The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-04
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
som THINGS THAT AREHAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
What Has Happened in the Good Old
state Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
POSTAL CARD 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, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
US postal card whenever anything of
pupllc interest transpires in your neigh
Dorhood or section Of country. You will
AID us and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR. !
-. Mr.. W. P. Fife, the evangelist, is
assisting in series of meetings in Kns-
ton this week.
One hundred and two miles of rail
way have been laid in North Carolina
thus far during 1899.
-. Mrs Ida Hunter is the new post
master at Kinston in place of onr staunch
Democratic friend Maj Barrett.
Very soon Col Burgwyn will have
a large smoking tobacco factory in opera
ton. He will work large force.-Hen-
derson Gold Leaf
-. Mr. E. S. Hoytt's hardware store
Woo UuihOu III WdSLluSUOu IaSC rlQaY.
The stock and store of DR.. D. T. Taylor
were also damaged. Loss $4,000.
-. An experienced man can purchase
half interest in the Taylorsville Journal
at a bargain. 1t is published in good
county and among an appreciative people.
.kinston has voted for bonds to the
amount of 1000 with which to drain
the town. 1t is one of the prettiest,
be found in North Carolina.
The Atlantic and Danvile railroad
was formally opened Monday between
Danville and Milton, N. G., by an excnr-
sion of busines men from Danvile to thar
point
-. Memphis contractors have taken
the contract for the grading of the see
tlon of the Charleston, Cincinnati Il Chi
cago Railroad between Marion, N. c.,
and Minneapolis, Va.
The Murphy Cherokee county)
Advance says a butcher in that place re-
Gently killed COW for beef aud found in
her stomach % nails of various shapes
and Sizes
The CHRONICLE has an invitation to
the Warrenton Fair next week and 10 tho
Grand Tournament ball Oct 11th Col.
Wharton j. Green will! deliver the corona
ton address at $50 o'clock
-. The Whist on Republican says that
VIM. Ireland died at Long, own, Yadkin
county, recently, at the age of 1O5 years.
He was soldier of the war of 1912 and
had been drawing pension "A years.
49,. The Clark Thread Company, of
Newark, N. j., has presented to the Ok
ford Orphan Asylum tiiiy-two dozen
spools of cotton thread, besides about
thirty pounds of waste thre,.d
80. We learn that the citizens of Ashe-
boro held an indignation meeting Satur-
day night on account of the way the local
option law for that community has been
walked over and tramIled under foot
Greensboro Workman.
-. "A company of Virginia and Mary
land men are preparing to put up saw
mill on Trent river, just above Blades
mill. We understand that the machinery
is now on the way. We have a larger
lumber business than any other town in
the State New Berne Journal
80. Hon. F. NJ. Simmons, ex-Congress-
man, aud Mr.. J. A Bryan, of New Berne,
were III Winston yesterday. They are
Interested in the coal mines at Walnut
Cove and made an examination of them
last week. Work on the mines is soon to
Degln.-W lnStOn Sentinel.
-. Two men in Davie county had a
race to see which could eat the most. One
eat boxes of sardines and crackers in
proportion, watermelon and half pound
of sugar. The other got away with SIX
boxes of sardines and crackers, but the
first one got the premium, says the Times.
49,. .Zeb Vance Tise is the name of u
Forsyth county baby which, according to
the Twin City Daily, is ten months old
and weighs 51j pounds and measures SO
inches around the waist, 20 inches around
the thigh and l inches around the arm.
This rousing baby will be at the State
Fair.
-. "A meeting of the North Carolina
Board of Pharmacy will be held in the
city of Raleigh on Tuesday, October 15,h,
for the examination of such candidates
for license to practice pharmacy as may
appear. For further particulars address
the Secretary of the Board, William
Simpson, Raleigh, N. G.
Col. Creecy says in the Economist:
There is much complaint of the destruc-
tion OF cattle by bears in the section lying
upon the large swamps. Bear clubs
should be formed and war waged upon
them. 1t is said to be the great obstacle
to profitable cattle raising which was once
source of much profit to small farmers
near the reedy swamps.
-. The Fayetteville Observer says that
Mr.. John Campbell of Quwhif1le town
ship is 80 years old. He can walk ten or
twelve miles day-has never married.
never used tobacco and has been tenn
perate man in all respects throughout his
life. There is negro in the same town
ship 116 years old who is the best basket
maker in the county. 1t is a common
thing for him to walk twenty miles day
-. The saw mill industry in Robson
county along the line of the G. F. & Wv.
railroad, is assuming vast proportions and
proving great feeder to the treasury of
the road. Every North bound freight
train carries from twenty to forty car
loads of'sawed lumber which is dstribu-
ed to every part of the country. There
are fifteen firms, some running two or
more mills whose product is loaded at Red
Springs. Between Fayetteville and Max
ton there are not less than thirty five saw
mills in constant operation. Lumber and
timber is fast taking the place of turpen-
tine and cotton in that part of Robson
traversed by the railroad. Ex-
change.