The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-09-27
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
som e THINGS THAT ARE
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

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| som E THINGS THAT AREHAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
| What Has Happened in the Good OLD
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
POSTAL GARD NEWS. The friends of the
| CHRONICLE in every section Of the State
are requested to aid us in making this de
partment an accurate record, in brief, ol
| the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
US postal card whenever anything OF
pubic interest transpires in your neigh
borhood or section of country. You will
aid us and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR
THE Baptist State Convention will
be held at Henderson November 18th.
-. An electric line street car ran over
and killed a man at Asheville on Satur-
day.
1.-The Norfolk Southern railroad is in
trouble. Suit has been brought to fore
| close the mortgage.
1.-The K. & G. r. r. has declared a
semi annual dividend of three per cent.
Good-we wish it was 12 per cent.
The Trinity College Committee met
in Raleigh this week, but did not select a
site. Plans are being prepared for the
buildin..
-. Mr.. A. W. Kronheimer has begun
the publication Of newsy daily paper in
Oxford 1t is called the Day, and is
bright and newsy.
- Mr.. H. W. Warner, of Rochester.
N. T., has purchased l, 800 acres of land
and will erect sash, door and blind fac
tory at Sanford.
-. II. E. Norris, Esq, Chief Marshal
Of the State Fair will nave over one hun
dred assistants. He has already appoint
ed nearly that number.
-. The Dukes have put up a private
electric light plant in Durham. 1t will
light their factories, and the private resi-
dences of the members of the firm
49,. The Governor has commuted to
life Imprisonment the death sentence of
Henry Winford, convicted of burglary in
Row IN county and sentenced to be hanged
Oc1oDer 25th
1.-The University has 1S0 students
and not 175 as we published last week
We wish We could say that it had 500
There ought to be 1000 boys in the four
leading Colleges in the State
The Fair at Concord opens OH Oc-
tober 1st and will continue through the
4th. Hon. w. NJ Robbins has accepted
an invitation to address the veterans on
that day, and will certainly be there. p
-. The Concord Times publishes a
picture of Jumbo Jenett who weighs 649
pounds He plays the fiddle and will be
on exhibit at the Cabarrus Fair, Oct
9th-1Oth.
-. President Gambrill of our new cot
ton mill, says that with the aid of two
Boston capitalists, he hopes to establish a
mill in Reidsville within the next year for
the manufacture of ginghams-R Reidsville
Times.
"A special train will be run from
Raleigh October 9th to the Warrenton
Fair. Bro. Foote writes the CHRONICLE:
Come down and look upon lot of peo-
pie and a country that God made" We
hope to be able to accept the invitation
-. Mr.. Thos G. Worth, of Randolph,
has been elected President of the Greens
boro cotton mill, and Capt. J. w. Fry,
Vice President. Mr.. Worth has bought
handsome residence in Greensboro and will
shortly move his family there.
-. "A man named j. B. Holmes, of
Fairfield, ILL.,, who travelled for a photo
graphic house, was found dead at the foot
OF Lovers Leap, near Hot Springs, last
Saturday. The body was procured with
great difficulty.
-. DIR. W. A. Lash, Walnut Cove, N =.
c., writes the Chattanooga, Tenn,
Tradesman that the Walnut Cove Lumber
Company was formed several months ago
with paid up capital of $4,000 to erect a
sash, door, blind and tobacco box factory
-. The Marion Free Lance claims that
Capt. J. S. Brown, of Mcdowell county,
II. e 4
His crop this year yielded ,626 bushels
On ten acres he raised 444 bushels, an av-
eraee of A 2 5 bushels per acre, which is
splendid record.
The Coon"who represents Wanama-
ker on the Oxford & Clarksville Railroad,
and runs as route agent from Keysvile to
Raleigh, refused last Wednt sday night to
take on or deliver mail for Oxford, giving
| as his excuse he was sick and not to trou-
BILE ''dis nigger wild yer trash. ."-Oxford
| Ledger. 5L-...f .t.
Two neighbors, David Call and ia
| cob Cornatzer in Davie county had quar-
| relied about a tract of land. Some days
after as Call was riding along the road on
| horseback, COrnatZer came out of his barn
| and fired at Call who died after making
| the above statement. Cornatzer fled the
| county.
-. Robert Haydn, editor of the Char
1otte Chronicle, and G. F. King, news
paper correspondent, had fist fight last
Friday. Both were arrested and released
| on their individual bonds. Mr.. Haydn
! attacked King for writing an article in a
weekly paper in Gastonia, n c., which
the former took as personal affront.
... The Kings Mountain Baptist Asso-
citation, pledged itself to support Rev. G.
P. Bostic, as missionary in China, with
the assistance of the Green River Associ-
alton. This Association gives seven hun
dred dollars for this cause, an increase of
five hundred and fifty dollars over last
year.
49,. Mr.. W. D. Moore has been bound
over to court in bond of $500 in Durham,
charged with publishing libellous letter.
The Globe says that the alleged libellous
| letter in question, which was directed to
Mrs J. T. Morgan, of Nash county, the
sister OF Mrs. Petway, and wife of the
clerk of the county court, charged Mrs.
| Petway with immoral and criminal con-
! duct
The Norfolk Landmark publishes
the following special from Edenton: Al
drew Ward, prominent citizen of Cho-
wan county, living about ten miles from
that place, was found in bed beside his
wife Sept. 18th with his throat cut from
ear to ear. His wife says she knows