The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-05-24
FROM MI UKPHY TO MANTEO.
SUM u THINGS THAT AREHAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA
what Has Happened in the Good Old
state Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.

"hat Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
It's READERS.
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49, The town of Rockingham gets ST.
'oo year from the tax on selling liquor
Seven miles of The Winston ana
Mocksylile Railroad viii be completed by
the end OF May.
Col. ". Il. S. Burgwyn is making
arrangements to erect a large plug tobac-
co factory at Henderson.
80. The vote in Harnett county upon
the proposition to move the county to
Dunn was largely against removal.
.. The last election il Lumbert0n was
an overwhelming triumph for trohibi ion.
We say three cheers 70. our capital. Max
ton Union.
-. Robert Sitton, of Jackson county.
while sick with TYPHOID fever, on Thurs
day night when no one was in the room
got out OF bed, procured pistol, pat it to
his temple, and fred. killiAg himself in
stantly.
-,- William Pryor, a young man, com
mitted suicide on board the train on the
Western North Carolina Railroad near
Hickory last Friday. He took a heavy
dose of morphine and died in few min
utes. His body was put off at Hickory
1.-THE Farmers Alliance of Craven,
Jones, Lenoir and other Eastern counties
Will meet in convention in June to cons d
er the practicability of establishing a pine
straw bagging factory at Riverdae The
machinery has already heen purchased
We have an invitation to the com
menoement exercises of Lumber Bridge
High School June 9th. Rev J. ". Car
ter, of Raleigh, will preach the annual
sermon an Hen. Alfred Rowland, of Lum-
bertcE, viii deliver the literary address.
-. Much to the delight of our many
Robeson county patrons, We are able to
announce that the United States engineers
report that Lumber river can and Will be
made navigablo as far up as Lumberton
Work to commence in the near futule.-
Fayetteville Observer.
.Ephraim Davis, cOlorea, sentenced
to eight years inrri.on nlent in the peni-
tentiary from Cata" ba county for being
al accessory to a homicide has been par
doned by the Governor, it having recently
come TO light that the testimony upon
which be was convicted Was false.
-. The commissioners appointed to
settle the Eight of way matter at Durham
between the Durham ana Northern and
the Richmond and Danyille railways have
awarded VI, ,000 damage to the latter road
ms Is not satisfactory, 1t appears, and
the latter company will take the case to
the Supreme Court for settlement.
... Charlotte celebrated May goth with
great celebration. There was an immense
crowd. Maj Bingham's cadets were there
and had drill. Company a won the
prize star. The horse races We're spirited
and exciting. There was grand ball aud
many other festivities. Charlotte is never
behind. First IN declaring for indepen-
dence il is first in celebrating and enjoy
ing 1t.
....Capt. S. b. Alexander, of Char
lotte, President of the North Carolina
State Farmers Alliance, has accepted an
invitation TO deliver an agricultural ad-
dress before the BuncOmbe county Far
mers Alliance, July 9Th. Other noted
dSrlCull lluElolS III lHe state VIII also be
present, and Il big time is anticipated by
our farmer friends upon the occasiOn-
Asheville Citizen.
..,. We understand that the survey will
soon begin for the continuation of Factory
Branch of the G. F. X y. v r. r. from
Millboro to Ramseur, Randolph county,
G. It VIII pass through a very fine
section of the State, fertile in soil and
well timbered with all kinds of hard wood
The people in this section are very much
elated at the idea of getting a railroad
The road is expected to pass through four
cotton manufacturing towns, Central Falls,
Cedar Falls, Franklinville and Ramseur,
the latter will be the terminus.
-. The Weldon News publishes the
gratifying Information that the farmers
of Halifax are turning their attention to
butter making and dairy farms. This is
especially notable in the Ringwood section
where there is much improved stock. Mr..
II. S. Harrison has SO Jersey COWS. He
milks six and makes 1900 pounds OF but
ter yearly for which he has ready sale
Mr.. I. W. Fenner, of Scotland Neck, is
also turning his attention to this direction.
He has fifteen cows. This is his first year
and he will make 500 pounds of butter for
which he has already secured purchasers
The CHRONICLE records such items with
| peculiar pleasure. Every pound of butter
| consumed il North Carolina ought to be
made by North Carolina farmers