The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-11-01
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
SOME THINGS TIL AT ARE EHAPPFN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

What Has Happened in the Good Olt
State Since the Chronicle Last Greete.
Its 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
partment an accurate record, in brief, o.
the news from Murphy to Manteo. SenG
US a postal card whenever anything oi
public interest transpires in your neigh
borhood or section of country. You viii
aid us and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR.
Sam Wick (col) will be able to give
his bond as Post Master at Wilson, says
the Advance.
-. Moore county has decided to build
a $4,000 court house to replace the one
recently burned down.
-. Bill Alexander, leader of gang of
burglars in Charlotte, has been sentenced
to be hanged December 4th
-. The Arlington Hotel is to be built
at Blowing Rock, Watanga county, and
will cost 500, 600. 1t will be 1900 feet
above sealevel
--- Robt. Moore, while walking home
Saturday evening on the track of the W
N. @. railroad, was caught on trestle
and killed by train about four miles east
of Newton.
1.-THE Fayetteville jailer is plucky.
Five negro prisoners rushed on him and
tried to escape. He drew his pistol, shot
one, and a stampede ensued. They will
not trouble him again.
... The Greensboro city schools q. L..
Tomlinson, Supt.,) are larger than ever,
and the Board of Aldermen, at their reg
ular meeting next week, will elect an ad-
ditional teacher for the white school.
-. The little three-y year old son of Mr..
j. Holland was burned to death at Apex
on Saturday. He was left in a room with
another child and his clothes caught on
fire and before assistance arrived he was
fatally burned.
-. The match game of base ball at
Siler City on Thursday Gath, between the
Siler School and Liberty High School, was
witnessed by a large number of people
AT the end of 5th inning the score stood
26 to in favor Of the Liberty boys.
The Supreme Court this week dis
missed the case of Baltzar & Taacks VS.
the State. Baltzar & Taacks contended
that they had furnished rails for the Chat
ham railroad, and they asked that the
: ate recognize their Special Tax bonds
and Issue goods bonds in their place.
Thus far this season 125, 600 yards
Of cotton bagging have been furnished oS
Stale Business Agent Worth to the sub
Alliances in Norih Carolina A gre,,
many farmers are still waiting for the
bagging, and gin houses, barns, &c, are
filed with seed cotton which is being helG
back.
"A few "exodusters" left Goldsborc
Monday. Rev. DR.. Hartzell, in an ad
dress Sunday to negroes, told them plainly
that the white people here were then
best friends and not sneaking, hired rail
road emigration agents. 1t is said that
the backbone of the exodus is broken al
Goldsboro.
-. Mr.. Archie Johnston of Dunn, W be
was employed at D. A. Jones saw and
planning mills, in attempting to cross Z
shaftlng was caught in the machinery
and killed almost instantly. The unfor
tuna,e young man was highly respected
in the community, and the accident was
great shock to the town.-Fayetteville
Observer.
49,. While trying two white men and
two colored men on Monday for assaul
and battery, Rev. Carter Burnett, mayor
of Rutherfordton, fell to the floor uncon-
scious with heart failure Medical assist
ance was at once summoned and Mr. Bur
nett rallied for short time but died il
two hours from the seizure. He was Z;
years old.
The Siler City Fair last week was {
success in spite Of the bad weather G. S
Bradshaw, Esq, made the opening ad
dress. 1t gem of elOquence. Geo. w
Charlotte, Secretary, exhibited a tatterec
handkerchief given him by Mr.. jefferson
Davis when he was shot. The Thompson
School boys in handsome uniforms at
tracted great attention.
Mr.. Douglass, the attorney for the
Reporting Agency of +. G. Dun & Co
has purchased one thousand acres of lane
near Southern Pines and will build an ele
CANT winter home there. He has alread,
sent down man to lay off the grounds
and plan fer a place of beauty. He viii
outlay many thousands of dollars in build
ing and arranging attractive landscapes.
49,. 1t is learned that there will be an
other prohibition campaign in the Stat
next year. The order is known as eth
North Carolina Temperance Alliance,
and Mr. Theodore N. Ramsey says it ha
now 5000 members here. 1t will put
corps of lecturers in the State in tn
Spring. 1t is not yet known whether
will have a regular State ticket in Nortl
Carolina. A. Olds in Messenger.
80. The Rocky Mount Mills, of whic
Thos. II. Battle is president and Jane
II. Ruffin superintendent, have the addi
ton to the factory well under way. Tn
addition is of two stories, $50 feet lon
and eighty feet deep and viii! contain 10,
600 spindles, making with the old mi
IA 900 spindles. This is magnlficen
property, with fine stone dams, nearl
600 horse power, on Tar river, adjacen
to the rich cotton fields of Edgecombe
Halifax, &c.
-. The Governor has appointed tn
following delegates to the National Silve
Convention to be held at ST. Louis, Nc
veu1ber 9Th: W S Primrose and T. X
Bruaer, of Wake; E G.. Hackney, Of Dur
ham; H. A. London, of Chatham; K. I
Watts, of Mecklinburg; John A. Barri1
ger of Guiford; w b. Olive, of Craver
George Rountree, of Lenoir; W. N. Day
of Halifax; DR.. J. H. McAden, of Mecl
enburg; J. j. Bonner, of Rowan; Col
W Alspsugh, of Forsyth; O. G. Farral
of Edgecombe; II. F. Schenck, of Clevt
land; d. c.. Waddell, of Buncombe; J. A
Maddry, of Henderson.
-. "A remarkable accident occurred i
Richmond county last week by which Ca
vim J. White lost his life. He was in th
second story of building feeding cot
ton n-gin which was run by steam powe
when the boiler exploded. The force {
| the explosion lifted the engine and boiler
weighing six thousand pounds and situs