Concord
and being interested in factories at Dur
ham, Salisbury and other places Lex
ington Dispatch.
49, 1t Gov. Holt tells the CHRONICLE
that the Burlington Fair last week was Il
great success in every particular. Large
crowds attended, the exhibits were varied
and Well worth examining the Governors
speech was capital, and the gate receipts
gratifying. The Alamauce people know
how to do anything well that they under
take.
-. The Governor has pardoned Nelson
Page. who was convicted in May, 1897, of
burning the guard house at Winston, and
tentiary. The pardon was granted on the
recommendation of the judge, aud the
statement of the sheriff, clerk and police
man who arrested Page, that the fire WAS
the result of accident.
Mr.. A J. Harrell, of New Hope
township, this county "A farmer well known
throughout North Carolina as a careful
and experienced cultivator, tells us that
from five acres of land he has just harvest
ed 90 barrels, bushels and pounds Of
corn, in the cultivation of which he used
the celebrated 'Prolitic Cotton Grower" "
a home manu- facturod fertilizer by the
Goldsboro OH Mills ls.-Goldsboro Argus
Geo. W Vanderbilt has purchased
more land near Asheville- He paid slG,-
800 for the Brookshire farm near Ashe-
vile Junction, and other land in that
section He has also an option on the
Hiliard farm for $4,000 The Citizen
says it is one of the most valuable farms
| in the county. Up to date his invest
ments in land have amounted to three
quarters of a million dollars.
-. President Atkinson, of the Atlanta,
| Ashevile and Baltimore road, announces
| that New York capitalists have entered
| into contract to construct this important
| air line connecting the Northeast with the
| South, and that a survey will be entered
| upon at once. This will be the most i'm
| portant line of road yet built in the
| South, and from Atlanta to Roanoke it's
| termini, will open up the finest section of
| the South.-Asheville Democrat.
-. The Free Press is highly pleased to
| be able to state authoritatively that the
| road from Greenville to kinston via Bell 3
| Ferry will certainly be built If no trou-
BILE arises over the right of way, work viii
| be commenced within ten days. The
right of way has been secured for the en-
tire line with the exception of two or
three land owners along the proposed
route, and depot site at Kinston has
been given by Miss Tiffany West. The
| railroad authorities think with favorable
weather the road will be completed by
next March or April. .-Kinston Free Press,
| - a joint meeting of the magistrates
aud commissioners has been called for
Monday, Oct. 21st, to consider the re-
building Of the Moore county court house
at Carthage or at Cameron. 1t is said
the Cameron people employed Mr.. Walter
II. Neal, of Laurinburg, as their attorney
to appear before the Board of County
Commissioners on last Monday and to
present Cameron's proposition to build a
court house in that place by its citizens
| and present the same 20 the county. The
people of Cameron say they mean busi-
ness and can do what they say. Sanford
Express.