The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-01-04


the news from Murphy to Manteo Send
Us postal card whichever anything of
public interest transpires in your neigh
borhood or section OF country. You viii
ald US and give prominence to Your sec
tlon. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR I
The Governor has pardoned Jerry
Holsenbeck, of CaswelI, who was convicted
IN 1888 of barn burning.
1.-THE Summerville school, Harnett
n c., viii open the first Monday in Jan
uary, 1883 Prof. \. 5. Pummer, Prin-
cipal
49,. About %3, 600 has been subscribed
towards building the new hotel. Can't
we get up a cotton factory that way, too?
= Smithfeld Herald.
-. Mr.. Miles Goodwin's house at smith
field was burned one day last week He
is chief of police of the town. 1t is thought
to have been the work OF an incendiary.
II Fat lighters are splendid things to
have III the same house with a baby which
has the collie, as they reduce profanity to
a minimum. Nothing to do out throw a
handful in the fireplace and YOU have a
blaze.
.... TaylorsyiIle, n G, is becoming
more than doubled in population and is
putting on city airs. The citizens, We
learn, are going to make All effort to have
the Collectors Office for this district NOV
ed to that place. Carolina Watchman.
... There seems to be prospect for the
building of a hotel on top of Hibriten.
The Caldwell and Natauga Land and Tim
Der Company which has the giving away
Oh the site together with 242 acres Of land
is in correspondence with a New York
capitalist who has an idea of taking ad-
vantage Of Capt LenOir's generous offer.
j I.enoir Topic.
1.-THE Charlotte Chronicle says that
the rapid increase Of business has com
PEELED the directors Of the Ada cotton fac
tory to order more machinery. The CHRoN-
ICLE has yet to hear Of a single, we'll man
aged, cotton factory in the State which Is
not paying handsomely on the investment
And yet some capitalists prefer to lock
their money up.
.... Mr.. B. T. Chandley, of Madison
county, writes TO the CHRONICLE: A few
days ago there was a young man by the
name Of James Sawyer out hunting with
two other boys, and he fired his gun and
the britch flew out and bursted his brains
out. lie lived 24 hours before he died :;
ne l1Neu In tne town OF Marshall, Madison
county, and he was about IS years oi1.
We are pleased to learn by the
Murphhy Advance that the troublesome
and difficult achievement of laying the
track to the summit at Red Marble Gap
has been effected aud that trains now run
to-what you call it-Topton. From there
on to Murphey it is down grade, with
seven or eight miles of difficult work, the
heaviest portion of which has been done
" The capital stock of the Piedmont
Wagon Works is $50, 900. The people of
Winston offered to make it @1O0 000 if the
company would move TO Winston Mr.
J. G. Hall, President of the Company, told
the people OF Hickory that If they would
give $50, 600 the works would not be NOV
ed. The Lenolr Topic says: Efforts We're
pose. We learn that it has been decided
for the company to remain in Hickory, so
we suppose that the money was raised.
.. United States Engineer Bixby ard
! Capt. Schuster are 1T Weldon, naki- (
preparations to clean out Roanoke river
from that point to its mouth. They have
a steam tug, several barges and a dredg-
ing machine. They purpose cleaning out
the RATS first, using for that part sl5, 900
of the $4o, 900 appropriation. Then the
remaining money, $25, coo, will be used
for removing the sand bars. Work will
be begun at al early day Plymouth
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