The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-25
FROM MURPHY 10 MANTEO.
Some ETHINGSTHAT REHAPPEN-
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

ING IN NOAsIH CAROLINA.
What Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Fts Readers.
POSTAL CARD NEWS. s.-The friends of the
CHRONICLE in every section OF the State
are requested to aid Us in making this de
p3rtment an accurate record in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
Us a postal card whenever anything Of
public interest transpireS in your neigh
borhood or section of country. You viii
aid rs and give prominence TO your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR.
IA patent has been granted to Frank
Vaughan, of Elizabeth City, FOR I sub
marine diving apparatus.
....The Hickory Press says whiskey is
dangerous even in the bottle. for one ne
gro fractured another negro's skull by
bow with a bottle Of whiskey.
Two Northern saw mill men have
purchased 90 600 acres Of pine land in
Moore and adjoining counties and viii es-
tablish saw mills and planning mills on
this land. d.-Sauford Express.
49,. The Wilmington, Onslow and East
Carolina railway is now graded twenty
miles, which is within two miles Of Sloop
Point and about half way to New river.
Some iron has been laid.
80. Luke Bros, founders, plow manu-
facturers and saw mill men, of Lockvilie,
lost their foundry on Wednesday by fire
The loss is estimated at So 900. No in
surance. Stanford Express.
49, Patents have been awarded to the
following North Carolinians: Eliza Z
Bcidgers, Wilmington, CRATE and fire
place cOrnlce and mantel protector;
Charles A Holland Maxton, lift pump.
49,. We understand that there are 900
hands at work on the Winston Wilkesboro
Railroad in Wilkes county aud that the
| construction of the depot at Wilkesboro
has been begun this week. .-StatesvlIle
Landmark.
A son of DR.. S. E. league, of Chat
ham county, met with horrible death
Tuesday OF last week. He was at work at
a cane mil and was caught between the
! sweep beam and frame and was at once
/ crushed to death.
-. Last week the Murphy branch Of
! the Western North Carolina railroad was
/ opened TO Westtield, seven miles beyond
! Jarratts, and passe ger and freight trains
| VIII tIu to that point. This brings the
| road within eighteen miles of Murphy.
" Pautego. -aufort county, is on
somewhat of a boom" 1t has been
growing rapidly,an is likely to grow more
/ rapidly, as the Albemarle Il Pantego rail
/ rO3.t, connecting with the Norfolk N
I Southern will be opened for business in
about 80 days. The location is said to be
admirable in every respect.
We learn that the Medoc Vineyard
has not been sold, as reported recently
in this paper. There was s., 900 forfeic
put up some time ago and the forfeit has
been paid by the parties proposing to buy,
but the amount will go as d payment ii
| they shall in the future conclude to pur-
chase. Scotland Neck Democrat.
-. The State Farmers Institute last
| week appointed a committee to request
the Board of Agriculture to make suit;,-
ole appropriation to have the Commission
er Of Agriculture hold one farmers iusti-
tute in each county for the year, The
following committee WAS appointed: Julian
! Allen, + Is Thorne, \ ID. Jones, W. 5
UpehuTel, G. a Pitts.
-. The Murphy Advance of a recent
date notes the arrival in Murphy of Mrs.
Hitchcock, widow of DR.. Hitchcock of the
u. ;. Army, who died in California two
| or turee years ago. leaving large landed
| property in Cherokee and Graham conn
ties. Or. II. was surgeon IL the army at
the period ci the removal Of the Cheroke7s
TO the trans MISSISSIPPI county III 1886 :,
and was stationed at the post establish "a
on what Is now the site of Murphy, and at
which the indians, willing or otherwise,
were collected for deportation. While 50
stationed DIR. Hitchcock invested, IS h.
did elsewhere, IN wild and cheap lands,
greatly TO the advancement of his future
fortunes.
,... In about three miles OF Cooper.
Station, in the southeastern part of Bun
/ c0mbe county, on the top Of a knob known
as the Watch Knob, about O00 feet
above the surrounding valley, solid vo!
umes of smoke, black as tar smoke, art
seen to rise fty and a hundred feet above
the tree tops and stand for some moments
then vanish away. This has been seeI
every fifteen or twenty minutes through
the day for two weeks, by about thirty
: people. 1t has created some consdera
BILE desre of uneasiness and eXcltemeu
: among the people of the surrounding com
munity. This phenomenon appears frou
10 o'clock in the morning to 4 O'Clock il
the evening, On the brightest days.