The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-04-12

- me ltst Legislature passed a bill
authorizing the penitentary authorities to
hire out conylcts to the Roanoke & South
ern Railroad. One day last week Col F
H. Fries was in Raleigh and contracted
lor 200 convlcts to begin work at once.
loo more Will begin work in July. The
price 20 be paid is $3.50 year.
Durham has organized a Chamber
or Commerce with the following officers.
President, W. E. Foster; lst Vice pres;
dent, LW- Wise; I'D Vice President w.
Jones; Secretary and Treasury, II. E. See
man; Executive Committee, j. s Carr. s
r. Iomlnson, }. I. French, A. F.. Lloyd
f. j. Parrish, &. c. Farthng, K. |. Rog
ers, {. G. Taylor.
| The Winston Sentinel told of boy
hve years Old who could read any chapter
IN the Bible. The editor of the Orphans
Friend thereupon tells of precocious FIVE
year old girl who could read any ordinary
volume, the Bible, and poems She studied
HISTORY, Geography and Grammar under
stood the multiplication table and could
work in division.
| ... The family of Mr.. W. j. Wallace,
! who was killed in the fire at Wilson's
| Mills last week, notice of which appeared
IN the CHRONICLE, are in great need. He
left widow and two small children
who have nothing. No reader of the
| CHRONICLE could aid people more needy
or deserving Contributions should be-
sent to Mr.. f. Is. Barbee Raleigh, n. G.
Cleveland county will hold Prohi-
| bitlon election June 10th second Monday
and the ballot will be License" or No
License. Many prominent citizens think
| prohibition Will carry in Cleveland. others
assert the contest is close. The editors of
Aurora and New Era individually will
| vote Tor temperance and.wish every man
to vote as each one thinks best Shelby
| New Era
Mllas Cutts, sixteen year old boy
| In Haywood county, had his ears cut of
few days ago by drunken man, named
Palmer. Cuttls is badly hurt but it is
| thought he will live. Palmer has escaped.
1t Is SAID that Palmer is "a "moonshner''
and that he told Cuttis if he informed on
| him he would cut off his ears and carry
them in his pocket. Either Cutts inform
ed or Palmer thought 50 and he executed
his terrible threat.
.Cooper's Gap had its serenity dis
| turbed by "A matrimonial escapade. While
deep sleep fell upon the father, Mr. H. II.
| Gibbs, of Polk county, Mr.. J. A. Mills,
| son of VIM. E. Mills, carrying a load of
| love too heavy for single harness, vent
recently at midnight to the home of Mr.
II. H. Gibbs and sang from a ladder to
his lady love- Miss Abbie Gibbs, a love
song under her window in the second
story. The lovers met tenderly, ran away
| that night, and sought in hot haste the
magistrate who soon pronounced them
''man and wife. Shelby Aurora.
..... The report of queer suicide comes
from BERTHE county. Eliza hedge, a ne
| ha oIc =
set fire to her house and then covered her
! self III bed to roast in the flames. She
| left note in her apron, hanging near by
| on the limb of an oak, saying ner husband
| was too cruel to live with, and that she
was Obliged to make support for him;
that she had bought the little home in
| which she lived with money she herself
| had earned, and that she desired to die
and would destroy her home in her death,
so that her husband might not enjoy it,
Her bones We're found among the ashes.
49,. President Gray, of the @. F. IL Y.
| V. K. r., says that he has already pur-
chased the rails for laying the entire line
| between Wilmington and Fayetteville, and
! that according TO the terms of the con
| tract 800, 900 has been paid down on
| them He furthermore gives out the graft
| flying information that track LAYING will
be connected at Wilmington about tho
middle of May, and that as soon as the
bridge is finished at Fayetteville Qn Au-
gust) track laying will also begin at that
time. He says the entire road will be
built, equipped and in operation by Jan
uary 1st. Ground for offices, depOts and
terminal points has been purchased at
Wilmington at a cost of $53, 900.
One of the biggest institutions in
North Carolina is the Piedmont Wagon
Company located at Hickory. An induce
ment OF $40, 900 was offered the company
to move the works to Winston The
Hickory people protested against its re-
moval in the substantial way Of taking
stock III 1t to he amount of about $50, 900,
and new charter was granted by the last
Legislature. The authorized capital is
$500, GOO, and the paid up capital is $780,
600. The following officers We're elected
at the meeting last week: President, j.
&. Hall; Vice President, A. A. Shuford; ;
Secretary, II c. Dixon; Treasurer, H. ID.
| Abernathy; e. II. .Gertner, Superinten't ;Di-
rectors: K. b. Springs, Charlotte; VIM.
Munzie, W. d. Shuler, II. G.. Latta aud J.
n. BohannoH, Hickory.
-. The capacity of the large Cannon
factory at Concord is to be doubled. 1t
will make cloth for use in the immense
bag factory to be built there. The lower
floor of the bag factory will also contain
5000 spindles and $50 looms for making
bag cloth. The bag machinery will occu-
py the upper floors. Mr.. W. H. Kerr is
now in Chicago experimenting the con
struction of the bag making machines, Of
which he is the patentee. They are tho
only ones of the kind in the State, and in
this Concord factory will make every kind
of bag from three pound salt sack to the
| largest bags for ship stuff Not ONLY will
the machines make the bags but at the
same time print them in several colors
The capital of this company is one million
dollars There is one other bag factory
now in operation at Durham but it is on u
small scale.
More Faith and Logic Than Tin